Martin Samuel: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea

[Newman Noggs]

If Uefa and Pratini persist then what is there to stop City , PSG , and all those other " new money " clubs from setting up a new euro wide league which would attract new wealthy owners to invest in other ambitious clubs who are fed up with the sleazy stinking corrupt rule makers we now have. Can you imagine the TV revenues !

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I have thought about this for a couple of years, but the problem is that the current European glamour clubs would obviously opt to stay where they are leaving a new Eurowide league to be made up of PSG, Anzhi, City, Redbull Saltzburg, Zenit, Monaco etc.

If you compare that to Real, Barca, Milan, Juve, Inter, Bayern, Rags, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Ajax etc it makes the former seem like a rich man's Europa League & it doesn't take abrain surgeon to work out where advertisers & sponsors are going to put their money & which competition the fans will choose to watch.

The problem is that non of the cash rich clubs are a draw on their own, they are only a draw when collectively included with the traditional European elite.

This is absolutely true. However, things change. Is it in the interests of the "old money" clubs to allow the "new money" clubs to set up in competition against them ?

You then get involved in a bidding war for the best players and, when it comes to that, money talks. TV isn't the only source of revenue. Clearly the "old money" would have the advantage there in the short-term but, in the long-term higher wages and higher prize money funded from capital investment would attract the players and the rest would follow.

You could even open it up worldwide before the old clubs do and get th elikes of River Plate and Boca Juniors in on the plan.

There's plenty of scope there. The "old money" is fighting a rearguard action.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I'll ask again a question I posed some time ago. We know the procedure for introducing these regulations in the PL, and we know how each club actually voted, but what was the procedure for the introduction of their regulations by UEFA. Who actually had a vote?

 

[Anonymous]

Re: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea

FFS what's up with you mancs ? Your as same as the chavs no class. Arsenal have had all there success and trophy winning exploits done by hard work and running a football club like it should be properly run. Spending what we have made through the turnstiles which is why we were able to fund our own 60,000 stadium.
Could you of done that noooo. Could you of won one poultry little title and fa cup without a sugar daddy nooooo.
We have been doing this for decades and the sour grapes come from your side of the fence because like the chavs you cannot buy history, you can try but forever in our shadows you will be.

You've just gone out of another domestic cup at the hands of a side from a lower division!!! You'll effectively be out of the champions league on Tues & it doesn't look like you will finish in the top 4 this season, so no champions league next season for you.

F*** off Arse hole

 

[Thenumber1blue]

Re: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea

FFS what's up with you mancs ? Your as same as the chavs no class. Arsenal have had all there success and trophy winning exploits done by hard work and running a football club like it should be properly run. Spending what we have made through the turnstiles which is why we were able to fund our own 60,000 stadium.
Could you of done that noooo. Could you of won one poultry little title and fa cup without a sugar daddy nooooo.
We have been doing this for decades and the sour grapes come from your side of the fence because like the chavs you cannot buy history, you can try but forever in our shadows you will be.

You've just gone out of another domestic cup at the hands of a side from a lower division!!! You'll effectively be out of the champions league on Tues & it doesn't look like you will finish in the top 4 this season, so no champions league next season for you.

F*** off Arse hole

You fuckin clueless obsessed idiot ,you know fuck all about your own club let alone ours.Where the fuck would you be without all the money fiszman pumped into your pathetic club.One day you thick gooners will stop talking like twatish 2 year olds and realise it's not City's fault your club is now a joke.

 

[The Future's Blue]

Re: The plot to shackle City & Chelsea

FFS what's up with you mancs ? Your as same as the chavs no class. Arsenal have had all there success and trophy winning exploits done by hard work and running a football club like it should be properly run. Spending what we have made through the turnstiles which is why we were able to fund our own 60,000 stadium.
Could you of done that noooo. Could you of won one poultry little title and fa cup without a sugar daddy nooooo.
We have been doing this for decades and the sour grapes come from your side of the fence because like the chavs you cannot buy history, you can try but forever in our shadows you will be.

You've just gone out of another domestic cup at the hands of a side from a lower division!!! You'll effectively be out of the champions league on Tues & it doesn't look like you will finish in the top 4 this season, so no champions league next season for you.

F*** off Arse hole

You fuckin clueless obsessed idiot ,you know fuck all about your own club let alone ours.Where the fuck would you be without all the money fiszman pumped into your pathetic club.One day you thick gooners will stop talking like twatish 2 year olds and realise it's not City's fault your club is now a joke.

I wonder if he'll be back shouting about their 'History'. Their 'History' of late is to be continual under-achievers who class towing the line of the Rags a successful season.

To quote an arrogant Frenchman, 'The seagulls, they follow the trawlers.......'.

 

[Anonymous]

What's cockney for 'iztree?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

What's cockney for 'iztree?

Arsenal.

 

[Anonymous]

What's cockney for 'iztree?

Arsenal.

"Man fucking City; you see their problem is that in spite of all that money, they have no fucking Arsenal!"

 

[ahoyhoy]

Arsenal do play very attractive football but they are in danger of becoming the Harlem Globetrotters. All the tricks but no trophies.
Without the input of money leading to Chelsea & City winning the league the last 10 years would have been Nited winning the league every year. Where's the competition in that ? The league needs the Arse, City, Chelsea etc challenging

 

[Anonymous]

Arsenal do play very attractive football but they are in danger of becoming the Harlem Globetrotters. All the tricks but no trophies.
Without the input of money leading to Chelsea & City winning the league the last 10 years would have been Nited winning the league every year. Where's the competition in that ? The league needs the Arse, City, Chelsea etc challenging

Indeed; I find it shocking the Trots have never won the NBA title. Absolute travesty.








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