Football today and the values of Scousers

[gonetomorrow]

I'd like to get all the players' agents, line them against a wall blindfolded and..............
say something quite horrid to them.

 

[ClausThomsen]

There is an obscene amount of money in the PL but I can't get behind the criticisms of it. The profits, wages and transactions must raise a hell of a lot of tax revenue and the product isn't something that people need to live. It's not like the profiteering in utilities, medicine and water.

Personally I don't put any money into the PL as I don't go to Everton games anymore, I don't subscribe to TV sport packages or buy merchandise. It's way too expensive these days for what it is. I get my match going experience at non-league these days. But I don't blame those in the game for making their money whether it's clubs, players or agents.

Plenty moan about it but then hand over their cash anyway. Remember the protests at Man Utd when people still went to the game, handed over their money to the Glazers but thought wearing a green and yellow scarf was an effective protest?

 

[Groucho]

Spending as much time as I have around you fine folk over the past decade not only has the pride of our left leaning values been quite clear, but those values have also rubbed off on me. I couldn't help when, reading about the Richarlison rumour yesterday, feel a pang of disgust that the club is spending so much money on a player with so little obvious pedigree. I couldn't help but think how obscene it was and how that money could be put to better [social] use.

It got me wondering whether there was a point where football became too excessive. We've seen Fiat workers on strike in protest against the money spent on Ronaldo, and I pondered whether a city such as Liverpool might be among the first to recoil at such flagrant capitalism gone mad?

I fully agree the money is absolutely obscene.

 

[abelard]

What makes you say that?

Maybe I've misinterpreted your posts in the current affairs forum. Soz!

Does seem an odd prompt for concern about inequality and injustice though.

£50m for an unproven footballer is the equivalent of flashing a bit of ankle, on the economic obscenity scale ; )

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Maybe I've misinterpreted your posts in the current affairs forum. Soz!

Does seem an odd prompt for concern about inequality and injustice though.

£50m for an unproven footballer is the equivalent of flashing a bit of ankle, on the economic obscenity scale ; )

We may be similarly aggrieved but have different ideas on how it can be tackled

 

[Charro]

We try our best to counter it with the work we do in the community. Something that is unrivalled in the premier league, and something that comes from the left leaning, socialist roots of the city we're based in.

There's no way anyone can justify the money in the game now. You just have to accept that's the way it is and find joy in the community and culture of football and how it can still make a massive difference for good.

Being a left leaning socialist in the modern world is pretty much impossible. I sit there slagging off Rupert Murdoch, yet I'm lining the pockets of sky to get my football fix, as well as other immoral corporations like Amazon etc

It's just the way it is now, but I do think football can still do a lot of good, outside the mental money flying about

 

[Yid4life]

I renewed my ST this season even though it works out at £63 (19 games) a match for a 90% rise on last year's £33 (21 games) to watch a team with 2 League Cup wins in 27 years.

Apart from a handful of players, the money goes to pay mercenaries that could not give a toss about the club.

When FB, Amazon & Netflix get involved, salaries & fees will get even higher & the so called 'big clubs' with the larger global fan bases with get even bigger.

I pray for the day it all goes tits up.

P.S i do not subscribe to Sky/BT

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