Wednesday 14 January 2009

Kaka saga rumbles on..... But it isn't a new argument





What is it with traditionalists? Moaning and groaning about the intentions of the Super Rich at Manchester City Ltd and that it is against the invisible morals and ethics of English football?

Jealousy? Perhaps. We witnessed the crumbling Fulham surge through the divisions in the mid nineties and the way Mohamed Al-Fayed splattered his money around whilst Kevin Keegan was in charge brought about similar voices of discontent.

Fear? Perhaps. The consistent top four of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal could be challenged by the blue half of Manchester if the Abu Dhabi-based Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan continues to filter some of his fortune into his mediocre Premier League side.

A Chelsea fan I spoke to recently had the audacity to say that it was bad for English football..... How ridiculous. He was obviously suffering from an inability to recall recent memories of his own team. My response to his stinging tirade was simple, swift and incorporated two words. One was Julius Caesar's former Empire and another was a USSR sounding surname, as I would know it.

Yes, Roman Abramovich. The man responsible for Chelsea's dominance in recent years. Because Chelsea's success had nothing to do with his cash injections on world class players did it? Yeah right...

Then there's those who cry out in disgust at the wages the players 'earn' and the transfer fees parted with for such illustrious and in demand players.

I'm all for the big names and the big players if it is cost effective and makes good business sense. If the Kaka's and Ronaldo's of the world shoot their sides to glory and help their employer's from a commercial point then there is no argument from me. After all it is the owners of the club's who ultimately pay the wages. When a chief executive of a company manages to strike a multi-million pound deal for their company and receives a bumper bonus for themselves, we don't hear grumbles from the public about that.

The Premier League is a big business. Long gone are the days of breeding home grown talent to base the team around. That takes too long and is too risky. It's time to get used to it.




1 comment:

  1. Hey, set up a blog? Love the fact City have that amount of money now to go spending on Kaka and then he rejects! Brilliant!

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