Absolutely mental
1 - Chelsea - 453m euros
2 - spurs - 248m euros
3 - Abu Dhabi fc - 241m euros
4 - visit Rwanda FC - 234m euros
So the top 4 spenders spent at least 50% of their organic (non owner) revenue on players
How is it sustainable?
Killing the sport for working class people
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Ponzi Ponzi Ponzi
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It does seem a number of clubs are now linked by ownership/funding and have created a cartel for themselves
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seems to make it more exciting for working class people
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No it doesn't
It threatens clubs who don't have rich owners pumping in billions
And those are the clubs that working class people support
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Well I didn’t see that coming.
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”lt does seem a number of clubs are now linked by ownership/funding and have created a cartel for themselves”
You have to say it’s a pretty shit cartel that finds itself bidding up these extraordinary costs against itself.
It is important that we never let the fookers impose wage caps or remove relegation and that prize money is spread well. This is the case in the UK - which is why it’s such an amazing ecosystem and wildly popular entertainment. Long May it continue.
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I agree but the oil clubs are making it far less fun
Even Liverpool now funded in part by Abu Dhabi
Very suspicious
United stand alone
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It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that IRL Davos is not working class.
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Liverpool, Man City, Newcastle etc all have a working class fanbase...still. They all welcome the funding. It is not killing the sport for the working class. You are talking your usual b0ll0x.
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Heh at tourist clubs like Abu Dhabi and Saudi having working class fans
Any true working class person stopped supporting as soon as the human rights abusers came in
Otherwise they would be supporting human rights abuses and surely they don't do that????
Certainly not manc lads
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manc lads all support city tbf
unithehd is all foreign tourists and southerners
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Chelsea, meet your new owner:
"When I was growing up it was (about playing computer games) Pac-Man and Donkey Kong,” he told Bloomberg in 2019. “I certainly didn’t know about Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham. I didn’t know about these clubs. Kids these days are fully aware of what’s the best and the Premier League is the best.”
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Heh at merkz
Wrong lad
OT full of working class heroes passionately supporting
Walk around London these days and it's all tourists in Abu Dhabi cheats shirts. Glory hunters
Real manc lads can't abide the human rights abuses and won't be associated with them. The Esher lot like Chinorder will probably think it's acceptable though. With their probably russian neighbours.
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I cant believe spurs have spent that much - all i've read anout is the welsh striker lad
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I’m really cringing for Davos now tbh. If he ever showed up in Manchester talking like some virgin YouTuber with an @GarnachoSZN twitter handle he’d get a slap, including off proper UTD fans.
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Because they're not looking to make money. They're looking to exclude everyone else in order to guarantee free airtime to wash their reputations. They are all subhuman scum and their bandwagoners are also subhuman scum.
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Given citeh earned £300m in prize money and tv money for winning the treble that’s probably fair enough
I guess Manchester United have had to reign in their spending after being caught cheating
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why is this more likely to kill the sport for working class people than for middle class people?
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United haven’t reined in their spending, Penguin. They’ve bought a striker for 72 mill who scored 9 (nine) goals last season. Mason LMAOunt for 65 mill. A keeper for 50 mill.
Their net spend is still extraordinarily high.
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Heh at anyone mentioning net spend
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Why would you not look at transfers fees received in connection with the OP?
United's net spend will always be extraordinarily high as the only people worse than those negotiating our signings are those negotiating our player sales.
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