The problem teams like Norwich have is if they have a gem he will be tapped up and it becomes impossible to build.
Grealish is by far best player at Villa but if City/Us/Utd come in he will want to go and he is a Villa fan !
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Both us and the Mancs were already massive clubs long before the big tv money came into the game. Yes the Red Mancs were fortunate that everything fell into place for them at exactly the right time, but lets not pretend we're talking about a team such as 'Total Network Solutions'. As for us, 'we' (namely those in charge of us) did not capitalise on this change in the financial landscape.
Norwich can win the league if they do things in the right way and are prepared to wait, something that very few people/institutions are prepared to do. As they say, it takes around ten thousand hours of practice to become an expert in something. Only those who are extremely talented taste success a lot earlier. Expecting the former without the latter is asking for both trouble and disappointment.
The problem teams like Norwich have is if they have a gem he will be tapped up and it becomes impossible to build.
Grealish is by far best player at Villa but if City/Us/Utd come in he will want to go and he is a Villa fan !
That's because both players and most club's owners are very focused on the short term, something that is much more understandable when it comes to the players due to only having a limited window to make the most of their career and any talent they may posses.
The issue with most clubs is that they are now largely owned by businessmen who see football clubs as more of a business/money making opportunity than a sporting institution, meaning they operate in a similar fashion i.e. maximum profit for minimum expenditure, hopefully over a short period of time. So if they have a choice between selling a player for £50m, or keeping them and having to invest a fair chunk of change over a number of years in an attempt (there are no guarantees) to become successful, unfortunately the vast majority of club owners are going to go with the former approach.
I don’t disagree with that but player power rules.
City were an absolute no mark club the West Ham of the north but with the oil money they are now a major club in the world that was all I was saying without that money they get absolutely nowhere near the CL let alone the title.
Perhaps not in the short term, but it is possible for a club to make great strides, if not actually make it to the top as long as they are prepared to do things in the right way and are patient.
I want the prowess of players, managers and owners to be the deciding factors on whether a club is successful or not. Not how much money the owners have at their disposal/get away with spending when that money was not 'earned'. If a few more clubs get taken over and are operated in a similar way to that of Man City, I can see a European super league happening sooner rather than later.
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Make no mistake, if they get taken over by the Saudi's they will try to get to the top in exactly the same way, though they may be even more sneaky/underhand given what they've seen/learnt from the 'mistakes' that Man City have made. On top of that you can be certain that they'll use their loyal fan base/stadium size to try and justify the mass spending that they will almost certainly indulge in.
Who would Newcastle buy though?? They could pay anyone 600/700 thousand a week if they chose to. But what top player who wants to win things would just go there? No amount of money wins you success any way,look at Everton.You need a teem ethos.
But we do know when baldies contract is up to Man-city. if he knows Newcastle will give him 2 billion in a day. He would be there like a shot.
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