Middle Class opposition to "Conspicious Consumption"

[Fist of Lehmann]

big clubs will always be able to pay more than anyone else and he would always have ended up at one of the biggest payers.

Well this is the point I was making, and the real effect of the Bosman Ruling. Rich clubs have always been able to afford the best players, but haven't always been able procure them, because the system precluded it.

Now the richest most unscupulous clubs can acquire or cynically unsettle any player anywhere simply by waving a giant cheque. The selling club must eventually accept it because the power of free movement, to move when and where they want, is now firmly in the hands of the players. And what does anyone do with power? Most often, they use it to feather their own nests.