Cardiff kit change

[Tin basher]

We are used to teams changing their kit on a regular basis but normally the change is not to drastic but now Cardiff have really changes theirs. From being known as the bluebirds and playing in blue the new owners have decided that now it's the dragons and they will play in red.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18337392

Like the red devils becoming the blue angels, or spurs playing in red and white whilst sponsored by a mosque. Is there a limit for fans or are we doomed to slavishly follow the whims of foreign owners.

 

[propersplitbrainme]

or are we doomed to slavishly follow the whims of foreign owners.

Yes. Yes we are.

 

[MeRlIn HaTeR]

Last company accounts had us at £70 million in debt and losing a million a month.

We owe Sam Hamman through the Langstone group, PNG for the new stadium, all profits on player sales go to the Chairman of Coventry and 12 mil a year to the Malaysians. Short term cash raisers are affecting us long term such as the 5 year price freeze on ST's and selling the food rights for 10 years for less than a seasons profit!

There are no local multimillionaire playboy's on the horizon to rescue us, trying to service our existing debts means we fail the Financial Fair Play Rules. The re-branding is supposedly aimed at opening new revenue streams in the far east and includes a new Academy, Training Facility, Paying Off the historic debts and supposedly leaves some for a transfer kitty.

Without the Malaysians the club would have gone the way of Chester City and Scarborough, I'm not happy about the change in colours but I would rather Cardiff be Red than Dead!

 

[Tashy_Man]

I'm not happy about the change in colours but I would rather Cardiff be Red than Dead!

I agree but can see a lot of fans boycotting the new colours and they will forever be known as the Bluebirds to me.....

Crack on.................DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[FOGHORN LEGHORN]

If the away kit is blue, just buy that one. My club Plymouth Argyle were so close to disappearing last season. At the darkest of times if someone suggested that the only option for survival was to change from green to another colour and change the nickname... we'd have taken that over folding. The FA need to structure wages in football in line with what league a club is in. When we were relegated twice in two seasons we were crippled each time by wages. That and dodgy investment and financial management. I for one am sick of millionaires buying clubs flooding them with money sending wages and transfer fees through the roof. There is no sustainment in this. If football is to have a future outside of the top ten or so premier league clubs the FA has to get a grip. UEFA also need to implement these measures throughout Europe. Megastars can still earn big bucks through image rights which is fair enough as that is taking a cut out of money they earn the club. Football is suffering and its not just confined to the FL.

Madrid and Barcelona have been bailed out several times by Spain. Can't see that happening in the current climate. Can you?

 

[Joe_90]

The NHL did something similar to wages about eight years ago. They got it wrong at first though by trying to cap all earnings, including image rights. It killed a whole season as the players went on strike. I don't think anyone in football has the minerals to stand up to the players and agents anymore.

 

[FOGHORN LEGHORN]

No need to cap image rights. If they earn the club money they deserve a cut. You're right that nobody has the balls up stand up to players and agents.

Top players can earn £200K per week. That's £10.4M a year. Add a squad of at least 20 players... How can these football clubs sustain that???

 

[propersplitbrainme]

Top players can earn £200K per week. That's £10.4M a year. Add a squad of at least 20 players... How can these football clubs sustain that???

There's all sorts of financial shenanigans goes on in the background to try and sustain high levels of spending on transfers and wages. A lot of eyebrows were raised when Etihad Airways entered a £400 million sponsorship deal with Man City a deal that UEFA suggested they were going to look into when it was signed just about a year ago, there can be little doubt that it comes as UEFA set about implementing their financial fair play rules.
My own club dropped out of the premier league's top 4 three seasons ago and doesn't look like getting back in there any time soon, and I have no desire whatsoever for Fenway Sports Group to go on a Gillett and Hicks style mortgaging of the club just to allow us to try to compete in the transfer market with the likes of Chelsea and Man City. Eden Hazard was once strongly linked with a move to Anfield but that was never on once Chelsea and Man U showed interest. A lot of Liverpool fans sneer at our near neighbours, but Bill Kenwright runs a tight ship across at Goodison and they have more than held their own with carefully selected players and one of the better managers in the premier league; their only real threat at the moment is losing Moyes to a club like Spurs if the unrest with Redknapp sees itself through to a parting of the ways.
Top level football may just end up consuming itself in its own orgy of self-indulgence, as the recession continues and people start to find money ever tighter attendances will drop. At £45 a pop for tickets to Anfield and over £90 for best price tickets at the Emirates its money many are going to choose not to spend. I for one had a ball last season with cup runs that cost me a bloody fortune but its not something I'm going to repeat this season, league games only this time and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

What links TB`s Cardiff with FL`s Plymouth ?
Ans....Peter Ridsdale.
The man with the opposite of the Midas touch (perhaps the Gordon Brown touch), everything he touches turns to sh1te. Or more accurately, he does very well but the clubs appear to wither on the vine, funny that. (And him never taking a wageDT_Xtremez_42: ....just some mighty expenses.)


A salary cap is/was enforceable in the NHL because it was just one country. The FA/PL can`t bring it in over here unilaterally, they need UEFA/FIFA to step in and make it euro wide. They`ve taken a step toward this with the financial fair-play rule, but like everything else they do, they`ve made a balls up of it. Its been watered down to `balancing the books` over a rolling three year period, meaning you can spend like mad for two years and then write off the third. And what are the penalties ? Theres no way they`ll have the gumption to tell Real Madrid or Man Utd that their not entering the Champions League, the sponsors would lynch them.

 

[Spurdog]

UEFA’s so called ‘’fair play’’ rules are merely Mr.Platini’s latest attempt to hobble English football. He is intensely jealous of the money generated by the premiership on the back of their sky deal and wants to put the boot in.

The salary cap in the NFL works because the league owns the clubs. The ‘’owners’’ pay for the rights to operate them under a franchise agreement. That’s also how they get away with the draft pick system where the weakest club gets the first pick of the new players coming out of the college teams each season. Can you imagine the clubs in European football agreeing to a system like that? Money and vested interest will win every time.