Football's Finances Need to Be Resolved
The Problem With Money In The Game Today
Gathering pace and destroying rusty old records, the summer's transfer market has been whisked around the country more furiously than Hurricane Hazel. The shrewdness of the national shuffling has been justified by the need for immediate success as a return for the chairman’s investment, but the rational of the rotation is ridiculous.
Valencia's £18 million move Manchester United Seems Somewhat Over Priced
Thomas Vermaelen, Arsenal’s ten million pound signing from Ajax appears exhaustive (but we all know Wenger’s ability to dig up favourites out of rabbit holes), Antonio Valencia’s £18 million move to Manchester United seems somewhat over priced and the worst offenders of the crime of colossal cash are from Sir Alex Ferguson’s side’s younger brother. Although the perpetual Scott would probably change that phrase to younger botherer.
£96.5 million City have spent this summer in an attempt to put down the sails and motor boat across the river of Premier League success. Chelsea did the same and showed similar financial muscle four years ago, although Ranieri had just climbed the Stamford Bridge club into Europe the previous season and Mr.Abramovich had employed the masterful hands of Jose Mourninho to guide the team to the zenith of their powers, and managed to win back to back domestic title's. However, whilst City have the manager they are minus the European platform.
To add further salt to injury, City are opperating, as all clubs are now, under intoxicating conditions of the 'seven games without a win and your out' climate.
So, Mark Hughes might as well postpone his routine saturday breakfast and celebrate the sabbath a day early by walking down the aisle of the Collegiate Church of St.Mary's with gold, frankinscense and myhre to offer the wise man with the hope that he will be offered time in return. Garry Cook, Chief Executive of Manchester City, however, will not be so bountiful and may instead be jaunting off early to Ewood Park rather than standing near the alter at his local church.
Jut for good measure, Cook should type "Manchester Catherdal" into his satelitte navigation system in order to be ready to confess his sins if he does prematurely sack his employee this term. Damn the mentality of the modern ill-advised administrative eagles. They kill the baby before it has stepped out of the woumb.
Hughes Should Stay And Succeed
If Logic was dressed in suit and tie at City's headquarters, he would want Mark Hughes to stay and succeed. For look at his mountainous achievements at Blackburn, he manged to coagulate a budget team into European placed adventurers. He could, and will if given time, the same at Manchester City.
Unfortunately, such is the fast moving pace of Premier League finance, shareholders will demand that results run faster than Usain Bolt on the perimeter track of Manchester’s Olympic park. So if City stutter, Hughes suffers. What a bitter pill to swallow.
He’s not the only one. Richard Scudamore, as he ingurgitates his morning croissant in a few months, will have to tackle this financial issue that is fast becoming credulous to its bleak recession surroundings. For if inflated transfer fees stay; wages must plummet. This calling will surely come to the man who chairs the Premier League.
It’s ironic to think that the legendary Jimmy Hill, instated as the Chairman of the professional footballers association some fifty two years ago, so heroically squashed the bestial £20 maximum wage, and now cries are being heard from the balcony of the bank of England to respect the global monetary crisis.
When Will Football Ever Learn
When will football ever learn? It’s astonishing to fathom the £17 million fee paid by Liverpool for defender Glen Johnson, when it was his non-existent back tracking that cost England a Dirk Kuyt goal for Holland on Wednesday night. Amazing. Such Inflation will surely burst the football bubble.
Truth be told, he is English, and it has to be accepted in this country that once a gem is discovered, such is the rarity, they must be placed in cotton wool and nurtured into national heroes, and should a “top four club” come calling, sell them to the highest bidder. Look at Charlton Athletic, they possessed a knight in shining armour in Darren Bent. If you gave him the chance he would have thrown his spear into any goalkeeper in Britain. Yet Tottenham came calling and off he went for triple his value.
Perhaps The Cleaners Should Mop Up The Surface With Quotas
Scudamore’s Chief Accountant would have been forgiven for thinking he was seeing triple vision as the waves of transfer activity wash up onto the Premier League’s office flooring space. Perhaps the cleaners should mop up the surface with quotas? Four Englishman for every club at least? That would give the principle protagonists at the FA room to put up their annual Christmas tree, whilst assisting the national side’s problems with adequate replacements.
Money from agents and third parties alike will continue to flood over world football like swine flu unless wage's are capped. Richard Scudamore needs to act before spoiling this beautiful game, and fast.
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