Has football finally gone mad?

[dickie davies]

With transfer fees, £100m for Pogba, £50m on Stones etc etc
Agents receiving £20m
Terrible national coaches (Hodgson) £6M pa
Then you have the media vultures who are now personalities in their own right, y'know those muppets on Sunday Supplement
Dreadful ex player pundits on the telly earning a couple of million a year for telling us nothing

Is there far too much money swilling around the game?

 

[Blue Maverick]

Yes but there's fuck all we can do about it

 

[lancs blue]

With transfer fees, £100m for Pogba, £50m on Stones etc etc
Agents receiving £20m
Terrible national coaches (Hodgson) £6M pa
Then you have the media vultures who are now personalities in their own right, y'know those muppets on Sunday Supplement
Dreadful ex player pundits on the telly earning a couple of million a year for telling us nothing

Is there far too much money swilling around the game?

If TV and sponsors keep pumping billions into football then it's better that most of the money is spent on players than some unscrupulous owners siphoning off most of it, though there will always be an element of that.

 

[mat]

With transfer fees, £100m for Pogba, £50m on Stones etc etc
Agents receiving £20m
Terrible national coaches (Hodgson) £6M pa
Then you have the media vultures who are now personalities in their own right, y'know those muppets on Sunday Supplement
Dreadful ex player pundits on the telly earning a couple of million a year for telling us nothing

Is there far too much money swilling around the game?

You are Adrian Durham, I wish to claim my £5 prize sir!

 

[FanchesterCity]

It's not the sponsors that are paying, ultimately it's the public.

 

[CTID1988]

Its the new TV money. "Smaller" clubs dont have to sell players as much as they used to, so theyll take teams to the cleaners

 

[smeeagain]

We need a union , a fans union , so we can all go on "strike" dont attend matches , cancel sky sports , why cant we control the game ,after all it belongs to the fans or should do ,and nobody else !

 

[Blue Til Death]

Match going Fans are becoming Increasingly Isolated from the beautiful game, alas nothing will change now the big TV corporations and armchair supporters, call the shots..!

 

[eversince 76]

It's not the sponsors that are paying, ultimately it's the public.

One of a few who do understand. But most will keep stating "I don't care. It's not our money".

 

[SWP's back]

Nah it's not gone mad. So long as clubs make a profit (and increasingly they all do in the Prem) then it will continue.

But for how long can Tv revenue rise though?

One things for sure, if I was a footballer who retired in 1996, I'd be gutted seeing how much players get paid these days.