Feel the same mate, I pray the premiership collapses completely, otherwise I am more than happy to stay where we are.
I'm late 30s, so have had that conversation with lads of my generation, "how much would Zidane be worth these days" like everyone does, but these days, 80 million gets you a back up right back. Premier leauge used to be the place to be, but I'm not so sure anymore. There's the top 1 percent, then there's the fodder. Everton tried to get in with the big boys, and they're nearly knackered.
Every team can’t be in the premier league so why do people think we have a right to be. It’s totally s hite in there anyway. Can’t understand them.
Im in my 40s and still have these conversations before the match with my mate and dad. Todays inflated prices it would be impossible to stick a price on the likes of Zidane. Imagine the likes of Ronaldo (proper), Van Basten, Maldini etc…they’d make Mbappe look cheap
At least the more money the PIF spends on actual Saudi teams, the less they are investing in Saudi Lite FC up the road.
Can you remember when Man U slapped 24 mill down for Rio Ferdinand and the football World was up in arms? Closest I've seen to Zidane in the last 10 years is KDB at City. Powerful lovely footballer.
Zidane will forever be my favourite player. The utterly effortless way he dominated games was mesmerising, and he was a hard man too. He did everything well and did it so smoothly you didn’t see it happening. He was absolutely something else.
That lot don't even cross my mind anymore. One minute they cam buy whom they want, the next they're doing dodgy deals between two clubs to bring players in.
ZZ Was just bursting onto the scene at the 98 world cup as I was turning 14 and proper getting into football, what an era that was. I remember him destroying Man U on his own at old Trafford with a bandaged thigh at about 80 percent for Juventus in CL.
Ah mate they used to do a showreel at half time of all the flicks and non look passes, used to blow your mind cos you hadn’t seen it happening. He was just utterly phenomenal as close to the ultimate complete footballer as I’ve seen. Hell of a nut on Materazzi as well.
The wages now are the ****ing mental bit. There are lads sat on the bench being paid more than those greats did a week. Ronaldo is getting paid nearly 1.5million a week ffs.
Another day another burnley winger signing, hopefully that’s the end of any jack Clarke speculation, slight worry palace want him to replace zaha though
For a very long time now, football in this country has been ran by certain clubs, and almost all the changes made to the game have benefitted them, and were to the detriment of most others. Once it was the " big five". Utd, Liverpool, Everton, Spurs , Arsenal. They called all the shots. In the early seventies it was they I think who were behind a rule change that meant a small proportion of gate revenue would no longer go to away sides. It was a slight balancing mechanism, but it had to go. They had the most money, but they wanted more. This has increased to include Abhu City and Chelski, and effectively exclude Everton. But the ratchet effect remains. All the changes are to suit them. More foreign broadcast rights, allowance to skip rounds of competitions because they feel it a chore. Etc. That's without the not dead Super League. They always want, and get more. A rapacious system of hoovering up young players, like an industrial super net trawler, " Just in case" there is a gem there. They have the best players, but they want those of the "lesser" clubs too. It is reeking of corruption, from the way the six super league clubs were just allowed to carry on, to the grotesque PL governance, a mix of corruption, amatuerism and venal back sliding. I'd say it is fecked beyond help. You're right, it needs to implode. Let them all go and play exhibition matches for the child killers. Quick stat: In the 60s, EIGHT different teams won the top flight, including Burnley, Ipswich, Leeds and Spurs. Just before that Wolves had won it. The steady step of one sided changes has meant that can never happen again, and that's why they were made.
