Is football broken beyond repair

Look I love football and live for it. But I am getting to the point where the prices and wages that the top players are getting now makes it all a bit pointless.

The wages, transfer fees and add ons are so high now that only the top top teams will ever have good players.

No wonder Ashley is borking I don’t blame him.

Is anyone else getting bored, sick of it even?

My 8 year old girl asked today if I earn as much as Sanchez is going to because the boys in her class where saying he is going to earn 400k a week.

400k a ****ing week. Who wants to go and watch that prick play on that kind of money the spoilt little bastard!

 

Needs to be stopped. Caps need to be brought in. The good these clubs could do with this money...

 

Makes me sick.

 

Me and my mates had this exact conversation last home game and we are all sick of it and tbh ****ing bored... We are talking die hard fans who's life revolved around match day, we now find ourselves dragging each other to the games...its boring and predicable.
I pay for sky sports I'll put a game on and just find myself drifting away paying no attention it's shyte.

 

Don't see why the salaries the players are making has any impact on your enjoyment of the game. If that was the case why not just go and watch a lower level of football. A number of you talk about the glory days when we were one of the best teams in the Premier League. Didn't we achieve that by buying the best players and paying them large salaries?
Everybody seemed pretty excited when they thought we were going to be bought by Middle East Oil Inc. and could compete with top teams again. Just because it hasn't happened doesn't somehow make the whole system wrong.
I would argue that the Premier League is more competitive now than its ever been and that is primarily due to relatively equal shares of the TV money. There are currently 12 teams within 10points of each other. Sure the top teams are competing in a different league due to either owners who are subsidising the costs, additional Champions League money or a combination of both. Its always been the way that the clubs with the greater income (either through attendances or rich-owners have dominated the league). A salary cap would just cause more money to go into the owners/shareholders pockets.
The only change I would make would be to try and encourage more home grown players through rewarding clubs for playing home grown talent.

 

The gulf is getting bigger between the top clubs and the rest. How can championship clubs even have a hole in the future when they bet promoted.

The salaries of top footballers has gone up 10 fold in the last 10-15 years. Has yours?

The avergage fan is getting priced out.

The days of upsets are gone in general.

The football is not exciting any more.

The fa cup is spoiled because the money is not there this teams in the premier league play the reserves.

You can say it might be relative but it’s not. It’s getting worse. We never paid a player, one player, the same amount as most bottom half clubs pay their first eleven players.

The top four clubs will have youth players getting paid more money than we pay some of our first team players.

What it creates is a “what’s the point” scenario. What’s the point in trying to beat these teams when it’s totally pointless. Back in the day when we where doing well there was always that worry that we would get beat.

You could say that we did it a little bit but the gap has just got bigger and bigger.

Look how can we justify a transfer of a player for 200 million pounds. When there is so much poverty in the world. Man in this country there are people who can’t make ends meet and the one thing they used to look forward to keep sane was to go and watch football.

 

A few years back we or someone else in our position had a chance at City tomorrow now we may as well just say games yours we won't be risking injuries, expenses and time..... The gulf is massive and getting bigger.

 

Simply put, fees, salaries and player ownership (subsequently the loan system) needs capping. It's a simple premise. Only thing that makes sense. If there is a huge amount of excess money there needs to be a way of working that back to the communities or the fans, i.e. a percentage of profit needs to be recycled.

Feels to me that the FA, UEFA and FIFA are sat with bulging pockets and their fingers in their ears singing "la la la".

 

It is a commercial activity and this is just the nature of that, does anyone complain that an actor can be paid millions for playing a role when others struggle to live, maybe because it is far less publicised what they earn we care less, I for one think that excessive salaries in the public sector are something to be concerned about rather than this.

 

Yes.

Stupid fees and wages at the top means the impact filters down to smaller clubs where the likes of Jonny Evans can be worth £30m which basically erodes competition.

 

Although your correct to a degree, the difference between films and movies etc is that they are not competing at a sport in which millions of people devote their time, money and feelings towards. You watch a film (probably once) and then say it was either good or **** and move on!

I know its always been relative and its been increasing year on year since the beginning of time but now it is totally and utterly out of kilter with real life.

It is spoiling the game.

 

Money...money...money...that's the name of the game. I can't even be bothered watching other teams anymore, I cancelled Sky and haven't missed it. The only teams other than us who I watch at the moment are Spurs and Liverpool, you are virtually guaranteed an entertaining match with them at the moment.

 

Agree with Porn on this one save I haven’t cancelled Sky yet. Football has, for me, hit saturation point on tv. I only watch NUFC and a few other games where I think it may be a good/interesting game.

Am sick fed up of the hype associated with football where some so called expert, think Jenas currently, tells me before the game that it’s the match of the season (3 games in), then tells me during the game that it’s the greatest game I’ve ever seen (when it clearly isn’t) and then after the game provides me with the in depth knowledgeable assessment worthy of a 6 year old (probably insulting to any 6 year old).

That’s why occasionally I will go off and watch Whitley Bay or North Shields play and watch a game where players don’t always go down in the box because there’s been contact and they’re entitled to!!!

Money is the root of the problem but because it is that’s why there is no solution. How many turkeys would vote for Christmas? I’m just pleased I was privileged to be able to watch football at the top level before money started to destroy it and where top Clubs didn’t hoover up all the talent and have 30-35 players out on loan. Address the loan system and that would go a huge way to balancing the playing field.

 

Which part of the public sector are you talking about?
The police officers, fire fighters and nurses or the management above them?

 

The analysis by sky after a match is cringe worth bollox so to is motd... I tend to switch straight off.... It's ****ing diabolical.

 

Life goes on. Things change. Everyone`s work environment has changed over the years. Football is now extremely popular so the players earn more money. It is what it is.Is it fair? NO. But that's life.! I live in Turkey, Istanbul. Everyone talks about the Premier League. It is more popular than their league. That should be something we are proud of...

 

Quite frankly it’s disgusting, no one and l mean no one should be paid £400k a week to kick a ****ing football.
It’s obscene and then just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, it does.
Wages and transfer fees and more importantly big club hoovering up all the talent, sending out 30+ players on loan, it’s just ridiculous now.
Ask yours self of the 30 to 40 young players out on loan from Chelsea, how many will ever play for their first team?
It’s pure unadulterated greed.

 

Why don't you say Council Executives, Highways Agency or Social Services? I'm not talking about a single facet of the public sector but as a whole, you can lump in Universities and the BBC as well if you want.

 

Yes

 

Always the same, never gives any detail to back up his opinion.