** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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Its been done before.

Blackburn, Chelsea etc.
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believe me, jack walker saw blackburn as purely business. a stella bloke. he would never run it like city are. ok he didn't have the vast financial clout as the city owner(s) but he was essentially a businessman and was a family friend.
 
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The likes of Rooney has really never been the problem as far as wages are concerned.

Premium players at the top clubs should earn the most. Its when lesser clubs pay unsustainable wages to lesser players that the problems start. As a Leeds fan you should know that, your chairmans goldfish has a bigger transfer fee than most PL players at one point. Seth Johnsons grandkids will be thanking Leeds in years to come when they have enough money not to have to work based on his wages!!
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So its ok for players to hold the club to ransom threatening to leave unless they get offered a bumper deal?? It sets a bad example and players will just continue to follow suit and the demand stupid wages.

It's time a wage cap came in.
 
Andybtsn said:
So its ok for players to hold the club to ransom threatening to leave unless they get offered a bumper deal?? It sets a bad example and players will just continue to follow suit and the demand stupid wages.

It's time a wage cap came in.
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It sets a bad example for whom? Lesser players? We arent paying those players.

Top players get top wages.

Wayne Rooney singing for Man Utd did nohing to justify Lucas Neils season in the sun at West Ham on £90k a week.

As much as it hurts the world Man Utd paid Rooney what he was worth and guess what? We won the league.
 
Weebull said:
Why?

Give me one good reason why sporting clubs should have to be run as businesses.
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Whether the fans like it or not the majority of owners are in it for profit rather than from a sports perspective

It would be brilliant if fans (or one majorority fan) was able to take over Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and the rest - but considering even the cheapest of those would set someone back£500m+ , its not something to be frittered away as a fan (if it ever was)

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But a proper business isn't successful if it's the leader in its field whilst making a huge loss. If Apple sold the iPad at a loss every time they wouldn't be a successful business despite being the market leader.
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PS2 for Sony was both and was a major success because of the software (until the harware became cheap enough to produce at a profit - but it was already a leader in its field by this point). To a lesser extent the PS3 is also the same (:
 
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There needs to be a marriage of business and sport. You can't have clubs ignoring business fundamentals (ridiculous high wages as a percentage of turnover/general excessive spending), as it's unsustainable/not good for the sport.

But then running football clubs based on pure business would kill the sport (look at what Real Madrid and Barcelona have done to La Liga by doing their own TV deals, instead of collective bargaining). It creates an imbalance where the strong get stronger and the weak weaker (at least in relative terms), which leads to an uncompetitive league and a weakened product... bad for the sport and bad in terms of business.
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I would question strongly whether IF Abromovich / Glazers / NESV / Stan Kroenke had the chance to do seperate deals they wouldnt want to look after their own club 1st and foremost (and no reason why they shouldnt imo)

I would happy bet 99.9% of the time they would jump at the chance of a seperate deal if they could
 
With Robinson and Aurelio around he wouldn't have played. It seems like the best decision for everybody.

It would be interesting to know how much we got for him in the end. Most of the press haven't even reported the deal let alone speculated on the size of the transfer fee.
 
Sky and BBC are reporting it. I've heard £3million rising to £4.4million with add ons. Good deal, promising player with a bright future but just not guranteed a game as a replacement for Enrique. Only need to get rid of Poulson, Cole and N'Gog.
 
syke said:
Think you're just trading him for three Hamburg fans.
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About the same ego level then.

EDIT: Just read more about Chung. Apparently he was having a medical at Lille when Wenger phoned him. Perhaps we are holding him ransom in exchange for talks about Eden Hazard?
 
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