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Oscar Garcia back to Tel Aviv
- Thread starter Urchin
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Opposed to one, who goes onto another team's website and bases their judgement on FM14?
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
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You cite FM2014 as a basis for your thinking? Oy vey, this is a CHILD'S TOY!
I already mentioned at least twice that I based my assumption about the budgets on the squads and on the amounts both clubs spent on transfers in the last years.
The check on FM was only to get a general idea if my assumption was correct, which it is. The budgets are similar, if not in favor of Maccabi.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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This sounds like a useful tool. Maybe MTA could save some money by sacking their Finance Director and hiring you with your child's toy to look after the budget?
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Don't agree and even if it is the guy is talking more sense than most of the Albion fans on this thread who are coming across as incredibly arrogant and condescending.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Agreed. He puts a reasonable argument.
Tel aviv are owned by a Canadian billionaire and he has put aside a £20m a year budget for them. Would imagine that Garcia is on a fair whack there.
Would imagine we would beat tel aviv. Their squad is mostly full of Israeli rubbish as Israeli teams are only allowed 5 foreigners in their squad.
Would imagine we would beat tel aviv. Their squad is mostly full of Israeli rubbish as Israeli teams are only allowed 5 foreigners in their squad.
But the thing with budgets and basing it on transfer dealings, it does not take into account teams that flout the FFP rules. If you look at Nottingham Forest in our division or QPR, they have spent more money on players and probably pay more on wages, but that is their choice. QPR struck lucky by going up. Forest will be bailed out by wealthy owners.
If you look at infrastructure Brighton is probably better placed than both of those teams in terms of stadia and training facilities. Given that we also had, (I am to believe), the 9th most season ticket sales, I would suggest we are fairly well placed nationally in our own country also. Though we do know, we are not a big team in the scheme of things.
The little I know about Israeli football is that probably Maccabi is THE team in the Israeli league, and I was surprised that you mentioned that they hadn't won the league for a period of time prior to Oscar.
Who is a better team is an impossible question.
However, what I do know is that the Championship is held in higher esteem by most coaches than a number of the top divisions in Europe, which speaks for itself. If you look at the average attendance as another indicator it is I believe 5th best attended, so therefore considerable revenue is generated which attracts better players.
So Europa league football or not, for me Oscar has taken a backward step, not because he's gone to Maccabi, but because he has gone to what is likely to be lower standard of football. Although I supported him for the majority of his time here, towards the end our football was so poor, that it was becoming arduous to even watch. He often quoted the number shots in a game, but that did not tell the story in terms of the number of times we pushed up or put in a meaningful cross for players to attack. The shots were often back-pass pace, so frankly irrelevant.
Good luck to yourselves, I hope he adopts a more attacking stance with you.
Marxo
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Champions League qualifying: FC Santa Coloma 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv, massive result against an Andorran team!
penny's harmonica
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- Jan 30, 2012
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Wonder how Oscar feels after 7 days of rockets aimed at Israel. Didn't he say that was the cause of his departure first time round.
No way I could convince the Mrs it was a good career move, best of luck OG
No way I could convince the Mrs it was a good career move, best of luck OG
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
He needed a rocket up his backside here
Bladders
Twats everywhere
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Don't worry about it. This is a good news story surely?
We didn't want him to stay, you wanted him back. Everyone is happy.
John Bumlick
Banned
no, i don't believe he did. he left Tel Aviv for 'personal reasons'. he did, however, make a reference to training sessions with missiles flying overhead when an interviewer asked if he was feeling pressure at Brighton (he basically said this is nothing compared to...).
if he did ever state explicitly that he left because of the crazy jews and their little, local fisticuffs i'd like to read or listen to it.