Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

Mexico 86 was my first WC that I recall

can still remember I was sat on floor next to the heater, which was off btw coz it was a scorching summer and I saw this bloke called Maradona do some crazy magic and lots of English tears

I didnt regard myself as English back then as I was too used to being told to go back home smelly paki bastard

how rude

 

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or just be done with it and have the ESL - that so many were against

as I say
Let them have their product
It will either thrive or flounder

if the ask to come back to home league make them start at the bottom bottom bottom leagu

 

None of us lesser lights (and especially not Citeh) are spending more than we can 'afford' ... it's peanuts to billionaires ... and that's the whole point ...

Did you know that Ocado didn't turn a profit for over 20 years from inception?... but continued to invest in the business model during that time - spending more and more year by year ...

 

Ah I see, so it's the lets play ignorant here then. SKY aka Rupert Murdoch created a very lucrative market for you, one you became accustomed to and took for granted until City entered the frame. It was a market that was to leave 72 other league clubs behind. The Championship can rarely compete these days, as it's become a yoyo effect between promotion and relegation, that was why everyone was delighted when Leicester won the Prem. There was no everyone in this, there was no equal party, it was every dog for themself at the top.

 

The timeframe is dependent on how well a club's strategy is. But realistically the idea should be to become competitive and successful whilst remaining sustainable. That can take anything from 5-10 years, probably more in fact and would require sound investment in things like infrastructure and scouting.

The problem there though is that clubs aren't willing to put in that sort of work, they just want the promised land almost immediately and then say they're being prevented from doing so when FFP prevents them from taking a shortcut.

 

Somebody who used to be rich did buy Everton .

 

The evolution of Sucky to Sulky to Cucky

 

There’s a meme of Al Pacino with your name on it somewhere Luv lmao

 

if I didn’t know that you’re a Spurs fan

id say you’re a Spurs fan

 

Nope ... the 4 each year come from the Sky 6 -

.... the remaining league members over those 24 years have not remained static ...

Don't give up your day job

 

as Sucky would say mate, bent af, George Graham taking brown envelope payments.

 

1974 the first world cup I remember, properly remember that is, I remember my dad saying something about England in the year 1966, I think we must have won it or something.

 

To use your own club for example, your wages to turnover at one stage was 116%... In what way is that not spending beyond means?

You'd recorded something like 5 years of straight lossess and those were largely (if not fully) attributed to player expenditure.

 

You're younger than I thought mate

 

The only difference to the past and today is that we've moved from cash to cahsless payments when it comes to dodgy deals. Brown envelope no longer required.

 

The problem is that when a team starts to do well they start to lose players to teams who can offer 4x times the amount. Yeah teams can have the odd good season like us/Leicester/Brighton but maintaining it is a whole new thing.

There's no realistic way a smaller club can bridge the gap and maintain it under FFP. Even if their owners have the money to burn.

 

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Most sensible comment of the day.

 

I concur.