ferring seagull
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- Dec 30, 2010
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When you see what is happening to other clubs in the football league, and look at many other posts on here, aren’t we so fortunate.
Tony Bloom has financed the Amex Stadium on an apparently most generous arrangement to the benefit of the club, but please consider the implications of that. Our wonderful new stadium at Falmer is NOT ever going to be re-developed as a shopping centre because that just won’t happen in Falmer which is rural or semi rural.
Look at the sad goings-on at Argyle who may or may not have a board entirely given over to the continuation of football, and, our dear friends in Croydon, who are dependant upon a non predatory board with who knows what arrangement with Sainsburys or whatever. Sadly, we know from our own experience that individuals, on the make, don’t care a s--- about what they are doing, if it happens to be in the interest of lining their own pockets, and irrespective that they may cause a football club with perhaps a hundred years or more of history to go under. You can extend this discussion into very many situations which have arisen over the past few years and I am sure you are well aware of these.
The other significant point is that we appear to NOT be going down the road of signing whosoever at whatever salary with a devil may care attitude about the consequences. Just look at the clubs this year who are releasing players out of contract because (even if that club wanted to) they cannot retain them on the salaries they currently or previously being paid and those still under contract are being put on the ’market’ The ‘parachute’ payments receivable from the Football League are something which all clubs, responsible or otherwise, are contributing to if by nothing else than the fact that their share of the TV rights is so heavily biased towards the Premier League and thereby deprives the lower leagues.
To Tony Bloom especially, I say a big thank you for all you have done and you are so correct not to replicate the errors of others.
Best of luck to you, a true hero !
Tony Bloom has financed the Amex Stadium on an apparently most generous arrangement to the benefit of the club, but please consider the implications of that. Our wonderful new stadium at Falmer is NOT ever going to be re-developed as a shopping centre because that just won’t happen in Falmer which is rural or semi rural.
Look at the sad goings-on at Argyle who may or may not have a board entirely given over to the continuation of football, and, our dear friends in Croydon, who are dependant upon a non predatory board with who knows what arrangement with Sainsburys or whatever. Sadly, we know from our own experience that individuals, on the make, don’t care a s--- about what they are doing, if it happens to be in the interest of lining their own pockets, and irrespective that they may cause a football club with perhaps a hundred years or more of history to go under. You can extend this discussion into very many situations which have arisen over the past few years and I am sure you are well aware of these.
The other significant point is that we appear to NOT be going down the road of signing whosoever at whatever salary with a devil may care attitude about the consequences. Just look at the clubs this year who are releasing players out of contract because (even if that club wanted to) they cannot retain them on the salaries they currently or previously being paid and those still under contract are being put on the ’market’ The ‘parachute’ payments receivable from the Football League are something which all clubs, responsible or otherwise, are contributing to if by nothing else than the fact that their share of the TV rights is so heavily biased towards the Premier League and thereby deprives the lower leagues.
To Tony Bloom especially, I say a big thank you for all you have done and you are so correct not to replicate the errors of others.
Best of luck to you, a true hero !
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