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gohawks13
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Amen, thanks proxnet.... i totally agree... football maybe money in the heads of a few rich bastards, but here is a recent comment by Sepp Blatter on the issues:
| Quote: |  Blatter attacks 'Wild West' spending binge
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused the owners of the world's richest football clubs of creating a "Wild West-style of capitalism" that threatens to kill the game.
Blatter said soccer's world governing body would set up a taskforce to examine the "pornographic amounts of money" that have created big divisions in the sport.
The FIFA boss also attacked the rise in wage demands from "semi-educated, sometimes foul-mouthed, players on 100,000 pounds a week holding clubs to ransom".
"More than ever before, the majority is fighting with spears, while the greedy few have the financial equivalent of nuclear warheads," he wrote in Britain's Financial Times newspaper.
Blatter said FIFA was concerned about high players' wages, rising ticket prices, the role of agents in transfers, falling attendances and saturation television coverage of games.
"The time has come to take action to curb the excesses and ensure that the sport protects its roots," he wrote. "If nothing is done, this new money could suffocate a sport that has no fewer than 1.3 billion active followers."
Blatter said a handful of rich club owners has won control of the world game "by splashing unimaginable sums on a tiny elite group of players".
"What makes this a matter of concern is that, all too often, the source of this wealth is individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda," he wrote.
Although Blatter did not name any clubs, his targets are likely to include Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, who has spent 330 million pounds ($A767 million) since taking over in 2003.
Turning to players, he said: "It is simply insane for any player to 'earn' 6-8 million pounds a year.
"What logic, right or economic necessity would qualify a man in his mid-20s to demand to earn in a month a sum that his own father - and the majority of fans - could not hope to earn in a decade?"
Blatter added that the practice of trading the commercial rights of young players was a "new type of slavery" that must be curbed.
Blatter said unless action is taken against the problems identified by FIFA the outcome of matches will become increasingly predictable.
"What we are faced with today is a football society of haves and have nots," he wrote. "This cannot be the future of our game. FIFA cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we."
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nikos24
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Petr Cech is defnitely the wisest buy that Chelsea has ever made in the recent years. Amazing buy. Without him, i think Chelsea could not really keep a strong defense, as Cudicini would be having a hard time mainly because of his age. I praise Chelsea for buying Cech. Nice,  |
| Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:27 am |
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El Marino  
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Do you know how Abramovic got that rich?
His first job was working in an oil plant somewere in russia. The he started selling like those yellow ducks for in bath, you know. With this he earned more money than with his normal job. A few years later there was this thing going on in Russia (I forgot how it's called), but anyways, normal people got like checks or cu-pons to buy stocks from government facilities. Ambramovic started buying these from other people cause they had no idea what to do with it. So with these checks he started buying stocks of factories and facilities who were into oil-business.
Few years later he was with one of the 7 russians who owned more than 80% of the oil-business. And now he ownes Chelsea... |
| Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:26 pm |
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ceh
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Everybody knows that story tho :/ |
| Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:05 pm |
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Z[i]zou||
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ok i dont reckon chelsea would be mid table... i reckon they would be comming first with Jose Mourniho but they would not b dominating Epl as much..... |
| Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:56 am |
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El Marino
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| ceh wrote: | | Everybody knows that story tho :/ |
some people don't even know he excists... |
| Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:40 pm |
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issbill
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Chelsea would not be in existence if Abromovich was not in charge, but what can you do?? |
| Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:12 pm |
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Rochester Rhino
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I never knew how Abromovich got rich, all i knew was that he was in the russion oil business, you learn something everyday. |
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