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kingbuxton · 19-04-2008, 21:37

I look at it this way. A football career is a gamble. Think of the lad that goes into football rather than a regular job or higher education, gets to 30 and hasn't made it, retires from footy and now has to get a job! That is a nasty situation, not enough money to carry him through fifty years, no education and no experience and in your thirties, absolute nightmare. Most players (Sheringham aside) are done and dusted at 32 - 34 - you HAVE to have earned enough cash to let you live for 50 years, so I really don't begrudge them.

I mean how much did Jolie just get paid for pics of her kid?

Chelsea, hard one. On one hand Abramovich can spend his cash on whatever he wants, it is his club. BUT, Chelsea are living beyond their means, if he was to leave they can't support the squad on ticket sales and merchandise, they just aren't a Madrid/UTD/AC/Barca type of club, so in the long run a short term experiment could land them in a lot of trouble. Shevchenko was a HUGE mistake, should have left him where he was, Jose would still be there, and you just know Drogba will be following him to which ever team he goes to, and minus Drogba, Chelsea could struggle, Drogba is a talent.

And as far as Kaka goes, it's paper talk, don't believe anything that lot write. We (UTD) will be getting linked with half the players in Europe as soon as the Window opens, and none of them will arrive.

But, what Chelsea, more Abramovich, did was introduce a concept of instant success. You can no longer blood kids, you need finished articles otherwise they just roll you over. And that has basically destroyed the youth system of this country, and that is the worst thing about it all. UTD had a youth team that swept all aside and won everything for two seasons, and only Pique seems to have made a claim, the rest are either on loan, stuck in the reserves or sold. See Guiseppe Rossi.

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kingbuxton Inactive Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wessy, The Arse Of The World. Services: Virgin TV/Tinternet/Phone (Home) Posts: 911	Re: Chelsea Transfers Killing Football I look at it this way. A football career is a gamble. Think of the lad that goes into football rather than a regular job or higher education, gets to 30 and hasn't made it, retires from footy and now has to get a job! That is a nasty situation, not enough money to carry him through fifty years, no education and no experience and in your thirties, absolute nightmare. Most players (Sheringham aside) are done and dusted at 32 - 34 - you HAVE to have earned enough cash to let you live for 50 years, so I really don't begrudge them. I mean how much did Jolie just get paid for pics of her kid? Chelsea, hard one. On one hand Abramovich can spend his cash on whatever he wants, it is his club. BUT, Chelsea are living beyond their means, if he was to leave they can't support the squad on ticket sales and merchandise, they just aren't a Madrid/UTD/AC/Barca type of club, so in the long run a short term experiment could land them in a lot of trouble. Shevchenko was a HUGE mistake, should have left him where he was, Jose would still be there, and you just know Drogba will be following him to which ever team he goes to, and minus Drogba, Chelsea could struggle, Drogba is a talent. And as far as Kaka goes, it's paper talk, don't believe anything that lot write. We (UTD) will be getting linked with half the players in Europe as soon as the Window opens, and none of them will arrive. But, what Chelsea, more Abramovich, did was introduce a concept of instant success. You can no longer blood kids, you need finished articles otherwise they just roll you over. And that has basically destroyed the youth system of this country, and that is the worst thing about it all. UTD had a youth team that swept all aside and won everything for two seasons, and only Pique seems to have made a claim, the rest are either on loan, stuck in the reserves or sold. See Guiseppe Rossi.