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45 minutes ago, The only way is S6 said:


It’s obscene Mr F. 
 

I daren’t think what Auboomerang’s new contract will be paying him at the Arse. 

Highest paid player at the club apparently, which takes him above Ozils 350k per week. The world's gone mad.

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Sorry if this is a stupid question but why do clubs pay such rediculas amounts to agents? Why don't all clubs refuse to deal through agents and deal directly with the players? Isn't that how it used to be done? Or alternatively why if the agent is working on the players behalf don't they pay the agents fee?

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59 minutes ago, sacré bleu said:

Sorry if this is a stupid question but why do clubs pay such rediculas amounts to agents? Why don't all clubs refuse to deal through agents and deal directly with the players? Isn't that how it used to be done? Or alternatively why if the agent is working on the players behalf don't they pay the agents fee?

 

I would think that if the players had to pay the agents, then the agents fees would just be added on to the players signing on costs, so no difference to the gross amount.

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Bale and co don't earn their money ,they get it

money in premier league is obscene 

its also obscene that in this time clubs are paying telephone number transfer fees,wages and agent fees.And clubs that FAIL and get relegated get multi millions as a reward 

money should/must be shared fairer and differently to give everyone a chance

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21 minutes ago, David martin said:

Bale and co don't earn their money ,they get it

money in premier league is obscene 

its also obscene that in this time clubs are paying telephone number transfer fees,wages and agent fees.And clubs that FAIL and get relegated get multi millions as a reward 

money should/must be shared fairer and differently to give everyone a chance

 

Commie

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11 minutes ago, Socialist_Owl said:

God forbid the taxman take a little break during a global pandemic

Macclesfield’s financial difficulties pre-date the global pandemic, so I guess the taxman and other creditors just finally ran out of patience. COVID 19 was presumably the final nail in the coffin

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4 hours ago, Harrysgame said:

Shame for Macc and their fans  as worked hard to get league status. They will reform though and carry on.

Unfortunately, think there will be other clubs following suit. Natural order of things in some  respects, as think we have too many fully professional clubs ànyway.

League two can't afford to be full-time really, would re-structure it with the National League.

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If things don't change with regards to fans in the stand... I truly believe that we will not be the only team on minus 12 in the Championship.   Just a guess, but there must be at least 2 or 3 teams that are hanging on for dear life in our division....   
Like many of you, I get really upset at how the country now has 6 or 7 teams that win everything, have all the players, have all the money....  Arsenal, for example, have NEVER been out of the top flight in my lifetime (born in '60)...  Man Utd last spent time with us lowlife teams in 1974...   Definitely not the fault of these teams (I would be happy to have the Owls in that elite group)... but it just shows me how elitist the top flight has become over the past 20 to 30 years...   sad indeed.
RIP Macclesfield...

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3 hours ago, Mcguigan said:

It's certainly not, never has game been more popular.

 

Amazon and Netflix desperate to join the party and already dipping their toe in nicely with the documentaries.

 

The game has never been more popular BUT not with fans who attend games! As the game has grown in popularity,TV has taken a much higher percentage of the game. More people re watching football, but the increased number is largely in the armchair supporter.
Inflation has hit everything, but especially in Football. Unfortunately , the beneficiaries have been the 'stars' themselves, and their agents, and not the fans. We often talk about Millionaires buying clubs to make money. At one time, it was more often local businessmen etc who sank their money in.However, No-one wants to put their money into 'losing causes'

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15 minutes ago, Whitecap Owl said:

Like many of you, I get really upset at how the country now has 6 or 7 teams that win everything, have all the players, have all the money....  Arsenal, for example, have NEVER been out of the top flight in my lifetime (born in '60)...  Man Utd last spent time with us lowlife teams in 1974...   Definitely not the fault of these teams (I would be happy to have the Owls in that elite group)... but it just shows me how elitist the top flight has become over the past 20 to 30 years...   sad indeed.
RIP Macclesfield...

 

As far as I'm concerned, the conception of the Premier League was always intended to create a small elite that would slowly threaten the interest in (if not the outright existence of) other clubs working from the bottom up. This required the co-operation of the FA, who as their chairman later noted were too preoccupied in their power struggle with The Football League to worry too much about some of these consequences and also some of the clubs destined to be amongst the have-nots in the long run (including both Sheffield clubs) who were blinded by the injections of cash that would come with it. BBC and ITV reportedly had shareholdings in two of these clubs and their coverage abundantly reflected this conflict of interest. The former spent a couple of years as an unofficial wing of Manchester United's marketing department.

 

I always remember what Martin Edwards, chairman of Manchester United at the time, said just 7 years before the breakaway; "The smaller clubs are bleeding the game dry. For the sake of the game, they should be put to sleep". Nothing sums up what has happened since much better than that and it's notable that two clubs in that area of the country have been removed from the league recently for owing amounts a fraction of their huge neighbour's monthly payroll.

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5 hours ago, andytrig said:

 

Founded in 1874 would suggest that you can to a certain extent. Trouble is for the teams with smaller gates and virtually no TV money they still have to pay over inflated player wages and agents fees which trickle down through the leagues driven by the ridiculous wealth in the Premier league.

 


For about a hundred of those years, the gate receipts probably paid the wages; times have changed. Gate receipts are a small portion of what is required to run a club unfortunately 

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Just to emphasise this disparity, in the 28 seasons of the Premier League, the major trophies have gone like this...

 

                                    BIG SIX      THE REST

Premier League               26                 2  (one since 1995)

      (runners up)               24                 4  (none since 1997)

      (third place)               23                 5  (none since 2003)

FA Cup                             25                 3                        

League Cup                     19                 9  (two since 2004)

 

 

 

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Southend United own HMRC nearly £500,000 !  Winding up order planned. They plan to sell Roots Hall for houses to pay it. 

Macclesfield owe their manager, John Askey £173,000 ! He was there less than 5 years and presumably in that time was paid most of the time so he must have been on a lot of money! Part of the problem is that players and managers in the third and fourth tiers still command what to ordinary mortals are huge wages. Remember Chris O'Grady being on £2,000 a week at Chesterfield.

I thought when the PL was formed, and I stand by this thought, that we would end up with a few big clubs playing exhibition games all over the world.  It's already started with Liverpool et al playing friendly games in China and America. 70,000 turn up to watch a non-competitive game. The "Champions league" is nothing of the sort, at one stage United might have qualified, they haven't been champions of England for 125 years!

Football is more popular than ever, as TV entertainment, but the experience and camaradarie of attending games with like minded people, and seeing a competitve sporting spectacle at a fair price is in it's death throes, and that is a source of real regret for me.

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Saw the other day that the powers that be want Champions League games moved to weekends.....chasing ever more $$$.

Think Liverpool got over £80 million in just Champion League tv revenue last year.

Football is crazy at both extremes, Macc had the lowest average crowds at 2000 but initially the owner sunk daft money in.

Spent upto the point even back in2018 that the players union told players not to play as the club had not paid insurance.

The players even went to the police as thier pension payments had gone awol by being diverted.

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, Inspector Lestrade said:

 

How can we have to many, when its worked for donkeys years?

Thing about life and business it changes over the years. Used to have north and South to reduce costs and travel. The money has changed things. Look at Germany far bigger country 2 leagues the regionalised.

 

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