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    My point is we are trying to do something that is not possible and be self sustaining, it's just not possible in the top echelons in football with the money in football in terms of players wages

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    My point is we are trying to do something that is not possible and be self sustaining, it's just not possible in the top echelons in football with the money in football in terms of players wages
    How can you not run as a business in any sustainable way?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    How can you not run as a business in any sustainable way?
    Because the cost in terms of players and players wages will always greatly outweigh any money you make from match day revenues, conmercial deals etc.
    You can be sustainable but not if you want to challenge

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    Case in point, Mesut Ozil when you consider his transfer few plus his wages plus signing on fee and adds on, I strongly suspect the 120million we supposedly have in reserve would have been mostly used on this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    Case in point, Mesut Ozil when you consider his transfer few plus his wages plus signing on fee and adds on, I strongly suspect the 120million we supposedly have in reserve would have been mostly used on this.
    How is that possible?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
    How is that possible?
    43 million transfer fee
    150 grand a week wages over five years = another 40 million
    Plus add ons and signing on fee and you are looking close to 100 million

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    43 million transfer fee
    150 grand a week wages over five years = another 40 million
    Plus add ons and signing on fee and you are looking close to 100 million
    Yes, wages over 5 years. We don't pay that much outright.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    Because the cost in terms of players and players wages will always greatly outweigh any money you make from match day revenues, conmercial deals etc.
    You can be sustainable but not if you want to challenge
    OK. So the two options are:
    a) A sugar daddy
    b) A non-sustainable model which at some point will surely collapse a la Leeds.

    No?

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    That's exactly it, money wins out...I'm not saying either way is desirable but unless we introduce a transfer and wage cap it's the only way clubs will win.
    I'd rather us be sustainable but we can't expect to have a pot to piss in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    My point is we are trying to do something that is not possible and be self sustaining, it's just not possible in the top echelons in football with the money in football in terms of players wages
    Yeah but there is a middle ground. It's not a choice between having a 120million in the bank or being a 120million in the red.

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