We are the second worst performing club based on that. Shows how much we've failed when you compare our wage outlay to Burnley Leicester Hull.
Excellent, informative post DA. O.k., this June, I want Sunderland's wages cut by equal percentages with an aggregate saving of £23.2m so as to reflect our 17th place in performance. Any player who doesn't like it can quite simply f*** off. You think Ellis Short is stringent? Just give me the job, lads. Because I wouldn't finish there. I'd want ninth place in the league next season or I'd skint the scrounging sh*ts some more. Believe it. What are we running here - a rich boys' soup kitchen or something?
That would do it Commo - but basic would be £16.5m (Burnley level) between the lot of them. and they'd earn every penny beyond that.
My heart bleeds for them..not. As i've mentioned many a time, the prem is the ruin of the game. I despise the way the top clubs (safc inc) take all the money and leave the rest to fend for themselves.. A lot of that money should be filterd down the leagues,,,nee wonder the game is ****ed.
sad thing is, i bet not one player feels even a tad shameful. ****ers like fletch and his fancy car. boils my piss. find the back of the net ya coont
It would get filtered mate, if the lower clubs would stick to fetching through players locally. Instead, lower clubs are up to the same tricks, fetching in ****e from abroad because it's cheaper. They're chasing money, not success, just as much as some top clubs. If there was a talent pool of developed British youth, the money they could make is ten times what they'd make flogging their cheap foreign tat. If your foreign crap actually turns out half decent, you might make a few quid here and there, but for every Adam Lallana there's 100 foreign flops who make our lower leagues a rat pit of ****. If money got filtered more mate, there'd just be more money to spend on **** foreign tat down there.
It tells us nothing as they've got their fa You pressed on my feeling perfectly fella. It's overseas players which are the problem.. The game in this country is littered with poor foreigners. But the grass roots set up favors these overseas players and stifles our youth. Unfortunately ball is in the fa's court to reform grass roots and put a system in place.
I'd hate to imagine what it'll look like down there in 10 years mate, just a bunch of African bears running around smashing the life out of each other to win games. They need to cap the amount of foreigners in this country per team, starting with a maximum of a handful in each squad in league 2, then hope the talent filters up the leagues, gradually reducing foreign tat until we can implement it into the Premier League in 10 years. There's barely any English players at top clubs, I think I counted 2 on the pitch when City played Arsenal.
Comes as no surprise - just disappointment If this is pure wages though, it does ignore the Bosman element - no transfer fee and higher wages Man Utd's turnover - WOW!
Mate, in a fully fit squad we've got 8 Englishmen who'd probably start(Jones, Brown, Rodwell, Cattermole, Johnson, Wickham, Fletcher and Defoe. Subs Buckley, Bridcutt, Graham). But Greg Dyke said we're everything that's wrong with the English game despite always signing English players. One transfer window we didn't and he tried to make an example of us That's the delusion we're dealing with. Don't count on anything changing mate, the FA aren't even close to recognizing the problem let alone solving it. The Game is ****ed imo.
I like the idea mentioned above and whilst it would work great in lower leagues I'm not sure about the premier league. Cap the number of foreign players like this maybe. Per squad League 2 = 2 League 1 = 5 Championship = 10 Premier league = As is.
I'd go for that, the EPL would have to follow suit eventually though, for me. The government could just intervene, go over the FA's head and refuse work permits for players at lower clubs.
I like the idea but there'd be issues with teams that were relegated. They would players under contract they couldn't play or that they would be unable to renew the contracts of. That is quite a financial millstone. You could stagger the time they had to abide by the rules of the league they went into but then that puts them at an advantage over the other teams - no easy answer unless I'm missing something. It does seem that with the Premier League sanctioning more money down the leagues (was it £1bn?) it could be on the proviso of certain conditions (if it isn't already...)
I agree with this. The game has also become more and more middle to upper class this stated after Hillsborough with the demonization of the working class by the Tory press. Now we have players who can't be tackled and the game has become like a sort of 'Henley regatta' type of sport where only those rich enough to enter can actually compete. A lot of people are really disillusioned with the game, you are not the only one.
