Chelsea poster boys
You don’t even need 5 years. They’re salary cap is now set at £270M while they are currently spending £400M with the smallest squad in the league
There’s like a million football teams in England that don’t make any money and play purely for pleasure man. If you say that “football” has gone wrong because one club is making money, then it says something mostly about what you see as football, not the actual whole football lol.
Wow, you sound intelligent.
I was wondering if it was that Andy Hamilton. Loved Bob and Margaret in the 90’s
Newcastle were before Chelsea. I’d say the reason for their recent takeover was the previous sugar daddy period
It’s a lot more okay because it indicates his intentions are more likely to boost his local team of which he was presumable a lifelong fan.
It’s a far cry from Abramovich using Chelsea to shore up his political and personal security, or the UAE using Man City as a sportswashing vessel to for PR gain for their theocratic police state.
I’m not pissed about teams with rich backers spending more money. I’m pissed about what interests are being furthered by football clubs being used as cynical political tools.
No Chelsea are the most recent trailblazers who’ve been overtaken by the poster boys
The poster boys are City, PSG and Newcastle
No, Chelsea is the proof of football going right. Thinking they could buy quick success and end up in failures.
City are the true poster boys for where football has gone wrong.
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Let’s be realistic, where would all that money Chelsea spent on players go if they didn’t spend it? To the fans? To the community? No. It would still be in the bank account of a billionaire. If they want to splash £100m on a single player from a club deemed smaller, then I don’t see the issue. A club like Brighton can easily spend that £100m on a decent replacement and then some. Also doesn’t guarantee Chelsea trophies and doesn’t wreck a club like Brighton. Brighton also seem to spend that £100m on obscure but high potential players from much smaller clubs abroad, which helps those clubs.
*Man City
Do people just randomly forget that some clubs used to be owned by banks and that’s how they are where they are today?
I’m not going to be an hypocrite and say Chelsea doesn’t have a role to play in the current state of football but if it wasn’t Chelsea it was going to be another club.
Current state of football was inevitable. It was going to happen regardless.
Bayer Leverkusen were founded by Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that produced chemical weapons for the Nazis during WWII. Bayern Munich used the swastika as their badge. PSG and Manchester City are oil clubs that actively cheat their books to be able to spend more. I don’t get what we’re doing here trying to paint Chelsea’s spending as some new wave ruining football.
These people who say “football is gone” frankly do not know what they’re talking about. Inflation (both within and outside the sport) has changed the landscape but there has always been stupid money and bad people within the sport.
The complainers are just nostalgic for the times before they knew and understood how bad it is. Picking any one club to vilify is foolish. It’s an arms race.
Are you really using Nazi Germany for an example as to why Chelsea aren’t “the only ones ruining football”?
So you think the UK should have had rules that prevented anyone from owning a club if they had any connections to someone who “wasn’t a good person”?
It’s not even rational to discriminate against someone that was in the KGB, because that just means they were public servants working to protect their country.
No, he’s using Nazi Germany as an example of how football has been corrupted by less than benevolent interests for a very long time.
I mean yeah I get it, but that’s leaving out a relevant historical context as to why those things happened.
I agree that Chelsea should not be seen as “where things gone wrong”, but pointing out to Nazi Germany to say things have always been wrong just seems whataboutism with a really low bar
Just feel like he’s going to a more extreme level
The government was helping Real 20 years ago with some shady deals.
Like what?
Like /u/espret’s story! Like how the government helped Real with shady deals 20 years ago… … Duh
This is the definitive slogan of /r/soccer
Lol you got downvoted for asking a question, typical
Economic levers and being £400m in debt