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I think to call it a level playing field is wrong, so I actually agree with you on this one. It wasn't a level playing field unless you were the cream of the cream, along with all it's rebranding that dumped off the league and bought into the Prem.

Clubs like Manchester United naturally wanted the best for themselves and the tv money...it was pure ****ing greed, and has turned the game into the ****fest that we see today. Overpaid players and all the rest blah blah blah.

Of course the likes of Chief will defend it because he's a Manchester United supporter, a club I have no beef with, but to say it was a level playing field is totally wrong, it was level for those who were the cream, that's why they bought into it.

Only thing was City came along and bent the rules and bought up all the trophies, so I get pleasure out of them constantly crying over it.

So don't let anyone tell you otherwise mate. <ok>
This.

Liverpool were always the second club on Merseyside until the Moores bankrolled them in the 60’s, spending today’s equivalent of 50m-60m on transfers to get them
promoted and competing straight at the top. Once you’ve had that bankroll it’s easier to maintain because then naturally bigger revenue follows.
 
The days of football being a fair competition ended decades ago, and ever since the people with grubby hands have been active in making sure it stays that way. They bought the success, and fear other people doing the same damn thing.

Let me know when these great clubs want a fair contest please! Sorry, but until then nothing they do is impressive! It may have been back in the day, but never since.

Leicester are the only impressive club since TV money, and what did they do? punish them and they had to sell their best players.

At least Manchester City don't bullshit. I mean, at least be honest with yourselves.
As chief said many times the last few pages..

You had the same opportunity as all of us.

You just spent unwisely.

As did we until fsg turned up.

They got us back to the big table with a rigid recruitment structure buying younger potential with a higher chance of selling them on for a profit of need be and finding the right managers. Which then lets you then spend more money as you'll find out when we buy isak for 150m this summer <laugh><whistle>

What youre actually crying about is not being able to cheat the system all clubs signed up to and are supposed to abide by like man city have done to gain the riches they currently have in thier squad.
 
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I think it's difficult to apply caps without the whole of football taking it onboard, otherwise players will just go abroad, but something certainly needs to be done, it's obscene...and when people talk about poverty and foodbanks, but then others spend £80 to watch their team, you just know the game is fooked. I can't see it being corrected now, because too many business men and corrupt officials walllowing in it. Thatcher wanted to cleanse the game, and pretty much achieved her goal by shifting it to the middle classes....but that's just my view mate.
Ahh mate I'm not gonna begrudge football spending obscene amounts of money when our government does this as a past time on **** that benefits absolutely no one that pays if it all but thats another conversation, at least we get to enjoy football is the point <laugh>
 
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As chief said many times the last few pages..

You had the same opportunity as all of us.

You just spent unwisely.

As did we until fsg turned up.

They got us back to the big table with a rigid recruitment structure buying younger potential with a higher chance of selling them on for a profit of need be and finding the right managers. Which then lets you then spend more money as you'll find out when we buy isak for 150m this summer <laugh><whistle>

What youre actually crying about is not being able to cheat the system all clubs signed up to and are supposed to abide by like man city have done to gain the riches they currently have in thier squad.


If you win a competition one day and then spend the rest of your pussy arse life putting the losers in rougher waters then you're a fake champion ever after.
 
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This.

Liverpool were always the second club on Merseyside until the Moores bankrolled them in the 60’s, spending today’s equivalent of 50m-60m on transfers to get them
promoted and competing straight at the top. Once you’ve had that bankroll it’s easier to maintain because then naturally bigger revenue follows.
Explain the emptihads regular blue seat tourists and 4000 fans turning up outside your ground to celebrate a treble then<laugh><whistle>
 
Ahh mate I'm not gonna begrudge football spending obscene amounts of money when our government does this as a past time on **** that benefits absolutely no one that pays if it all but thats another conversation, at least we get to enjoy football is the point <laugh>

I used to hate the Prem....I mean really hate it, even my mates wouldn't talk to me about it.

Then it was like shock when I started watching it, now why was that....well Man City started to **** you all over, and I got to enjoying that. God works in mysterious ways...is that a saying....I don't know...but I did find it genuinely funny.
 
I wish they would ban buying players and draw up regional lines clubs could scout players from.

Then clubs have to actually do something impressive, look after local talent and you've got a competition.
 
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I wish they would ban buying players and draw up regional lines clubs could scout players from.

Then clubs have to actually do somethings impressive, look after local talent and you've got a competition.
This is great idea.

We'd never stop winning things with our endless conveyor belt of excellence pouring from the academy :emoticon-0165-muscl
 
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LoL liga is not a real league <laugh>
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Bournemouth would come 3rd
 
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Bournemouth would come 3rd

It's why Perez and his cronies want a big slice of the English money. Madrid and Barcelona have sucked the life out of Spanish football, and now what to dine out elsewhere.
 
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It's why Perez and his cronies want a big slice of the English money. Madrid and Barcelona have sucked the life out of Spanish football, and now what to dine out elsewhere.
Kinda shows what could've happened without the prem break away eh

Just Utd and Liverpool swooping up everything for the last 40 years.... So you're welcome <whistle>
 
Kinda shows what could've happened without the prem break away eh

Just Utd and Liverpool swooping up everything for the last 40 years.... So you're welcome <whistle>

There is some truth in your second line, with your status at the time, and your fanbases, you and United would have carried on cleaning up, probably. But it still comes back to you got greedy. You wanted to create an exclusive club that bankrolled the money.
 
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