where does this lunacy end?

[ebar]

So Nasri is gorn from the goon according to the beeb this morning - and will get £185K a week.
Loony -toons.!
Modric is gonna get similar if he ever goes to chelski.
A million pounds a month will soon be the going rate for jermain jenarse if this carries on.
Nobody can keep with the financial precedents being set by the arabs.
we always said the money in footy would run out, even 10 yrs ago...but it has gone stratospheric.
How can any team - like us for example- ever put a top team together.
Chelsea and Citeh are building insurmountable walls.
I hope their chairmen get carson-younged into oblivion and their clubs are sold to a dustman from salford and a clippie from fulham so that this game does not disappear up its own arse.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Think of it this way - football is providing a moral service to society by fleecing the oligarchs and petrobillionaires. Half Nasri's wage will go in taxes, the rest in local car showrooms, expensive tailors and restaurants, and will help prop up house prices. I'd rather they spend their money here than see them waste it on vanity projects in the middle east.

 

[ebar]

i had not and see the irony
However, it still stops us from assembling a team to compete at the highest level .
Man City and Chelsea have bought two of the top four slots and Man U are immovable.
That leaves fourth and a perennial fight with other , poorer teams.
Luckily, the scum are imploding, Wenger is going to cry and have a hissyfit and leave, and the goons will be relegated next May,
so i am eternally optimistic about life.

 

[NSIS]

One can only hope that UEFA mean what they say, and put a stop to this nonsense. "Hope" being the operative word - I won't hold my breath!!

 

[ebar]

don't...or you will as blue as the City plane. allah who?akhbar.
0956:Manchester City's £400m stadium sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways will face a Uefa investigation amid growing concerns it could breach the new Financial Fair Play rules, reports the Independent

 

[White Hot Lane]

The only way that we are going to be able to compete is if we are taken over by a mega-rich Arab, to use us as is plaything and an extension of his ego.

City and Chelsea are the only clubs that are able, at present, to pay these kinds of wages, and they cannot own every player in the world.

If any more clubs go the way of City and Chelsea, they may well break away to form their own super league, leaving the rest of us (who choose not to go down the rich playboy owner route) to play real football, with players who actually want to play in a proper competitive league.

Having said that, how many teams would actually comprise such a super league? Four, six, certainly no more than eight, at present. That's not much of a season, is it?

That's the problem that the fans of these super rich clubs are going to face. In the end, no one will want to play them, because there would be little point. Sport is only a competition when either side has an equal chance of winning. When the odds become too stacked in favour of one side, it becomes nothing more than a clay-pigeon shoot.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Given how much UEFA and FIFA hate the Prem, I would expect the rules to be applied pretty severely to Citeh. So long as Real and Barca don't try the same trick, UEFA have no real pressure on them to be lenient. Plus, we don't know the details of Citeh's stadium deal yet, and I personally expect it won't be quite as bad as we all think - lots of the cash will go into infrastructure, rather than into the playing side of it.

 

[The Mighty Thor]

Money doesn't automatically buy success. Chelsea lost 0-3 to Sunderland last year. It will only take a poor run to affect confidence and top players won't perform. I would not bet on those expected to get the top slots to actually get them next season. But it has gone crazy with money I agree.

 

[White Hot Lane]

Money allows a team to do two things:-

1. have at least two quality players for each position on the field; and

2. pay enough money to buy a player's loyalty, so that he won't leave you if you win nothing for a few seasons



The ability to keep top players when you are performing badly, and the fact that there is top competition for each position in the team, will even out the inconsistencies in the team, and ensure that you are going to be there or thereabouts at the end of each season. Therefore, having an owner who can spend whatever it takes to buy success is a massive bonus to any team.