Chamato Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I was thinking last night about how things are skewed money-wise in Europe today and how it affects everybody not in England/Spain/Germany. Feyenoord, one of the dutch giants, was literally bankrupt 5 or 6 years ago. They managed to survive and had to bring all their youth players through because of transfer bans and restrictions. Those youth prospects turn out to be great players, the club finally challenges for the dutch title after 15 years, finishes second and all of a sudden has a shot to reach CL group stage football and access the gold pot of European Football. But just a couple of weeks before their qualifing tie against Besiktas, they sell almost all of their star players who played in the WC (Janmaat, De Vrij, Bruno Martins Indi), plus their top goalscorer (Graziano Pelle) with no time to replace them. Lose the first leg 1-2 at home and are almost guaranteed to be out next week, missing on something close to 15-20 millions euros in prize money. Does it make any sense? Couldn't an agreement be reached with those players to stay for the qualifiers and leave if the club was eliminated? isn't it better for those players to add one year of CL football experience to their resum?s before leaving for greener, and even better, pastures than the ones they moved now? For me what happened to Feyenoord is another example of everything that is wrong in European Football today. Teams from inferior leagues (moneywise) are punished because of their success. What can be done to change that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Bring in a 3 foreigner rule across the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_hmfc Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 En Buyuk Besiktas. :pleasing: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Its broken and almost beyond repair. Sad really. Money has destroyed the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Its broken and almost beyond repair. Sad really. Money has destroyed the game. Yip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le Tissier Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 P?lle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebo Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I was thinking last night about how things are skewed money-wise in Europe today and how it affects everybody not in England/Spain/Germany. Feyenoord, one of the dutch giants, was literally bankrupt 5 or 6 years ago. They managed to survive and had to bring all their youth players through because of transfer bans and restrictions. Those youth prospects turn out to be great players, the club finally challenges for the dutch title after 15 years, finishes second and all of a sudden has a shot to reach CL group stage football and access the gold pot of European Football. But just a couple of weeks before their qualifing tie against Besiktas, they sell almost all of their star players who played in the WC (Janmaat, De Vrij, Bruno Martins Indi), plus their top goalscorer (Graziano Pelle) with no time to replace them. Lose the first leg 1-2 at home and are almost guaranteed to be out next week, missing on something close to 15-20 millions euros in prize money. Does it make any sense? Couldn't an agreement be reached with those players to stay for the qualifiers and leave if the club was eliminated? isn't it better for those players to add one year of CL football experience to their resum?s before leaving for greener, and even better, pastures than the ones they moved now? For me what happened to Feyenoord is another example of everything that is wrong in European Football today. Teams from inferior leagues (moneywise) are punished because of their success. What can be done to change that? Would playing in a qualifying round cup tie them? If so, that wipes off a lot of value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chamato Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 Would playing in a qualifying round cup tie them? If so, that wipes off a lot of value. I believe so. Though they were sold to teams outside the CL (Porto, Lazio, Newcastle, Southampton) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busby8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Presumably Feyenoord had some say in the matter as to whether or not to sell ?? If so they made their own choices and can hardly be portrayed as victims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 **** Feyenoord. Wij Zijn Ajax Amsterdam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Presumably Feyenoord had some say in the matter as to whether or not to sell ?? If so they made their own choices and can hardly be portrayed as victims. Don't know the specifics of Feyenoord but everything changed with the Bosman Ruling.Some aspects of the ruling meant the rich/poor gap was inevitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I hope the first paragraph of your story about Feyenoord unfolds exactly the same way closer to home. Feck the rest of it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 **** Feyenoord. Wij Zijn Ajax Amsterdam 020! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmfc_liam06 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 As per Southampton, clubs are powerless when it comes to a player wanting a move. Contract or no contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 020! VAK410 in vuur en vlam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM1874 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Didn't enjoy the result but generally look out for teams we play in europe Real shame, would like them to get through but if they lost 2-1 at home its difficult. de kuip really was intimidating when we played imagine it on a champs league game! As above money has truely buggered the game! (That said and as per previous rant, neither team should be in the champions league! It should only be for the 'champions' if they really want to have it as is, rebrand it the super cup! If it continues as is, it really is false advertising. Fwiw of the ties played tues / wed 10 league champions will be eliminated whilst 5 'league position' teams will on through not to many the others still to participate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboinglasgow Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Presumably Feyenoord had some say in the matter as to whether or not to sell ?? If so they made their own choices and can hardly be portrayed as victims. It depends. Feyenoord might not want to sell but a club coming in which flashes the money and a chance at a bigger league can turn a player who puts pressure on the club. Or alternatively they feel the players they are at the peak they cant get at the club and this allows them the maximum amount of return. But it is never nice to see smaller clubs get picked apart by the bigger clubs the moment they have a good season. Yes they get a lot of money but a lot of time its takes away what made that club special. A lot of time the players taken are signed by bigger clubs who dont really understand what make that player tick only that he was a great player in a good team. So they dont play as well as they did in a club where there was a strong team unit and so they under whelm and are written off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 VAK410 in vuur en vlam! Haha I still can't care properly about Dutch football it's just no the same We zijn de boys uit Midlothian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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