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Post by noustie on Jul 16, 2024 8:36:44 GMT
I don’t think players are better but are just coached to death resulting in sterile football.
Euro 2000 team of the tournament:
Toldo
Thuram Blanc Cannavaro Maldini
Figo Viera Davids Zidane
Totti Kluivert
It’s like looking back on an entirely different sport!
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Jul 17, 2024 9:42:32 GMT
I don’t think players are better but are just coached to death resulting in sterile football. Euro 2000 team of the tournament: Toldo Thuram Blanc Cannavaro Maldini Figo Viera Davids Zidane Totti Kluivert It’s like looking back on an entirely different sport! Fecking hell that's some fooking team 😳
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Post by baconburger on Jul 18, 2024 14:20:51 GMT
I think it is a pretty grim state of affairs. I feel as though the whole picture for teams outside of the traditional big 4-8 teams(maybe including some of them actually) is a practically impossible mountain to climb where you must spend beyond your means to even tread water. The financial rules are laughable and seeing Man City wrap the Premier League in knots while every other club walks the tightrope is a mockery. I feel like, for Stoke to get back to even being in the top division, they would have to spend a vulgar amount of money to survive and I find myself asking 'what's the point?' It seems almost certain that success is impossible for most clubs and I think it just breeds apathy. I manage an international/expat team over here in Spain, and that gives me my fix and a lot of joy, but if I was still at home I think I would be following the local non-league scene more than Stoke. Which hurts to say after the absolute void it left during COVID. I think that you are right.The money has ruined the game. Winning things is now possible only for a very few well financed clubs. The rest of the Premier league are playing for survival and hopefully a good cup run. The biggest clubs are acquiring 14 and 16 year old kids to add to their already huge rosters of players. The big clubs have made any decent player unaffordable for any club outside of the Premiership.This forces Championship clubs to pay for the privilege of developing players for Premier clubs. In the past these players would have been sold to smaller clubs or released on free transfers. Now they are rented out for a fee. Yup it’s just wrong. They buy these young players up with no intention of wanting to play them in their first 11, pay them a stupid wage then make clubs lower down the ladder supplement their inflated wages and then penalise us if we don’t play them because they’re not performing. Absolute bullshit and they were trying to bake that in to a new financial settlement. Fuck right off a long way and when you get back just fuck right off again. All loans should be at a set wage and if they don’t play because they’re not good enough we should get some money back not pay more in penalties.
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