42 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Where does it stop though? How long til we see a player sold for a quarter of a billion?

About a week and half, if this Neymar to PSG goes through.

1 hour ago, Spudulike said:

Where does it stop though? How long til we see a player sold for a quarter of a billion?

There must (I hope) be a natural value level?

I'm not saying he's worth the money. Frankly nobody is. I'm just saying I disagree with the he's just a kid, nobody knows if he's the real deal etc etc.

I personally hope a financial crisis hits football and/or strict financial limits are imposed worldwide and the finance levels return to what they were 10 or so years ago.

I'd prefer a football world that was less commercial, the biggest transfer fees were near the £50m mark for the absolute stars and the best players were paid £100k a week.

26 minutes ago, startedwithglenn said:

I'm not saying he's worth the money. Frankly nobody is. I'm just saying I disagree with the he's just a kid, nobody knows if he's the real deal etc etc.

I personally hope a financial crisis hits football and/or strict financial limits are imposed worldwide and the finance levels return to what they were 10 or so years ago.

I'd prefer a football world that was less commercial, the biggest transfer fees were near the £50m mark for the absolute stars and the best players were paid £100k a week.

Transfer cap and salary cap.

Minimum would be salary cap

This aged well.... remember Arsenal triumphantly parading this multiple contract renewal as the British backbone their club would be built on for the next 10 years.....

 

 

1 hour ago, startedwithglenn said:

I'm not saying he's worth the money. Frankly nobody is. I'm just saying I disagree with the he's just a kid, nobody knows if he's the real deal etc etc.

I personally hope a financial crisis hits football and/or strict financial limits are imposed worldwide and the finance levels return to what they were 10 or so years ago.

I'd prefer a football world that was less commercial, the biggest transfer fees were near the £50m mark for the absolute stars and the best players were paid £100k a week.

I agree with that 100%.

Moral issues aside, I can't see how the current model can be sustained. I don't know what happened to FFP. I don't know if it's even a thing these days, in practice.

 

So long as the EPL continues to earn stupid money the spending will continue.

10 hours ago, startedwithglenn said:

This aged well.... remember Arsenal triumphantly parading this multiple contract renewal as the British backbone their club would be built on for the next 10 years.....

 

 

Haha lol. Of those 5, 1 is a permacrock, 2 are Championship-level players, 1 is ok-ish and 1 is shifted around all over the place in their 1st team.

15 hours ago, startedwithglenn said:

I'm not saying he's worth the money. Frankly nobody is. I'm just saying I disagree with the he's just a kid, nobody knows if he's the real deal etc etc.

I personally hope a financial crisis hits football and/or strict financial limits are imposed worldwide and the finance levels return to what they were 10 or so years ago.

I'd prefer a football world that was less commercial, the biggest transfer fees were near the £50m mark for the absolute stars and the best players were paid £100k a week.

This can unfortunately ONLY happen if such restrictions were placed in every profession and to every person. Only if people (in general) stop yearning for infinite income (or always more)... We are as far from such a philosophy as the world has ever been... how can we expect football clubs (and the corporations behind football leagues) to be any different.

My point is that earning caps in football aren't possible unless the more entranched global mindset changes.

No words for how bad Lukaku looked last night

21 hours ago, Spudulike said:

Where does it stop though? How long til we see a player sold for a quarter of a billion?

There must (I hope) be a natural value level?

It will stop when clubs go bankrupt or nearly bankrupt like Leeds. With Real Madrid or Royal Madrid, I would not be surprised if tax payers money is quietly funnelled into the club.

With Spain and the political push for a Catalonian independent state I think this raises the stakes and Real Madrid have to try to win, it's a quasi-political thing. 

3 hours ago, startedwithglenn said:

No words for how bad Lukaku looked last night

Strange how its being ignored by his biggest fans on here, yet if he has a good game and scores I`m certain they will tell us.

7 hours ago, startedwithglenn said:

No words for how bad Lukaku looked last night

He's a player very reliant on his team. If the team is good, he'll show up. If the team is having a bad day, he'll camp in the opponents box and does nothing. He won't pressure or go deep to help with build up. 

3 hours ago, Deino said:

He's a player very reliant on his team. If the team is good, he'll show up. If the team is having a bad day, he'll camp in the opponents box and does nothing. He won't pressure or go deep to help with build up. 

He wasn't short on effort to be fair but he looked incapable of pressing to a good standard, he kept trying and it kept looking worse.

It was exaggerated even more because Lingard and Rashford were two whippets either side of him.

He's a big unit so in fairness a stateside Mourinho pre-season will take it out of him more than others.

 

Who have Spurs signed this season??

 

 

Edited July 29, 20178 yr by EdinburghBlue

Viktoria Plzen got a new sponsor and came up with an interesting (brilliant) way to showcase them 

Ha ha, that's cool. Let's hope we don't get Tampax as a sponsor....

2 hours ago, dkw said:

Ha ha, that's cool. Let's hope we don't get Tampax as a sponsor....

Or Durex! 

On 27-7-2017 at 17:05, dkw said:

Strange how its being ignored by his biggest fans on here, yet if he has a good game and scores I`m certain they will tell us.

  

 

 

And otherwise.

If he has a bad game, ...

 

 

 

 

Bizar.

Arsenal lose 1-2 to Sevilla and clinch the prestigious Emirates Cup in the process. Those cheeky Spaniards with their 2 wins, not good enough to topple Arsenal's superior 1 win 1 loss record.

 

41 minutes ago, Charles Ryder said:

Arsenal lose 1-2 to Sevilla and clinch the prestigious Emirates Cup in the process. Those cheeky Spaniards with their 2 wins, not good enough to topple Arsenal's superior 1 win 1 loss record.

 

Good old arsenal, rewarding failure for many many years....

Arsenal win their own trophy. Well done lads. Now for the 4th place one. Go on Gunners. You might be able to do it this time.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/30/darron-gibson-sunderland-sh*t-team-mates-championship

Brilliant from Darron. I was going to put this in the unpopular opinion section but they are sh!t

How is Jermaine Jenas still employed as a 'commentator' never listened to someone so wet behind the ears in my life.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/arsenal-owner-stan-kroenke-hunting-tv-channel-my-outdoor-motv-endangered-animals-trophy-a7868361.html?cmpid=facebook-post

Just came across this so thought I'd post it.

19 minutes ago, ashwin said:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/arsenal-owner-stan-kroenke-hunting-tv-channel-my-outdoor-motv-endangered-animals-trophy-a7868361.html?cmpid=facebook-post

Just came across this so thought I'd post it.

I just posted that in what I thought was this thread but was actually last season's thread!  Doh!