The crazy world of modern money football

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DeanoVilla

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In the next 2 hours, John Terry will earn my weekly salary!

It would take me 78 years to earn John Terry's annual wage!

Neymar would earn my weekly salary in the next 10 minutes. Literally he can have a long shit and earn what I earn in a week, for having a shit!

It would take me 1017 years to earn what Neymar earns in a year!!!!

In the time I've been writing this post Neymar has earnt £250!






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It's total madness isn't it? Oxlade-Chamberlain turning down £180k a week at the Gooners. Leicester offering £23m for Jonny Evans. Jonny Evans!!

Will the bubble ever burst??
 
I actually admire the Ox for turning down the money and the Champions because of footballing reasons.

Wages are crazy yes, but you can't really blame the players.

Loads would take that and sit on the Chelsea bench. He wants to play and play in his preferred position. Fair play.
 
To be fair, I don't blame the players for the ridiculous wages on offer, nor Ox for wanting first-team football.

It's just the notion of turning down wages of £180k PER WEEK - the mind boggles.
 
How are we ever going to catch up with teams paying that sort of money even if we get up?
 
The Ox to Liverpool for £40m.

At that rate, I'm worth £2m. I was never very good and I'm 39 now.
 
Andros Townsend potentially going to Leicester and being valued at 28 million really bugged me, especially when there were whispers of Demarie Gray being used in exchange when he's a better and younger player.
 
Perfect illustration as to why football is ruined. 'My' football anyway.

I'm holding on for dear life because I love Villa and all that goes with it, but top level football is lost now.

Only thing we can hope for is that a club or two go bust for the ridiculous fees and wages and maybe, just maybe, we will get our game back.

The bubble has to burst at some point surely!?
 
BodyButter - 30/8/2017 13:26

The Ox to Liverpool for £40m.

At that rate, I'm worth £2m. I was never very good and I'm 39 now.
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OK, you're not very good. But look at that 39. Spot on for a signing for us. Expect a phone call from Steve.
 
Good article from David Conn in the Guardian about how PSG are taking the piss out of UEFA and FFP in their signings of Neymar and Mbappe.

These signings are a clear challenge to the “FFP” regime introduced by Uefa in 2011 to restrain excessive spending on transfers and wages, and encourage clubs to be financially responsible.

The current regulations limit clubs competing in Europe’s elite competitions to total losses of €5m for the 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 financial-reporting periods, or €30m if an owner is entirely covering the extra €25m. Reports that the rules have been relaxed have been mostly exaggerated; there has been some allowance for expenditure immediately after a takeover, but the rules governing the clubs are now stricter than initially, when a €45m loss over the first two seasons was allowed.

Uefa’s collation of top flight clubs’ accounts across Europe show a transformation in football’s handling of its TV bonanzas since, registering an overall operating profit of €1.5bn in the last two years, compared to total losses of €700m in the two years prior to the introduction of FFP. PSG have sold players too, including Blaise Matuidi for £18m to Juventus and Jean-Kevin Augustin to RB Leipzig for £11m, but Neymar and Mbappé look like up-yours signings, and it is difficult to see how PSG’s income and expenditure are going to balance, and pass Uefa scrutiny.
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Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/30/psg-kylian-mbappe-neymar-uefa-financial-fair-play

 
McParlandTheGreat - 30/8/2017 14:00

BodyButter - 30/8/2017 13:26

The Ox to Liverpool for £40m.

At that rate, I'm worth £2m. I was never very good and I'm 39 now.
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OK, you're not very good. But look at that 39. Spot on for a signing for us. Expect a phone call from Steve.
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just remember to emphasize your lack of pace, affinity with Hull and that right back is deffo your best position - £40K p/w Min
 
ironside - 30/8/2017 12:41

How are we ever going to catch up with teams paying that sort of money even if we get up?
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I'm not sure I want to enter a world where Johnny Evans is worth £23m
 
I think the bubble will burst because at some point people of generation will surely stop buying sky sports? Won't they? Maybe just me then.
 
BringbakMON - 30/8/2017 23:22

McParlandTheGreat - 30/8/2017 14:00

BodyButter - 30/8/2017 13:26

The Ox to Liverpool for £40m.

At that rate, I'm worth £2m. I was never very good and I'm 39 now.
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OK, you're not very good. But look at that 39. Spot on for a signing for us. Expect a phone call from Steve.
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just remember to emphasize your lack of pace, affinity with Hull and that right back is deffo your best position - £40K p/w Min
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I am right footed.

I've always wanted to put a reducer in on Wayne Rooney.

If those two facts don't qualify me for right back, I don't know what does.

As a Brucey bonus, I'm a free agent so I can be signed after the window slams shut.

It's a no brainer, Steve.
 
CDX_EIRE - 31/8/2017 02:28

I think the bubble will burst because at some point people of generation will surely stop buying sky sports? Won't they? Maybe just me then.
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There are no kids at football matches these days. There haven't been for years. I think I (and probably you) are part of the last generation of football fans.

I'm not sure if football doesn't realise the problem or doesn't give a shit.

They are going to have fun marketing a sport played in empty stadiums as the most exciting thing in the world.
 
I have 3 kids 18,17,8.

My 17 year old has no interest in football anymore.

My 18 and 8 year old enjoy a day out at VP but don't ask to go.

All 3 don't watch any football on TV.

Says a lot about the future generation regarding football.
 
Why are Spurs and Chelsea building bigger stadiums? Because they can fill them. As of now football is better supported than it was 20 years ago, and beyond; a lot better. Don't think the enthusiasm for the game is diminishing. Why do we get great support away from home? Because the away fans enjoy it. When there's a lot of stress and misery going on, football is a good outlet and a good social scene. OK, our away form is miserable, but deep down our away support must get a kick out of it.

Yep the money angle is daft, but why worry? Every time money has come into football there has been prophecies of impending doom, but it hasn't happened yet. Abolishing the maximum wage, fixed-term contracts, the Bosman ruling, were all seen as the beginning of the end, but if anything they led to a healthier balance in the sport.

Plenty of clubs are "forced" to sell players because of high offers, but the good clubs have somebody at least as good lined up, for less, and make a profit. High wages undoubtedly have an impact on players; if you get to 27 or 28 with money in the bank and your career has become difficult, maybe you give up just that little important bit. But good clubs are the ones who move you on before that happens. [one of the reasons I'm wary about Bruce's signings is that past experience is no guide to future performance, and I'm not sure he realises this. Ferguson was great at shifting out players before the rot set in]

What if the money dries up? Well, look at us. MON might argue that the wages he was dishing out were the going rates for encourageing those players to play for us, but when the world crash came we were left with players on salaries too big too move on, and it did for us. But that's bad management. Get the impression that our finances are now much better managed, and it is really bad management which leaves you in trouble.

Today's figures are bizarre, but they are just figures. Don't worry.
 
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