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Filter a load of the money out of the domestic game and concentrate it in the Super League. Meanwhile, the remaining domestic game gets a more balanced, more level and competitive, playing field. The foreign mercenaries follow the money allowing domestic players more opportunity - and the national team gets stronger too.
Hopefully that would make the domestic game less attractive as a pure cash generative investment and or political one-upmanship and green-washing opportunity - ie more of a game and less of a business.
Ahhhh ... the good old days
The big questions are, how good will City be when Pep calls it a day - Will LFC be a top 2/3 club once Klopp calls it a day and can Arsenal continue to progress - Can Chelsea and/or Man U fill any of those gaps and how long will it take Newcastle to be a top 4 club, if indeed will they
Currently the PL is almost a closed shop as far as the top 4/5/6 positions go - Likewise we almost know who the bottom 10 clubs will be once we get to Aug - I guarantee you won't get that in the EFL - even Ipswich fans would not have expected a potential top 6 finish, let alone 1/2 or 3
But I think the wider infrastructure around the club and the financial resources, mean that they're likely to back where they are now in fairly short order. Of course, there's a risk that they "do a ManU" and pick a new manager, see some relatively poor results, don't give them enough time, sack him, rinse/repeat and gradually slip away. A risk, or a hope
Arsenal - and certainly Spurs - need another season or three for the relatively new managers to fully embed their styles and build the team around those styles. I'd put Newcastle in that category too (and hope that they give Howe more time) - they over-achieved last season and are paying for it this year with a squad that was too thin. I see Villa as this season's Newcastle.
Naturally, I'm hoping that we start the peak-Postecoglu era just as ManC and Liverpool bottom-out, and Arteta has been poached back to Spainland
Still gutted over the european super league not going through; that could well have been the first step for the english leagues going back to something watchable and less concerned with commercialism. As it stands the game's no longer what it was.
Seeing all those comments about Moyes at the beginning of the thread is funny because it's such a divisive subject amongst the fanbase now. If we don't overcome this 2-0 deficit against Leverkusen on Thursday I think he's gone when his contract is up in a few months.
Looks like KP will be gone very shortly from West Ham - Rumours of a loan back to Leeds, but I don't see it - 150K a week, be it Leeds in the PL or EFL is not a wage we can pay - No one else in the squad receives anything like that
No one will pay him what he's earning at City and not many can match the wages, as you say. If he goes on loan it will probably be a partial wage payment from whatever club he goes to.
If I were him I'd just stay at City until my contract runs down and try and get back into the squad or go on loan moves. Who cares? He's got 4 more years at £150k a week, why take a pay cut and move? He'll be 32, he can spend a couple of years in the US and then retire a very rich man with a lot of (unearned) medals.
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I guess if it were me and I was 15 playing guitar in bands, would I be happy at 28 being a dep for a major band, getting paid a shit load of money but never actually doing the thing I worked so hard to get good at? Probably not. If you could earn a bit less and play more, and still be very well off I think most people would prefer that.
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Yes, they’ve worked hard to get there, and are good at it, but you can see equivalent efforts to get up the career path in many professions.
Also Saka and Odegaard face fitness tests before the game. Hope one of them plays at least though they both have good link up play together.
Will be nervously following tonight.