And they are all spread around 3 or 4 clubs.
The end of football as we know it?
- Thread starter Chong Warrior
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Please, please, please, bring it on, get rid of all the overpaid, over ego'ed foreigners, then maybe the premiership clubs will spend more money in bringing the best out of English players.
This would give a twofold result of making the Premiership the best league in the world using their own players, a bit like Serie A a few years ago.
Also maybe England's national team may stand half a chance of NOT looking like complete plebs when faced with anyone more skilled than the Accrington Stanley under 12's, which I think at the moment we would struggle at beating.
I do not mind all the big spending the only rule I would put on it is that no non National players can be used in your team. I.E. Unless you. your mum and dad, and all their parents were not born and raised in this country you CANNOT play in this country.
The talent is out there, England has the next Robinho, the next Ziddane, the next Cantona, we do not need to go a buy then from elsewhere, degrading both the Premiership (in my eyes) and the National Team.
Spend the Billions on developing grass roots acadamies and school teams etc and you can have the worlds top players in this country within 5-10 years or so, and they will ALL be English.
I shall stop now I have had my rant, but think about it, it makes sense.
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no it doesn't, your post is complete nonsense, having 300 english players in the premiership will only lead to the best 50 playing against worst competition week in and week out leading to them being worse players. The quality of english players is in general fine, we have more than enough quality like for like than any other national team, just hopeless managers who let Joe Public dictate whose in the squad.
You do realise that, in general our youth and younger premiership stars tend to make FAR FAR FAR more than their worldwide counterparts already. I mean, we frequently have 14-18yr old kids being treated like gods, fought over by clubs and then given 15-20k a week, where elsewhere in the world they aren't. Most of the bad attitudes, I'm thinking Pennant, Bentley and his gambling problems and ego, Barton, Rooney with attitude, gambling, reacting and geting into trouble, etc, etc. You don't think that is already a problem , which is largely down to kids growing up being taught they are just better than everyone else.
If our players week in and week out play against much worse players, they can't be as good, its true for every other sport in the world, every other thing I can think of. Competing against the best is how you improve, the idea we'll get better is such utter crap. You think if we played Andorra every week we'd get better at beating Brazil? Or if we played Brazil, Italy and France every week we'd get better at beating the best teams.
I thought it was fairly obvious when i mentioned it that a salery cap could be imposed across the board. Frankly spanish and italian leagues would have no problem limiting the spending power of Chelski, City and Man U as they already find it hard to compete. as for where would the money go, what money. Chelsea don't generate profit and pay their players an appropriate amount, they make £80 million a year loss due to massive wages that the owner simply shells out. Frankly a wage cap has more chance of saving Chelsea than hurting them, if Abramovich gets bored and prefers to see the club dissolve than pay £80million a year losses Chelsea would have to sell 75% of the team to balance their budget.
I find it hard that its hurting footballers to be limited to 3-4million a years wages, before sponsorship deals which could be another 10mil easy, how will they live with such little money
You do realise that, in general our youth and younger premiership stars tend to make FAR FAR FAR more than their worldwide counterparts already. I mean, we frequently have 14-18yr old kids being treated like gods, fought over by clubs and then given 15-20k a week, where elsewhere in the world they aren't. Most of the bad attitudes, I'm thinking Pennant, Bentley and his gambling problems and ego, Barton, Rooney with attitude, gambling, reacting and geting into trouble, etc, etc. You don't think that is already a problem , which is largely down to kids growing up being taught they are just better than everyone else.
If our players week in and week out play against much worse players, they can't be as good, its true for every other sport in the world, every other thing I can think of. Competing against the best is how you improve, the idea we'll get better is such utter crap. You think if we played Andorra every week we'd get better at beating Brazil? Or if we played Brazil, Italy and France every week we'd get better at beating the best teams.
I thought it was fairly obvious when i mentioned it that a salery cap could be imposed across the board. Frankly spanish and italian leagues would have no problem limiting the spending power of Chelski, City and Man U as they already find it hard to compete. as for where would the money go, what money. Chelsea don't generate profit and pay their players an appropriate amount, they make £80 million a year loss due to massive wages that the owner simply shells out. Frankly a wage cap has more chance of saving Chelsea than hurting them, if Abramovich gets bored and prefers to see the club dissolve than pay £80million a year losses Chelsea would have to sell 75% of the team to balance their budget.
I find it hard that its hurting footballers to be limited to 3-4million a years wages, before sponsorship deals which could be another 10mil easy, how will they live with such little money
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Soldato
I think clubs should be run like companies, if they don't break even they shouldn't be allowed to play (example Chelsea).
In Spain only Real Madrid and Barcelona can compete with the salaries that are paid by the premiership. In Italy, AC Milan, Inter and may be Juventus. In Germany I think only Bayern Munich have got that kind of disposable income ...
In Spain only Real Madrid and Barcelona can compete with the salaries that are paid by the premiership. In Italy, AC Milan, Inter and may be Juventus. In Germany I think only Bayern Munich have got that kind of disposable income ...