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Your players are Premier League quality. No doubt there. And in Adkins, you have a manager who I believe is PL class. Credit has to go to him...
Well that's a relief. It's hard to write a post like this and not come off as patronising, but thought Southampton played really well today...
I remember back in the late 80s, City were promoted to the top flight after 2 years in the (then) second division (now the championship). Those...
It's not as simple as working out what it is worth today in terms of inflation alone. For a start, when considering the earning capability and...
Bollocks.
Lenny It is admittedly hard not to become partizan. Even harder to convince others that I'm not being partizan!! As a City fan, I will always...
That's where we do agree! I want to see investment. I want to see as many clubs as possible to able to grow, develop, and yes challenge. I...
And what is wrong with that? The club, and its owners (because the owners own the club, I now view it as one entity) can afford to at least take...
Not exactly from nowhere. From a mid-table position in the richest, arguably most competitive top flight domestic league in the world. A club...
NSIS and I are not so much disagreeing on the idea of bringing in at least some degree of regulation, and I do agree to an extent with NSIS in...
It's in the interests of any club to aim as high as possible. That's the basis of competitive sport. The clubs who "self-generate" their wealth...
Or not give out any prize money based on final position at all. By all means, keep the parachute payment to safeguard relegated clubs who have to...
To quote Platini: "Fifty per cent of clubs are losing money and this is an increasing trend. We needed to stop this downward spiral. They have...
It's an either/or question that I simply can not adhere to. My point is essentially that investment enables growth. Clubs (many of the biggest...
Like I said several posts ago, the investment made into (for example) City and Chelsea is a similar amount to what the richest clubs are currently...
In truth, I see it as a no win situation for many clubs, whether or not the FFP comes into effect. For either way they won't be able to compete,...
You are of course correct in as much as that's what some of these owners are worth, but I doubt we will see hundreds of billions being invested...
:laugh: Wouldn't surprise me. It could be that the monitoring period is intended to work both ways - both to give clubs time to get their houses...
I think that after the end of the final monitoring period, clubs are then required to (at least) break even. I believe that clubs will then be...
I believe that there's actually two monitoring periods within the first three years. The first is two years in length, relating to the 2011-12...
