Chimbo!
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- Jan 7, 2007
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The way Chelsea and Manchester City are run at the moment is a detriment to the game. To be honest the sooner the financial fair play system comes into play the better so that the shackles can be placed on them.
I did not use to see the problem. I thought it was fair enough if a rich businessman bought a club and pumped money into it. However, I can now see what Michel Platini and co. were driving at when they expressed their concerns and brought in plans for the financial fair play system.
The reality is that what Manchester City and Chelsea have done over the last few seasons has effected no club more then ours. While we have spent years building a team capable of making the top 4 with setbacks aplenty, Manchester City pumped millions within a season to catch up with us. It threatened to prevent us achieve our aim last season. It now looks like it will prevent us achieve our aim this season.
Our team is packed with nurtured talent such as Bale, Lennon and Huddlestone. Players who had been developed to the standard they are now at. We achieved this within our means by investing the money the club had generated itself.
Manchester City on the other hand have blown us out of the water with their spending. They spend £20 million here and £30 million there with a £100k a week pay check to boot. What are we supposed to do?
When Chelsea were struggling in January they spent £80 million in a day for two players to get them out of trouble. What are we supposed to do?
These are clubs spending far beyond their means, behaving like the best two teams in the world when they are far from it. They have inflated a market and used money to unnaturally propel themselves above everyone else. That is completely unfair.
Why should one team reap the benefits from a billionaire invester and another not? That may work in business but football is something else. It is about healthy competition and being the best football team. It is not about who has the most money. But Manchester City and Chelsea have reduced it to that.
So before you blame Redknapp or the team for their current position. Think: City, Chelsea and Spurs have all had a dip this season. Two of those teams pumped huge amounts of money beyond their means to stay afloat. We could not because we do not have that kind of money. From the very start of this season we were fighting a losing battle.
However, one thing is for certain. We will continue to build slowly and progress. We will have those setbacks but we will steadily get closer and closer to where we want to be. And when it does happen it will feel far better then how it will for City and Chelsea fans.
I did not use to see the problem. I thought it was fair enough if a rich businessman bought a club and pumped money into it. However, I can now see what Michel Platini and co. were driving at when they expressed their concerns and brought in plans for the financial fair play system.
The reality is that what Manchester City and Chelsea have done over the last few seasons has effected no club more then ours. While we have spent years building a team capable of making the top 4 with setbacks aplenty, Manchester City pumped millions within a season to catch up with us. It threatened to prevent us achieve our aim last season. It now looks like it will prevent us achieve our aim this season.
Our team is packed with nurtured talent such as Bale, Lennon and Huddlestone. Players who had been developed to the standard they are now at. We achieved this within our means by investing the money the club had generated itself.
Manchester City on the other hand have blown us out of the water with their spending. They spend £20 million here and £30 million there with a £100k a week pay check to boot. What are we supposed to do?
When Chelsea were struggling in January they spent £80 million in a day for two players to get them out of trouble. What are we supposed to do?
These are clubs spending far beyond their means, behaving like the best two teams in the world when they are far from it. They have inflated a market and used money to unnaturally propel themselves above everyone else. That is completely unfair.
Why should one team reap the benefits from a billionaire invester and another not? That may work in business but football is something else. It is about healthy competition and being the best football team. It is not about who has the most money. But Manchester City and Chelsea have reduced it to that.
So before you blame Redknapp or the team for their current position. Think: City, Chelsea and Spurs have all had a dip this season. Two of those teams pumped huge amounts of money beyond their means to stay afloat. We could not because we do not have that kind of money. From the very start of this season we were fighting a losing battle.
However, one thing is for certain. We will continue to build slowly and progress. We will have those setbacks but we will steadily get closer and closer to where we want to be. And when it does happen it will feel far better then how it will for City and Chelsea fans.
