Is it any wonder clubs get shit owners? (1 Viewer)

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Football needs to 'look at how it treats its owners', says EFL boss

So the head of the EFL thinks it's the poor old owners being treated badly?

Perhaps the EFL should spend more time making it so the game had a sustainable economic blueprint instead of sitting back as ridiculous transfer fees, wages and agents fees hemorrhage money from a game that's never been so cash-rich.

It's the owners collectively that allow all those things to happen, so if they don't want to get stick for not investing maybe they should get together and collectively agree to put a stop to it. After all, they're the only ones with the power to do so.

 

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[fernandopartridge]

Football needs to 'look at how it treats its owners', says EFL boss

So the head of the EFL thinks it's the poor old owners being treated badly?

Perhaps the EFL should spend more time making it so the game had a sustainable economic blueprint instead of sitting back as ridiculous transfer fees, wages and agents fees weren't hemorrhaging money from a game that's never been so cash-rich.

It's the owners collectively that allow all those things to happen, so if they don't want to get stick for not investing maybe they should get together and collectively agree to put a stop to it. After all, they're the only ones with the power to do so.

The EFL has now powers to do what you've said, look at the FA and the creation of the separate private entity called the Premier League

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Football needs to 'look at how it treats its owners', says EFL boss

So the head of the EFL thinks it's the poor old owners being treated badly?

Perhaps the EFL should spend more time making it so the game had a sustainable economic blueprint instead of sitting back as ridiculous transfer fees, wages and agents fees hemorrhage money from a game that's never been so cash-rich.

It's the owners collectively that allow all those things to happen, so if they don't want to get stick for not investing maybe they should get together and collectively agree to put a stop to it. After all, they're the only ones with the power to do so.

That’s the thing though isn’t it “sustainable economic blueprint” - people like Mike Ashley get slated because he’s running at a profit.

Cut the bullshit from it, fans only want owners to pump millions in and fuck off when it’s failed.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

To add to that, the SISU OUT stuff started pre-rent strike, when they’d had enough throwing money away on a mediocre manager and players

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

The EFL has now powers to do what you've said, look at the FA and the creation of the separate private entity called the Premier League

Having the powers and using them are different things though. They've made a small start with stuff like FFP, but that has been designed to have loopholes in.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

That’s the thing though isn’t it “sustainable economic blueprint” - people like Mike Ashley get slated because he’s running at a profit.

Cut the bullshit from it, fans only want owners to pump millions in and fuck off when it’s failed.

I'm not saying there aren't a lot of fans who live in cloud cuckoo land, expecting owners to just throw money at the club indefinitely. Ashley's running of Newcastle is far preferable to the lunacy of a lot of the vanity projects. I'd even go so far as to say the running of CCFC on a day to day basis over the past couple of years has been reasonably sensible (even if the owners are just accruing interest covering the debts)

I'm just saying it should be far more based on the money a club actually makes, and the owners are complicit in the problem by demanding/paying huge transfer fees and agreeing to huge wages. It's an unsustainable business model. If they don't want to get the stick for not paying £100m for an average right back on £250k a week because that's the market rate, then they have to collectively stop doing it.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

That’s the thing though isn’t it “sustainable economic blueprint” - people like Mike Ashley get slated because he’s running at a profit.

Cut the bullshit from it, fans only want owners to pump millions in and fuck off when it’s failed.

Agreeing a shirt deal with a nationally hated and morally corrupt company didn’t help.

 

[chiefdave]

morally corrupt company

How many clubs in the PL and EFL have ethically manufactured kits?

How many clubs are sponsored by dodgy brands such as betting companies?

I have a feeling most fans couldn't care less about those things unless they are already looking for something to complain about.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Agreeing a shirt deal with a nationally hated and morally corrupt company didn’t help.

90% of fans don’t care about that - he could have agreed that deal with Wonga, and pumped 500 million in - that’d all be forgotten

Football fans find excuses for why they’re against owners - it stems to stop putting money in.

Like I said, everything was rosy until SISU let everyone’s contract run down and signed McDonald, Murphy and Chris Dunn in pre-season.

Next thing you not it’s SISU OUT, how come we weren’t protesting the stadium issue when they bought the club?

 

[NorthernWisdom]

how come we weren’t protesting the stadium issue when they bought the club?

I've often asked that very question!

 

[skybluesam66]

Agreeing a shirt deal with a nationally hated and morally corrupt company didn’t help.

How many are sponsored by gambling firms. ?

 

[Nick]

Agreeing a shirt deal with a nationally hated and morally corrupt company didn’t help.

Nobody is really that bothered, it's just finding something to be outraged about and bang on about #fanstogether.

 

[Nick]

Next thing you not it’s SISU OUT, how come we weren’t protesting the stadium issue when they bought the club?

Same as why people are selectively happy "to give their money to SISU".

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

How many are sponsored by gambling firms. ?

Well start with the SkyBet EFL itself ...