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| Topic Started: Mar 8 2010, 11:37 PM (148 Views) | |
| Toon4Eva | Mar 8 2010, 11:37 PM Post #1 |
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That would be an ecumenical matter
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Was just sitting thinking to myself do footballers these days want to play for the club they're at or is it all about the money? In these modern times where billionares are buying all these clubs and luring in the big names to play for them, are they playing for club or money? I think that on the whole football has lost a lot of meaning these days, i mean when you think back to the old days when you'd play for a few quid a week (or whatever it was years ago) i think most players then wanted to play for there team. But now it's all about the money, a top player taking home £150.000 a week is a bit over the top considering what you'd get paid in a lower league. And another point is the sudden decline in our english teams getting into debt and then going into administration and having to sell players they could really do with. Anyway that's my bit over, now it's your turn. What do you think? |
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| Lout | Mar 8 2010, 11:48 PM Post #2 |
Dragonborn
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100% agree, I've been steadily going off of football for a few years now due to the absurd fascination with money. It's no longer a sport in my eyes :( |
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| Bobby | Mar 9 2010, 12:13 AM Post #3 |
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Its a shame its more of a business now than a sport and the wages that some players earn is plain stupid. I can understand the best in the world being on big bucks but what some players are paid is just madness - think most of them sign for Ncle as well lol. |
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| Mandy | Mar 9 2010, 12:27 AM Post #4 |
^^ Big Gay Stefan ^^
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Completely agree with this. Money and business is ruining the sport. When you look back at the way things were the game was so much different. Money has turned everyone greedy, I think. It used to be that players weren't actually salary paid, they were paid travelling costs and win bonuses. That meant that players played for the love of the game and the love of the team they were contracted to. I firmly believe that was also one of the reason's we were a world cup winning country in 1966. |
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| Jack | Mar 9 2010, 01:14 PM Post #5 |
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Alot of it comes down to the fact that alot more foriegn players are in the leauges now days, back in the day players would come up through the youth system and they'd feel an attatchment to the club they played at becuase they probebly supported it growing up. Having said that football is pretty much all to do with the money nowdays, it'll never happen but It'd be great if they adopted a NHL like Wage limitation/Trade system. |
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| OJ1975 | Mar 9 2010, 07:58 PM Post #6 |
AUDERE EST FACERE.
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Blame Sky. |
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| Lout | Mar 9 2010, 11:33 PM Post #7 |
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It's not just Sky OJ, and Mayhem is spot on with regards to all the foreign players taking chances away from our youth players. The reasons are economic though, and directly related to TV monies, because if you go anywhere in the world you will see Premier league football being shown. Clubs don't take the time to nurture young talent any more, they choose instead to buy a ready made foreign player to ensure that our league is supposedly the strongest, and therefore the most attractive package to sell on to the foreign TV networks, thus ensuring more money in revenue. The problems we are seeing now though are that our clubs are going overboard in trying to sustain this pattern, and it's inevitable that more will go the same way as Portsmouth. It will be too late by then though, players will move on to the next league that wants to control the TV market and it will all start again. Nothing to do with sport at all any more. |
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| Jack | Mar 9 2010, 11:42 PM Post #8 |
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Then again Football has changed in accordance with the country, there are far more people that have immigrated here than tehre were 10-20 years ago. I know I support them but Arsenal have an excellent youth system here in London, I know they buy alot of players abroad but they nurture alot of British talent also. Edited by Jack, Mar 9 2010, 11:43 PM.
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