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Just to expand look at the Monaco team who briefly existed last year. Young exciting team who threatened to provide an ongoing threat if they were kept together. Mbappe is playing second/third fiddle to the ego twins of Cavani and Neymar. Bakayoko is sitting on the bench for an average Chelsea team, Bernardo Silva is a back up player for City, Mendy has played like 4 games. Or Dortmund and how they have been systematically removed as a threat. Closed shop at the top because of the financial disparity, makes for shit football and makes the achievements of those privileged clubs count for less. The Pl has about 12 clubs fighting against relegation with no hope of giving the big boys a game. Someone tweeted me today that Mourinho now has the highest win percentage of any Utd manager ever. Utd in second despite looking crap for much of the season. Modern football is shit. |
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Before that football clubs were simply run as football clubs and therefore most of their revenue came from how many they could get through the turnstiles This kept football to a large extent organic and competitive especially when gate receipts were shared Amazing to think at a club like Utd the percentage of total revenue generated by the rank and file fans is tiny these days No wonder the club treat our hardcore support as if they are irrelevant because from a balance sheet point of view they are |
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It is also why the argument that clubs like Utd generate their own money against outside investment has less weight than in previous times. Match day revenue, prize winnings, minimal commercial interests, if that is the main source of income then complaining about someone like Jack Walker has more impact, he is disrupting the competitive balance and creating shortcuts. Oil money against commercial and corporate entities like Utd/Barca/Real is less clear. |
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And United are an awful example of it. A marketing company that throws money at problems without any idea where it's going as a football club. Does know how to get sponsors though tbf |
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The Prem feels the one that should consistently have an intriguing title race, but for some reason we've had a different side running away with it for the last few years. At least it's more difficult to predict each summer and you always feel it could be better next time |
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We're also probably a little bitter underneath all this. But the influence of money does feel greater than ever. Other leagues more affected though. We should at least be grateful that the separation in English football is mainly between six and the rest, rather than one and the rest. If Spurs buy well in the summer and Wenger goes, it's an interesting prospect again. I worry about Klopp next year too. Quote:
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