Sentences with phrase «money over football»

I just wonder if investors, whose interest is money over football, would share the same values.

Not exact matches

1st had the money not flowed in all over world football we would be on a par with Man Utd, Barca and Real financially by now.

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.

Arsenal need to make sure they are satisfied with how, who, when and where they have invested their money into and it would be a great shame to miss out on a player over a few extra pennies (in the mind of a football club)

Throw in a WC RW, CB & ST i would guarntee Arsenal fans would pay the prices asked now, as we have payed huge amounts as it is over the years and nothing has changed, we are used to it but ur spot on — Paying massives amounts of hard earned money to watch average players playing for our great club in a brand new top of the range football stadium paid by its fans.

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.

All I know is that money talks whether that's buying a football club or paying over the top in the transfer market..

If you wan na do something then make banners slandering Silent Stan and how you will withhold all your money until an owner who cares about football takes over the club.

With the money going around in football these days you practically have to pay over the odds to get quality players.

If you are honest and look at the situation the constant over the past 12 plus years is the willingness of the Board to accept 4th place as the goal and objective each year because it meant CL football (and more money in their pockets for quarter finals without having to really buy new players) and the ability to constantly offer meaningless public interviews stating that they want to win the league each year.

You said it yourself — «sales pitch» — they shouldn't be making a sales pitch to him, it is illegal, tapping up, which Liverpool have been heavily involved in, plus he has the same agent as Sterling, who seems very dodgy — the FA should be over this guy like a rash, but the dear FA seem very reluctant to tackle anyone with money, as you can see by all the dodgy people they allow to be owners of football clubs.

As Arsenal has transitioned from FC to global Corporation have the money people taken over to the cost of what the football fan wants.

Given this discrepancy between our disappointing performance on the pitch and our huge wealth — could it be that we are prioritising the making of money from football over the making of success on the field of play?

We see evidence of the making of money taking priority over the making of football success for the fans at the Arsenal in recent times with the introduction of preseason tours to far flung parts of the world to promote the brand, with no acknowledgement of the need for proper squad preparation for the coming season.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

I mean Christ Danny Welbeck was let go for just slightly less than lucas Perez and Wenger wasn't even in the country when he was bought in, what does that tell you about the club and its ambitions????? if you added up the money spent on oriental and Japanese players who we NEVER see play in an arsenal shirt over the last ten years, we could have brought in half the Barcelona side including Messi so you tell me what THATS all about??? its a disgrace, and Giroud acting like a football god because he scored and equalizer really just epitomises the whole messed up attitude and THAT starts with Wenger and his «its not my fault it was the ref» attitude its stinks

I had followed Arsenal long enough that we have pretty strict wage structure (the belief of football as a team sport and squad harmony is important) and we never pay over the odd for player or greedy agent — which in turn can help us to get the best value for our money All in all, whether it is a smart move, we should patiently wait until end of the transfer window.

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

this is what you get for the previous share holders selling to Kronke and no other, the departure of david dein, the retaining of wenger, tolerating sub standard management and on field performances, retaining deadwood over the use by date, i have supported arsenal since 1979 our club is just a cash cow for a greedy disinterested owner to prop up his other interests, lets hope we do not get relegated under this owner / management fiasco, they will take their money and run, we will be left to clean up and re-build, football before greed, concerned supported.

The bunch have all become a cult they do not want a new face to take over, well we d fans in other parts of d planet r appealing to fans in England first n others in neighboring countries to boycott matches till d end of d season then an oil block money that loves football, n has a winning mentality will buy our beloved Arsenal.

They are all useless or always injured.No wonder the greatest time Arsenal had was when the time was one with almost NO british players in.The «british core» experiment just failed, move on and bring real footballers from all over the world, hungry to do performance and to earn well - deserved wages.Don» t look back and sell tem ALl.No regrets whatsover - if Barca is so crazy to spend a fortune on a mediocre player like Ramsey - I say take the money and run.Same applies to Whilshere if City offer stands.I hope Mertesacker will never see the starting 11 again.Can u imagine this guy facin Messi, Neymar or Suarez?Atrocious picture!Just embarrasing - but guess what?

I think the German system is best where no one person can own over 49 % of the shares, and with the amount of money in football ATM, the FA should seriously look at implementing their system.

16 - 9 in football including +230 on Oakland over Buffalo as the NFL Money Line Game of the Year.

This was widely applauded but in football, money talks, and the Catalan club signed a multi-million-pound deal with Qatar Sports Investment in 2012 to take over the prime advertising slot.

I bet most fans dream of being taken over by Billionaires who want to pump money into your football club.

He is still young and more or less not going to have a problem playing every week at his present club, The new owner who is a Russian with plenty of money to spend on players has no need to sell and will spend the same sort of money we will and at moment the way Ithey are playing and the way we are they would have no trouble turning us over, We need to go back to grass roots which is what the majority want produce local talent and actually give them a chance in the first team, Play entertaining football all the time not respect the point (they will come if you play well) There is talent all over the world we need to find it, Howe is showing the way and in years to come may be a great England Manager but not for us right now and if I was him I would stay put

There's a lot to play for, the crown as European Football's Kings, as well as the ultimate bragging rights over City neighbours, and... if you fancy a flutter, there could be some money to be made too.

Their decisions over the past 20 years have been disappointing to say the least, everything from being the exclusive NFL partner for football Video Games (effectively wiping out competition) to the milking of great franchises just for the sake of making money.

One example of a lack of the same, i.e., judicial arrogation of divine - like power over mortality — and talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous — is this report from Paul Levy of Public Citizen's Consumer Law & Policy Blog about a favorite topic of mine, too: the reduction of trademark law to the role of handmaiden to Big College Pro Football's money grab over, well, everything: