| | Premier League FootballPage 1 of 6 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) | Well I can honestly say i can't wait for the new season to start, last few weeks have been rubbish without a good footy match to watch on the weekend xx
Bring on the new season in a couple of weeks :) x | |
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Posted: 7/16/2012 10:17:14 AM | | I'm still waiting for premier league and defending my title as Fantasy Football 2012 Champ lol xx | |
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Posted: 7/25/2012 2:16:06 AM | | Looks like I'm late to the party, but it looks like United will have a tough battle this year against City. I just want Fergie to buy a decent midfielder. That's ALL we really need, well that and a left back. We don't need Lucas... although the though of him becoming like Ronaldo does tickle my fancy. | |
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Posted: 7/27/2012 4:01:25 AM | The Premier League is a superb product. Superstars from across the globe playing football that is very easy on the eye. Characters such as Tevez, Mourinho, Ronaldo and the likes wouldn't have come to these shores if it wasn't for the pulling power of our top division. Stadia are being filled to the brim because of talents like these guys.
However, it is a a cost....
My club, Preston North End, nearly went to the wall a couple of years ago. We had a decade in the Championship and we fared very well indeed for a small club. We made the Play-off Final twice, and lost out in the Semi finals three times. We were on the brink of the big time and all we needed was one or two 'top quality' players to get us there.
Bearing in mind our average gates in the Championship were 14,000, we couldn't really afford top fees and wages for those players. We ended up borrowing from local businessman and North End supporter Trever Hemmings (he of Grand National fame)
We borrowed £20m on the strengh of making the PL and the dream never came off. We couldn't pay the taxman and again, Hemmings came to the rescue. It was on the condition that all the shares were sold to him for 5p each though. A huge loss to shareholders that had bought them at £2.60 each when the club was floated in the late Nineties.
The club is still bleeding money and Hemmings is propping us up. He still wants the cash back that he lent the club when we were a Plc and I can't see how we're going to do that.
We were relegated to League One the season before last, paying Championship wages to players that were unable to motivate themselves for games against the likes of Brentford and Colchester.
We are now in a position where we have got rid of the higher earners and filled our squad with free transfers. Radical yes, and I don't know which way it'll go. All I know is that the coming season will shape the next decade for Preston, for better or worse.
Another example is Portsmouth. I bet their fans wish they'd never seen that FA Cup. The money they forked out for players to win that trophy has ruined them.
To summarise, the PL money need to be spread more evenly. £20m per season for each club in the PL, £4m per season for Championship clubs, £100,000 for League One and £20,000 for League Two doesn't seem a fair spread of money in my eyes. The bubble has started to burst at lower levels of the Football League and it needs the PL to help or our beautiful game, as we know it, will be dead. | |
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Posted: 7/27/2012 7:08:22 AM | You're dead right! for what it's worth I'm a Norwich fan, been down there in League 1 and now in the Premier League. I think back to the first year of the Prem in 92/93, that season we were 8 points clear at the top of the league at Christmas time. It has now been engineered so that no club of our size can ever hope to do that again. Before the Sky money came along it was possible for almost any club with an inspired manager and decent players to win the league. I sat watching us against Man City and now you HAVE to have a squad packed full of £20million foreign mercenaries to have a hope.
The mis-management at clubs like Portsmouth was obviously reckless, but as always the ones who suffer are the fans, I can't imagine how awful it would be to see my club heading the way Pompey are.
I'd love to someone have the balls to finally rule that you can't have oil billionaires propping up your club and you can only spend on wages the money that comes through the gate every Saturday. Will it happend, no chance sadly! | |
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Posted: 7/27/2012 11:40:07 AM | I totally agree with you. Look at Luton, Chester City and Darlington. All chased the dream and paid the price (Darlington paid the ultimate price) With what has happened to Rangers in the SPL, there must be loads of clubs looking over their shoulders.
The 65% rule has come into L1 and L2 this season but that's still a farce as it applies to wages only and incomings to the clubs on July 1st and December 1st are taken into account. If Tevor Hemmings decided to pay £3m for a striker for PNE then the transfer fee doesn't get taken into account. If that striker signs a 3 year deal at £10k per week in January, Hemmings would just have to make sure he puts £520k (one years salary) into the PNE coffers before the December 1st count up. I hope that makes sense!! All the same, it's a farce.
Your club did it right, as did Swansea. You got decent managers in and got the very best out of the players available that the club could afford.
But as much as I hate saying this, Blackpool (I hate Blackpool!!) set the blueprint for the future as far as smaller clubs are concerned. They got very good players signing for small wages and very big bonuses based on end of season League standings. Their club paid £8m in promotion bonuses when they reached the PL, and no player was on more than £3k per week!! And they only pay their players £90 per week during the summer break.
Incredible as it may seem, I think that's the way to go. I can imagine a few more clubs may go to the wall before clubs and players alike wake up to this.
By the way, congatulations to your club on staying in the PL. Quite an achievement these days. I enjoy watching them | |
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Posted: 7/27/2012 9:07:09 PM |
The Premier League is a superb product. Superstars from across the globe playing football that is very easy on the eye. Characters such as Tevez, Mourinho, Ronaldo and the likes wouldn't have come to these shores if it wasn't for the pulling power of our top.........
.......salaries!
The EPL is a joke! You have the top 4 (or 5) team owners throwing around money with impunity. Its these teams who then will finish on top of the standings; win the FA cup and if lucky the CL.
Let me give you my humble predictions for the upcoming season: MU; MC; LiverP: Chelski; and perhaps Arsenal (in any order). Not to make mention of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the players on these teams are foreigners
It must give a fan of a mid table or low table team alot of false hope knowing that his/her team doesn't stand much of chance at winning anything. Wow, what sportsmanship, eh? But hey, the EPL is a "superb product" ( sort of like the antonym of saying: 'the king has no clothes').
Enjoy the upcoming season! | |
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Posted: 7/27/2012 9:35:00 PM | I think if you read my post again, you'll find I mean the quality of players it attracts!! The top flight in England would never have attracted players or managers like that in the 70's and 80's.
I agree with your predictions to a degree and also the fact that mid/lower clubs fans don't stand much hope. I know if my club ever got into the PL it would be an achievement in itself just to avoid finishing bottom.
But because of the PL and Sky money, most clubs throughout the divisions have much better stadia, not the crumbling death traps that were around 20 years ago. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2012 1:22:10 AM | | At the end of the day, there's far too much money in top flight football and there's people that do a lot more important and crucial jobs that are on a fraction of what top flight footballers earn xx (Hope that makes sence) xx | |
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Posted: 7/29/2012 1:23:53 AM | P.S
Think they should send u a msg when someone write in a post as sometimes its days before see a reply x | |
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Posted: 7/30/2012 10:21:50 AM | Totally agreed Gems!! Having said that, if it got a lot of replies on the thread it could be tiresome!
And agreed about the money too, although if you step a couple of levels down to my club, they're on £1,500 per week. Much more acceptable!! x | |
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Posted: 7/31/2012 12:05:05 PM | | im a liverpool supporter and im not happy andy carroll could be going permanently onloan to west ham. we pay 35 million quid for a striker and suddenly now he is not wanted. we need to at least give him a season to prove his worth. | |
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Posted: 8/7/2012 11:14:48 AM | | Roll on Next Weekend ..... Can't wait for the Premier League Season to Start :))) xx | |
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Posted: 8/7/2012 8:40:01 PM | | do you guys watch anything else then epl to me it so boring i like la liga and serie a serie a more because pjanic and lulic and i hope dzeko too. i like inter it would hurt me to see my countryman dzeko to go to bbilan but at least he will be in serie a | |
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Posted: 8/10/2012 9:57:20 PM | | I don't follow any EPL club. I follow a League One side (3rd division) but TV is dominated by the Premier League in the UK. Understandable really considering the viewing figures. Most people would rather see Rooney knocking in a wonder goal for Man United than watch a sloppy miskick by Amoo of Preston North End! Anyway, roll on next weekend. Colchester at home :-) | |
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Posted: 8/11/2012 1:55:09 PM | | One more week until the greatest football league kicks off! Chelsea vs Man City tomorrow, bring it on!!! | |
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Posted: 8/11/2012 5:18:36 PM | | have a question about Aston Villa how are they doing both on the field and financially ? Randy Lerner was the owner of the Cleveland Browns here in the states and recently sold them was wondering how his team there was ? | |
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Posted: 8/12/2012 5:21:42 PM | | Exited as I see the Premiership as the best league to watch despite being a Barca fan. | |
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Posted: 8/14/2012 1:31:15 PM | | Pssssssh...Go Arsenal! I'm ready for the Premier league to start | |
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