iamking
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I am guessing this news is mostly appealing to our younger international fanbase with the goal of instant gratification and 1-upping other club fans over beerfest. Also people not used to the long draught post Sir Alex coupled with the frustrations under Mou/Ole added with the rise of Klopp's Pool and Pep's City this mad desire to win at any cost and get back to the top has gradually taken over all of us. My first reactions of Qatar were also like, wow this is great. To be fair, these oil clubs have in general been public friendly, invested a lot, improved the community and been much fairer/generous to the fan base than the business leeches from across the pond. There are lot of good in such investments and to reject them outright as Middle East country leans towards ignorance from your extremely stupid crown glorifying entitled British xenophobe. Also, I don't buy that their sole goal is sportwashing, no matter what they do with Newcastle, Khashoggi incident is not something that can be washed away easily and as long as we rely on oil, our governments are never going to go gung-ho on them, in a sense we have already Oil-washed them. Looks like they are mostly expanding their portfolios by purchasing popular sports franchise.
But upon calm reflection, as a hardworking common man, as a human being with a lot of moral values attached to the club and football in general, the money involved is going absolute bonkers to a point where there is a mental dissonance between ground realities and football world. Jling, Pogback, CR7 2nd coming, Phil jones etc., there is a whole lot of undeserving uncaring mercenaries leeching the game. While hardworking normal fans have been shelling out 1000s of our hard earned money on the name of entertainment. There is something really wrong with the direction football is headed in this country. I was happy when the club announced it was planning on curtailing the upper limit on wages, I was hoping it would trigger something similar across all the clubs. They should talk about curtailing player/board member wages across the game. Talks of independent government review on football was also encouraging. Limiting Season ticket prices etc should be on the agenda (I know I am being selfish here). The ME consortium and other mindless spending is only going to worsen this situation. At some point of the time, these games are going to get moved to other places (makes sense because they are owned by people from other places), like playing the supercopa in Saudi will later extrapolate to playing the Super Sundays in Middle East etc. Gradually its headed towards a place where the club identity and roots are getting unrecognizable.
But upon calm reflection, as a hardworking common man, as a human being with a lot of moral values attached to the club and football in general, the money involved is going absolute bonkers to a point where there is a mental dissonance between ground realities and football world. Jling, Pogback, CR7 2nd coming, Phil jones etc., there is a whole lot of undeserving uncaring mercenaries leeching the game. While hardworking normal fans have been shelling out 1000s of our hard earned money on the name of entertainment. There is something really wrong with the direction football is headed in this country. I was happy when the club announced it was planning on curtailing the upper limit on wages, I was hoping it would trigger something similar across all the clubs. They should talk about curtailing player/board member wages across the game. Talks of independent government review on football was also encouraging. Limiting Season ticket prices etc should be on the agenda (I know I am being selfish here). The ME consortium and other mindless spending is only going to worsen this situation. At some point of the time, these games are going to get moved to other places (makes sense because they are owned by people from other places), like playing the supercopa in Saudi will later extrapolate to playing the Super Sundays in Middle East etc. Gradually its headed towards a place where the club identity and roots are getting unrecognizable.