I don't think smaller clubs will suffer cos if anything, the
transfer fee of players will be lower across the board allowing
more smaller clubs to buy decent players too. Cos at present and
since 2003 when Abramovich came in the transfer fee of players have
all gone up. There was a time around 2001-2003, where transfer fees
were going downwards. Even players like Thierry Henry was going at
10.5m only... Today we see Theo Walcott a player that didn't even
had much first team experience can cost 12m.
If the club continues with such purchasing... At the end of the
day, it's the fans that will suffer as the club may have to
increase ticket prices to keep up with their expenses. Cos
presently, maybe 1 small club benefit from chelsea's interest but
50 others suffer at the same time.
Whichever way we look at it, it will be a good move for football
across europe i belief as smaller clubs will also be able to afford
better players as more players will be sold at a lower fee. This
effect may also make the overall league more competitive.
As this is currently only in the planning stage it may take afew
yrs before anything happens giving clubs time to adjust. But of
course if nothing changes... Clubs like chelsea won't be able to
last long too. Reason unlike other top clubs, they are not self
sustainable, they are being kept up there with artificial means....
They depend on Abramovich $10b pounds to maintain their club. If
anything happens to Abramovich or if he loses interest in Chelsea,
then everything will be over in a short time.
Though Kenyon has said they plan to be a profitable club in time to
come, i find that very difficult cos every year Chelsea's expenses
in the transfer market is getting bigger and bigger without much
return when they release them, and even their players salaries (4
players on more than 100,000 pounds a wk, about 6 to 7 players
between 70 to 90 k weekly) is enough to make the club bankrupt let
alone their highest paid Manager at $6m a yr, double the amount
McClaren gets managing England and also their... Super paid CEO
Peter Kenyon needless to say, line himself up with a fat pay cheque
too.
Top clubs like Liverpool, Man u, Arsenal and even Spurs &
Newcastle will and has last longer over the years at top level.
They won't come a time when they will be burden by huge... players,
manager & managements and Directors salaries... Abramovich will
also not be getting any richer after he sold his guaranteed money
making business, the oil production company Sibneft to the Russian
gov to get into Russian President Vladimir Putin good books.
Anyway, Abramovich have already spent more than half a billion of
his 10b worth and he also don't have a bottomless pit... he also
has a wife and 5 children to think for... and now without an easy
money making oil production company to give him a regular income,
he may have to think twice about the kind of money he throws into
Chelsea in a few years time.
