Transfer Rumours The 2015 Summer Transfer Window Thread

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TheSecondStain said:
Must admit, I do find their attitude very strange, although most of the football media take a similar line. Call me naive but wouldn't an elite league, where everyone was very capable of beating each other, be a better product to sell to supporters.? A kind of Football League Championship but on the present PL skill level. I'd buy that product.

There is a sense that with the new money coming in, the scenario I point to above could start to happen. Already, in the last few years, the smaller clubs have started to make inroads on the dominance of so-called glamour clubs. With the new money something might eventually break. A club like Saints or Swansea might nip in front of Spurs and/or Liverpool, or Everton might do a return. Glamour clubs are going to have to bust a gut to get players significantly better than those at smaller clubs. It's the law of diminishing returns in action. Once you get to a certain level the next significant leap comes at an astronomical price. Sometimes there simply isn't the player who is good enough out there because they're all in very good contracts and the clubs are saying no, we're financially fine and we don't need your mega money. It's at transitional times like this that smaller clubs can change the order, but they must be prepared to do so.
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Yes, I believe the current TV deal could level the playing field, or at least gives it less bias; in terms of the quality of players across the competing clubs. A kind of subsidized FFP. You're right these are interesting times of the likes of us, Swansea, Stoke, and clubs right down the league. I think West Ham are rather unfairly being assisted into an advantageous situation, and could well attract ManCity/Chelsea like potential owners. So conversely another beast may loom to try and suck the life out of the young and vibrant
 
SaintJack said:
Yes, I believe the current TV deal could level the playing field, or at least gives it less bias; in terms of the quality of players across the competing clubs. A kind of subsidized FFP. You're right these are interesting times of the likes of us, Swansea, Stoke, and clubs right down the league. I think West Ham are rather unfairly being assisted into an advantageous situation, and could well attract ManCity/Chelsea like potential owners. So conversely another beast may loom to try and suck the life out of the young and vibrant
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I agree. Boris Johnson has given them the biggest leg-up it's possible to do without actually passing a huge wad of cash. Effectively, he has given them the opportunity to turn themselves into a glamour club without much effort. All they have to do is cock it up, and that will be difficult to do.
 
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