It's a bit like saying that the Daily Mail will never get into the top 6 UK newspapers. They are miles behind the following Telegraph Times The Sun Star Mirror My local rag full of cr4p for sale And then you have the Daily Mail. Anybody with half a Brain at the Daily Mail will move onto someone bigger.
To me this FInancial fair play thing is simple Currently the big clubs win almost everything but the smaller clubs may be able to muscle in on it if they are either well run or get a richer owner Once FFP comes in the danger is the big clubs will still win everything BUT nobody else gets a look in
I really don't think the article was meant to reflect on Southampton per se, it was just using Southampton as an example of how unfair the 'fair' rules are.
Unlike the Mail to play on peoples fears. I believe the Uefa FFP Panel are currently doing their 1st review of clubs who failed and will be issuing the relevant punishments. Will be interesting to see if those punishments are effective. If an owner really wants to pump their money into the club then they can simply arrange a ridiculous sponsorship deal and there is nothing anyone can do about it and why would they? The football bubble has been built on 3rd party investment for years. At least with financial fair play it prevents want away owners from taking their money and running or in the more sinister Portsmouth farce, using the club as a way of borrowing to line their own pockets
I have been racking my brains for the name of any other club that Samuel could have used as an example for this article. Can't think of one, can you?
Couldn't be arsed reading the article. Van Persie looks quite good in that Adidas shirt though. If we could keep him injury free it might be worth us taking a chance.
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Good for José. Nice to see the comments of the players all pulling in the same direction. José, Rickie, Adam, Luke, they all say the same thing - this club can do great things in the next few seasons and beyond.
So lets forget about the fact that we also had our home grown Le Tissier, Benali, The Wallaces (Danny,Ray and Rod) in that squad. It was also in the 1988 season that we had all 3 wallaces playing in the same game. Me thinks he picked the wrong example in Shearer there. Guys a c**k
Indeed...Rod, Le God & Shearer were a huge part of the 89/90 side which finished 7th Bale & Walcott Roomed together at youth level and had it not been for financial reasons would surely have played together. Surman, Lallana & Dyer all played around that time and Chamberlain was the single batch during that drought period between 2009-2012 He would of been better off using Bridge as an example of a single batch
