basically acknowledging Man U are on par with Newcastle now so they’re equally threatened by not being allowed to continue frivolously spending to catch up.
Man city will fall off eventually, Salah is almost done, by 2030 I’m confident the expected top 4 will be different.
Why are we so keen to defend teams that won’t operate within the rules rather than praising those who have been.
Teams like Villa and Brighton have proven you can succeed and stay within the rules. Hell, for all the shit he gets, Daniel Levy has rebuilt their stadium, had to part with their prized asset and still kept spurs competitive.
We shouldn’t be amending the rules because a new and quite obviously bad actor arrives on the scene and starts complaining that they can’t immediately blitz their way to the top. Which is clearly exactly what they’d be doing if they could.
Even when you look at the really big spenders at the top, they have to generate a lot of sales, Chelsea have been using their academy to generate talent for sale to other teams rather than their own so they can continue to spend, as have City.
We didn’t even spend *that* much by other top teams standards last summer but we still had to lose a lot of high earners to make things work.
Nobody is getting it all their way.
It seems like Everton are in repeated hot water because they’re appallingly run, why should we be blaming the rules not the board?
FFP is great in principle, if you’re starting at the same place.
Currently it’s a staggered 100m sprint, with new teams starting on the line and existing large clubs starting 30m’s from the finish.
I’d imagine finding new resources is also difficult, due to the image/broadcast rights of the league and how it’s used.
Cant believe the amount of woe is me bullshit over ffp
Anytime non big six clubs want to avoid accountability they bring up the “elites” “the sky six” blah blah blah, just sounds like theyre upset they dont get to cheat like city and chelsea did
Why should a club be able to jump others around them unnaturally because some neanderthal in Saudi Arabia wants to use them to help his image?
Grow organically. They’re already allowed to lose £105m.
As a Newcastle fan myself, I’m not going to cry a river because we can’t spend much this January. We’re in a position where we can grow our revenue with relative ease.
My sympathies will always be with the teams lower down the league who just get told by fans of bigger clubs “well, Brighton did it, why can’t you??”
Of course what they don’t acknowledge is that it’s pretty ridiculous to act like it’s a reasonable expectation for those clubs to just “do a Brighton”. Replicating their scouting network is not something you can just “do” and if it was a reasonable expectation, why haven’t Man City, Liverpool etc done it? Why haven’t they picked up future stars for a pittance just like Brighton have?
…Oh yea, because being a “Brighton” means that you are an endless talent factory for those big clubs who apparently can’t be arsed to “do a Brighton” and instead choose to poach players from clubs who did, thus keeping clubs like Brighton in a perpetual state of “close, but not enough” when it comes to the prospect of actually winning anything (and no, finishing in the top 6 is not winning something).
The most surefire way of achieving success has, and always will be, spending a lot of money.
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basically acknowledging Man U are on par with Newcastle now so they’re equally threatened by not being allowed to continue frivolously spending to catch up.
Man city will fall off eventually, Salah is almost done, by 2030 I’m confident the expected top 4 will be different.
Why are we so keen to defend teams that won’t operate within the rules rather than praising those who have been.
Teams like Villa and Brighton have proven you can succeed and stay within the rules. Hell, for all the shit he gets, Daniel Levy has rebuilt their stadium, had to part with their prized asset and still kept spurs competitive.
We shouldn’t be amending the rules because a new and quite obviously bad actor arrives on the scene and starts complaining that they can’t immediately blitz their way to the top. Which is clearly exactly what they’d be doing if they could.
Even when you look at the really big spenders at the top, they have to generate a lot of sales, Chelsea have been using their academy to generate talent for sale to other teams rather than their own so they can continue to spend, as have City.
We didn’t even spend *that* much by other top teams standards last summer but we still had to lose a lot of high earners to make things work.
Nobody is getting it all their way.
It seems like Everton are in repeated hot water because they’re appallingly run, why should we be blaming the rules not the board?
FFP is great in principle, if you’re starting at the same place.
Currently it’s a staggered 100m sprint, with new teams starting on the line and existing large clubs starting 30m’s from the finish.
I’d imagine finding new resources is also difficult, due to the image/broadcast rights of the league and how it’s used.
Cant believe the amount of woe is me bullshit over ffp
Anytime non big six clubs want to avoid accountability they bring up the “elites” “the sky six” blah blah blah, just sounds like theyre upset they dont get to cheat like city and chelsea did
Why should a club be able to jump others around them unnaturally because some neanderthal in Saudi Arabia wants to use them to help his image?
Grow organically. They’re already allowed to lose £105m.
As a Newcastle fan myself, I’m not going to cry a river because we can’t spend much this January. We’re in a position where we can grow our revenue with relative ease.
My sympathies will always be with the teams lower down the league who just get told by fans of bigger clubs “well, Brighton did it, why can’t you??”
Of course what they don’t acknowledge is that it’s pretty ridiculous to act like it’s a reasonable expectation for those clubs to just “do a Brighton”. Replicating their scouting network is not something you can just “do” and if it was a reasonable expectation, why haven’t Man City, Liverpool etc done it? Why haven’t they picked up future stars for a pittance just like Brighton have?
…Oh yea, because being a “Brighton” means that you are an endless talent factory for those big clubs who apparently can’t be arsed to “do a Brighton” and instead choose to poach players from clubs who did, thus keeping clubs like Brighton in a perpetual state of “close, but not enough” when it comes to the prospect of actually winning anything (and no, finishing in the top 6 is not winning something).
The most surefire way of achieving success has, and always will be, spending a lot of money.