Lots of money been spent in the premier league and believe Arsenal will sack Arteta as soon as it becomes impossible to win the league. They have been up there for the last couple of seasons but in reality they were not even close but the cash spent by them this summer is huge. Even Piers Morgan will be wanting Arteta sacked again. Liverpool spent a massive bundle of cash so probably expect to be there or thereabouts too. Man City did some great business very early on and again spent big. City now moving some kids they bought out to their other club in Spain, Girona. Chelsea are the biggest cheating gits around and have spent over a billion in the last few windows. Guess what, as they try and cook the books again like paying way way over the odds to buy their own ladies team then start “selling” their excess players to their own French team Strasbourg. Newcastle have been trying to play catch up from when they got promoted and their new owners The Saudi sovereign wealth fund, have been trying to negotiate the intricacies of FFFP rules and now PSR. In fairness to them they were not allowed to do what Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal did and just spend and buy permanent security in the prem, they initially had to buy well and give Eddie Howe his due he built a team that firstly kept them up and started buying wisely and improving existing players. Isak was bought for £60m and Liverpool have offered to buy him from Newcastle for £120m so far. PSR was supposed to make sure clubs couldn’t go bust but that’s ridiculous in the case of Newcastle as it is with Leeds and many clubs in the prem so its now just a restriction on trade. Also we know Man City are awaiting the result of the investigation into the so called 151 charges, which will be appealed and most of the charges scrapped. These charges go back to years ago when Mancini came in as manager, way before FFFP rules. For the last 6 years Man City have made a profit on player trading which is almost unheard of anywhere in football. As an example the year they bought Erling Haaland and others they actually made £69m clear profit on players. Smart buying, improving players and moving them on
Will Wolves, Brighton, Brentford become vulnerable for the drop after player trading and management changes etc. Wolves are skint and although buying new players they are selling better. Brentford have sold players and more want to go, plus the new head coach, the detested Andrews is going to struggle. Brighton and Bournemouth seem to be in a transition stage and so far it’s not clicked yet during pre season. Ariola will find his toughest tasks this season and what about Moyes at Everton. He did well saving them last season and they have a rich owner, but funnily enough there are plenty of players refusing to accept a transfer to Everton another team who have been beaten in every game during pre season. I wonder if they can turn it around and if they do it will be Moyes who does it as I cant see Andrews being able to do that at Brentford
Lots of transfer business done yet the vast majority were for overseas players from overseas clubs. On top of that there were lots of 16,17 and 18yo kids purchased from overseas, all going to Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal. Unfortunately the premier league can have a UK based requirement but the facts are that UK based players are way overpriced. These young overseas kids then get used in the homegrown category for prem clubs as academy products, another loophole. Germany and Holland tapped into our kids a few years ago when they started enticing 17 and 18yo lads to get game time over there instead of wasting away in our academies. Jadon Sancho, Jude Bellingham and Noni Madueki prime examples of kids playing for top clubs at an early age, there are plenty more these days and there are young kids from Scotland and Ireland overseas now.
Heard somebody say that its amazing how Sweden a tiny country of only 10 million people seems to have a knack of turning out a lot of world class football players:
Isak
Zlatan
Larsson
Nordahl
Hamrin
Ljungberg
Brolin
But Scotlands population of only 5 million has turned out way more world class players than Sweden:
Dalgelish
Law
Souness
Johnstone
Bremner
Robertson
Gray
Lorimer
Gemill
Strachan
Jordan
McQueen
Many many more
What the hell happened to Scotland as it seems the best they produce these days is Liam Cooper although he was born in Yorkshire
Will Wolves, Brighton, Brentford become vulnerable for the drop after player trading and management changes etc. Wolves are skint and although buying new players they are selling better. Brentford have sold players and more want to go, plus the new head coach, the detested Andrews is going to struggle. Brighton and Bournemouth seem to be in a transition stage and so far it’s not clicked yet during pre season. Ariola will find his toughest tasks this season and what about Moyes at Everton. He did well saving them last season and they have a rich owner, but funnily enough there are plenty of players refusing to accept a transfer to Everton another team who have been beaten in every game during pre season. I wonder if they can turn it around and if they do it will be Moyes who does it as I cant see Andrews being able to do that at Brentford
Lots of transfer business done yet the vast majority were for overseas players from overseas clubs. On top of that there were lots of 16,17 and 18yo kids purchased from overseas, all going to Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal. Unfortunately the premier league can have a UK based requirement but the facts are that UK based players are way overpriced. These young overseas kids then get used in the homegrown category for prem clubs as academy products, another loophole. Germany and Holland tapped into our kids a few years ago when they started enticing 17 and 18yo lads to get game time over there instead of wasting away in our academies. Jadon Sancho, Jude Bellingham and Noni Madueki prime examples of kids playing for top clubs at an early age, there are plenty more these days and there are young kids from Scotland and Ireland overseas now.
Heard somebody say that its amazing how Sweden a tiny country of only 10 million people seems to have a knack of turning out a lot of world class football players:
Isak
Zlatan
Larsson
Nordahl
Hamrin
Ljungberg
Brolin
But Scotlands population of only 5 million has turned out way more world class players than Sweden:
Dalgelish
Law
Souness
Johnstone
Bremner
Robertson
Gray
Lorimer
Gemill
Strachan
Jordan
McQueen
Many many more
What the hell happened to Scotland as it seems the best they produce these days is Liam Cooper although he was born in Yorkshire
I don’t think any small country can surpass the achievements of Uruguay when it comes to churning out quality players and decent teams over the years. A country of 3.3m.
