29 Sep 2020 22:46:53
With transfer silly season upon us.

With a financial disaster waiting in the lower leagues, I'd be content with the club not making any further signings but making serious contributions towards keeping leagues 2 and 3 afloat.
I understand perhaps 'football' is all about winning and trophies, and to do that united likely need signings, but a club of our stature shouldn't be judged on transfer fees.
Frankly the sums of money involved in Sancho, Telles etc blow my mind.
Personally I'd rather united just show, football is a community and without the smaller league clubs, we will just watch our communities, heritage go to pot.
We'll miss the Barnsley's, Stockport and the like if they go under.

1.) 29 Sep 2020
29 Sep 2020 23:19:36
I agree with the notion that help should be given to the lower league clubs because their only real source of income has ceased due to the C.V. and subsequent response.

But questions have to be asked if we as a country are going to remain in this super frightened state and hyper focused on this virus until a vaccine comes about then are these lower league clubs really viable in the long term?

This is not just a problem for lower league football, the nighttime economy, theatre and arts industry etc should all have their viability questioned if we continue to remain in some sort of lockdown for a considerable amount of time.

2.) 29 Sep 2020
29 Sep 2020 23:34:24
Obviously I want my club to do well, but with the money in the premier league alone they wouldn’t need to come together and give away a huge share each. Imagine a couple of weeks wages for de gea is what Macclesfield were wound up over. It’s insane. A £20m pot would go a long long way I imagine.

3.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 00:10:27
No chance of it happening the big clubs don't have any sense of responsibility.

There should be a compulsory fund for such emergencies that all Premier League clubs have to pay into each season. The cumulative sum raised could be put into a trust administered by representatives of the donor and potential donee clubs. The donee clubs would have to prove they had not been negligent or careless in the running of their club before being granted a bail out.

In this C.V. era when all the big European clubs outside of England are showing admirable restraint on spending stupid amounts on players our top teams still lavish huge sums whilst watching small clubs persih for want of comparatively small sums. Shameful.

4.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 00:10:56
they won't do that joel and the family will won't there anual dividens.

5.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 00:23:43
You both make valid points.
To the first reply, death and the potential death of a loved one is something most people at least fear, and at worst try and avoid. The night time economy has been hung out to dry but theatres did receive meagre bailouts from the governments. Football really does generate huge amounts of cash, it’s not equally or even slightly evenly distributed. Players at the top earn what would sustain lower league clubs.
I know I’m somewhat suggesting is an outlier comment, but really £100 million on one player without agent fees, seems insane.

6.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 09:16:10
There should be a small percentage from every transfer fee held back in a fund to help clubs in the lower leagues. I have taken to watching non league football at present and a lot of these clubs are in danger of going out of business by Christmas, Droylsden have done so already.

7.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 13:53:01
Ken, atm tesco and Sainsbury's are giving away their hard earned money to all the small single independent supermarkets through furlough.

Football is a bit different though. It's a rich culture with a lot of history. Also, the smaller clubs are fertile ground for developing players. The clubs are also local employers and have supply chains. If many of the smaller clubs go to the wall then we all be poorer for it.

8.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 14:47:59
No their not.

9.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 15:13:40
ken, who is not what? If you mean Tesco and Sainsbury then i would suggest that they are paying tax which is then redistributed to the furloughed staff of smaller supermarkets. No?

It's entirely possible for an indirect system to be set up for funds from premier league clubs to end up helping the staff or smaller clubs or the clubs themselves.

10.) 30 Sep 2020
30 Sep 2020 18:59:46
They are paying tax manc man not the wages of their competitors.
Not paying more than they used.
Its up to the government to distribute income from tax as they see fit. Its a ridiculas argument mate.
In that case our club pays tax so they are already helping the clubs that have furloughed staff.
Rules exist whereby a club can't just make a donation to another club.