Top teams "buying the title" good or bad for the game?

[pc4th]

I read an article about this subject a while back. I believe it would make a good topic of discussion here in this forum. I regret that can't bring back or link that article because I can't find it but basically it talks how top teams in many leagues around the world are winning their title because of their financial wealth. FIFA Blatter also made a comment about it and I don't think he views it as a good thing.

Of course, success isn't guarentee even if you bought the top talents (real Madrid and the Yankess are examples). But for most cases, buying the top talents does guarentee you will succeed and more chances of getting a title. Chelsea is a good example. Juventus is another.

[Excape Goat]

I do not think it is bad for the game.

This is a capitalist world. It has been part of the game since late 1970's. Before that, Bayern Munich and Ajax could win European titles with players they developed. Now, it is almost impossible to happen again. We might see a few exceptional cases such as Ajax 1995. I know it is sad to live a small market city, but that's life.

[comme]

If you look back through history, a large number of the best clubs have always bought in talent.

Real Madrid and Milan in the 50s, Spurs and Inter in the 60s, Liverpool in the 70s, Juventus and Milan in the 1980s, Juve and Real Madrid in the 1990s all depended on bought in talent.

It has been happening since Alf Common joined Middlesbrough and it won't stop.

Of course the freedom of movement that exists today has increased it.

In my opinion it is neither a good or a bad thing. it is just a part of the game that has always existed.

[sidefootsitter]

It's a good thing. Otherwise, you wouldn't have superclubs and the EPL, the superleague.

[RichardL]

what's bad isn't larger clubs using their extra support to finance success, it's the way the TV cash seems to channel itself primarily to those clubs to keep them there.

[Clan]

Whats bad about it, in all reality, is the detrimental effect it has on a teams youth policy.

I fully agree, in principle, with that FIFA clown, that something needs to be done to get the clubs that are considered "the Big ones" to reinvent their now non existant policy towards developing their own talent from the youth in their domestic land.

[sidefootsitter]

what's bad isn't larger clubs using their extra support to finance success, it's the way the TV cash seems to channel itself primarily to those clubs to keep them there.
Thart's the local federation problem. The NFL, which has the most semblance to football schedule wise, splits their TV revenues equally.

But what would happen if FA told ManU and Arsenal that they had to throw more in the kitty for the other EPL clubs? FA does compensate/subsidize the Colaship to some extent, does it not?

[sidefootsitter]

Whats bad about it, in all reality, is the detrimental effect it has on a teams youth policy.
Uh, I don't know about that. If you were a Robert Huth type, why wouldn't you want to learn the craft behind Carvalho and Terry?

[Clan]

Uh, I don't know about that. If you were a Robert Huth type, why wouldn't you want to learn the craft behind Carvalho and Terry?

True.No argument there.

But, how many 'Robert Huth" types should a club be allowed to buy?

[RichardL]

FA does compensate/subsidize the Colaship to some extent, does it not?
no it does not. One of the main reasons for setting up the premier league was so its clubs could tell to football league to whistle for their share of the money.

[comme]

what's bad isn't larger clubs using their extra support to finance success, it's the way the TV cash seems to channel itself primarily to those clubs to keep them there.


The problem is though, that those are the teams that people want to watch.

The current deal is already disadvantaging the bigger clubs as they could surely make a fortune were they able to sell the rights of their own games individually. I'm not saying that either system is preferable, just that is the one we have.

It's a vicious circle, but that is the way of so much in sport.