First, the issue. Some clubs, year on year, spend a fortune on players, and (quite often) bring in a new manager for the club. The club doesn’t rise up the league so the manager is sacked, a new man ...
And so it is a top four game on Sunday at 4.30pm… … not that means too much at this stage of the season, although we’ve not only won those two league games but also done ok in the community shield as ...
The final profitable club, Liverpool, won the league, had a record turnover, returned to the Champions League and got a lot of new sponsorship. So yes they made a profit – and their situation shows us ...
Opinion
Journalists are so used to the old model of football, they can’t really grasp what’s gong on.
If there is one thing football journalists can’t stand it is being out maneuvered in their own games. For years they had clubs wrapped around their fingers by suggesting that the newspaper would be ...
This week I also learned from the newspaper I read that there have been almost 1500 transfer deals involving English clubs this summer, and the total amount of money that was pledged was £6.6bn. It ...
Six clubs received more than they spent in this window, which helps the accounting a bit. Spending more than comes in, can lead to danger. Chelsea got the most income with 447 million euros followed ...
Most seasons, the number of Premier League football clubs that make an actual real profit (as opposed to a profit created by some clever manipulations of the accounts and which doesn’t result in the ...
The simple fact is that during the summer when no football is played, all the media have to talk about is transfers, and since transfers don’t actually happen that often, the media portray Arsenal as ...
In short the way each game goes does depend to some extent on which referee is overseeing the game, and so any manager who is doing his job, will be instructing his players to play in a way that takes ...
Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? By Tony Attwood Well by “som ...
Aston Villa v Arsenal – where the teams have come from and where they are going; The window is almost shut but some still keep buying. Villa v Arsenal; By Tony Attwood (and a gr ...
Villa v Arsenal; Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? By Tony Attwood. If you stay in to ...
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