Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

Why not they all did.... it's not their concern really... I wonder what is. The courts will sort it out thankfully. It's what's legal that matters which is being conveniently ignored.

 

I actually agree in someways, that's why I see the stuff with City as funny, because it fooks over the top six competitors, the game had already gone once SKY came in on the game, so City can't destroy what has already been destroyed, a working mans game, just like Thatcher would have wanted. As soon as you start paying players ridiculous wages the game has gone. Everything is subscription now, and unless you again cheat the system you have to pay through the nose. The whole concept of the Premier League has brought about cheating, but on a far grander scale. Who imagined that OUR game would become the game of billionaires, it was a monster that SKY created because it brought about new levels of greed. The thing is the ones that don't like City's cheating are generally the top six clubs, because they can't dominate the silverware anymore and whether your name is Alex Ferguson or Geroge Graham, you've all had your fingers in the pie at some point during your career, but proving it is another thing, much like everyone crying over Man City. The levels of cheating has also increased on the pitch, with Arsenal players diving all over the shop, like they've been shot, butn Arteta got sussed once again, by good ole Pep. And the more money Prem clubs pay for players, the more expensive it makes it for all of us lower down the tree, look at the money going into the National League now, the name Wrexham springs to mind. Players transfer fees up, players wages up, whatever the Prem does affects all of us in the longer term. People moaning last season it's the same old Chamionship clubs, well sadly the Prem created this monster and it is what it is now....people want to blame City for it, those same people need to buy themselves a mirror.

 

Anyway with our new American owners, we seem to be buying in some better players at last, so hopefully see all you lads at my gaff in four years time

 

Sustaining the debt is unlikely to be a problem - the King Power business empire continues to grow exponentially...

I also think the bond that came out of the helicopter tragedy means our owners are less likely to just walk away than most - the memorial garden with its bronze statue of Khun Vichai on the crash site is quite the spiritual place - and that means quite a bit to the Thai contingent...

The son has also committed to his father's vision of the stadium development - and duty counts for a lot in Thai culture ...

I could, of course, be wrong ... only time will tell ...

 

No worries Cucky, always good to stretch your imagination...

 

****ing hell imagine Liverpool or United rocking up at Priestfield

Any chance of sorting the temp stand out with the new investment?

 

Man City demolishing them is high satisfying and they're Today suffering because they were all hoping with every breath than these 115 charges will stop them. They now struggle with an anxiety that they will not only evade them, but also prove the rules to be illegal and open the floodgates once again.

They shouldn't worry though because they're always telling us how great the other 5 clubs are. I would have thought such amazing amd special clubs can continue on ? It's not been just a case of sporting advantages over the last 30 years and them pulling ladders up with them along the way.

 

We asked about the temp stand season before last, the response was to spend the money they do have on more pressing things, as we are unlikely to fill it at L2 level or something like that anyway.

 

What I can't get my head around, we use to let Brighton use our ground, now look at the fookers, Prem League, clearly their model was better than the Scally (our old chairman) model.

 

Brighton appear to do the impossible, but sooner or later I feel it'll go wrong. It's almost impossible for any club outside the big 6 to keep that kind of thing going.

 

Nah Cucky is better.

Kinda ironic given you go on about it so much lol

Reminds me of Sulky which suits you n' all

Gotta hand it to @Big Ern he's played a blinder with that one.

 

Is it SKY or is it the FA themselves who created this. The FA used to have the FA Cup and look after the admin of the game. Then they formed the PL that then broke away from the Football League. That was only done to market football and monetise it. I don't think any fans wanted this change but fans don't get to choose. The so called top 6 which only a short time ago was a top 4 was a creation of SKY. City joined and Spurs joined by different method but of course by money. Now Villa and Newcastle are joining. So we end up with 8 clubs clubs which you can argue have been the biggest clubs for years and years. Only Leeds are the major one missing.
In other words Pro football has always been about money and the rich clubs were rich because they were big City clubs with big fan bases generating money. Your club brb is never going to be big time is it, but it's bigger than clubs like Worthing or Crawley. I think it would be better if we still had 3rd division South and 3rd division North which must have helped smaller clubs with their costs We also have clubs like Brighton and Brentford and Crystal Palace proving that smaller clubs can break into the PL and stay there.
Overall the differences since the PL are not too bad EXCEPT for Chelsea and City and now Newcastle who left unchecked will destroy the competiion. Without City the league and the cups would all be much more exciting if I had a choice I'd kick them out. Let them play in the Saudi League.

 

Makes sense. Only worthwhile if you can stabilise in league one for a few years.

 

Yeah you're only one bad summer or managerial appointment away from being dragged into the dogfight again. Requires an insanely high success rate in recruitment which is hard to maintain long term.

Also worth pointing out that Bloom has invested around half a billion in the club.

 

Exactly all the other clubs run into this ffp obstacle and have to sell players including local youth that they would like to keep. Meanwhile the ****house clubs feed on them.

It's an evil nonsense and they just stick the word fair on it when in truth it's exactly the opposite.

 

Yeah everything people say about Brighton was said about us when we were selling everyone and bringing in the likes of Tadic, VVD, and Mane and getting into Europe under Koeman. Didn't take long for it to go wrong and we went from 8th to 17th in one season.

Not suggesting they'll drop as dramatically as we did as their owner is a fan so will be more invested than ours was but I see no chance they maintain regularly challenging for Europe.

 

Yeah it's going to go wrong sooner or later.. you just can't keep turning the squad over successfully time and time again over short periods of time.

 

You make me laugh mate, your last sentence, and this is the fan of a club who spent a billion quid on a stadium.

 

I fooking despair