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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
My personnel feelings on the sad demise of football clubs and new owners taking over clubs, such as Portsmouth.
Its the disgraceful wages that are paid to players, and when owners take over they forget this.
Players may only have short careers especially when the end of with broken legs that sometimes don't heel properly and have to retire early, BUT no players is worth the prices they earn today, and the agent fees cripple clubs.
The FA,the Football League, and the Premier League must place a wage cap on clubs, as players from the lower leagues don't live up to the wages that are paid by clubs and get put on the side.
Players like John Terry who is on £125.000 per week, that could be the entire wage for a club from the lower leagues.
This is why clubs go out of business, and new owners take over clubs to see how much they can get back in about 12 months to see if they can get a massive profit..
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I've said it before and will say it again it is the agent fees that are half the problem. If you add up all the money that pompey have given to agents since 2006 it probably covers the tax bill with room to spare.
Any money paid to agents is money that leaks out of the game and doesn't get reinvested anywhere. If this money stayed in the game and was stopped they ticket prices would be cheaper.
Only in football would you have to pay money to someone else just to talk to them on the phone when the rules state that actually you have to talk to them through the clubs anyway.
It's high time FIFA and UEFA did something about this but the game makes so much money these days I don't think any of them care anymore