Mirror: Big clubs' monopoly means Southampton could do nothing to prevent this exodus

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/southampton-board-cannot-blamed-exodus-3926519


DTLW

 

Pretty good. Obviously not written by the usual cockwomble at the Mirror.

 

Come on Sky, pull the plug, then we'll be laughing our way into a new decade!
.......not holding my breathe mind.......

 

Christ on a bike, a rational, thought out, researched piece of football journalism not full of cut & paste reporting or cliches.

I'm off a lie down in a very dark room.

 

That's a good read. It tells me that my hatred of the Premier League is right on the money, because the formation of that led to this present day. No wonder Cortese voted against FFP. I wondered what the hell he was doing at the time, but it's been clear for some time. The big clubs are pulling up the drawbridge. Man City just got into the group in time or they might have been excluded. The rest can have what's left, which is sod all.

May the bigger clubs bugger off then. I've certainly no interest in seeing my club playing against them.

 

Flabbergasted...
Wow!

I'm off for a lie down too ;-)

 

Who do we have to thank for sedating CBK today? I must say, its much nicer hearing an opinion from him rather that just a constant digging on (negative/deluded/lesser beings) posters.
Fair play.

 

For the first time I now want to see a super European league. All the big clubs can f off with all their plastic fans and prawn sandwiches. What will be left will be normal average sized football clubs which represent their local communities and fan bases who actually have some sort of connection to the club. Sounds a lot better than being the perpetual supporting cast for the big boys.

 

To be fair, I was being a right cock earlier on here. I tend to calm down in the evenings after my injections.

 

Because of what happened to Portsmouth, Leeds and other clubs around Europe, Financial Fair Play was voted in to protect clubs from those irresponsible owners, but the consequence whether intentional or unintentional in its inception has put a lockdown at the top of football.

What is really sickening for me is that the FA commission which was to represent all football then recommended a B Team to help make those clubs even stronger and to keep allowing them to stockpile talent.
What they should be doing is making sure clubs can't have a stranglehold of all players. There should be tougher 1st team squad limits, u21 squad limits and loan out limits

 

No No No No.

Wasn't the intention to do that at all. It was Platini's intension to stop the mega-rich buying the Champions League... in particular, Premier League clubs. He had an eye on the Russian clubs owned by oligarchs, but most of them have faded away now as even they can't match the income that Prem clubs get (or Real Madrid & Barca). Only PSG is the other club that bends the rules to the max.

But I can't believe any big punishments will be levied by Uefa. All these big clubs will simply have bigger and more expensive lawyers than Uefa can muster, plus they STILL have the trump card of ****ing off and setting up their own European League (backed by Sky)

 

Question....Who's fault is it that the saints are being publicly raped this season after doing so much good for the club and the city of Southampton ?

Answer....It is certainly not spurs or Liverpool or any other clubs fault, It is the fault of the chairman and board for letting it happen and not saying to the clubs that they are not for sale and to the player that your not going anywhere while under contract. Why should the saints have all that good work last season get torn apart to benefit a rival and dont tell me you were not your rivals because you were right up there with the big clubs last season and this season you could have been better challenging for a top 6 spot. Why for once dont these chairmen put their own clubs first and carry on growing instead of sending the club backwards and in danger of a possible relegation battle....

 

No player gets stopped from leaving at any club. Ronaldo wanted out of Man Utd, he went. Van Persie out of Arsenal, he went (although at end of contract). Adebayor has done the rounds of clubs doing this. Fabregas. Suarez. The list goes on.

You either sell your "asset" at its peak value or you face the prospect of its value dropping alarmingly if it doesn't play... and trust me, players can easily find ways not to play.

Then it's of no value to you and little value to buying clubs. That's basic economics.

 

I was saying something similar yesterday (wishing that the teams dominating domestic football would bugger off) to a Man U supporter and he said he could not see it happening because noone would then watch the domestic leagues. While this may be true of overseas viewers I think that this is very arrogant and plenty would still watch it - much like the Championship. I think the main thing is that fans of these so called big clubs could not cope with not winning a league every year.

 

Dai, your question would be as justified on the Swansea board, you know that, right?

 

Welcome to my side. On the basis that the authorities are never going to anything to curb the big clubs, I've long since wanted them all to sod off and form their own super league.

 

46 teams have played in the Premier League in the 22 seasons of its existence, but only 5 different clubs have ever won it. Those stats show the attritional effect on the lesser clubs of trying to keep up with the top 4. I say top 4 because the fifth was of course Blackburn, who bankrupted themselves to win the title. Surely it would be in the interests of the whole 88 teams outside the top 4 if the elite did disappear? If it is practically impossible for the majority of teams in the PL to get into the Champions League, aren't they better off playing in a competition that isn't going to cripple them financially to win?

 

Trouble is it won't stop these so called big clubs doing a rape on the smaller clubs like the Saints. The players got greedy the board will have had little option. A way over that maybe would be to negotiate at the contract stage a minimum sell on price well above what you might expect. So they know they have no chance of walking out unless it is met, before they sign.
Saints have been raped there is no doubt...I just hope they recover enough to stay in the premier. With the exception of Ricky the rest can rot in hell for the trouble they have caused.
Young Chambers is the same as oxo cube, had his head turned, I hope he doesn't live to regret it.

 

there's nothing we could do except bank 27m for Luke and shut up shop.

we're selling because there is a will to sell. it's impossible that so much could happen without compliance.

 

Sure, if football is just a business transaction. But there's also that annoying bit which happens on the pitch, and 'assets' have a value there, and it is where they generate further value.