UK football clubs have always been owned by rich people. Those people have just generally got richer and richer.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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UK football clubs have always been owned by rich people. Those people have just generally got richer and richer.
A disgraceful abdication of governance, under the circumstances
Totally reasonable, under the circumstances.
I mean, zoom out a little bit. What should not happen is that the league should not tolerate blatant circumvention of its rules, and it should structure its rules so that they substantively accomplish their goals.
This selling assets to themselves shit is a total failure in that regard.
But a set of financial rules that means no one can challenge the entrenched aristocracy would ALSO be a failure.
Newcastle should be on that list as well, correct.
Chelsea being able to play FFP buddy with Villa selling their academy players to eachother the other year was clearly something that should have been flagged by the PL and nothing and for them to be able to sell their women's team for £250m is a despicable turn of events for football. They put themselves into that hole, they shouldn't be allowed such a cheap way of getting out of it, it sends all the wrong messages but that's how I see it in the game these days.
I prefer a self sufficient club, albeit one that risks a little more than our owners tend to do granted.
What will they distract us with next?
Rodrygo deal really has legs?
We get Rodrygo now they'll get Romero next summer.
Maybe Rodrygo is only wanting Spurs, after all it is his boyhood club, and he longs to be reunited with Richarlison who he grew up with and played football with when all they had were no shoes and rocks. Getting misty eyed now tbh.
Maybe we will be linked with Eze again.
Reports coming in that Dybala missed a preseason match for Roma....
Rodrygo deal really has legs?
We get Rodrygo now they'll get Romero next summer.
Maybe Rodrygo is only wanting Spurs, after all it is his boyhood club, and he longs to be reunited with Richarlison who he grew up with and played football with when all they had were no shoes and rocks. Getting misty eyed now tbh.
Maybe we will be linked with Eze again.
Reports coming in that Dybala missed a preseason match for Roma....
Totally incoherent contradiction in terms, period, end of story.
"Self sufficient" means ownership collects every red penny of the multibillion pound inflation in club values. Period.
It always was a fraud, it always will be a fraud.
It's completely on the PL and the FA yes. The point still stands that these bending of the rules makes the game unfair, the rules a pushover and blood money, mob money easily through into the game. The games in a darker place than its been in a long time, no accountability for being reckless means they'll just continue to be reckless.
Be interesting to see what our plan is now that MGW is not coming. It seems a big drop off in skill to chase after Ramsey or Elliot, not sure they are any better than what we have.
Priority should still be a DM imo but also need a LB, LW and striker to improve the squad. Not sure we will fill any if those positions this window.
Was never sold on MGW to be honest. Played well in a team that surrendered the ball and had to lowest passing and touch stats in the league - the opposite of Spurs style.
Demonstrates we are willing to spend, and it wouldn't surprise me if we don't already have a player to announce tomorrow.
Eze would be the obvious target. My mate at telegraph recons some player called Enzo Millot
Demonstrates we are willing to spend, and it wouldn't surprise me if we don't already have a player to announce tomorrow.
Eze would be the obvious target. My mate at telegraph recons some player called Enzo Millot
The game has been in some pretty dark places to be fair.
Football in England is in pretty darned good health, all things considered. The season just finished had the highest top flight attendance of all time and near the peaks of the 2nd and 3rd divisions as well. Plus of course the women's game.
I think he's off to Atletico Madrid mate. Remember seeing something on twitter about it earlier.
Muchly....A couple of meaningless pre-season friendlies today. I trust no one is losing their minds?
Fuming over MGW
Gibbs agent played a blinder. New contract 20% cut, and no release clause.
No doubt Gibbs is the best paid player at the club now.
Was obvious from the point when he never stated that he wanted to move, or put in a transfer request.
A lack of characters, completely corrupt, oil money ruling above all else, huge debts cleared with loopholes. I think it's as bad as its been for decades now but opinions are there for all to have.
We seem to just accept money now because it's money, regardless of its source.
When I was a kid I could get to a few games a season with dad for £45. These days just being a member costs you the same before you can even buy yourself a ticket. I think it's sad how the games gone personally. It pushes a lot of supporters that really love the club away and at the bottom of the heap. The way it is these days unfortunately.
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I'm an easy mark for a "game's gone mate" pessimism and I feel this way about the American sports I grew up with in many ways.
It certainly is not a mass civic participation ritual the way it was. We don't have mass civic participation rituals anymore in this modern world.
But in terms of the debts incurred by the capital owners, I wouldn't shed too many tears over that. The game being reliably profitable is an even worse fate, trust me.
I’m sure there are , but we might be able to sign them . We need MGW with a twist meaning we can agree a deal and it still not happen . I’m sure we are checking all midfielders with third party ownership issues , unpredictable owners of the selling clubs , players likely to fail a medical and players that will be wanted by clubs who pay better wages so the deal can be hijacked . These gems are not as easy to find, but they are out there and I know just the wee fella to find them.
This is more on the PL though for allowing it. And the PL is the other chairmen, who fundamentally allowed it because at some point they know they may want to duck and dive a little to get round PSR.
The issue here really is PSR and the attempt to hamstring smaller clubs attempt to bridge massive financially disadvantaged gap to the "bigger" clubs, who use their fiscal hegemony to dominate football.
I have issues with state's being able to buy clubs, especially ones with diabolical human rights records, and I have no problem with the sport trying to introduce fit and proper due diligence on owners or fiscal regulations that make sure the industry runs solvently, but a bunch of uber clubs deciding they want to pull the drawbridge up to preserve the financial advantage they've milked for decades isn't particularly fair or sporting. IMO you either make the sport a level playing field for all properly, or you allow owners to invest their own money to help bridge the sporting gap that huge financial advantage has given a handful of uber clubs.
I’m very confused. MGW’s wife followed some beauticians in London.
Yup, important note
I feel like I shouldn’t fall for this line anymore. I mean really, I watched some video that someone posted here last year going into some detail about how amazing this was going to be for Spurs and how everyone else was screwed. We are going to be able to take advantage of this and do all this business. And here we are, same as always.
Then, you hear “well, with Champions League, players can’t wait to play for you”, and it just hasn’t been the case. It wasn’t that way when we had the run of CL appearances, and it’s not that way now.
Instead, it seems to come down to ambition by our front office and scouts. Maybe we have all these amazing advantages, and maybe that’s all legitimate. But if they won’t bring them to bear, then it hardly matters.
Nah, we had Son in well before we started looking at Berahino. I think that ordeal was 2017-18 and Son came in 2015. I could be wrong on the years, because I’m too lazy to look it up.