Comments on: Money Men Are Buying Up the Glory

By: wardog23

wardog23 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:54:10 +0000

How can you pu the Glazer’s take over of United in the seam league in this stuff. United had operating profit of Â£33million pounds and Â£65m in the bank. Now we are barely breaking even with higher ticket prices and have over Â£500m pounds of debt on the club.

By: Tripp

Tripp — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:02:02 +0000

It’s what happened to baseball here in the States. Salary caps are really the only hope, but given the international nature of football, salary caps seem impossible to implement effectively.

By: Betting BlueBoy

Betting BlueBoy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:01:50 +0000

I think fans who follow middle-ranking teams will know all about what Steve Gibson is talking about. Rare victories over the big four do not paper over the cracks that show the Premiership is becoming uncompetitive. And it’s not just uncompetitive on the field but the transfer market has turned into a joke. Any time a player comes through at a team like Spurs say, Berbatov, or Carrick before him, there is no chance of holding off the big clubs if they are serious. The player wants to play Champions League and they go! End of. While the situation exists there is no chance for a team like Boro to hang onto a Viduka or a Yakubu – and they only went to teams trying to break into the top 4.

I agree Everton and Portsmouth are up and coming teams, like Spurs were and like Boro were before that, but they reach a point where they can’t make the next step. Do you seriously think that Muntari, Utaka, Lescott and Arteta won’t be top of everyone’s shopping lists soon ?

And to suggest Arsenal don’t spend big is pure phallacy. Reyes, Henry, Rosicky, Walcott, Eduardo, Adebayor. If it wasn’t a game for billioanires now, tell me why David Dein quit the board and went knocking on doors for billionaires to finance a takeover of the club ? Whoring his Arsenal shares all over just because he knows the way it’s going!

By: Spiral Architect

Spiral Architect — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:56:43 +0000

I don’t understand this. You’ve mentioned one Premiership winner, in Blackburn’s win in ’95, as having supposedly won it thanks to a rich guy’s millions. But what about Man Utd who’ve won it so many times when they didn’t have a rich owner? What about Arsenal & Wenger’s policies of buying players on the cheap & turning them into stars?

In my opinion the only club that has supposedly ‘bought’ its victories is Chelsea, but at the very least their victories had to be well crafted by someone like Mourinho otherwise it would have been a waste of dough.

I also resent the implication that Arsenal’s success has anything to do with the current controversy of having 2 billionaires ‘fight’ over ownership. They haven’t contributed any significant money to the Arsenal campaign so far & they won’t in the forseeable future. Arsenal’s current & Man Utd’s past successes (before the takeover) are all due to the fact that they built a great staff, picked the players carefully, had good managers who were given time to develop the teams they wanted to play the way they wanted them to play, and managed the funds as best as they could.

What about teams like Everton & Portsmouth who have had very good success rates & are up & coming clubs in the Premier league? Do they have billionaires to credit for their success?

It is still very possible, even in this day & age when instant success is becoming more of a necessity, that clubs can make it big if they just have the right game plan & a little bit of patience.