Football (Soccer) Rumours

I hope for that money he gets something done with his hair. What is that, the village idiot look?

beer monkey wrote:

Irish Alan wrote:Nice to see his heart is in it and he is not one of those mercenary types.

Ribery is holding out for a bumper £125,000-a-week salary AFTER tax but Chelsea are reluctant to offer more than £90,000 a week.

Thats a Ridiculous sum... More Like Highway Ribery.....

Good one...

It has just hit the news that Hull have been charged with fielding an unregistered player at the end of January '09.
Apparently when they signed Kamil Zayatte from Young Boys for £2.5M on 23 January this year, there had been some irregularities with the transfer and he was not formerly registered when Hull drew 2-2 with West Brom. West Brom have been awarded 3 points for that game instead of 1 but it has made no difference to them, they are still relegated.
However Hull have been stripped of their point, which puts them on the same points as Newcastle but with a poorer goal difference.
Newcastle have complained immediately and if their claim is upheld, Hull will be relegated retrospectively and the Toon will stay up!
















Carlsberg don't do e-mails for depressed Geordies, but if they did, they would probably be the best e-mails in the world!

Why don't they just play for £149999 per year...then they won't have to winge or worry about it...Simple when you know how..

Fat chance BM... They want that kind of money per week now!

Bob Paisley:

"This club has been my life. I'd go out and sweep the street and be proud to do it for Liverpool FC if they asked me to."

The days of this are long gone.

Ludicrous amounts of money....how did it get to this stage...?

beer monkey wrote:Ludicrous amounts of money....how did it get to this stage...?

the formation of the premier league , and murdocks T V revenues ...... clubs like man utd , chelsea , liverpool , and arsenal that buy success didnt help either . then theres greedy players and thier managers .

I just wonder if the Premier League might implode sooner or later?

In the interim, maybe fans who don't automatically take the easy route of supporting the big boys, will laugh themselves silly when occasionally, very occasionally, they get turned over the likes of Accrington Stanley. (No offence Accrington Stanley. I'd rather support you than the big teams.)

Oh and BM, your avatar should be censored!

Brian Davis wrote:I just wonder if the Premier League might implode sooner or later?

In the interim, maybe fans who don't automatically take the easy route of supporting the big boys, will laugh themselves silly when occasionally, very occasionally, they get turned over the likes of Accrington Stanley. (No offence Accrington Stanley. I'd rather support you than the big teams.)

Brian, you seem to have a problem with supporters of successful clubs. I seem to recollect a similar post a while back. Some of us have been supporting our clubs for a long time before they became successful.
Say for example Crystal Palace were bought out by a rich Arab oil sheik. He invested billions in the club and they won the Premiership and the European Championship. Would you continue to support them? or would you you turn your back on them. What would you say to other supporters who said you have taken the easy route of supporting a big team?
I can understand your frustration at the fans who jump ship every other year to be with the in vogue team, but at least give us die hard long term fans a little bit of respect.

i only hope that le gods group is successful in the takeover of S F C . what the club needs more than anything right now is a chairman who only has the clubs best interest at heart and maybe some spending money . there will be no doubt in any southampton fans mind that matty is that person . he has proved on many occasions that he has the clubs life blood running through his viens , on the pitch and since the end of his playing days . i can only put him in the same category as shearer in his footballing skills , certainly not in the same category for his undivided love and loyalty to this once great but unfashionable club . but in shearers defence he is a geordie and newcastle has always been his love !!! and whist at S F C he was a loyal and gifted player . in fact i would go so far as to say he was indeed the best player i have ever seen with his back to goal !!! no doubt in my mind that le god will give everything he has to the club , and if he fails , it will not be because he has shirked anything , this has got to be the best news the fans could of ever dreamed of .

Galee wrote:Brian, you seem to have a problem with supporters of successful clubs.

Fair point, Galee, and apologies if I’ve tended to generalise over the supporters of now successful, big clubs. I THINK we’re actually singing the same chant (perhaps you don’t agree) and, yes, I have the greatest respect for fans who have really supported their Club for years, particularly before success came along. I appreciate your anger, if I suggested you took the easy route.

But, correct me if I’m wrong, Chelsea have always been considered a ‘biggish’ Club, haven’t they? So, I recall them slipping down to the old division 2 years back, but from my boyhood years(aaaggghhh 50 years ago now), IF you wanted to follow a Club more likely to win than lose, in South London at least, you’d pick Chelsea over Fulham(until recently), Charlton, Millwall and Palace. Of course, in recent years, Chelsea hardly ever lose! I know it will sound stupid, but personally to me to go along to a game expecting and almost certain to win is rather boring. I’m sorry if I’m repeating my previous posts, but you have to know what it’s like to lose to really enjoy winning. I suggest fans who latch on to teams in line to win something every year, can’t possibly relate to the euphoria of fans of lesser teams actually reaching a Cup Final, or winning promotion.

So, I understand your Arab with millions example. Being honest, I recall the time when Palace had money to burn, buying Nigel Martyn, then the most expensive’keeper ever. But, almost inevitably, I also remember things going pear-shaped, Palace going into administration. Then, I believe only through their love and close ties with the Club, fans raised over £1 million, then a lot of money. Not that I ever really grasp financial workings, but when times continued difficult, fans actually funded the purchase of players, Gary O’Reilly for example (who scored in FA Cup Final against Man U) and helped the Academy scheme. So times move on, but it does rather contrast with a Russian billionaire buying success.

It’s all about money now, but I’m very sure that even if Palace did ‘rise to the heights’, fans would hope never to lose the local, family feel of the Club. I sat next to the same people for years, recognised faces because it never became too big and impersonal. I just feel at the Big Boys, you’re likely to find a different face next to you each week, probably on a tour package. Perhaps unfair to cite Asia, but through TV, media, tours, people are invariably 'loyal fans' of the big clubs, without a clue as to the emotions associated with supporting a lesser team in England.

Forgive my ramblings. We may not agree on everything, but think we can say we feel a special link with our respective teams.

Brian Davis wrote: I appreciate your anger, if I suggested you took the easy route.

Brian, no anger here. A good topic to discuss maturely and sensibly.
Enjoyed reading your reply and understand where your coming from. Coming from Kent the team, other than you know who, that I followed closely were Gillingham. Lots of disappointments there.

Do you think if supporters stopped buying the over-priced tickets and merchandise the wages would come back down to earth...i know it won't happen but i reckon it would work, no gate revenue would be a big loss.
I know its all run as a business today but....
Is anyone really worth that amount of money per week..?

You do wonder how much longer it can go on for. The top clubs seem immune to the recent World Financial crises and carry on regardless. What does annoy me is people like Winston Bogarde at Chelsea. He was on the books for 3 years 10 months and was paid 8,240,000.00 pounds for 4 appearances in that time.

Link here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 589245.ece

I think it's an ever perpetuating problem, because to be successful you have to be in Europe and clubs like Madrid and Barcs are in even more in debt.