mattie
missing in inaction
It would be rather worrying if you didn't
Although I will admit I have read posts and thought 'what a tit' before realising it was something I posted the day before
Football will eat itself!!! Half a million quid a week!!!!
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It would be rather worrying if you didn't
Although I will admit I have read posts and thought 'what a tit' before realising it was something I posted the day before
I mean, we had 2 foreign superstars and almost got relegated.
Thing is though, they're scaling everything upwards. I mean, getting Kaka for 100m and 500,000 a week kinds of puts out 'weird free transfers' into perspective.
To then match us in relative levels of dodginess they are going to have to do something really really dodgy, like buy Old Trafford and burn it down or something.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
They could be bought by somebody who has got all their massive amounts of money by raping the earth and exploiting every human on it.
oh.. wait a minute...
Well they got bought by a mass-murdering, human-rights abusing, psychopathic bastard last year and nobody made any complaints other than to label them 'satay', yet when we signed a player who violated a minor technicality which most people had never heard of before, and which was only there to prevent match-fixing (so I guess Kia just paid Tevez to play shit for us to try and get us relegated, for the first ooh six months he was at the club), people scream about what bastards we are and how we deserve to be relegated to the conference.
Good to see the sport's got its priorities right
Good to see the sport's got its priorities right
Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
To be fair, a lot of people had heard of Tevez and Mascherano. I discovered Tevez in Footie Manager long before he starred for Argentina.
I meant that nobody had heard of the 'third party' technicality...
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
Well they got bought by a mass-murdering, human-rights abusing, psychopathic bastard last year and nobody made any complaints other than to label them 'satay', yet when we signed a player who violated a minor technicality which most people had never heard of before, and which was only there to prevent match-fixing (so I guess Kia just paid Tevez to play shit for us to try and get us relegated, for the first ooh six months he was at the club), people scream about what bastards we are and how we deserve to be relegated to the conference.
Good to see the sport's got its priorities right
and let's not even talk about dave whelan.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
that's roughly the amount that our owners are asking for the whole club.
alsoknownas
some bloke
Actually, I think the Premiership probably is a higher level of football than the World Cup.Aye, because the Premiership is a much higher level than the World Cup finals, where Kaka has proved to be a matchwinner for Brazil.
But anyway, Kaka has proved himself at every level. He's got frightening pace as well as skill, vision and finishing.
I think Refused was being sarcastic. After all, Brazil were pretty anonymous at the 2006 world cup.
Furthermore, South Americans rarely settle straight into life in the Prem. It's hard to think of many who have. Kaka would also get super-targetted by every other player who would constantly hack him down...
Tip for Billionaire prospective club owners
By small or medium, set up a 5 year plan, Invest in academies, ensure continuity in management, budget on a small Defecit each year as your progress, Build up fan base by decent performaces and instill local pride in the club
anything else is fail
By small or medium, set up a 5 year plan, Invest in academies, ensure continuity in management, budget on a small Defecit each year as your progress, Build up fan base by decent performaces and instill local pride in the club
anything else is fail
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Yeah I think I saw it.
Yeah well someone better buy west ham soon or we are fucked!
thing with west ham is that you are a mid table team who brings a lot of good players up and then sells them to the big clubs, it isn't the first time that the hammers have started buying players and trying to be a big club and it's backfired
come to think of it, this is a bit like how man city filled their team up with foreign stars in the 90s and didn't achieve the success they expected from the money they spent
and newcastle making marquee singings goes back to the 70s as well
it's all bollocks
just cos there is so much more money this decade, the clubs aren't that different (which is all debt btw, even tho these owners say it is an investment not debt, legally it's debt and it will be debt if the owners run out of money)
come to think of it, this is a bit like how man city filled their team up with foreign stars in the 90s and didn't achieve the success they expected from the money they spent
and newcastle making marquee singings goes back to the 70s as well
it's all bollocks
just cos there is so much more money this decade, the clubs aren't that different (which is all debt btw, even tho these owners say it is an investment not debt, legally it's debt and it will be debt if the owners run out of money)
When have we done it before?
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
City isn't debt. It's a bad investment write-off. On transfer deadline day they apparently set up a new company and threw half a bill into the account and bought Robinho with the interest, more or less.
i wouldn't be surprised if there are some conditions that we don't know about
at this point, man city's situation doesn't seem as perilous as chelsea for example with regards to their billionaire owners not being that into it and being completely within their rights to leave the club in the shit, but 5 years down the line.....
It was all bargain basement really until we sold an overweight Hartson for 7.5m and then used the profit to buy Foe, Di Canio and someone else who I forget.
And even then, 7.5m for 3 pretty useful players is hardly breaking the bank...
It was all bargain basement really until we sold an overweight Hartson for 7.5m and then used the profit to buy Foe, Di Canio and someone else who I forget.
And even then, 7.5m for 3 pretty useful players is hardly breaking the bank...
maybe i'm misremembering
I definetely remember west ham buying a not that good player for 8m cos you had 8m and everyone being like 'wat?'
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
our record transfer fee is 8 million or something for bellamy, and before that it was 7.25 for ashton.
maybe you're thinking of the period after we sold rio and harry bought about five really average players with the proceeds?
