William Kerr

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@OrphansSC Titty biscuits!

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@mgdoyle1993 @DaveHo1mes So you admit the rules are in place to stop traditionally less successful teams from ever winning anything.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@1990sUtd Utd only got there because they were bankrolled by someone who was selling rancid meat to school kids.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@propcharles @Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes Arsenal, who are sponsored by emirates.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes I’ve got to go and do some work now.
Thanks for the conversation, nice to chat with someone who is intelligent enough to not start swearing at as soon as I say something they disagree with. Have a good rest of the day.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes You might not Have even had that one if there had been more competition.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes I thought he lost faith in how the club was being run.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes But that doesn’t give the the right to sit at the top of the tree for ever.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes They could be if they got bought by the right owners. I don’t like the concept of aristocracy. Liverpool are the most successful English club, and from my understanding did earn it by being exceptionally well run in the 70s and 80s, and not necessarily outspending everyone.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes And the rules did help to keep Liverpool in the champions league. If other teams had been bought and allowed to spend freely Liverpools experience of their previous owners could have been much worse.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes So why have rules that protect teams like Real Madrid.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes Imagine how good these clubs could be if they had the ability to spend more money. They would be champions league contenders. As it stands they’ll have a good run, Sell their best players, and have to start again and again and again.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes I agree.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes If the rules are fair, and then broken ie Shadow contracts then punishment should be severe. As long as the TV rights are owned by the League collectively and not individually then the top clubs wouldn’t be able to do that.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes Potential buyers might look at the smaller clubs and want to invest, to grow those clubs, to get a piece of the massive financial pie that is football. At the moment they wouldn’t bother because they’re not allowed to invest.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes There will definitely be some sort of protectionism within those sports. I do concede that something should be done to protect clubs from here today gone Tomorrow sugar daddies, but I think the current rules aren’t fair.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes I think that you have to go one way or the other. You either have to let teams be run like businesses and allow investment or you have to go full egalitarian. Make all teams have the same transfer and wage budget. What we have now is incoherent and unfair.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes Without this mechanism, which works in the real world, clubs who aren’t allowed to invest can’t ever grow. Hence the fucked up state of English football clubs finances.

[William Kerr @williamkerr81]

@Mark_Jones1986 @DaveHo1mes The same cartel. The EFL parroted the prem and UEFA rules. Supposedly to create sustainability. But as we’ve seen with last weeks report most clubs are running at a loss or are in debt. In the real world business owners invest in their business to grow it.