Blue half of Manchester will be pretty happy tonight, what a game and some things that sprang to my mind. Good Points: 1) New team wins the title 2) Fergies face when he heard City had scored 3) QPR stayed up (felt they deserved to overall) Bad Points: 1) Money can buy you success, what is our game coming too and hardly an English player in the City team? 2) Joey Barton is a prick (could not help thinking that could have been Diouf in a Leeds shirt). 3) Can you respect a manager that relies on Tevez (after his antics this year) and Ballotelli? 4) Gallagher brother thinks he is so cool and that his team is so great, why do the cameras have to feature on him when there were plenty of ex city greats from the past there.
Johnson, Barry, Lescott, Hart, Milner, Richards? I know it's not loads but it's more than a couple of teams. Money's always been able to buy success, at least the City fans deserve it and being perfectly honest I'd happily see us do it that way.
Johnson wasn't even in the squad was he? Milner's wasting his career on the bench there, he would be a starter in every other side in the premier league. Hart/Lescott/Richards, granted. Still don't like teams that buy the title - Yaya Toure (brilliant player, I don't doubt) on £275k a week. How can ANY footballer be worth that, it's just obscene.
All the players I mentioned played a big part over the course of the season, and that's what winning a title's about.
Only three started today, the Keeper Barry and Lescott and one on the bench, so out of 18 players 4 English/British were on that squad sheet today. Don't get me wrong, if someone came in for Leeds tomorrow and invested that kind of money I would be over the moon but isn't it worrying that without 'oil' money or foreign investment of some kind you just cannot compete?
Include Stuart Taylor and Owen Hargreaves and it's 8 from 25. They also have 3 out on loan. Arsenal have 6 including Lansbury and Bartley, Chelsea also have 8 including a player I've never heard of, Everton have 8, Wigan have 5(!) including Mike Pollitt and Callum McManaman (who?).
I don't think clubs should be allowed that much investment. I don't like Bates, before someone has a go at me, but I don't think I want oil tycoons taking over us. I don't agree with the kind of money Liverpool/Chelsea/Man City have splashed out recently - not at any club.
I'm not saying other clubs are any better! I'm just saying I think it's ridiculous not even half their squad is english. We're in the ENGLISH premier league. No wonder our international team is so **** when none of the players get a chance in the top league.
But the English team has been ****e before the premier league & the foreigners started arriving here. Did you just start supporting football?
Well we won the world cup before the premier league and the foreign investors, can't of done that badly. That's just a side point anyway tbh, the fact is, sides that win the premier league now rely on foreigners. It just annoys me that not even half of Manchester City's squad were british. Sorry for having an opinion
No matter how it's been done, it's not like they've out muscled scum. They've merely leveled the playing field. Scum spent just as much, only difference is they got their money by selling out the league, rather than from having a sugar daddy.
A major restructure should take place, a la 1. Bundesliga. scum should have their spending limited to be in line with the rest of the league. They'd piss and moan and cry about it but as long as it means better competition they can get ****ed.
English players aren't dominant in the PL because they aren't good enough, not the other way round. The coaching needs to be sorted out first.
German players are dominant in the German league - German players are arguably good enough - the league has less money than England and Spain yet their players do not leave Germany because they are happy there. English players would improve if we followed this model, as it would be English players playing with English players in the English league, complementing each other and challenging each other to improve.
