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Do you not think fans are connected in any way to the increasingly absurd levels of money being splashed about in the game? If money at the top is reeled in then it could actually make things fairer at the bottom for fans, instead of them paying £50-£100 to watch a 90 minute football match where players earn more in a week than some supporters will earn in a decade. |
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It's a pointless debate now, it's gone. Buy a Stand AMF t-shirt and crack one off to the Bundesliga set up. *usually in the 1st home programme of the season. |
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The question was Why do people care about transfer fees? not Does people caring about them affect the way they are set? or whatever way you want to phrase it
Also interesting that in one argument people will say that the club deliberately sets out to try and influence the supporters, but in another argument people will say that they don't care at all what the supporters think Also disagree that you cannot put players in value brackets any more, since obviously you can in the same way you ever could. Comparing Cavani with RvP is not a like-for-like example, either. |
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cavani has gone to an oil rich club at an over-inflated price. he is just 26 and had a £50m+ release clause. RvP wanted to sign for United and was near 29 at the time. |
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Everyone agrees the money is obscene and we are all at different stages of acceptance as to what can be done about it i guess |
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Really the question I'd put to throb, certainly from my point of view, is why should I care about something that has
A) very little effect on the way I follow united and B) Even if I ranted and raged could do nothing about in the grand scheme of things. With regards to A), I mostly follow United away in Europe. The money I have, this is where it goes - occasionally I'll do domestic aways, or the odd home game (maybe 5 a season), but mostly I prefer to spend my cash on europe. Now, conceivably, unless I suddenly come into a lot of money, prices could never be so cheap that I could afford both an ST and all the expenses involved with going to OT, and Europe. And Europe will always be my priority (or at least for the foreseeable future as I don't have kids) Now with regards to B), that is more of a philosophical issue - my opinion or otherwise on transfer fees has, basically, zero effect on them. Yes, I could cancel sky and wouldn't it be a wonderful world if everyone did etc etc but that's just not likely in any way. It's the problem with the whole boycotting issue - like it or not, there's always going to be someone to take your place. So I choose simply not to let it bother me - it's not about 'not caring', it's just there's very little point in getting wound up about it. Life is way too short for me to waste energy on something I have very little control over. At the end of the day, as far as I'm concerned people can follow United any which way they like and have any opinion they choose on the way the club is run and where money is spent. Of course, I have an ideal about, if I was in charge, how I'd run things - but I don't, and most likely never will. I admire your principles Throb, really I do, I just don't see where it gets you in an everyday sense other than being able to take a moral high ground. |
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