The English Football Thread

[franscar]

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

drogba- top striker in france- £24 million shelled out to buy him. (oh yeah, top scorer in uefa cup aswell)

Cisse scored more goals for Auxerre in the French league that season.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

shaun wright-phillips- has been the talk of english football for the last year, the "english pele" has ive heard him described. £21 million.

Wright-Phillips isn't even a starting international, has never played Champions League football and has barelt registered any sort of impact abroad apart from for looking a bit like Gary Coleman.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

i wont go on at that. but why do i hate chelsea? hmm, well first of all they use their financial might to bully smaller clubs into selling their best talent- west ham for example- robbed of their stars.

Same as Arsenal, United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barca, Milan, Juve, Bayern etc etc etc.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

before abramovich swept into stamford bridge with £8 billion chelsea were the newcastle of the premiership- struggling to break the top 4 and languishing in the uefa cup.

They qualified for the Champions League the season before Abramovich turned up and even earlier than that they had gone further in the competition than Arsenal had ever managed to go.

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

they were on a level pegging with everybody else and simply were not good enough. now of course they have an unlimited transfer budget they can do what they want cant they! knicking all the best footballing talent because they can offer £10 million more than say united or arsenal. they take all the best talent from the lower teams and we're forced to feed on the scraps- all because of one bloody russian. i truely believe they hve bought the title and to the people that say "oh yeah its alright getting the players- but you need to make the team work"...cant be too difficult making a team full of the worlds best players worth over £190 million collectively to work can it?! **** even i could do it.

Inter Milan have spent nearly half a billion in the last decade. Haven't come close to winning Serie A. It takes a lot more than money to be successful. You're just coming across as a jealous Arsenal fan because there's another team joined in the United-Arsenal two horse race, IMO.

[Sneer]

Originally Posted by franscar

Inter Milan have spent nearly half a billion in the last decade. Haven't come close to winning Serie A. It takes a lot more than money to be successful. You're just coming across as a jealous Arsenal fan because there's another team joined in the United-Arsenal two horse race, IMO.

chelsea have spent over a quarter of a billion in 3 bloody years!
you'd have to be an absolute mug to not have any success with £50+ million being spent on new players each year.
and league wise before mr abramovich came along chelsea hadnt got near the title for over 10 years.

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

you'd have to be an absolute mug to not have any success with £50+ million being spent on new players each year.

*cough*Leeds*cough*

[franscar]

Originally Posted by LedZepStu

chelsea have spent over a quarter of a billion in 3 bloody years!
you'd have to be an absolute mug to not have any success with £50+ million being spent on new players each year.
and league wise before mr abramovich came along chelsea hadnt got near the title for over 10 years.

So you're upset because they went from third to first quickly? They did it by buying in, exactly the same way Arsenal win the league. Both sides have as many home-grown youngsters playing for them, so as far as I can see they're as bad as one another.

[Sneer]

except for the fact arsenal spend on average 5-10 million every pre season while chelsea spend around 50-60 million. not much of a difference i know..