A warning from the Italians.....

[FleetFanatic]

.....with Fiorentina bankrupt, albeit a new club has risen but will have to start in C2 (Italian 4th division), how long before we have a big name club actually go out of business?

 

Some will argue that the powers that be would never allow it to happen, but happens if one of the big banks wants it's money back, especially if we hit a recession?

 

Some famous names on the brink already thanks to the ITV digital fiasco - no doubt when the next premiership negotiations come round, Sky will take a look, realise they are probably the only bidders, and decide that they won't have to pay anywhere near the amount that they are paying now?

 

Some well known players have already priced themselves out of the game - Kanchelskis is without a club, for example - quite amazing really.

 

The bubble has well and truly burst.

[Hempstead Gaz]

I suspect this will (in the long run) have a beneficial effect on both the Fleet & the Conference. A number of players from the lower leagues will become available, the wages they will demand should come down.As clubs up and down the country find finances becoming increasingly stretched. this should hasten the inevitable regionalisation of Division 3 and the Conference into a North and South League.

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[mikef]

I would take it a step further and say that it may ultimately be good for football generally. To many players on seeing lots of money coming into the game (before the collapse of ITV Digital) became greedy and started demanding offensively high salaries. The money men came in not to improve the game but to make as much out of it as quickly as possible, hence the grandiose schemes (not all to do with football) started by some teams they could ill afford and the horrendous price of season tickets to some clubs. Now they are starting to feel the pinch. At the moment it is only effecting non premiership teams, but as Super Daz say's, when the next premiership negotiations take place Sky will no doubt offer a lot less and then some of those clubs will start hurting. Unfortunately some clubs may well go to the wall but when the dust settles the surviving clubs and players can get on with playing Football and not thinking only about money, after all it is a sport and not a business althugh I do appreciate that clubs have to at least break even if not make a SMALL profit.

 

 

Mike F

[Fleet_Fella]

I would agree that the lack of money in football league would lead to more players operating as semi-professionals, and less players would be needed in the FL as clubs either cut their playing staff or fold entirely. This should lead to a better standard of player filtering down into non-league football. Also, as there will be far less opportunity for players to find a club, they will be forced to drop their wage demands giving the clubs like the Fleet the chance to sign them without crippling themselves.

 

At the top end of the scale we've already seen the reality bite the big boys. Leeds had to sell Rio to cut their debt, and notorious big summer spenders like Chelsea have been conspicuous by their lack of activity. Fiorentina won't be the last big name to go to the wall, although it's interesting to note that their players have all been put on free's. Andy, I hear that they have a youngster by the name of Nuno Gomes who may be able to do a job for us in the Conference! <img src="/forums/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

[David Holden]

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This should lead to a better standard of player filtering down into non-league football. Also, as there will be far less opportunity for players to find a club, they will be forced to drop their wage demands giving the clubs like the Fleet the chance to sign them without crippling themselves.

 

 

 

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I'm not sure that it will work that way. What will hapen is that the Conference Clubs with more money will snap up the ex-Football League players and release the current players. This will be come available to the less weathly clubs, but the gap will remain the same.

 

If we are to compete with the Farnboroughs of this world (rumoured to have taken Leroy Griffiths on loan from QPR for £800 per week) then we will have to increase our income, which boils down to more people through the gates. So bring your pals to the Dagenham Game and put the money in the club.

 

Then we can almost sign Rivaldo <img src="/forums/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

[John M.(GNFC)]

You have a good point there Dave about gate receipts, I seem to remember getting laughed at 2 years ago (though not by yourself) when I put the question about T.V. money disappearing and apparently politically correct league chairman clamouring for their terraces to return to put the gates back up in some cases by as much as 40%. <img src="/forums/images/icons/smirk.gif" alt="" />

[wobbly Wayne II]

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So bring your pals to the Dagenham Game and put the money in the club.

 

 

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This is the key to any long term success. Lets all continue to spread the word.

I think the friendly attendances have been disappointing bearing in mind our success of last season, and lets hope that the momentum of increased gates that we got throughout last season has not been lost.

 

Lets keep those turnstiles clicking and give Andy <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/director.gif" alt="" /> a chance to compete with the big boys.

[Alan W (GNFC)]

Do Farnborough's gates really justify £800 per week to one player then ?? I certainly dont recall them having a wonderful average last season ?

 

Apart from that I do agree that getting people through the gate is extremely important, even if , perhaps, gate money isnt the largest part of the clubs income.

 

Perhaps its time also to have a fresh push with our lottery arrangements, if we are getting some new people through the gate ?

[Guest]

Farnboro' have always been high payers due to Westleys millions.

 

A couple of my mates were there a few years ago , and they were getting between 4 & 5 hundred in the Rymans , plus he gets a few of them 'jobs' in his company.

 

However , for a club like ours, gate money is bread and butter ..