alpine_saint Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Seriously, whats the f**king point in the other 87-88 teams like Saints bothering any more ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stepgar Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Seriously, whats the f**king point in the other 87-88 teams like Saints bothering any more ? Just means they can afford to pay more for Luke Shaw - the asking price just went up to 35million!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 tbh, that Ed bloke they have as their CEO is almost as clueless as ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevy777_x Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Hum can someone explain how Man U can spend when they have a long term of 361m and then go out and spend 220m on new players. We couldn't even go beyond a debt of 20m without falling into administration. Something is not right in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick1976.4.38 Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 welcome to modern football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Apart from us, who in the world would want Southampton or any similar sized club to win the league nearly every season? It is not good business and won't bring money into the premier league . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Just means they can afford to pay more for Luke Shaw - the asking price just went up to 35million!! Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Their expenditure doesn't guarantee instant success. And as they hope that some of that money will buy some of our players who cost us little or no outlay beyond their development via our academy, there clearly is an alternative to just p*ssing money up the wall in the hope that it will buy them success. If they had an academy producing a batch of players like their class of 92, then they wouldn't need to spend much at all, but it seems that they no longer have the ability to produce more than the occasional star through their academy any more. Tottenham spunked £100 million or so on Bale's replacement and signed expensive flops apart from maybe Eriksen. It is arguable that had they kept Bale, they would have had a more successful season than with his replacements. United's success next season relies both on the players they buy in and Van Gaal's ability to get them to gel with the existing players. As good a manager as Van Gaal is from his record so far, he hasn't managed in England, so even he is isn't a guarantee that they will succeed. And even with expenditure like that, they are still the poor relations of Manchester City when it comes to how much they spend on players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WealdSaint Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Man Utd are possibly following a similar path to Portsmouth. Saddle yourself with more debt than you can service and "pop". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
student Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 There is no way united will spend anything close to that. Expect it to be around 120m plus anything they get for selling players. You've got to take into accoun they've lost their two best cbs and haven't bought a good midfielder in about 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaptopSaint Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 So going by the logic on here - 6 new players in the team and you're comprehensively f*cked - I presume I should be putting a tenner on Utd to get relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW5 SAINT Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Man Utd are possibly following a similar path to Portsmouth. Saddle yourself with more debt than you can service and "pop". If that's the case, the shenangins that went on to prop up poopey will be very small beer compared to the efforts to keep Manure in the EPL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.JonB Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Man Utd will never go bust! The money that comes in each season will always make the debt serviceable. Also the queue to buy them before would be massive. Be careful, some of you are beginning to use Pompey logic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Man Utd are possibly following a similar path to Portsmouth. Saddle yourself with more debt than you can service and "pop". I don't think the two scenarios are remotely similar tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BARCELONASAINT Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 On this point i do agree with Alpine. There is not much point in the other clubs competing and to be fair it has been like this since Sky became involved and some may argue before that even. The top clubs get richer and the smaller clubs just struggle to survive. What is it that keeps us all watching and following teams like ours that will always be one of the also runs???.....Its the David/Goliath thing.....its human to want to see the underdog have its day and thats what keeps the rest of the footballing world going. Personally i can see no joy in spunking hundreds of millions of pounds to buy a title......would you really be proud of that.....i wouldn't.....but maybe my values are not the same as others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Kint Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 There is no way united will spend anything close to that. Expect it to be around 120m plus anything they get for selling players. You've got to take into accoun they've lost their two best cbs and haven't bought a good midfielder in about 7 years. Very clever move from Ed to tell the world how much money they'll be throwing around... The transfer fees they get quoted will be insane as everybody knows they're desperate. I fear if we sell Shaw and Lallana we could be in a similar position Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 For me, it's whether it's sustainable or not. Personally I'm not too fussed how much they spend providing it ultimately means they turn a profit. What ****es me off is when the likes of Abramovich can overspend year after year and treat the loss like loose change. That is what ****s up the game if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 For me, it's whether it's sustainable or not. Personally I'm not too fussed how much they spend providing it ultimately means they turn a profit. What ****es me off is when the likes of Abramovich can overspend year after year and treat the loss like loose change. That is what ****s up the game if you ask me. But we did it lower down the leagues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delboy Dave Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Surely our budget is going to be healthy? £20-30m plus the proceeds from any sales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Lets say the Express article is true and we have £50m for Koeman. Even with £220m Manure have more players to buy than we do to build a team! That would put us about the same in terms of discretionary spending power! We only need a couple of strikers! (and maybe a goalkeeper!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Block34 Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Seriously, whats the f**king point in the other 87-88 teams like Saints bothering any more ? For once, we actually agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambol2K9 Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Seriously, whats the f**king point in the other 87-88 teams like Saints bothering any more ? Spurs spent £110 million last season, did it win them the league? Point is it's all very good throwing money about but don't assume for a minute that it will grant instant success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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