The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[ArchangelMadzz]

Ka-pi96 said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

UEFA are owned by FIFA xD 

It's true there needs to be more strength throughout the League. Monaco seem to always find stars and have had a strong start so if they can grow, get themselves a new stadium, Marseille and teams like that come back into eurpean prominence we could see a big change in the next 10 years. 

I'm not talking about things straight away but when you buy a player for 200 million you're not exaclty going to be thinging short term. No company investment that big is planning on seeing instant returns. 

Doesn't really matter. FIFA know they couldn't get away with trying to meddle with UEFA competitions and preven them from enforcing their own rules.

Monaco weren't big for awhile though, until they started splashing the cash themselves. Although with how much selling they've done recently you've really got to wonder if they'd be willing to invest a load of money in to players again, or if they'd rather just have a fat bank account. As for a stadium, how possible would that even be for them? I don't imagine land is easy to come by in Monaco, or cheap for that matter!

I really do hope teams like Marseille do make a comeback and can become competitive again though. Weren't they recently bought out by a billionaire or something? So maybe there is some potential there at least.

Of course FIFA could, it's a very corrupt organisation and PSG wouldn't have bought a £200 million player if they didn't they they could avoid being kicked out of UEFA competions. The way it all runs from up above is madness. 

They weren't big for a while and they have a lot of money now from the stars they made. That's the idea of selling clubs they don't want to do it forever but if you can consistently find and sell stars and are smart with your business after a while you can really build yourself up organically (Ie Tottenham). Stadium expansions work also but again as Tottenham did they bought out a lot of land to build their stadium. It would set Monaco back financially for a few years (Arsenal) but in 10 years or so from now the landscape could be very different. 

Yeah exactly hopefully they can become bigger again, I'd love not only a competitive french league but french teams to compete in Europe. They beat us in England last year, Monaco and PSG looked great and PSG should've beat Barcelona (and the reason they didn't they signed :P) Lyon look far away from winning the League 7 times in a row and Serie A is back and will only get better so you can possibly see them doing some madness in the market in the next 5 years.