by Remember Colo » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:48 pm
Despite what I said earlier about the instability of money in football, I still sometimes wonder if the "money is ruining football" is overstating how different it is from back in the day? Like that it's a product of nostalgia. For example, people say it's the same ol' teams winning because they spend more than everyone, except you can look at a period like 1975-1990 in which Liverpool won 10 of 15 years, and there was even less parity.
Obviously players today make that much more than the normal joe than they used to (though I bet fans complained about player wages back in the day too), and % of club income devoted to wages has gone from ~40% to ~67%, but it probably wasn't your neighbour owning a club in the 70s either, and it's just gone from the richest man in the city owning the club, to the richest man in a region or country.
Despite what I said earlier about the instability of money in football, I still sometimes wonder if the "money is ruining football" is overstating how different it is from back in the day? Like that it's a product of nostalgia. For example, people say it's the same ol' teams winning because they spend more than everyone, except you can look at a period like 1975-1990 in which Liverpool won 10 of 15 years, and there was even less parity.
Obviously players today make that much more than the normal joe than they used to (though I bet fans complained about player wages back in the day too), and % of club income devoted to wages has gone from ~40% to ~67%, but it probably wasn't your neighbour owning a club in the 70s either, and it's just gone from the richest man in the city owning the club, to the richest man in a region or country.
