The end of football as we know it?

Chong Warrior

Chong Warrior

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The news flying round about Man Cities new owners saddens me really... Chelsea started it and now City will carry it on. Also there's this news.

As we all know City have been taken over by Suleiman Al Fahim of Abu Dhabi Group, I have heard they have around £1.73 trillion pounds at least altogether.

City now are technically the richest club in the world.


Due to the work I do, this morning I have been told some interesting news which could effect us.

Abu Dhabi and Dubai are fierce rivals and are constantly trying to outdo each other. The Dubai Invesment Group, who tried to takeover Liverpool are furious that Abu Dhabi group have taken over City and made the headlines this morning with the Robinho signing.

What I heard this morning is that the Dubai Investment Group as of this morning have already started to desperately try and find a new Premier League club who they can take over, so that they can compete and not get outshone by the Abu Dhabi group.

Clubs on the list include Spurs, Arsenal, Everton and Newcastle. Spurs and Arsenal are the two choices they would rather go with as they are in London and they believe that they have greater potential/history etc.

The Dubai group are as loaded as the Abu Dhabi group and whoever they takeover will definitely spend loads of money as they want to be the number 1 owners in the country. Spurs are the favourites to be taken over as of this morning.

That's what I heard this morning guys, I'll keep you updated.
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If Spurs are taken over then I'll probably completely stop watching the game altogether :( I've already lost a lot of interest in the game, the CL has made things so unfair, then Chelsea and now more and more clubs will just become playthings for the billionaires.... seriously they have such wealth they'll be playing Championship Manager but for real!!!

I really don't see Chelsea as successful, they cheated it and did not earn anything, I truly believe that. Just a matter of time before Roman leaves and they'll sink without trace??

Even though my love of the game has cooled I do still love Spurs and am proud of what they've achieved on their own backs. They have no debt, run at a profit and have many passionate fans.....

A take over that what has just happened at Man City would just kill it for me. I'd rather win the Carling Cup like we did than the Prem like Chelsea and now probably Man City will....
 
Its for these reasons it will be even better.

Higher quality players, best league, more attractive to the best players.

We are becoming the world's most prolific, wealthy, talented football league at the expense of British players.

I welcome the Man City takeover, surely it means better football in the end even if its not British players playing the best stuff ?
 
So you'll happily watch Spurs when they're getting their butts kicked by just about everybody, but you'll abandon them if they are able to compete with the big boys?

No offense dude, but that's BS.
 
I'd rather Newcastle win the carling cup this season then nowt again for 10 years, at least we will feel like it's worth something, the sad thing is Newcastle are a rich club, but compared to this superrich elite group we have no chance, how the hell do clubs like Hull etc have a chance!!!
 
Cob said:
No offense dude, but that's BS.
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No offense dude but you don't know me, don't judge me by your values..?

Some people just don't get it....
da_mic_1530 said:
I'd rather Newcastle win the carling cup this season then nowt again for 10 years, at least we will feel like it's worth something...
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Exactly. Won like other football teams have been winning things for the past 100+ years.
 
I know this is an irrelevant thought for 99% of the posters here as you all seem to support Man United or Liverpool but think of it from the perspective of a lower league club.

The gap is widening rapidly between the Premiership and the Championship, soon you will need a billionaire backer just to compete in the Premiership. Transfer fees and wages are rising even when the economy outside of football is crashing. Look at Stoke and Hull yesterday panic buying for anything they can get their hands on to give them the strength and depth to get 17th place. Clubs like Luton are on the brink of extinction when the private jet fee that flew the Abu Dhabi group to Manchester could have probably paid them out of administration!

Its great for people like Sky and the publicity of the league to have the best players but it will be at a detriment to football in general.
 
I don't know why people think this is new. There will always be a richer and bigger club, there always has been, so what? Billionaires might be buying clubs, but most clubs are and have been owned by massive multimillionaires anyway, so whats the difference? How much did Chelsea spend this year, £8.3 on deco, Bosingwa, errm, got rid of a few players, probably reduced the wage bill overall, moving closer(though still a ways) from being financially viable. Even if you spend 1billion on players, that would buy you probably 20 of the very best players in the world, but then you have a squad, its a one time investment then probably no one significant for 2 years, then a 1 in 1 out policy.

How much has Wenger, benitez, Fergie, Chelski spent in the past 5 years, what about the last 10 years. most managers get a spending spree when they start at a club and want to mould a team around them. Fergie did this and started when the players were £5mil at the top end, if he went in now, or Wenger and bought 5 players they'd get 100-200mil. Arsenals board is made up of a bunch of people probably worth in the billions together, but we have a squad.


The other end is, we will always have football clubs that cease to exist, so? There are small and big companies in all sectors, some big companies run badly go belly up, some tiny companies are run brilliantly and make a great profit. Why are football clubs immune to going bust or being run badly. you can't have 150 clubs all the same value, in the same league the same size with the same support.

As with Chelsea and other big clubs, players do actually choose not to go there as they realise they won't get first team football. If they buy the 20 best players in the world, 9 won't start every week, of the 20 best players in the world which 9 do you think would go and accept they might not start. Chelsea probably did bump wages up beyond where they would be now otherwise, Man City could do the same. the FA, fifa, or all of the regulation boards together could come up with a yearly transfer limit and a wage limit now, or 5 years ago.
 
The one big change that these billionaires have brought is the increasing irrelevance of the fans. In the past most of a clubs turnover was from gate recepits. The clubs needed you to turn up and you felt that the money you spent on tickets and merchandise really did help towards the cause. You could rightly feel part of any sucess the club achieved.

Even with the sky tv money gate recepits still mattered, one reason man utd maintained their dominant postion. Now that is begining to change. The clubs do not need nor therefore have to care about those that turn up to watch.

I dont for one second think the new owners of City could care less about their fans or the clubs history/heratige. It was just a covinent franchise to be exploited.

Football has sold it soul in this country.
 
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seaviewuk said:
Isn't that what the Premier League is now, mostly?
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No.

Chelsea and probably City now are the only ones that go over the top. United don't spend too much other than on Spurs players. Arsenal buy young and Liverpool buy for around the £10m mark with the odd exception. Spurs are the biggest spenders of the last 2/3 years and look where that's got us. Nowhere. :(
 
saddler said:
The one big change that these billionaires have brought is the increasing irrelevance of the fans. In the past most of a clubs turnover was from gate recepits. The clubs needed you to turn up and you felt that the money you spent on tickets and merchandise really did help towards the cause. You could rightly feel part of any sucess the club achieved.

Even with the sky tv money gate recepits still mattered, one reason man utd maintained their dominant postion. Now that is begining to change. The clubs do not need nor therefore have to care about those that turn up to watch.

I dont for one second think the new owners of City could care less about their fans or the clubs history/heratige. It was just a covinent franchise to be exploited.

Football has sold it soul in this country.
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Yeah you're thinking along the same lines as me...

Football is a game played between two teams who both play by the same rules. By hard work, flair, a bit of luck, whatever teams built a reputation and a history of tradition.

Now some teams got better deals than others as rich owners took over but they still had to play by the same basic rules. They had to be sustainable and make money.... though a couple of big European teams are slightly different like Barca and Real, but they're still within reason.

Chelsea and Roman destroyed that.... completely different ball game.

But I fear these Arabs will take it onto a whole new level... I mean at least Roman is saying Chelsea need to become self sustainable? Haha whatever but still! :)

It will become absurd? How long before the £500k a week footballer? or £1m a week even??
 
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