Simon is a closet City fan, who knew!
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He's just a Tory who celebrates inequality.
Ipswich have spent around £150m, I haven't heard much ridicule of them either.
That might be €150m
Still a lot
With us it was the number that became the story more than the amount I think. Made an easy headline.
Swindle down say "Hi" and are drumming their fingers on the desk impatiently.... While casting sideways glances at chelski.
If you imagine the whole thing is anything but rotten to the core, then you haven't been paying any attention, or have no critical facilities. Or both.
Exactly the opposite. People have been distracted to think that PSR is the problem that makes the league less competitive than it should be but it's income inequality that needs to be sorted.
Last season we turned over about £160m, the lowest of the big 6 was Chelsea at £545m. It's not reasonable to think that Marinakis could close that gap if only he wasn't constrained by PSR. This season isn't sustainable in the medium term because of the inherent inbuilt advantages of the big 6.
It's an obvious problem at the other end as well, we now appear to have got to the long feared 17 team closed shop + 3 one season temporary visitors. Will Leeds/Sheff U/whoever really be able to make up the difference? Us being on the right side of that divide doesn't make it right. You are waiting for someone in the premier league league to either make catastrophic decisions or be ridiculously unfortunate.
And it goes down to the level below and the one we used to complain about, where parachute payments give you a massive advantage in the championship (pretty sure the top 3 all have them in some form).
Because we did it and it worked. Before us, the example was Fulham and it didn't work for them, so the story was us copying Fulham's failed approach but to a greater extreme. As we've established ourselves, you can't really take the piss out anyone who follows in our footsteps.
That's what you get with a global super league. There has always been unbalanced income but it has been reasonable enough in the past because clubs were still constrained to reasonably sized markets, so you could make up the gap by being cleverer than them. Now the market is global a few clubs have pulled in ridiculous sums, we use it against clubs below us but those above us obviously claim their advantage too.
I must have missed it when it happened, but Jordan Rhodes has joined the Stags on loan.
At least he can't score again Forest this season, then.
Wouldn't put it past that asshole to find a way.
Shaggers signed Kemar Roofe as a free agent. Been out of work since last June. Scored 2 goals in 15 games at Rangers and had a ton of injury problems.
Now watch the cunt bang in 8 before the end of the season and keep them up by the skin of their teeth.
Probably punch them in as well, the cunt.
Total cunt. But not totally useless. Good signing for them I think.
I think it probably depends on fitness. After serious injuries and having not played competitively in a year, he's probably not going to be great.
