Funding of Bradford City V Premiership and other clubs

The thing is Jordan Gary didn't make the same points when he was pulling £70/80K a week at United.

Our short time in the Premier has been discussed many times and of course for little Bradford City it was a great achievement something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime BUT after the first season it became a bit a toil and pleasure no structure to when our games were played ETC, being a decent team in the Championship being able to compete with others would be reasonable target IMO.

 

It needs investigation Dennis because City are not a global brand like the top clubs. Yes they may own other clubs with their umbrella but there is no way Man City are bigger than giants like Real and Man United. Just seems rules are there to be circumnavigated.

 

Hi Mate sport for some is going downhill . City dropping down the league out of the playoffs. Cougars undefeated last season lost 0-50 to Featherstone Rovers last night first game of the season .

"what's going on" Marvin

 

As far as Bigrod saying the Man City fans are reasonable people, obviously a lot of them are, as with most clubs. However, if he wants to retain that viewpoint I suggest he never goes on the Blue Moon forum, the main one for City fans.

As I've mentioned on here previously, I've been a Liverpool supporter since 1965, as well as a Bradford City supporter/season ticket holder since 1961. As a result I've gone on Blue Moon a number of times before games against them etc, and a bigger bunch of bigoted, psychotic and privileged headcases I've never come across. Most clubs/forums have their share of idiots, but it's virtually every one of them on that forum.

To read that forum they are angels with everyone else in the world out to get them, and that was before this weeks charges came out, so goodness knows what they're saying now.

 

Fev in the first game of the season was always going to be difficult.

"things can only get better" D:Ream

 

You call it sponsorship. I call it cheating, with Mansour ordering one of his other companies to gift money to Man City in return for naming rights. The level of money that flows from Etihad to Manchester City makes it way, way above anything that could be termed "commercial" common sense.

The whole basis of sponsorship is you spend a figure, to get a multiple of that figure back. There is no way that Etihad could possibly make money on the "sponsorship" of Man City, on the levels provided anyway, but the EPL won't see it that way and as most have said, the punishment will be a big fine, that Mansour will take out of his pocket money.

It would be hilarious if the EPL relegated Man City to League Two, and almost worth staying there just to be part of it.

I remember Northampton Saints getting relegated to the second tier of the RFU and I think they won every single game the season they were there, I went to one that they won 81-0, running in a try every 6 minutes. One match they put 97 points an the opposition. Watching Man City try to emulate that, but getting kicked up their arse by the likes of Gillingham would be a sight to see.

 

Made me laugh yesterday. Talksport were running a headline around some quotes from a New York Times journalist, who said Man City should be booted out of the PL if found guilty.

1) who cares what a yank journalist has to say about anything PL related. We have excellent press coverage of the PL from our own media - whose names we respect as they are closer to home and have better contacts. Said journalist should stick to covering baseball and basketball etc, about which nobody gives a damn over here!

2) isn’t it coincidental that three of the four biggest clubs who would benefit most in the PL if City were booted out are all American owned - Glazers at United, FSG or whatever they are called at Liverpool, and Todd Boehly at Chelsea!

 

Forums tend to attract whingers and wierdos though tbf don’t they. People looking to vent in anger.

I’ve been to Man City five times this year and off again on Sunday. Only have a bit of chat with the fan next to me or maybe in the concourse, but they seem reasonable fans to me in real life. There are a lot of tourists there these days - Chinese etc - like there was with Man Utd in the 90s.

Actually went to the Cup game vs Liverpool not long after the World Cup. It was the game where, in return for hearing distasteful chants sung their way, the Liverpool fans filled an empty cup with coins and threw it from the top tier, into the bottom tier, and a poor girl ended up in hospital.

Why Man City would sit away fans in the same stand like that, just asking for trouble. Anyway, I digress.

I don’t expect they have a higher proportion of bell ends, entitled or clueless fans as the next club, including Bradford City or Liverpool.

 

City will hire the best legal people and squirm out of it.

and the Premier League will back down because, rightly or wrongly (and not that I agree it should be the case…..but hey ho) a league without the most talented side in Europe becomes weaker, and with it, so does the worth of their own brand and their ability to market the league to the Arab market, if Man City are booted out.

 

If they were only relegated one division they would bounce straight back and would get massive coverage the whole of that year due to perceived ‘unfairness’ of the punishment. Only thing they would miss out on would be a champions league season, but if they are aware before they could focus on FA Cup and get into Europe that way

 

Money influences football. Who would have thought

 

Didn’t someone say do away with the close season recently, which if left to their own devices , would allow THE SAME MONEY to corrupt the transfer system right up to and including the last game of the season?

 

Not much wrong with the transfer system as long as clubs use it properly and follow the rules

 

Id be in favour of scrapping the transfer window. Dont see any justification for having one. We never used to. Who does it benefit?

 

I think for clubs below the Championship this makes total sense. No need to carry such large squads, no need to buy in large numbers in January, ability to shift on players at anytime that are unhappy. I get that it would stop Chelsea buying the league in September after a poor start, and would keep it for the Pl (and probably the PL2 - Championship) but in League One & Two, what was wrong with being able to trade freely up to the 3rd Thursday of March ?