Comments on: State of the Game: Player power and individual worth http://footballssoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/state-of-the-game/ Without the fans there would be no football Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Football Bets http://footballssoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/state-of-the-game/#comment-15 Football Bets Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:30:36 +0000 http://footballssoul.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-15 to be lectured by Uefa on financial transparency is like Fred West talking about building extensions without murdering loads of people. They are as corrupt as an organisation can come. That said, The reason to why a lot of clubs go out of business is the cheating, economic doping, that Platini talks about. The clubs can't afford to pay the transfer fees so they loan money instead to do it. They must do it because almost everyone else do it. If they didn't do it then they would have no chance to get promoted, they would go down instead and that means less TV money, revenues... etc. Then when a club can't pay the transfer fee because they loaned the money then the club that sold him lose out on the money. Is that fair? Then if something goes tits up then they have no chance and out of business they go. UEFA must stop that in some way and they must start somewhere to do it. If they don't do it then football will be "dead" soon. It has nothing to do with Platini, it's something that must be done. to be lectured by Uefa on financial transparency is like Fred West talking about building extensions without murdering loads of people. They are as corrupt as an organisation can come.

That said, The reason to why a lot of clubs go out of business is the cheating, economic doping, that Platini talks about.

The clubs can’t afford to pay the transfer fees so they loan money instead to do it. They must do it because almost everyone else do it. If they didn’t do it then they would have no chance to get promoted, they would go down instead and that means less TV money, revenues… etc. Then when a club can’t pay the transfer fee because they loaned the money then the club that sold him lose out on the money. Is that fair?

Then if something goes tits up then they have no chance and out of business they go.

UEFA must stop that in some way and they must start somewhere to do it.

If they don’t do it then football will be “dead” soon.

It has nothing to do with Platini, it’s something that must be done.

]]> By: sp3ktor http://footballssoul.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/state-of-the-game/#comment-12 sp3ktor Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:05:34 +0000 http://footballssoul.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-12 Wages and transfer fees for the UK compared to Europe are further pressured this season by the £GB's dip in value with the Euro: a player rated at £30million in the UK market would have cost a European club E45million last summer. Thanks to currency fluctuation, that E45million is now worth an extra £6 million in the UK! All of a sudden the figures being shouted about for Ronaldo come slightly more into perspective: £80 million this year is worth E15 million less than it was last summer. Is it any wonder that European stars are looking longingly at contracts on the continent? Nice blog, look forward to reading more. Wages and transfer fees for the UK compared to Europe are further pressured this season by the £GB’s dip in value with the Euro: a player rated at £30million in the UK market would have cost a European club E45million last summer. Thanks to currency fluctuation, that E45million is now worth an extra £6 million in the UK! All of a sudden the figures being shouted about for Ronaldo come slightly more into perspective: £80 million this year is worth E15 million less than it was last summer.

Is it any wonder that European stars are looking longingly at contracts on the continent?

Nice blog, look forward to reading more.

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