TET football now is all about money now and it is a ladder system as to where you are on that ladder.
We are by far the biggest and best club in Scotland but on European terms we are still fairly small but growing nicely in terms of finance but need to show it more on the pitch in Europe.
Our league is on the same par as France and Germany as only one team will win the league but they have far better oppersition to deal with. Take the winners out of the leagues now in Europe then there would be a competitive league on offer in there countries including Scotland. The top teams want a break away European league for better and more competitive matches and only fifa stopping it from happening but think money will win out in the end and it may well happen at some time
I agree with thats way its going.
But in my opinion it kills the game stone dead with couple of decades.
The top end of football doesn't care about bottom end.
But its only top end in reality because there is a bottom end.
if you drain all the resources from bottom end by making top end elite with tv deals, the vital and more importantly the absolutely necessary low end of football shrivels to point it cant provide its massive value.
you may say but all value is at top end.
yes in the superficial financial alchemy realm
eg messi was reportedly getting offered 600 million wages to finish career at man city.
thats not value added in real world, in superficial world its acceptable therefore it becomes a fair deal
but Messi isn't 600 times better than dude being offered 1 million over same period.
so the value is distorted by the superficial guff
if the guy from Brechin gives you regular 5 out of 10 standard and Messi gives you 9 average out of ten
individually he is bout twice as good but that twice as good mean he will skin him 100 percent of time probably
so although he only twice as good he wins nearly every single battle in that missmatch
but is he worth 600 million to the dude from brechins 30k ?
well tv says yes
but if you make it even more top heavy
the dude at Brechin needs his wage but now he being offered 10 k
since big teams out of system
so he paints walls instead
and that death of lower division football will have knock on effect in the pyramid standards
till you get top end players getting 7 out of 10 average earning 100 million per year
overall standard declines
the big money scammers get their slice of big money transfers
but interest goes south as nobody that interested to pay watch declining standards
and it all began the day sky created elite football
gaps are getting bigger and the best is nowhere near as competitive as it was and players dont really give a toss coz 1 season and they are millionaires.
I think game is dying
and I think its hell bent on dying faster by killing the bottom of game where all the real value added exists.
to turn a 4 out of 10 average into a 7 out of 10 player is possible and you nearly doubled his standard
but without the wee clubs creating 7 out of 10 players the big elite clubs cant risk 4 out of 10 players who might never reach 7 out of 10 without the vital value added lower leagues
they add most value but now get no financial benefit for their often unnoticed hard work.
its all about the superficial marketing networks you can exploit.
sad reality of future in world.