Indeed. Kevin Keegan struggled to persuade some players to join Newcastle because of their location. He signed Rob Lee from Charlton. Earlier Lee had turned down a move to Middlesbrough on the grounds that they were too far from London.I think the potential of Newcastle is overstated. No way that area is competing for top players against Manchester and London (and by extension Madrid, Barcelona, etc). Even we struggle sometimes on this front. FFP will limit their ability to compensate with wages, which probably limits them to being a solid Europa league club at best.
Don’t forget the 39th game.I think the premier league are fucking hypocrites
Lets not forget that the PL met with just reps from the rags and dippers when employing the PL chairman was it not
Wankers the lot
I don't think your post reads quite as you intended it to.what a load of bollox.
if I make an allegation that you are a murderer then you wouldn’t have anything to be cleared of. So technically you are a murderer.
we were cleared of FFP.
Just because some bitter sods make an allegation doesn’t mean its true, we would all be in a lot of trouble if that were the case.
Then is it a case of hate the game, not the player?ESL Mark II. Believe me, this is what City want. If the money is there, they'll take it. That even overrides getting into bed with the clubs that have been trying to destroy us because we've won the financial arms race.
That's the ultimate betrayal here.
Live in Newcastle for 30 plus years it’s a hidden gemI think the potential of Newcastle is overstated. No way that area is competing for top players against Manchester and London (and by extension Madrid, Barcelona, etc). Even we struggle sometimes on this front. FFP will limit their ability to compensate with wages, which probably limits them to being a solid Europa league club at best.
In that case, there are two other UAE funded clubs in Super League besides City : Real Madrid and Arsenal.I think they are sponsored by Qatar Airways and usually go to Qatar for their training camps.
Which can make things difficult...but also means we can act with freedom and expedience.City have been nothing more than a pawn. Uefa v Cartel to determine who holds the corrupt power in football. The clubs good name has been dragged through the mud.
We really are alone in this fight.
Sensible ideas, and it’ll be surprising to many that it comes from US sport... of course, over there these rules ensure the owners can keep the lion’s share of the profits. It’d be good if we could find a way for the excess profits such a scheme would generate to find their way into grass routes and school sports, as well as the rest of the football pyramid.The problem with a percentage cap is that it benefits those with the highest revenue. Which is probably one of the factors that caused us to withdraw from the ESL as they had proposed a 55% cap on wages and net spending so if we were getting less money than United or Liverpool, then we're at an immediate disadvantage.
Whereas in the NFL for example, there's a fixed cap. Think it's $182.5m this coming season. But the NFL do revenue differently as they negotiate not just TV deals but kit deals and major commercial deals. These get shared equally among the 32 teams. There's other revenue streams, including their own local commercial deals, tickets, the food & drink concessions, parking and other things that they can keep for themselves. So there's still a financial discrepancy between the top and lowest earning teams but that doesn't matter as they all have to abide by the same absolute cap.
As a result, Dallas Cowboys are the highest earners by a mile and, without the cap would win the Superbowl every year. But because of the cap, they've not won it for 25 years. So I've come round to the idea of a similar system here, with central kit and commercial deals negotiated by the PL and a fixed cap.
I'd also abolish the current method of transfer fees but have clubs pay off the contract of a player they want to sign. But that payment is included in the cap (although it can be spread out over the life of the contract).
Then we really will have financial fair play.