Football 2013/14 season

[Slyboogy]

cider_and_toast well I was a little young for that, but after Ronaldo moving, there was a sudden jump in football player prices.

The clubs with extra mega bucks are probably to blame, it's getting really ridiculous now.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Yeah, and Chelsea 50 Million for Torres

Some people have got more money than sense but tthe whole thing is beyond stupid. I've just bee reading the troubles facing Coventry. Another club with a proud histroy being driven to the wall by a combination of over ambition, foreign ownership and financial mis-management. The crippleing price of trying to keep up with or buy your way into the elite is crippling most clubs.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Out of interest, these are the biggest transfers of the 80's and early 90's, inflation adjusted to give you some idea of how that looks in relation to todays transfer market.

Maradonna - Boca Juniors to Barcelona 1983: £8.5 million

Maradonna - Barcelona to Napoli 1984: £13.5 million

Ruud Gullit - PSV Eindhoven to Milan 1987: £14.3 million

Roberto Baggio - Florentina to Juventus 1990: £15.4 million

Jean-Pierre Papin - Marseille to Milan 1992: £17.5 million

Gianluca Vialli - Sampdoria to Juventus 1992: £21 million

Gianluigi Lentini - Torino to Milan 1992: £22.7 million

Alan Shearer - Blackburn to Newcastle 1996: £24.4 million

Strange to think that in todays crazy world of football, for one Fernando Torres you could have had Maradonna, Gullit and Baggio playing in your team.

 

[Johnny Carwash]

Gianluca lentini was a bargain when he was bought in 1992.

 

[teabagyokel]

GermanF1 - Carroll is the most expensive English player ever!

 

[Bus Stop Chicane]

Given the state of the spanish economy I think it is pretty disgusting for a Spanish Club to pay this amount of money for a player...

They took out a loan to buy Ronaldo, it wasn't even their money.

 

[Galahad]

I suspect that this time they haven't got the money up front and want to pay in instalments.

On the other hand, if they've got the cash we should bite their hands off. We could name the new stadium after Gareth!

 

[mjo]

To be honest, if Ii were Levy, I would be laughing that Madrid would be stupid enough to approach £100m for Bale. No player is worth that much - you could probably buy 5/6 world-class players for that!! So sell him, I say. He'll only come back to Spurs after a few years anyway for a knocked-down fee.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Would you trust the Spanish with a line of credit? Cash up front or no sale!

 

[teabagyokel]

F1Yorkshire - Depends if I could send the baliffs in to take Ronaldo...

Which Everton did with Jelavic iirc

 

[MCLS]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[FB]

I'd like to offer my congratulations to Portsmouth for their stunning start to the season, not! Looks like it could be Conference football for 14/15

 

[cider_and_toast]

Keep the faith FB.

 

[Bus Stop Chicane]

I'd like to offer my congratulations to Portsmouth for their stunning start to the season, not! Looks like it could be Conference football for 14/15

But would you swap that FA Cup win and Uefa Cup campaign to be back in the Premier League?

 

[cider_and_toast]

Bristol City win in the first round of the league cup for the first time since the 11th Aug 2009.

My reaction =

 

[FB]

A friend of mine who has been a season ticket holder at Fratton Park since he was a boy was quite philosophical about that Bus Stop Chicane and simply said no he wouldn't and I bow to his greater wisdom and love for the team than me. Like many teams Pompey bought some (limited) success but their backers didn't have the pockets of the Arabs at Man City or the Russian at Chelsea, etc, etc.

FA Cup win, AC Milan at Fratton Park, incredible times but it obviously couldn't last. The real kick in the nuts was the latest spell in administration when that Latvian bloke was arrested as the club just didn't deserve it.

 

[teabagyokel]

You couldn't wish Harry Redknapp financial meltdown on any club, never mind one with wonderful fans like Pompey.

Admittedly, Rangers didn't register on the sympathy scale...

 

[McZiderRed]

cider_and_toast It's been so long since City have graced the second round, erm... I've forgotten what happens next. Do we get a bye in the next round or do we get to hand pick the next opposition?

 

[teabagyokel]

In the 50s and 60s, Leeds went 11years without winning an FA Cup tie...

 

[cider_and_toast]

McZiderRed , I think we only do well in the league cup in the same years that Brian Clough does well. How's he doing this year?