Surely we competed last year without a Sugar Daddy
We very much had CL footy tho.
....Which has also helped finance our move to NWHL.
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Surely we competed last year without a Sugar Daddy
And to be in the CL trophies are being sacrificed...or at least until the point when our squad is good enough to compete in everything...Exactly.
You need to be in the CL to generate the money to be able to compete for trophies unless you have a sugar daddy investor (which is slowly but surely being clamped down on by UEFA and FIFA).
That's just the nature of the beast these days.
And to be in the CL trophies are being sacrificed...or at least until the point when our squad is good enough to compete in everything...
We very much had CL footy tho.
....Which has also helped finance our move to NWHL.
Because we are a CL regular. That's a yearly stream of big revenue that allows us to compete with the sugar daddy teams for trophies.Surely we competed last year without a Sugar Daddy
The money in the CL skews everything...
The League Cup is now won by the team with the strongest set of reserves...Completely. And in the PL. - Top six now get a larger share of income generated from foreign territories.
Compared to £100,000 prize money for winning the League Cup or £2m for the FA cup.
And there is a disconnect because - rightly or wrongly - the fans expect the people running the "business" to be as sentimental as they are about trophies and treat these competitions with the same level of priority.
There is a reason that the LC is the easiest comp to win.
Because we are a CL regular. That's a yearly stream of big revenue that allows us to compete with the sugar daddy teams for trophies.
That's the point that I am making.
League Cup has always been a bit of a secondary competition. I remember Luton and Oxford winning it back in the eighties.
Yeah Im not knocking top 4, just the notion that we can only possibly be in it for the money and cant compete to win it.
We just knocked out the most expensive team in history, after signing no one
That yearly stream has amounted to around £55million each year on average. How does that allow us to compete with the sugar daddies exactly?
So, do you want Pochettino to win stuff or what?That’s all I could think about when we beat Chelsea in 08. I couldn’t understand why everyone was celebrating when the likes of Luton and Norwich had won this before. These so called fanz don’t get it do they?
Is that why we were so shit in the CL final, because Djimi Traore and Harry Kewell had won it and our players didn't want compared to them?That’s all I could think about when we beat Chelsea in 08. I couldn’t understand why everyone was celebrating when the likes of Luton and Norwich had won this before. These so called fanz don’t get it do they?
More like we can’t make that final step , it’s not all down to under investment , some of the blame needs to go to poch , as he makes some strange “tactical calls” and we just seem like we can’t make the final step up and win a final, but it was the same for klopp, always the bridesmaid never the bride and look at them now champions of Europe, poch is still learning his craft and I’m confident the trophies will start to come soon, and as soon as they do unless it’s the PL or CL the narrative will change to “poch is yet to win any trophy worth winning”And to be in the CL trophies are being sacrificed...or at least until the point when our squad is good enough to compete in everything...
That’s all I could think about when we beat Chelsea in 08. I couldn’t understand why everyone was celebrating when the likes of Luton and Norwich had won this before. These so called fanz don’t get it do they?
Is that why we were so shit in the CL final, because Djimi Traore and Harry Kewell had won it and our players didn't want compared to them?
Welcome.So true, the only reason teams try to win the other trophy is so they can play in the CL...it's the pinnacle of football and I for one would be miserable if we missed out on qualifying...love those Tuesday nights against the best teams in the world, can't beat it.