24 Jan 2015 23:51:01
This isn't Manchester United related but Just read that Martin odegaard is on 80000 a week at Real Madrid obviously don't know how true this is. But if true it shows that football has finally gone mad.
Read yesterday it was 40k
Also reports circling that Madrid have bought him and his family a luxury house as well as giving him full use of a private jet to regularly visit his homeland. All this on top of £80,000 a week to play B team football and a nice signing on fee. Said it before and I'll say it again Madrid have ruined football.
{Ed007's Note - Wayne Rooney to Man Utd in 2004? Roy Keane getting £50k a week in 1999? Utd have been just as bad as anyone for taking football financially where it is today. For years Utd used their financial power to pay over the normal wage to attract players, it's only in recent years they've been left struggling to match clubs like Madrid, City and Chelsea.
You can't take the moral highground when Utd pay players the sort of money Rooney or Falcoa are getting.}
I agree with you ED in regards to the wages paid to players like Falcao and Rooney although I suppose Rooney has given a lot to the club. I feel with Madrid though by triggering purchases such as the fees they paid for Zidane, Ronaldo, Kaka etc they have just took the game up to a whole new financial level.
{Ed007's Note - Jealousy's a terrible thing.... (envy) I try not to get bogged down with the £ side of things, there's nothing we can do to stop it. As a Celtic fan it's even worse when you see teams like Hull in the Top 40 richest clubs all because of TV money but it is what it is. Cambridge will make more £ from their FA Cup replay than Celtic will for winning the league.
The latest thing to grind my gears is 'I want to play Champions League football' shout, what they mean is they want the wages the BIG CL teams pay. If it was about the prestige why not sign for Celtic...or a Basel? You're almost guaranteed CL football or a chance to qualify. B*$£@&$
Rant over :)
Couldn't have said it better myself ED. Money talks.
Juanmatasbeard
There are points about Madrid which did mean it could be said they had an unfair advantage. The deal on the training ground for example.
United only spend what they have earned, we don't have a multi billionaire bank rolling deals and if I was looking at clubs that could be said to be ruining football I would look at City, Chelsea, PSG, certain Russian clubs and Monaco until their money ran out. For me it was their intervention throwing money at players that caused a problem, yet recently pegged back for the time being by FFP.
25 Jan 2015 05:17:39
007, that's enough Buckfast for one night bud! ;)
{Ed007's Note - Cheeky sod!}
Just out of curiousity ed 007, would you like to see Celtic in the premier league or championship or whatever league they would have to start at to eventually end up in the premier league?
{Ed007's Note - No. I'd much rather see someone come in and invest in the Scottish game or see us in a second division of a Euro league. I think the EPL is a bit of a joke that'll end up a financial mess when the 'European Super League' eventually happens.The EPL is full of half-scarf daytrippers who would rather take selfies or Tweet than watch the game, it's just a money-making product with no soul, give it 10/20 years and Utd and Liverpool fans will be sitting together at Old Trafford.
I don't buy all the Best League in The World nonsense, it's the best marketted but take away TV money and what have you got? No money to afford the foreigners that make the EPL watchable and then who's going to watch Stoke v Hull, in fact who watches games like that anyway?
25 Jan 2015 13:50:59
Stoke and hull fans?
{Ed007's Note - Who will probably all be at the game taking selfies and asking other fans to keep the noise down all the while thinking they are one of the biggest clubs in the world just because TV gives them £100 million. They have no ambition to improve or challenge as long as they survive in the EPL and get Sly's cheque. They're nothing but scavangers hanging onto the coat tails of clubs like Utd for the scraps.}
The biggest advantage Madrid and Barca have is their direct TV deals.
{Ed002's Note - That was one of the main discussion points at a meeting in Monaco at the end of August - but in relation to a pan European breakaway.}
25 Jan 2015 16:32:39
I know a few stoke fans who were at the old victoria ground all through the 90s who are getting priced out of games, 4 season tickets these days even with kids discounts is a fair whack. Don't forget stoke do have a bit of history in the game going back to Stanley Matthews. Sure they want to stay in the top flight, no one wants to see their team do a Wigan or a Portsmouth or even a rangers. A lot of them got sick of pulis and his style of play designed to just keep them up. And speaking to a few fans they have more ambition than just finishing 17th to cash in on tv money.
Look at a club like Southampton. Dropped to the 3rd division, rebuilt the club and now challenging for a European spot. Hardly suffering a lack of ambition ir just in it for the tv money.