Soccer and Money

Having many "imigrants" in England is not the reason why we have suffered in major tournamnet's. Going back to the early 90's when there was a rule that you could only have 3 none English player's in the team didn't help England win anything. Plain and simple it is becasue we are not good enough. All the player's want to do these day's is get rich and who give's a fcuk about the national team. Look at Scotland. I would imagine that say 70% of player's up there are scotish, that aint helped Scotland in term's of winning or even qualifying for major tournament's.

Maybe not at the moment but our under 21s did a helluva lot better than Englands under 21s. Obviously why should the English players want to play for their country, when it doesn't earn them anything and they could get injuries that would stop them playing for money, sorry their clubs. So do you think it's a good idea that only a handful of clubs have all the money then.

In a way yes. If all the club's had a set transfer fee of £50,000,000 per year and 9 club's were interested in a player worth £4,000,000. Now obviously all these club's want this player so will out bid the other's, they will counter act it and so on and so on. This will esculate the player's value way above what he is worth. After so long there will be player's like Robert Earnshaw (crap) being sold for £30,000,000. Small club's usually sell the talent they scout to make revenue, and then they should get add on's to the sale fee if the player reaches certain goal's. Dont be fooled in to thinking that the lower league's have no money due to the big club's buying imigrant's and not supporting homegrown talent. Those small club's have less/no money due to being poorly managed. Classic example Leeds utd, letting one good year going to their head's and spending money willy nilly thinking they would recoup their losses on winning thing's when in reality they were crap. Many smaller club's manage their finance's better and are sucessfull. Regard's the u21's, you have hardly done btter. England top the group with 19 points from 7 game's and Scotland are 3rd in their group with 10 point's from 5 game's. This show's that England are producing good quality youngster's with even more coming through, the only problem with the full national team is they think they are btter than they are, aload of pre - madonna's. I think we have hijacked this poor lad's thread, allway's good talking footie with you. You are one of a few who actually make's sence on here.