Modern Football Broken Beyond Repair

That’s a very good article, but sadly nothing in it was news to me and I doubt whether it will be surprising to anyone else on here.

I will look forward to the solutions piece, which somehow has to include ending the greed and desire to dominate in perpetuity of the mega clubs. I suspect club ownership structure will be part of the answer.

 

Yep, just cut those 'elite clubs' off into a European league, wouldn't miss them for a second. FFP was designed to help them and some of them still can't adhere, for me the only possible way of things changing is if we get rid of these clubs. No promotion or relegation from this super league, just let the rest of us get on with it, hopefully with way less money being banded about and less clubs making huge financial gambles.

 

Yep read that yesterday. It's really nothing that those supporting teams outside the elite clubs didn't know already, but it might just make those who own and support these clubs sit up and take note that there is the real possibility that football will eat itself, to use a favourite phrase of DT. Speaking of which haven't seen him around for sometime.

Must admit I really can't see the point for those clubs outside the elite partaking in a league that they've got no chance of winning, it has to be mind numbingly boring. As Wills said above maybe they should all just bugger of to a world wide super league for the benefit of the millions of armchair fans who can place bets on who wins the next throw in and let the rest of us get on with enjoying our football without the hype...…..

 

Football is now simply a money game, UEFA and FIFA are in a power battle with FIFA eyeing the massive spin-offs from club football with their World Club Championship and UEFA expanding the Champion's League and introducing another competition replacing the old Cup Winner's Cup. Just how many more visits to the well is anyone's guess. All this fairly irrelevant for a lower Championship club's supporters who have only grim survival to look forward to. Our ship sailed the day Bernie and Flav found a right mug to buy us, it won't be coming back...

 

Will we end up with no "grass roots" clubs and supporters? Lower league clubs living hand to mouth at the risk of going bust at any time, middle sized clubs not being able to spend beyond their means (yes, that means us) while the big boys can afford to flaunt their endless pots of cash and not give a hoot about fines.

UEFA think their financial fair play system is fantastic - https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/protecting-the-game/financial-fair-play/

Look at the fines QPR and Pompey had to face and the affect it had on both clubs then compare that to what Man City ended up paying and in effect didn't even bat an eyelid at the amount they had to fork out.

Have they sorted out the government funded and heavily tax relieved Barca and Real Madrid? What were their fines other than chump change to the clubs?

UEFA use a very loose version of the word fair.

 

As if to emphasise the 'haves' and 'have nots' does anyone have a pot for us to piss in?...

 

Interesting & honest chat amongst those 3 & sums up perfectly where the club is regarding transfers & FFP, but I still bet it doesn’t stop those Twitter idiots.

 

For starters football needs regulation by FIFA/EUFA for all participating Countries, Leagues and Clubs, with salary caps by League, transfer fee caps, and TV rights caps with equalised sendings for each League Club. Automatic relegation if rules are broken, and expulsion for repeat offenses. It would give these governing bodies a proper job to do as well, putting all this in place for next season.....

 

It would never happen here, especially to one of the big clubs, if any club was to be relegated it would be a QPR, a smaller club they could use as an example. This season Liverpool fielded an ineligible player in the League Cup at MK Dons and were given a small fine whereas if it had be MK Dons they'd have been kicked out. That sort of thing happens regularly in our cup competitions and no mercy is shown to the small clubs, 'rules are rules' is the favoured quote of the axemen. Football is full of petty minded c*nts but they're too scared of the big boys with their top lawyers...

 

I have been contemplating for a while about stopping my subscription to PL football. They always show Liverpool, City etc, in games where teams are just trying to keep the score down. Lost 3-0, well done lads!
Getting more and more boring, each season.

 

Yep, I was getting bored of the same old predictable results. I cancelled my Sky subscription this year.

 

Here’s an interesting situation.

Nuno, Wolves Manager, has 16 months to run on his contract, and has not yet had an offer of a new one from the club.

I don’t think he should worry. His agent is Jorge Mendes, who is also the agent of 10 Wolves players. Mendes’ company GestiFute, is 20% owned by Chinese investment conglomerate Fosun.

Fosun owns Wolves.

So presumably Fosun gets 20% cash back on all the agents fees it pays to Mendes.

I’m an admirer of what Nuno has achieved at Wolves, and I am certain that this complex web of ownership and investment is far from unique in the game.

But it’s as corrupt as ****.

 

Says supporter of club whose owner is under investigation for bribery and whose previous owners have been dodgy to say the least...

 

Yeah, not much hope in there for a civilised, managed approach to even things out. So some kind of financial collapse is needed. Good.

 

Citeh banned from Europe for two years, perhaps the big 10 don’t like the cut of their jib.

Exist in a system entirely designed to help them and they still have to cheat to the extent that even ****ing UEFA can’t ignore it. ****s.

 

FIFA and EUFA have a lot of Power. Huge Clubs like ManCity do need to be able to compete on the global stage. EUFA and FIFA can stop them, they just need to grow a pair like EUFA are possible signalling they are doing in today's decision, and like organisations like the NFL in the US have been doing for decades.

 

Dies City's ban mean 5th in the premier league get champions league?

 

I wondered that too...big news...potentially means Sheffield United in the Champions League next year...quite incredible.