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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • There will be no new leagues or tournaments that effect the status quo. Established leagues and federations will not be making any changes unless it involves a lot of money, without hindering any current revenue streams.

    Football, at its core, is ingrained at a cultural level in many countries, and no amount of money from Saudi, or China, or the US will change that. True fans see the Saudi vanity project for what it is, and while they may attract the plastics, in time nothing will change.

    I’m a Canadian. We play hockey. It’s what we do, and it’s why, despite our small population, we dominate on a global level. It’s a community thing, it’s a family thing, it’s a cultural thing. Money won’t change that. It takes generations to create that.

    China failed, and so will Saudi. Minor things will happen every decade or so to suit a new generation but when I die in 40-50 years, things will basically be the same.


  • The only way they are escaping the death spiral is for teams to adopt attacking styles of play while also investing in, cheap, young attacking talent. Football is an international sport and outside of Barca and Madrid the other teams need to attract new fans and they won’t be doing that with murder ball. I’m the average fan the league needs to attract and I personally don’t want to watch a bunch of teams play 60-70 mins of slow, defensive and occasionally brutal football.

    Brighton have made a case for smaller teams who want to compete and it’s time for some teams to start looking at how they can adopt some of Brighton’s philosophies and emulating them.





  • Every 100 million raised by player sales can fund 500 million of purchases if the players sign five-year contracts.

    The problem with this theory is that it isn’t perpetual and it ignores the debt that continues to grow. See below.

    • Year 1. Sell 100, Buy 500, -400 net.
    • Year 2. Sell 100, Buy 500, -800 net.
    • Year 3. Sell 100, Buy 500, -1,200 net.
    • Year 4. Sell 100, Buy 500, -1,600 net.
    • Year 5. Sell 100, Buy 500 - 2,000 net.

    Kicking the can further down the road while accruing more dept isn’t sustainable and I’m not sure what the end goal is. Spending 1b doesn’t guarantee success (ask Man U fans) and if Chelsea can’t get their shit together and get into CL regularly they will eventually end up in a financial dumster fire.

    As for the players and the manager, I’m not optimistic in how it will all play out. Poch is a good manager and I’m sure he will turn things around from the mess that was last year, but I don’t see how this squad gets beyond 7th, especially if Brighton, Brentford and Villa continue playing as well as they are.