ponsaelius

Utter, utter cunts.

Football is my football pet hate at the moment

Fucking nailed on man telt yous all to lump on the other week.

Playing out wide/deeper should get him more involved in the game and improve his development better than just sitting up top trying to get onto flick ons. Good news.

How? It will do exactly the opposite. Proper restrictions on not just loans, but squad sizes and the size of the youth squads will stop players being hoarded and then lent out to be improved as assets by smaller clubs. Proper restrictions, no cop outs and if clubs go over the limits they're forced to sell at an agreed undervalue price to somebody else instead of being able to loan them. Players are being spread out then instead of monpolised and ruined because there's small chance they might one day be backup left back for Chelsea. Also stops clubs that overspend like QPR being able to take the copout of loaning out all the players they can't sell or afford to keep on the wagebill to save money and 'cheat death' in the sense of avoiding the repercussions of their financial carelessness. Remy, Park, Granero, Taarabt, Mbia etc. The loan system is to the power of the wealthy and the get out clause for the wreckless. Its an invention that has unsurprisingly turned up and prospered over the last 20 years. Football survived 100 years without it and there's nothing to stop it doing so again, it just means harder restrictions have to be made in its place. Of course it will. Clubs will just turn into feeder clubs in everything but technicality. For example we'd just sell our young kid who may or may not make it to Gateshead with a pre agreed buy back clause. It'd essentially be a loan. Unless you want to ban the players right to make contractual agreements. In fact if anything it would become more prevalent if the loan limit is effectively lifted. How is that worse? At least then the smaller club can get a financial stake in a player and benefit from it and it stops them wasting their time hanging around at a club where they won't make it.

The only thing keeping the Portuguese clubs remotely competitive is work permit laws, good scouting and the fact that South American clubs are even more screwed than themselves. If Benfica get another Eusebio there's no chance he spends his career there and wins them a European Cup, a damn shame.

How? It will do exactly the opposite. Proper restrictions on not just loans, but squad sizes and the size of the youth squads will stop players being hoarded and then lent out to be improved as assets by smaller clubs. Proper restrictions, no cop outs and if clubs go over the limits they're forced to sell at an agreed undervalue price to somebody else instead of being able to loan them. Players are being spread out then instead of monpolised and ruined because there's small chance they might one day be backup left back for Chelsea. Also stops clubs that overspend like QPR being able to take the copout of loaning out all the players they can't sell or afford to keep on the wagebill to save money and 'cheat death' in the sense of avoiding the repercussions of their financial carelessness. Remy, Park, Granero, Taarabt, Mbia etc. The loan system is to the power of the wealthy and the get out clause for the wreckless. Its an invention that has unsurprisingly turned up and prospered over the last 20 years. Football survived 100 years without it and there's nothing to stop it doing so again, it just means harder restrictions have to be made in its place.

More billionaires then, so the success of teams is dependant almost entirely on lottery? Whichever team happens to be available when some criminal Russian gangster or Oil tycoon decides on a whim to buy a club is the team that will be successful for the next 10 years. That's not a good or fair system whichever way you try to slice it or however much you like watching Luis Suarez on MOTD. People are talking about restrictions on a European or Global scale, obviously not just in the UK so the point about players going to different leagues is a moot one in this utopia. The reserve system in Spain is an utter joke and anybody who sees its implementation over here as a good idea is quite frankly out of touch with the football culture in this country. The lower leagues in Spain are a JOKE. The entire country is a nation of glory hunters rendering the lower divisions an almost pointless exercise, adding in reserve teams and devaluing it further barely matters when nobody supports the lower league sides anyway. Doing the same thing in the UK is utterly disrespectful to every lower league club in the country that are the hubs of their entire communities and have rich histories that are over 100 years old. Teams in the 5th tier bring in thousands of supporters and take 10s of thousands to cup finals FFS. The fans of these clubs don't want to go and watch fucking B teams from Premier League clubs who's line-ups and levels of competitiveness will vary wildly over the course of a season, bringing the entire idea of competition into question. Does every team in the Premier League have a B team they get to put into the league system? What about C teams? What about Championship clubs do they get a B team as well? Within 10 years it would destroy the lower leagues in this country, a lower league system that is the betterment of anything else in the world and the one thing we should be striving to protect in terms of English Football.

One thing that hasn't been touched on is the way the TV boom of the Premier League and CL era has absolutely obliterated the smaller leagues in Europe. Basically if you're unfortunate to be a big club that plays in a small country (Ajax, Benfica, Celtic, Eastern European sides etc) you are absolutely fucked now. The collective brand power of the major 4 or 5 leagues just gives them a significant advantage to the point where a club like us can walk up and take Ajax's star players off them. It's ridiculous imo, as much as I like Anita. The power structure has been completely distorted for the worse.

Agree with point A completely. The loan system helps to perpetuate the wealth of the few and maintain the status quo, its a cop out from making proper restrictions on squads. Point B + C I disagree with, the CL needs knocking down and the UEFA Cup reinstated with the same status it used to have and financial incentives to match it. We still need a second competition that teams have a chance of winning, putting everybody in the CL and getting rid of the second tier competition is one less competition that teams like ourselves have to aspire for. Football needs a massive dose of socialism across the board. Wage caps, squad restrictions, financial fair play whatever - anything that can be done to narrow the gap between the haves and the have nots needs to be done before the sport becomes a farce for everybody but a handful of clubs.

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Reckon Rooney to Chelsea will be more or less a nailed on transfer if they fail to get top 4

There was a great anecdote from an e-mail on the Tuesday Club podcast a while back about Garth who'd always go into the BBC studio to watch Spurs play even on a Sunday when there was no Final Score () and cheer them on enthusiastically. When they lost to Stoke a few years ago apparently he started sobbing uncontrollably and had to be consoled by the make up lady :lol:

A great idea according to some on here

Agreed, looked harsh in slowmo but at the time he just went for the man

Looked like he went for the man deliberately in real time

Eto'o is class, great to see him have a big game over here even though he's on the way out.

Everton have had big sales consistently to fund purchases. Rarely do they dig deep into pockets.

Montpellier is quite nice like, nowt on this fine city though

Not available in your country, get to fuck Scotland

13 in 70 in the league since he left. 1 in 5.4 games then

I want to renounce my best newcomer vote

The trolls this place turns out man