England have their own product. They don't need half a dozen Scottish clubs to make it more appealing. Folk already (even up here) cream themselves over Huddersfield v Brighton. Can almost see the logic in Holland and Belgium doing it.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-09-2020 01:10 PM #31
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19-09-2020 01:11 PM #32This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-09-2020 01:14 PM #33
Lots of football clubs for years, have lived above their means
There’s got to be some correction on this, as banks etc won’t continue to give them credit, so they’ll have to cut costs to survive
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If you get paid 30 odd million a year by a business, but you make them 100 million a year, its quite reasonable really.
The tax contributions of football clubs and players will do plenty for the NHS.
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The perspective I am coming from is a scenario where Scotland has lost a number of clubs and others have gone part time. In our league that could easily extend to half the premier league. Even now it's a head scratcher how clubs like Hamilton, St Johnstone and Livingston can run full time professional football. It could be a case of Scotland's 5 or 6 biggest clubs approaching the Football League and putting a proposal to them that they be incorporated into the English system, with the backing of the likes of SKY.
There would be room for them if enough clubs have folded and don't tell me that in a game were money counts more than anything else the prospect of two of Europe's best supported clubs and the TV interest they generate wouldn't be tempting, along with the addition of the worlds oldest derby match contested by two well supported clubs from one of the UK's fastest growing cities and a club who have won a European trophy and have the potential to grow bigger than they are.Last edited by NAE NOOKIE; 19-09-2020 at 01:37 PM.
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19-09-2020 01:41 PM #37
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Tax contributions yeah good one. That's the typical apologists answer. Most of them will have access to tax avoidance experts. I wonder how much cash is stored overseas. Personally it gives me the dry boak watching these primadonnas getting what they do and the fawning drooling groupies on the internet trying to justify it at the same time our key workers are paid a pittance to keep the country running.
Football at the top end gives poor people the same titillation as crap like the kardashians. The groupies get more excited for the transfer window than they do for the regular season.
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19-09-2020 01:43 PM #38This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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The money isn't created from thin air, no. It is given to them by punters, in one way or another, who chose to spend their hard earned cash on tickets, shirts, tv subscriptions etc. As is their right.
I'm not an apologist. I am just not daft enough to think Gareth Bale is taking money from a nurses pocket. You can get the dry boak all you want, someone who generates a business hundreds of millions is always going to be paid tens of millions. Film star, Sportsman, CEO etc.
Again, footballers avoiding tax is hardly something that stops and starts with them. The loopholes should be shut or it will happen.
Amazon vs the local store is just not comparable. Amazon are a big business with everything you could need, that can be delivered the next day. It is always going to be preferred over going out, searching about various shops, paying silly money for parking, maybe not even finding what you want etc. Blockbuster died because Netflix moved with the times. Amazon is moving with the times, the highstreet cant.
Footballers have done more than most during this pandemic, with many making big charitable donations, helping out in their communities, fighting the government on issues etc. They should be applauded.
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19-09-2020 01:56 PM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Its not nice, I'm not saying it is. But its the truth. We all have the chance to do something about the wages of NHS workers when we get the chance to vote. Its not Gareth Bales fault we chose people who prioritise different things.
I think people love to pick and chose who they get at for this. Never heard a bad word about Andy Murray, someone with career winnings (so not including any sponsors, image rights, merch etc) of over 60 million. It is happening at the top levels of all sports. ****ing youtubers make six figures, same with twitch streamers etc.Last edited by MWHIBBIES; 19-09-2020 at 01:59 PM.
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19-09-2020 02:28 PM #42This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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19-09-2020 02:36 PM #43
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19-09-2020 07:57 PM #45This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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19-09-2020 08:03 PM #46
I don’t think for one minute any club in Scotland will go out of business in the next few years.
Wishful thinking by Budge and her followers, nothing else.
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19-09-2020 08:10 PM #47This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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19-09-2020 09:01 PM #48
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Or a senior member of the Royal Family being lauded for becoming a billionaire What does he need with a billion
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20-09-2020 08:56 AM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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There’s two things going on here - a system that’s so unequal and so unfair it is preposterous, and a player who wants to be paid on the same level as his peers.
When Bale left Spurs for Madrid, and then when he signed his extension, he could genuinely be described as a world class player. He wanted to be paid like a world class player.
You could make an argument that no footballer could possibly be worth more than £100k a year, and there is merit in that. However, as MW says, people continually vote for inequality.
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26-10-2020 10:46 PM #53
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How ridiculous that is compared to any other footballer, or any other industry, is essentially irrelevant really. I would argue, personally, that what is needed is making sure people on such exorbitant wages are properly taxed in line with it, rather than complaining about such wages existing in the first place.
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27-10-2020 10:38 AM #54This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Bound to affect every club.
Though I'm surprised that their spending on transfer fees actually went up, but that was probably before the Covid situation.
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They have pots of cash, been banking it for years whilst their neighbours were rubbish. Won't be many tears shed for that club losing money.
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I don't expect anyone to have much sympathy for them but it's indicative of what other clubs will be seeing and Hibs aren't going to be an exception when we get round to announcing results.Mon the Hibs.
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Celtic have a serious amount of cash so could even afford to make a loss during this difficult time.
Many others will not have that luxury. Very concerning for Clubs, especially those who were mismanaging their finances before the pandemic hit.
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12-12-2020 06:31 PM #59
Did anyone hear Sportsound pre match today
Chick Young (I know) was at Dunfermline v Morton today, and said Morton have severe financial problems. He then went onto say that Robbie Nielson’s salary, was more than the full Morton team budget
Then had the Inverness Caley CEO on, and you could hear in his voice that they are in real serious financial bother, and are desperate for these grants to be handed out urgently
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