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Martin Samuel: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea
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We need to get back to the good old days of brown envelopes full of cash were being handed out and young players being unsettled at unfashionable clubs until they can't resist putting in a transfer request.
I hope these clubs aren't forwarding their objections on moral grounds.
I hope these clubs aren't forwarding their objections on moral grounds.
UlsterCitizen
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One has to wonder what the OFT make off this cartel
tolmie's hairdoo
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West Brom have made a business model out of being in and out of the Premier League over the last decade.
Kill the parachute payments and watch all these little clubs be shocked into spending on players rather than lining their own.
It's an extension of Arsenal and Liverpool's assumptions that they would always qualify for the Champions League each season.
It was bankable cash until City upset the equation.
We should table the motion that no club can transfer spend more than 5 per cent of their total debts leveraged against it in any one season.
Let's see United scrape by on £25m a season.
Kill the parachute payments and watch all these little clubs be shocked into spending on players rather than lining their own.
It's an extension of Arsenal and Liverpool's assumptions that they would always qualify for the Champions League each season.
It was bankable cash until City upset the equation.
We should table the motion that no club can transfer spend more than 5 per cent of their total debts leveraged against it in any one season.
Let's see United scrape by on £25m a season.
Hamann Pineapple
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Paddy Barclay's retort. Utter shite in my unbiased opinion.
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Why I support the plot to stop Manchester City and their sheikh's millions ruling the game
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Trollsmoan
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Going to buy the Daily Fail for once!
Love the fact that these fucking dodgy greasy cartel mofos are shitting themselves, look forward to many years of us and the other so called sugar daddy nouveau riche fucking them up and if worse comes to worst and they truly do shackle us, well then football as a whole mays well die, for what little integrity will be left.
Love the fact that these fucking dodgy greasy cartel mofos are shitting themselves, look forward to many years of us and the other so called sugar daddy nouveau riche fucking them up and if worse comes to worst and they truly do shackle us, well then football as a whole mays well die, for what little integrity will be left.
Re: Martin Samuel: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea
Patrick Barclay: Why I support the plot to stop Manchester City and their sheikh's millions ruling the game
Losing currency: Sheikh Mansour has funded Manchester City’s empire but UEFA’s financial fair play regulations will stop rich owners from pouring money into clubs
Patrick Barclay
A A A
Monday 14 January 2013
When Sheikh Mansour took over Manchester City, I suggested that his best route to the top of English football would be to buy and disband Manchester United, acquiring as many of their players as were wanted, then paint Old Trafford blue and use it as a training ground. Fortunately, the Sheikh and his Abu Dhabi associates preferred more constitutional methods.
Anyway, I was only joking, having a bit of fun at my red friends’ expense — even though the Sheikh did have more than enough money at his command to tempt the Glazers to cash in as the clouds of recession gathered.
As the gap between rich and ordinary people becomes wider and wider throughout the world, the potential for wealth to distort the patterns of life — in this case football — becomes greater. The way of controlling it is through politics.
Hence the letter addressed to Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore signed by representatives of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham seeking support for strict application of UEFA’s financial fair play scheme.
These people are not idealists. They want a deterrent not to the use of wealth itself — United and Arsenal have big stadiums, Tottenham are about to follow suit and Liverpool intend to rebuild — but to sugar daddies on the Mansour model.
Martin Samuel, the Daily Mail columnist who broke the story this morning, preferred the more cuddly — if equally apposite — example of “Uncle Jack’’ Walker, who bought his home-town club, Blackburn Rovers, and equipped Kenny Dalglish with enough financial muscle to attract Alan Shearer and build the team who took the title in 1995.
Rovers’ title success was an occurrence without which the history of the Premier League era would be poorer and the same might be said of the City campaign that culminated in Sergio Aguero’s sensational snatch at the end of last season. But instances of the sugar daddy funding romance or, in the Manchester case, diversity cannot be taken in glorious isolation.
The riches with which Mansour or, before him, Roman Abramovich at Chelsea have built their empires are responsible for a salary inflation that not only disturbs United and Arsenal but destroys the chances of clubs otherwise eager to intensify competition at the top.
Aston Villa, in the time of Martin O’Neill, were one and they are now paying the price of Randy Lerner’s painful lesson. Everton under David Moyes are another. He and the admirable Bill Kenwright deserve medals for persistence — every time they look at the market, it goes through the roof.
The question of whether strict application of UEFA regulations forbidding clubs from spending more than they earn from football-related activity — they will be allowed leeway of £10 million a year or so — will help is a difficult one.
The obvious drawback is that it will set in stone the financial advantage of certain clubs and naturally anything to which David Gill puts his name must be treated with suspicion — United’s chief executive is like Sir Alex Ferguson in a velvet glove.
But we have given anarchy a chance and it has not worked. Financial fair play, on the other hand, has made a promising start, with the best piece of evidence to be found just a few miles from Old Trafford, where City are extending their academy into a thing of wonder, a thing of true worth, a thing that — crucially — UEFA have exempted from their controls because youth development and general care for the long term are precisely what the game needs.
Hamann Pineapple said:Paddy Barclay's retort. Utter shite in my ubniased opinion.
Why I support the plot to stop Manchester City and their sheikh's millions ruling the game
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/sport-comment/patrick-barclay-why-i-support-the-plot-to-stop-manchester-city-and-their-sheikhs-millions-ruling-the-game-8450384.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/sport-c ... 50384.html</a>
Patrick Barclay: Why I support the plot to stop Manchester City and their sheikh's millions ruling the game
Losing currency: Sheikh Mansour has funded Manchester City’s empire but UEFA’s financial fair play regulations will stop rich owners from pouring money into clubs
Patrick Barclay
A A A
Monday 14 January 2013
When Sheikh Mansour took over Manchester City, I suggested that his best route to the top of English football would be to buy and disband Manchester United, acquiring as many of their players as were wanted, then paint Old Trafford blue and use it as a training ground. Fortunately, the Sheikh and his Abu Dhabi associates preferred more constitutional methods.
Anyway, I was only joking, having a bit of fun at my red friends’ expense — even though the Sheikh did have more than enough money at his command to tempt the Glazers to cash in as the clouds of recession gathered.
As the gap between rich and ordinary people becomes wider and wider throughout the world, the potential for wealth to distort the patterns of life — in this case football — becomes greater. The way of controlling it is through politics.
Hence the letter addressed to Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore signed by representatives of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham seeking support for strict application of UEFA’s financial fair play scheme.
These people are not idealists. They want a deterrent not to the use of wealth itself — United and Arsenal have big stadiums, Tottenham are about to follow suit and Liverpool intend to rebuild — but to sugar daddies on the Mansour model.
Martin Samuel, the Daily Mail columnist who broke the story this morning, preferred the more cuddly — if equally apposite — example of “Uncle Jack’’ Walker, who bought his home-town club, Blackburn Rovers, and equipped Kenny Dalglish with enough financial muscle to attract Alan Shearer and build the team who took the title in 1995.
Rovers’ title success was an occurrence without which the history of the Premier League era would be poorer and the same might be said of the City campaign that culminated in Sergio Aguero’s sensational snatch at the end of last season. But instances of the sugar daddy funding romance or, in the Manchester case, diversity cannot be taken in glorious isolation.
The riches with which Mansour or, before him, Roman Abramovich at Chelsea have built their empires are responsible for a salary inflation that not only disturbs United and Arsenal but destroys the chances of clubs otherwise eager to intensify competition at the top.
Aston Villa, in the time of Martin O’Neill, were one and they are now paying the price of Randy Lerner’s painful lesson. Everton under David Moyes are another. He and the admirable Bill Kenwright deserve medals for persistence — every time they look at the market, it goes through the roof.
The question of whether strict application of UEFA regulations forbidding clubs from spending more than they earn from football-related activity — they will be allowed leeway of £10 million a year or so — will help is a difficult one.
The obvious drawback is that it will set in stone the financial advantage of certain clubs and naturally anything to which David Gill puts his name must be treated with suspicion — United’s chief executive is like Sir Alex Ferguson in a velvet glove.
But we have given anarchy a chance and it has not worked. Financial fair play, on the other hand, has made a promising start, with the best piece of evidence to be found just a few miles from Old Trafford, where City are extending their academy into a thing of wonder, a thing of true worth, a thing that — crucially — UEFA have exempted from their controls because youth development and general care for the long term are precisely what the game needs.
Re: Martin Samuel: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea
He's in favour of our owners
Hamann Pineapple said:Paddy Barclay's retort. Utter shite in my unbiased opinion.
Why I support the plot to stop Manchester City and their sheikh's millions ruling the game
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He's in favour of our owners
Dubai Blue
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Revisionist bullshit. Were Shiekh Mansour or Roman Abramovich to blame when the rags kicked this all off by doubling Roy Keane's wages to £50k a week? No, thought not.Paddy Barclay said:The riches with which Mansour or, before him, Roman Abramovich at Chelsea have built their empires are responsible for a salary inflation that not only disturbs United and Arsenal but destroys the chances of clubs otherwise eager to intensify competition at the top.
BrianW
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I have just been reading in Gary James' book where back in the 80s Rags, Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton and Spurs set things up so they got most of the cash, even though we had bigger gates than two of those clubs. The game has been bent since at least then, and probably before. Blatant attempt by the 'establishment' to keep themselves at the top table and screw everyone else.
The very idea that these tossers want the game to be 'fair' or for there to be a 'level playing field' is enough to make a cat laugh.
The very idea that these tossers want the game to be 'fair' or for there to be a 'level playing field' is enough to make a cat laugh.