jamamafegan Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 This past week we’ve seen Aberdeen’s Adam Rooney move to Salford City, a National League (English tier 5) side for a little under 400k and he’s going to earn at least 4K a week. Fair play tbh, who can blame him? Should we be concerned that Aberdeen - last seasons Scottish top flight runners up, a club with a proud history in domestic and European football cannot compete financially with some diddy club from England’s League 5? On paper it doesn’t make for good reading. If we should be concerned, is there anything that can be done about it? Will more clubs in England slowly come into money like Salford or are they just another Gretna? At the end of the day, the wealth in English football is sickening and I’d take our “pub league” over the tourist league any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Aberdeen are the ultimate diddy club. He made the right decision, going to a bigger club for more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergie's no1 fan Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 1 minute ago, jamamafegan said: This past week we’ve seen Aberdeen’s Adam Rooney move to Salford City, a National League (English tier 5) side for a little under 400k and he’s going to earn at least 4K a week. Fair play tbh, who can blame him? Should we be concerned that Aberdeen - last seasons Scottish top flight runners up, a club with a proud history in domestic and European football cannot compete financially with some diddy club from England’s League 5? On paper it doesn’t make for good reading. If we should be concerned, is there anything that can be done about it? Will more clubs in England slowly come into money like Salford or are they just another Gretna? At the end of the day, the wealth in English football is sickening and I’d take our “pub league” over the tourist league any day. The fact is we can't compete with English football, we need to stop trying to draw comparisons between our game and their's (grammar police will probably be on top of that). It is a different beast altogether, one which is also ready for imploding. Last week Bolton pulled out of our friendly with them the night before the game because their players went on strike due to wages not being paid. There are a few clubs in some state down South, some have already spent this seasons tv money last season. It is wild, some might say tinpot. Give me our game ahead of that shower of shite any day of the week. We aren't perfect but we haven't sold our soul to the devil. I'd rather see young Scots like McLean, McGinn, Mallan, Morgan and our current gem Magennis get a chance in the team ahead of some journeymen who will demand 2k a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 English football is fkn shite top to bottom. You couldn't pay me to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 1 minute ago, Peppino Impastato said: English football is fkn shite top to bottom. You couldn't pay me to watch it. You’re fucking shite from top to bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Just now, Melanius Mullarkey said: You’re fucking shite from top to bottom. So is your face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Am Muilleach Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 With owners Peter Lim (Billionaire) and several ex-playing millionaires I think Salford are an anomaly, or freak even, not exactly popular in The National League either; https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/20/gary-neville-and-salford-city-accused-of-trying-to-steal-football-league-place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo den Bieman Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 There are some very wealthy clubs in the English fifth tier- AFC Fylde are another who have been built up from scratch by very wealthy local businessmen, in the last twenty years, having risen from not much more than pub football to the National League. Fleetwood are another example, now in League One, funded by a massively wealthy character who (I think) made his money in offshore gas. They made it from the North West Counties League to League One in little over a decade on his wealth. Salford are half owned by the five ex-Man U players who were earning stratospheric money at the top level for over a decade. They may be brash and new, without that money they'd still be playing in front of twenty old men in the lower reaches of the North West Counties League. But the money won't dry up and they clearly are very ambitious to progress. I can't see why it's such a problem. The only remaining comparison between Scotland and England is that we're neighbours, and some shared history, tradition and rivalry. 2018 isn't a very sentimental world however and history and tradition don't really count for anything. Other than that, we simply cannot compete on money terms at all. Sad but true. It's the same for most leagues from small and medium sized countries whose best players are off abroad as soon as they get a decent offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Dont get this Rooney nonsense. Salford are not your run of the mill 5th league team, its like seeing Celtics budget and assuming the whole league is similar. Media are causally forgetting Rooney still wasn't getting a game ahead of off form strikers last season so Aberdeen have done well to get him of the wage bill and get some money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_Rodger Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Salford are not a typical ‘League 5’ team.They are favourites to win the National League after just getting promoted into it.They have ambitions to get into the Championship in 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I’m not sure why the money difference is suddenly an issue again. It’s been around since football began (well before 1992 btw). Decent Scottish players have always been lured down south through money, in the 40s, 50s etc. Always have, always will. And Scottish football continues to exist. Funny that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Scottish football is doomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 10 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: Clyde are shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Salford are one of millions of small English clubs that get their heart ripped out in this cut throat chase to "the promised land", 90% of them wilt, crumble and die before their first decade is out. Funny how little press those stories get though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 People are getting a bit carried away, as has been mentioned above Salford are not the average National League team financially, they are being heavily bankrolled and their budget will dwarf every team in that division, even the ones like Wrexham and Leyton Orient who will most likely have average attendance that are double Salford's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Salford are one of millions of small English clubs that get their heart ripped out in this cut throat chase to "the promised land", 90% of them wilt, crumble and die before their first decade is out. Funny how little press those stories get though. Really only gets press when the owners are either Cartoonish villians/nutjobs like the guy who owned Chester a decade or so ago and brought them to the wall) or the guy running Billericay, or Brooks Mileson Boring owners who load clubs up into debt and see them collapse are not really press-worthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumdog35 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Wage cap Improve grass roots Easy. Solved. You can send your fee to EfeAmbroseBalonDor69@caffliksRus.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 You can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 The fact is we can't compete with English football, we need to stop trying to draw comparisons between our game and their's (grammar police will probably be on top of that). It is a different beast altogether, one which is also ready for imploding. Last week Bolton pulled out of our friendly with them the night before the game because their players went on strike due to wages not being paid. There are a few clubs in some state down South, some have already spent this seasons tv money last season. It is wild, some might say tinpot. Give me our game ahead of that shower of shite any day of the week. We aren't perfect but we haven't sold our soul to the devil. I'd rather see young Scots like McLean, McGinn, Mallan, Morgan and our current gem Magennis get a chance in the team ahead of some journeymen who will demand 2k a week. When it does go pop it's going to make Sevco look like a tea party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juantwothree Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 The lower leagues in England will implode within 15 years because the money sky and other companies give to English football doesn't get distributed fairly. At this moment in time we can compete with them, we lost hemmings to Oxford and they were paying him something like 7k a week, Greg Stewart aswell with Birmingham. We can't compete and probably won't for a long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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