Manchester_lalala
Well-Known Member
Spot on!
Two horrible and terribly run football clubs, whose business models should be avoided at all costs by all clubs in football.
The players, managers, and CEOs themselves have been given a free pass this week though. It’s been their greed that’s fed this spiral downwards. The players and their agents constantly pushing for higher and higher wages, demanding more from clubs who don’t have the money, threatening to go elsewhere if they don’t get it. Managers earning eye watering amounts of money with gigantic pay-offs if they get sacked.
Even the top football clubs only bring in £550-700m a season. City, who don’t have the highest wage bill, have a £150m player wage bill but over £300m payroll (for all staff inc. Pep and the boardroom) from a £550 revenue.
Barça’s wage bill is £235m so god knows what their entire payroll is!
It’s not sustainable. It’s actually a shambolic way to run a business.
The answer isn’t a European Super League that will bring in more money though, the answer has to be a cap on salaries. Make football more fair across the board, instead of allowing clubs to get into more and more debt just to fund wages and transfer fees and letting them get away with almost going bust and ruining themselves, their leagues and football in general.
Come down hard on debt!
If a club can’t afford a player or manager, don’t allow them to finance it. Just let these clubs slide down the table for a while. It’s how football used to be run for decades upon decades. Some clubs would have their time at the top, then they’d fade away, and another club would be top dogs for a while.
Why do these “big” clubs think they have a devine right to always be top clubs? Hardly any of them have always been top clubs throughout football history. Not Liverpool not United not Bayern not Barça not Arsenal not Paris not Inter not Milan... only one club has ever really been successful throughout football history and that’s Real Madrid, but look at how they’ve gone about that over the decades.
It’s time this was seriously looked at!
The forming of the champions league and the premier league meant the teams at the top of their leagues at that time got comfortable with the money coming in. The clubs at the very top of European football has barely changed for 30 years and it’s time for some variety. I want to see West Ham/Everton/Leicester taking the places of United/Liverpool/Arsenal. Football does work in cycles and at the minute you get the feeling that the circle is starting to turn. The big clubs are clinging on by showing their power but are being dragged down with their debt and bad management while also showing their desperate side. I don’t just want to see change in the prem, I’d love to see a couple of teams emerge in Spain to dismantle Barca and Madrid.