£215 million!!!!

If you ever needed an example of modern day football clubs and footballers being separated from the fans, this transfer window is it!!

£215 million spent during a recession, with £35 million spent on a lad with four months premier league experience.

People are saying the world has gone mad, but the Premier League is in a world of its own.

SSN had a field day today, but all deadline day does is remind me what a ******ed league the premiership is!!!

 

SSN keep going on about how everyone will be talking about the amount of money spent. They fail to mention the majority of those people probably think it's a disgraceful amount of money. Funny that considering they set the wheels in motion nearly 20 years ago. :dismay: It's crazy.

 

And that is why I am quite happy with Watford being a Championship club. How on earth are clubs meant to compete with that.

 

It's surely only a matter of time until a big club goes bust. The thing is when money talks, all principals go out if the window. Fair play to Blackpool for not selling Adam though

 

215 million and how much went to the lower leagues, given our business plan of developing players to sell on at a profit, it does n't seem to work in reality.

Not that I am complaining in our present scenario.

 

this is why football is no fun anymore.
big rich clubs stop winning as many games as they think they should so throw 100s of millions of ££ at the problem until they get into a position where they start to win again,

95% of clubs cannot do that hence trophies and titles will remain in the hands of 3 or 4 clubs for as long as some1 is willing to bank roll them,

where is the fun in that

 

No fun at all, it's boring and immoral. To make it worse,no one is mentioning the disgraceful wages that go along with these stupid transfer fees.......good day to be a football agent,who are the real villains in all of this. However let's look at the positives,at least we didn't lose any of our young guns

 

It is the fans fault just as much as Sky's, as was mentioned above.

As soon as teams go up out come the 'where's the ambition?!' 'we have money, we should spend it' 'survival is the most important thing'.

This leads to boos when clubs attempt to be sensible and stockpile all the money for the future development and sustainability of the club, so they cave in to the fans, buy £15m worth of absolutely sh!t, desperation buy journeymen on four year deals, get relegated and then those same fans boo the board for showing 'ambition'.

The only man who has not done this is GT, so it was done as soon as he left. Up yours football fans, you short sighted, hypocritical losers.

 

Andy Carroll went for £35million after 4 months of Premiership experience...

... I get the feeling that we would have got slightly more than £9.25m for Youngy if we had been in the same position this January as we were in 06/07, and been selling to Liverpool...

 

Football has lost its way a long time ago and unfortunately, there is no going back.

You are never going to persuade Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool or even Bolton, Wigan and Stoke that they would be better off if TV revenue was more evenly spread across the leagues, allowing fairer competition and an end to the duopoly of trophy winning teams.

In 50 years time, expect to see all football below the Premier League (or its replacement) amateur and 99% of football fans spread across 2 or 3 team maximum.

 

No. We are not Newcastle. At that point, Ash was still a Championship player, playing in the Premiership.

We did very, very well out of that deal.

The money for Carroll is just ridiculous though. I can't think of any logical process which could have resulted in anyone being allowed the responsibility to manage £35m and then choosing to spend it all on such a punt.

 

I agree fully with what you're saying - we did do great out of the Young deal... I was merely suggesting how ridiculous football has become in the Prem with teams willing to splash that much on a player like Andy Carroll - a player who I am yet to be convinced by, and that if you had team in the state Liverpool seem to be in at the moment back then, then who knows.

I know it isn't the reality - but I honestly can't believe Liverpool can justify forking out that much for Carroll...

 

32 goals in 91 appearances mostly at Championship level. I know there is potential but for a player with a pretty mediocre goal-scoring record 35 million seems daft. That is the definition of a panic buy

 

I find Torres at £50m more of a shock considering his injury problems over the last 2 years. Liverpool just decided to sell him and spend the money on 2 decent centre forwards in Suarez (who is a c**t) and Carroll. Thats a better front two than Torres and Babel/Ngog in my view.

 

The money spent on Carroll smacks of desperation right across the board (forgive the pun). Newcastle......cos Ashley is a greedy canut, in way over his head. Liverpool because they needed somone to replace big time charlie Torres who threw his toys out his pram the minute Hodgson was given the Liverpool job and the owners at Liverpool who want to prove a point they are serious and try n keep the fans on side after selling one of their 'heroes'.

Personally I find it an absolute disgrace and would be more than happy if we didnt get promoted as we would then be dragged into the absurd, immoral and vastly overated circus that is the Premiership. Im more than happy with the way things are at our lil club. We've got players that want to play for us, are happy with the club and have an affinity with us, the fans. Would that still exist in the Prem ? I dont think so.

Its also deeply ironic that Moan Utd and Arsenal develop more up n coming younsters than most Prem clubs put together. And then sell them on for a profit. And theyve both got two of the longest serving managers in football.

Thats the way forward , not 5 minute do or die merchants like Man City, Chelski, Liverpool etc.

 

I agree with the post that was on here a few weeks back: Get into the premiership, lap up the TV rights and money from being there. Not give a single **** about the competition and head back to the championship with our pockets lined sticking two fingers up at the Premier League

 

Good point. Theoretically Carroll and Suarez could be a great partnership. I think Suarez will be a good signing for them. Still think Carroll is a risk for them at that kind of money. 15-20 million would have been a better valuation of him.

Would be funny if Torres never found his best form again. Have lost all repect for him after demanding a transfer days after saying he didn't want to leave Liverpool. Had him down as one of the few 'top' players who had a bit of loyalty. What's worse is that he will be Chelsea's highest earner no doubt and the likes T**ry and Drogba will want to match his wages. It blows the whole thing even more out of control. Football in this country is a joke.

 

:sign15: Exactly. Expect to come back down then if anything else happens it's a bonus

 

In 50 years time it'll be all about the European super league. Domestic action will just be a side show I reckon. All national leagues will be much like say the Welsh or N.Ireland leagues are now, no offence to those nations of course.

 

The way the fans and some of the players treated Hodgson was a joke. He didn't get anywhere near enough time their and it will be a blip on the record of who is undoubtably a very good manager. This is why English managers aren't highly rated enough to get the big jobs, because when they do they get treated like sh*t. Players have got far too much power these days, but they always seem to be last ones to get blamed when things go wrong.

 

Totally agree. Hodgsons face didnt fit and the players got him the sack.

The quicker the Prem top clubs form a European League the better, for me.