True, but it is natural for a player to want to play at that level if they feel they have the ability and are wanted...I never said it was acceptable, just understandable.
Odd that Modric didn't "feel" like that so emphatically that he signed a six year contact. Don't trot out the usual garbage about it being about the player. Roman has seen another team with something he wants, so he orchestrates a press campaign and unleashes his favourite "football consultant" to get it. Even worse, is the ridiculously small sum being offered for Modric. If RA is going to act like his his money can buy anything he wants, at least he should be consistent. His "Macchiavellian" (hardly) manipulation of the situation needs to backed up with, I should imagine now, an even bigger bag of cash than would have been the case before. As I wrote elsewhere here, it is time for him to put up or shut up.
Jones, Ferdinand, Owen, Berbatov, Rooney, Smalling, Carrick, Young, Valencia, Kuszczak. All members of the current Man Utd squad, signed from other English teams, Lidls. That doesn't include the youth players that you've 'acquired' from elsewhere, either.
"It's a myth that the top teams are assembled by acquiring the best players from other aspiring PL clubs. Some have come by that route, but not that many." In addition to those already mentioned, you have Keane, Cantona, Sheringham, Yorke, Cole, Bosnich, Ince, Pallister, Tevez
The lack of competition in recent years has owed everything to money. Compare the wage bill list with the league table and there's very little difference.
Whereas the attempts by the G14 to totally corner the market and the part-ownership of Utd by BSkyB were perfectly acceptable, of course.
Sorry, I'll ask you again...what's the title of this thread? Or let me ask you a different way... What's the subject matter?
I see that Modric has handed in a transfer? I hope you tell him to stick the transfer request and make him honour the contract that he signed last year for 6 years.
This is very true, and something that was started by the onset of the Premier League, The Champions League and Sky...
When I said 'recent years' I was merely mirroring Lidls' phrasing. It's been going on for decades, as far as I can see, but it's more pronounced at the moment, as the figures are available and the funding is virtually unlimited.
It's always been there in some shape or form, but there was always an element of unpredictability about it...Leeds went from near bottom of D2 in 88 to winning D1 in 92...you would never get that now. Since the prem, and CL & Sky, it's been tipped on its backside and that's where the real imbalance has occurred.
Abusive? No, possibly not. Provocative? Yes. of course. That's what wumming is all about. In case it has escaped your attention, this is the Spurs board. Your biased, one-eyed views of this saga were not asked for, and, as far as I'm concerned, not wanted, either
What a ridiculous statement, Lidls. You're suggesting that we need to generate more money to become more successful and that we need to become more successful to generate more money. Having a less spineless FA would be a start. It's not bad enough that they virtually ignore all of the tapping up that goes on, but they also fail to keep any sort of discipline or consistency going. Letting Ferguson pick and choose his own handful of refs should end immediately, for example.
