Gate money is chicken feed in the PL, but the majority of income for the rest. The imbalance is crazy (and growing)
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£195 Million Neymar to PSG
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Gate money is chicken feed in the PL, but the majority of income for the rest. The imbalance is crazy (and growing)
- Feb 22, 2014
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Transfer are totally OTT these days. Apparently Arsenal want £9 million for Wilshire. Madness.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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They used to call it ' the beautiful game ' but that was when you could reach out and touch footballers and identify with them. When all the shysters, schmoozers, con-men, crooks and downright dangerous individuals were attracted to boxing, the home of the big bucks. Football was ordinary. Down to earth. Footballers earned tens of pounds and then, eventually, hundreds of pounds. They were in the sport to win medals, trophies and caps and each were treasured by them and their family. When they packed up playing, they took pubs, ran newsagents, sports shops or local haulage firms.
If you grew up in the 50's, 60's or 70's, a lot of players had a mystique about them. Pele, Puskas, Matthews, Garrincha, Di Stefano ,Eusebio, Rivera, Law, Best, Yashin and many more. None of these guys made a fortune from the game. Sure they earned a bit more than the man in the street but not much more and thats how it continued pretty much up to the early 90's. The likes of Lineker, Shearer, Robson and Hoddle were well paid but t,hey were the cream. The top of the tree. They all still had to keep working beyond retirement. Football didn't afford them the modern day rewards.
And now young players are millionaires before they have even established themselves and some could retire and live comfortably for the rest of their lives, having never played a first team game. Its barely believable but its true. Sadly, the beautiful game has become the ugly game, sordid and grubbied by the detritus of society, always attracted to big and easy money. Those who protest honourable intentions but take great swathes out of the game for personal gain. Football is awash with money and it should keep the whole structure afloat for decades. But we know it won't because elitism won't go away. We will always have the big, the medium and the small. Everyone scrambling for a bigger slice of the cake. Now you hear..." its only ten million "....what a throwaway line. What a comment on our game and what it has become.
The best in any sport have always been rewarded well and deservedly so but football is faced with the average performer, the run of the mill player earning film star levels of earnings. Distorted, unrealistic and unsustainable. Too much paid out for too little return. To reward the ordinary with a kings ransom breeds complacency, arrogance and an unwillingness to improve and learn. Footballers will take more and more short-cuts as the rewards get greater. Its human nature. Why bust a gut when there is an enormous paycheck guaranteed every month.
The game is very gradually eating itself from within. It is barely in control of itself. Change won't come overnight. It could take 20 years before implosion inevitably occurs. The quality of the game isn't moving forward. It can't. Players aren't superhuman. The lack of hunger in the game is suppressing development. Cheating, inevitably more prevalent. Players have power and consequently call the shots and get the manager fired.
Those of us who grew up loving the beautiful game see it drifting, very slowly, like gossamer on the wind, away from us. We want to grab it back but we know the wrong people have got a grip on the game and won't let go until they have wrung every last penny out of it . And when sanity eventually returns, they will be nowhere to be seen.
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Fair point - however how many clubs can afford 200 million? 4/5?
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banjo
GOSBTS
well I guess we'll be buying our players from Lidl or Aldi rather than Marks and Spencer.
brightn'ove
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Neymar to PSG
£200m, looking increasingly like it's going to happen.
****ing ridiculous.
£200m, looking increasingly like it's going to happen.
****ing ridiculous.
Nixonator
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Wonder how much his old man stands to gain from this one, and in turn how shortchanged the Spanish government will be.
daveinprague
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Another one slips through the net
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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It'd be a pretty sensational move if it happens. It would double the current record transfer. When was the last time, if ever, that happened?
He's not even Barcelona's best player. I'm not sure he's even in there top three...
He's not even Barcelona's best player. I'm not sure he's even in there top three...
This. I've never really "got" Neymar.
Quality player yes. Anywhere near the best in the world.... For his age... No.
HastingsSeagull
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People saying PL is the cause of all the inflation but it's not is it. Huge contributions from these 4 or so richer Euro clubs plus the likes of China. The best players always end up at Barca/Real/PSG/Bayern and then the likes of Juve try and mop up what they can.
Eh?
Biggest spender this summer to date has been City, followed by Milan.
Bayern rarely get involved at the silly level of buying, and China has stopped buying due to the Chinese government bringing in a 100% tax on foreign purchases.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I know 68 goals in 123 games for Barca is a shocking return.
Gazwag
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How many would he score for Carlisle on a cold wet Tuesday night in December away to Exeter though