He is holding his belly in!Joking aside, you'd think for what is supposedly a billion £ organisation that places so much emphasis on marketing and corporate image you would have thought someone would have noticed that pic and said 'hang on lads we can't use that one' and either photo shopped it or had it retook with him holding his belly in.
Our record fee as far as I recall was around £63M for KDB who is absolutely World Class., These Rag's are more than happy to inflate the market out of all proportion for players who are not exactly top draw signings (although it pains me to say it, but Pogbad would fair better in a more positive team).
Ohhhhh I like a good conspiracy, how about Chelsea hijack Lukaku deal by paying the full 100m leaving the rags Morata as only option, but being snubbed by him leaving the rags no strikers for upcoming season. Everton refuse to pay the rags 10m for Shrek leaving him stranded at the rags being paid his wages.
SWP? :-)Does Maureen ever sign players who aren't at least 6ft 3'?
Football is due a crash soon with these inflated transfers that are spiralling out of control.
Sky's TV deal is huge for the premier league. Yet their ratings and subscriptions are declining.
The next TV deal will be down. The premier league could easily go the way football league went with the failure of ITV Digital.
Football is due a crash soon with these inflated transfers that are spiralling out of control.
Sky's TV deal is huge for the premier league. Yet their ratings and subscriptions are declining.
The next TV deal will be down. The premier league could easily go the way football league went with the failure of ITV Digital.
Jim White was big on the story this morning because it's perfectly ok for the rags to spend this amount of money 2 seasons running because thats what big clubs do
Not long ago he was complaing about the money we spent on eddie and bernie
Black gold or texas tea. :-)were not a big club were lottery winner's though ;)
Declining subscriptions and ratings isn't a sign of growth.Think the overseas sale of premiers rights brings in more than the sky bt one.
I can only see it getting bigger! its our national sport never ending social media and papers are full of football 24/7
SWP? :-)
Declining subscriptions and ratings isn't a sign of growth.
Now almost everybody has the Internet and can stream games instead of paying Sky (more so) and BT an astronomical fee.
Lakaku is a very good player but is no where near worth 75 million plus add on's.
Great transfer this, sums up what the Rags are about these days, spending record fees on players and hoping it will work out. Hopefully turn out to be as good a transfer as Bony was for us!
My streams are fucked, can't get much sport now they've blocked themDeclining subscriptions and ratings isn't a sign of growth.
Now almost everybody has the Internet and can stream games instead of paying Sky (more so) and BT an astronomical fee.
Lakaku is a very good player but is no where near worth 75 million plus add on's.