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£100,000 transfers - Good or Bad?
By: glen man Date: January 20, 2022, 6:29 am
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Re: £100,000 transfers - Good or Bad?
By: exhausted Date: January 20, 2022, 11:41 am
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I can see both sides to it but I support one of the teams that
can afford the big fees so I'm going to be biased. The worry I
have is of it gets like the rest of football where really
average players are going to end up costing big fees as I don't
think that will be sustainable and as Gary Hamilton said in that
article if the wages go up you will have players sitting on long
deals not playing as no one can afford to take them on
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Re: £100,000 transfers - Good or Bad?
By: EalingGreen Date: January 20, 2022, 11:49 am
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On the face if it, a good thing, but it relies on three things:
1. The money has to come from teams who genuinely have it
(benefactor, European prize money etc), rather than clubs who
are gambling;
2. The transfer money has to circulate amongst IL clubs (i.e.
not to GB or ROI);
3. it must not be accompanied by an "arms race" over wages,
which I fear it will, since that is money going out of the game,
never to be recovered.
I would be especially concerned by too many clubs spending big
to chase European money, when not all will be able to achieve
it.
Though I was encouraged by the comments from Carrick and
Warrenpoint, esp, since they seem to accept that they can't
really compete with the Big Boys, but are just getting on with
doing the best they can within their means.
Eventually it will probably evolve into a two-tier league,
separated between the "Haves" and "Have Nots". But to some
extent we've always had that and in any case, the only way to
avoid that would be to restrict the bigger/wealthier clubs, and
that does no-one any good, since it would only lead to a lack of
ambition, followed by stagnation, followed by decline and maybe
even eventual death.
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Re: £100,000 transfers - Good or Bad?
By: PeteM Date: January 21, 2022, 4:48 am
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Yeah I pretty much agree with that. As long as it's responsibly
managed by clubs who know their limits. Clubs and boards know
what financial irresponsibility has done in the past.
But it's good that there is this discussion and some
apprehension about it currently. It would be a disaster at
player-level to see some "smaller" clubs spend big on a push for
a european place or aim to go full-time, based on money that is
knocking about the league today but may not be there tomorrow.
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Re: £100,000 transfers - Good or Bad?
By: exhausted Date: January 21, 2022, 5:12 am
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As long as the European play off stays then the likes of
glenavon and Ballymena have a decent chance of qualifying for
Europe if the finish 7th so maybe won't have to go all out
spending to finish top 3
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