Sentences with phrase «football having this much money»

Assuming one has managed to arrive at some kind of uneasy truce with the sheer stupidity of something as silly as football having this much money floating around — and since you're here, dear reader, you probably have — then what does it matter that Stupid Amount A is four times the size of Stupid Amount B?

Not exact matches

The fact that you have to pay so much money today to get a bit quality in proves that that football is short in good strikers nowdays.

No club has ever benefited from being taken over by an American, as they all use the club to make as much money as they can, rather than being a football enthusiast, which I think Usmanov is.

It would be great in my opinion if the Swedish international striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was one of the summer additions to the Arsenal squad so I was a bit worried yesterday when there were reports in the football media about Man United having made him an offer, because we know how much money they are prepared to throw around.

Arsenal don't have the power with neither Jack, nor Mesut and thus so need to cough up the money or the players won't sign, because a footballers career is short and as much as you love your club, when the offer comes you have to make the best decision for yourself.

How much of your free time and hard earned money would you have spend, if you would know before that Arsenal football club is actually taking you for a ride with lies and false promises?

It really baffles me sometimes how fans like you portray Wenger and at the end I feel the day ya'all forget that Wenger is an employee of Arsenal and he's now bigger than the club, yes he's a legend and he deserves a statue but at the same time that is Arsenal's downfall because Wenger has too much control over the club and he shouldn't be allowed to make some decisions on like players to buy or the amount of money to spend, he has to just focus on football and only football alone.

And after an initial bout of setting as much money as possible on fire to prove he's serious, City owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose City Football Group bought the club in 2008, has gotten serious about the club's long - term prospects.

wilshire is just not worth his wages thats why hes paid 80k a week, and thats too much along with most of the team IE iwoi, Ozil and laCassette all these should have a sliding sscale wage structure, If you play and score yu get your money plus a bonus If yu play like Arsenal do I'd pay them zero and fine them to boot We are too soft if they e \ were out in the real world and performed like that they;d be sacked this has goota stop and one way would be for the FA to bring in a max on wages and a sliding scale for footballers Maybe then theyd start playing for their dinner and not just pick their noses

At 31 years of age he was entering into his last contracT and he has every rite to ask for as much money as possible not only be cos of his long service at d Club but alsi due to the fact dat a footballer retires around 35 years of age and thereafter has no significant source of income to run his family.

I'd prefer to see Alexis at City rather than United, but they coughed up the money and you know, Arsene once said «We will not sell to United again», but hey that lasted as much as our lead lasts in football games!

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

The biggest problem has been wenger for long time now «project» run Arsenal football club as an academy and try to prove to everyone else he is the one who knows better and try to bring in kids who have potential but not ready for 1st team resisting spending money to improve squad depth and cling in on average players: Iwobi, welbeck, theo, chambers, holding and player other players on wrong position Monreal and not give opportunity to good footballer Perez and Campell also you have been holding too much power from transfer, players contracts, arsenal finances as a whole and now all that BS start to backfire

Football players have very short carreers, they will do all they can to gain as much money as they can before they turn 35... (eg Rvp, Sagna, Nasri now theo), common factor being all Arsenal players....

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Of course it would be nice for Arsenal to be able to get as much money as possible for any players that we sell during the transfer window, but I do think that some of the mega money deals going on in football at the minute may have gone to the heads of Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board.

There's a time after the career which does not bring in nearly as much money (unless you become a big time manager) as when playing football — I would focus on making that bank account as big as possible so that it will last longer after the career..

Besides, having much lesser money does not always make a football club unworthy to be title contender.

Maybe the die hard fans who trully love football have been priced out the club, and the ones who can affort this are the rainbow troops, who have to much money, and lack sense, pride and football love.

This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's more focus on the filthy amounts of money being spent on clubs and players that I think attracts more attention than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong, even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?

This is one of Wenger's strengths - building good team cohesion, developing good players into world class talents and playing some good attacking team football (probably the most watchable in Europe) without having to spend too much money.

So the question really is not how much of a tw @t Samir Nasri is, after all he like all footballers are really all about the money and have very short lifespans, but more about the club making a profit on everything it does and NOT wanting to extend its reach too far towards champions league and EPL succsess.

Which kind of pisses me off — when you're being paid so much money to play football the least you can do is have the energy to run around a pitch.

It could, if there were support and a way to do it — it doesn't take a strong grasp of math to understand how much money football makes for big programs and how much goes to coaches» salaries or waterfalls in football offices — but it doesn't have to.

I've made so much money following your football betting tips this week.Wish I could buy you a pint!!!

lol dude, just saying that soccer teams have to provide money for around 15 - 22 players whilst bball teams only have to play for 10 players, meaning each player can earn much more, you see young rookies in bball earning 5 million a year in their first season but in football a starlet would only get almost 500k a year its alot of money but you see the difference son.

Its nice to see some people have open there eyes but all is true lets ask our selves have this team change from last season where are the experienced players that wenger talked about he selling us bull and every season he gets away with it the fans deserve better am from the caribbean so chance r i might never get to see arsenal live at the emirates because its too expensive at least the club should be winning things i know its important to balance the books you must BUT football is about trophies as well and thats were the balance lies how the hell can we go Six (6) seasons yes 6 without a trophy not even a FA cup or carling cup and no one says a word about the manager that is rubbish Arsenal live in the past too much the time is now this season for me is the absolute last for wenger to win something i do nt care how much money he has made the club and Wenger if you cant bring that then go work for an oil company and make them money and leave arsenal to a manager who is willing to win something not only buy players for 10 million who take 10 years to develop am frustrated with this man.

The football under Rafa may not have been much of a spectacle, he may have also blew money on shite, but at least his players knew what they were doing.

Unfortunately, they've all earned too much money in their career to think about needing to work at St George's Park National Football Centre in Burton to inspire future generations.

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