Pay one player 20 k a week and they'll all want it. Time I think for fans to wise up. Do we want to go down the rankers portsmouth rout? No player is worth 2ok a week and it's about time the greedy ****ers found out. No sympathy for the rangers crew, earning up to 30k a week for playing in a league that requires 100% effort six times a year, the rest of the time a stroll
I agree Eire, none of them are worth it. It's why, even with all the TV money, extortionate admission prices etc, the games in such a financial mess. A salary cap of say £10k pw accross the board for this division would be about right. My point was we could afford to loosen the purse strings & still make a profit.
The last administrator is either not fit for purpose or it slipped the net and I don't believe it slipped the net as these guys are ****ing ruthless when it comes to cost savings!
Makes you wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg and it probably is but call me hard - devils advocate! - but shouldn't clubs be allowed to fold as times are tough and plenty of business' were allowed to fold in the recession so why not clubs that can't be run properly? How many times in the Labour recession did we hear the phrase 'survival of the fittest when shops were going out of business! All in the past Maidstone and Aldershot & more recently Chester are only a few to name but it seems to me that there are too may lost causes that are being allowed to continue to run up massive debts with no hope of ever paying them back.
Steve, much will now depend on who wins the next tv rights bidding round & how much the put in. On one side we have the pub landlady in Portsmouth who won her case, which means we could all be watching footy via a Greek channel (or similar). On the other, apparently Al Jazeera might be entering the bidding race. If that happens, it will depend on how badly Sky want the contract. Either way, it will affect money being handed down to teams at our level. Pompey going to the wall... sorry 'Wall fans, make that Pompey ceasing to exist, might not be a bad idea in the long run. It might just make administrators & those running footy realise that inflated wages & significantly inflated transfer fees are no longer sustainable, even if tv rather than fans are picking up the tab.
Frankly, the less TV money that's spent on wages, the better. Hopefully the Sky/ESPN duopoly will be successfully broken over the next couple of years and the UEFA rules will start the revolution to bring back proper football.
Yeah it'll be a shame for them and they're have to reform like Aldershot, AFC & Chester before them although AFC reforming was obviously an entirely different issue as Wimbledon didn't go broke. It's not as if they can pop down the coast to the Saints
Whoever first said about football going in cycles couldn't have been more right when you look at the Pompey & Saint's situation with Pompey on they're knees and struggling to stay in business and Southampton heading for the Prem! It wasn't that long ago that Saints were in admin heading to League 1 and Pompey in Europe having won the cup and now look at them!
