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Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens
All the teams in the division get roughly equal amounts of Sky money though so I don't see how that means the teams that have won the league were bought teams (Chelsea & City aside) as they're competing against each other. It's not like in Spain where 50% goes to Madrid and Barça and the other 50% is shared among the other 18 teams.
Can't really see how this is a criticism tbh, that's how football works. With success comes rewards, it's like saying you shouldn't get prize money for winning the league (which you then use to buy players.)
Seems like it's mostly a dig at United tbh lol as they've dominated the PL era. They've got their faults as a club but buying titles isn't one of them.
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What if there was no Sky prize money, what if your income as a club depended on how big your gates were. Thats when managers really earned their money, they built teams, they didn't go and spend 10s of millions of pounds every year buying players that had won the world cup etc etc. One day it'll be that way again, then we'll see how big and great the chelseas of this world are wont we.
Your reputation as a club wasn't put in place by TV presenters it was put in place by your results.
How much did the European Cup winning Villa squad cost?
What are the chances of Nottingham Forest getting promotion to the Prem this season and then winning the Prem next season and then winning the European champions League the following two seasons?
How much did Liverpool spend in the 60s and 70s and 80s when they were building their reputation? They had two world class managers that built that club from being Evertons poor relation into what LFC is today.
Football isn't about money, its about people and that's the bit that Sky and its army of arm chair fans don't understand.
They can get rid of Sky and all the European competitions and I'd be as happy as a pig in shiit, I don't know a football supporter that knows what he/she's talking about that wouldn't.
No it wasn't a dig at Manchester United, they've proved themselves as a football club too many times over the last 140 or so years to be called cheque book club. Fergie was a cheque book manager but so was every other successful manager in his era of management, and Man United were already a rich club before the Sky money arrived, so he had a slight head start didn't he. He's over rated, Busby was 20 times the manager Ferguson was.
The best three British managers of my living memory have been Bill Shankly, Don Revie and Brian Clough.
Its always difficult to try and explain the difference between football now and football before Sky took it over, they either don't understand because they didn't witness it, or they don't want to understand.
The Premier League is an embarrassment to English football. The three professional leagues below it are far more entertaining and far more competitive and the fans are a million miles better than Prem fans, Prem fans are dull. If Leeds United were in the Prem this season 80% of the Prem fans would go home crying ( in their Range Rover ) and wouldn't be able to put into words what they'd just seen and heard, the other 20% would love it because they'd seen it before and they've missed it sooo much. The Prem needs Leeds United more than Leeds United need the Prem, best fans on planet earth, we've just taken 5,000 to Slovenia to watch us do our pre season training, 95% of Prem clubs don't take that many fans to an away game that's less than 30 miles from where they live. ****ing light weight Prem wankers.
Marching on together.
