Transfers and Fair Play

We have heard so much about this fair play coming in. In my opinion the sooner the better. Rich clubs will always be able to pay the most and get the "best" players, that has always been the case.There are still lots of very good players out there for the rest.
What worries me is clubs like QPR, if papers are accurate, they will be paying approx £185,000 a week on 2 players alone Samba and Remy. We all know the ground only holds about 20,000 and that is with a very large away support. There fore they are gambling on the "new sky deal" as they clearly cannot self finance. Big deal you might say, but what about true QPR supporters their team could go bust and there is nothing they can do. This is also at a time when ticket prices are unrealistic.
So fair play should be about the supporters as well, but hey who gives a damn about us. So as football heads to the edge of the cliff there are several individuals making a vast fortune and not caring one jot about the future.
So back to my headline fair play, never happened in the past won't happen in the future. But keep spending your hard earned money on watching overpaid average players, who wouldn't have got a game for most teams about 10 years ago.

 

Perhaps the fact that the Government have said they are prepared to become involved if the FA don't sort out their act may make a difference, the Government are demanding reforms and have given the FA just one year to get their house in order or face intervention.

 

There has to be a bust point, surely, given the way finances are the world over in nearly every other market. It'll be interesting to see which teams survive, I suppose.

 

If QPR haven't put relegation clauses in most of the contract of their players then they're screwed if they go down. As from the 2014/15 season any club in the Championship making more than an £8 million loss will be subject to sanctions.

 

Dont waste your breath on QPR would love them and Harry to go down.

 

financial fair play has been brought in but only by uefa so as QPR will never play in a UEFA competition they dont have to abide by the financial fair play rules. where as all the big teams do. seems silly though as it offers no protection for the little clubs from 'doing a leeds'. mind you i think its down to the owners to be smart QPR are spending silly money, by silly money i dont mean large amounts there just paying over the odds for players which is something no teams who want to be succesfull would do. they have a higher wage bill than arsenal but have nowhere near the quality of players! i dont understand there business model there handing out huge contracts to old players and arnt even close to challanging for europe and there crowds are 18k average! if fernandes left they would surely be screwed.

 

This bit say it all for me, IF they do go down (i think 'arry may just save them) then they might as well sell up and start supporting other teams. No way that kind of buisness model can work.

 

Not like there's a shortage of London based clubs to support like... They could probably walk round the corner, colour in a couple of the hoops and blend in with the next fanbase!

 

There will come a time in the future when we look back at this and shudder that we witnessed all this greed and folly, I'd like to think that the FA could do something about agent fees, there are perfectly decent solicitors and accountants available via the FA for players to use, should they decide against it, then the player should be soley responsible for what the agent is paid, not the club doing business with said player.
Better still, lets have an Agents Cull!

 

This. Agents are the ****ing problem (that means you AB...) with football.

 

Most of the big clubs don't care for the fans going through the turnstile. They want everyone in the world to buy the club merchandise. That's where the money is.

Remember back in the 70s when it was a big deal when a club changed it's strip? For years a shirt wouldn't be changed and, then, when it did it would on the Nine o'clock News. A shirt would have the same style for years until the overall fashion of the era changed.

If the clubs cared for the fans then the shirts wouldn't change. There would be no peer pressure to wear this year's shirt.

Manchester United didn't get rich by not selling to every third Malaysian their new shirt every season. My last Newcastle shirt I bought in the 80s before the advertising came in; that is when I saw the thin edge of the wedge and I refused point blank to have anything more to do with it.

Names on the back of jerseys? What an even better way to fleece the punters. Sell a top player mid way through the season and then about ten thousand shirts will have to be replaced.

The aspired business model is that of American sport where regular fans are unknown. They want rich casual supporters to go to the games (has anyone ever seen the Boston Red Sox Ultras section? No, I thought not) and massive following on TV and even more massive sales of merchandise.

The likes of the travelling supporter or even regular home supporter will soon by a thing of the past slaughtered on the altar of Mammon. Just wait when the Premiership decide on no relegation nor promotion.