Morning. Anyone else been up early to watch the cricket? Decent start with India 95 for 3 at lunch.
There is very little Arsenal news around today, as is the norm on a Thursday when we are not playing mid-week.
I see Bayern Munich lost last night. Will still expect them to go through against Lazio but it does feel like it is all going a bit “Spursy” for the since the Harry Kane signing.
“Maybe Kane was the problem” I have seen some Spurs say in jest. This of course ignores the fact that Kane made his Tottenham debut years after their last trophy, and Spurs are 4th in the league and out both of the cups. I do chuckle everytime their fans talk about how good a season they are having.
Another group of fans make me laugh are Evertonians.
Since their points dedication, their fans have been all over social media playing the victims, posting up misleading information.
I am not sure if they are all just thick, but they all bash on about net transfer spend whilst ignoring that this is just one factor of spend.
They compare their spends to Manchester City, Arsenal, etc, ignoring that these clubs generate 2 or 3 times more revenue. It is therefore only natural they are spending more.
Everton’s problem comes from buying a load of rubbish in the late 2010’s, spending 95% of their income on wages and losing around £400m in the last 4 or 5 times. Their low net spend over the last 3 years (which they keep showing) is because they have no money and are millions in debt. They have to take out loans every few months just to keep running.
If it were not for FFP/PSR, Everton would have kept spending and probably now be in administration with a half built stadium.
They loved celebrating Moshri (and Usmanov) when he took over the club and began spending big, but they had no thought of the consequences of him signing spending money that the club did not have.
And let’s not start with their claim that their Covid impact was £100m more than any other club in the Premier League! No idea how a club with such a small stadium would suffered such a large loss due to no games!
Everton only have themselves to blame.
As for fans of other clubs (Nottingham Forest, Wolves) jumping on the bandwagon, saying FFP is forcing them to sell too players to bigger clubs, this has always happened in the history of football.
Brendan Johnson and Pedro Neto were always destined to play at a higher level than Forest and Wolves.
As I saw someone say “FFP wasn’t why Andy Grey left Wolves for Everton in 1983”.
If you are going to blame FFP for every player your club sells, then are you also going to kick off about those players your club buys?
Everton’s new star Jarrad Branthwaite was signed from Carlisle. The way these clubs moan, if it wasn’t for FFP, Branthwaite would still be at his home club. And let’s not ignore what Nottingham Forest spent on Morgan Gibbs White!
Ultimately, players have always moved from lower clubs to those higher in the league. Everton buy from clubs below them. Arsenal huy from clubs below us, and we sell to clubs above us. There is a food chain.
Everton fans are just upset that they have lost their place as a top 8 team due to how poorly the club has been run. Typical Scousers though refusing to take responsibility for anything.
If you are planning on going to Manchester City in March, be aware of planned engineering works meaning no trains out of Euston.
You will now have to go via St Pancras the journey will now take at least 3 hours, requiring 2 changes. The return journey taking 4 hours and ends at Marylebone at 23.18 Sunday night.
Keenos
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