must be funny, in a rich mans world! Some of you are thinking, what does he have to say about Abba? Well, nothing, but money, at the moment is just funny in football.
Platini has been moaning for a while now at the premier league about the vast amount of money that is being moving around from club to club. Now, Spain are getting back into the act, well Real Madrid are as they plan to once again conquer European football after 2 or 3 years of being forgotten about and not liking it!
Real Madrid have broken the record fee for a player twice this summer. They have got the record fee of 80 million for Ronaldo. They have also spent 30 Million for Benzema, 56 Million for Kaka and there is talk of Madrid wanting Ribery who could cost up to 50 million. Florentino Perez, the Real Madrid president is treating football as his playground. I had to settle for monkey bars rather than the game of football! how times change. We have seen it in the past with Roman Abramovich(owner of Chelsea) and the new Man City Owners are trying the same too but have gone to a club who have no popularity in world football so will have to wait till they have a good season to splash the cash.
No player is worth this amount of money. Should there be a cap on how much a player can cost and then the player decides where he wants to go? How much would that do for the little clubs? The big clubs would still have the money anyway. The big clubs will continue to get bigger and the smaller clubs will have to try and survive.
Money in football isn't shared fairly and for obvious reasons. Use the example of the Premier League, It's better than the other English leagues so gets on TV more. More TV means the better sponsors are willing to get there product assoicated with it. The better the football, the more 'fans' the big clubs will gain therefore bigger grounds and then more sales in shirts etc....it all goes round in a circle for the big teams.
Being a Swindon Town fan, spending money is rare, if the club buy a player, everyone watches them so much closer to see the club are spending the money on a worthwhile player. We are lucky though to have the chairman and board we do who have cash to spend to keep us afloat and clear our debts. Thanks again Mr Fitton! This is why supporitng Swindon is great, its always interesting, Swindon's season is always unpredictable whereas to me the premier league is in danger of going stale and being more predictable every year.
Don't get me wrong, the standard of football in the world is brilliant, and with the money involved, players will have to continue getting better, but is one bloke who can kick a ball worth 80 million pounds, and 150,000 grand a week in wages, when people in this country earn 15,000 a year. You have to agree its madness.
The Football league, or maybe even FIFA, have to watch the situation and start thinking of ways to keep clubs afloat and to try and make football once again the anything can happen game. Now the best clubs have there own world, and the rest just have to battle knowing that they won't win anything.
It's a situation that can't be changed, as if people have the money they are going to spend it. Its the fact of football now. Its all about the money.
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