Alan Sugar on football..

[max_tranmere]

Did anyone watch this programme on BBC2 tonight (Sunday), it was very interesting. Alan Sugar, who used to own part of Tottenham aswell as his other businesses, looked at the 'beautiful' game tonight and some interesting things were revealed.

Things such as: Harry Rednapp, one of the most experienced managers in the game and who was interviewed for the programme, has no idea what his players earn - that is something the Chairman and others deal with, and I suspect most managers don't know what their players earn either.

We also learn that when Harry Rednapp and his generation of players were young players they generally had other jobs - Harry was a top-flight player but also worked in a supermarket stacking shelves in order to save money for his wedding (that wouldn't happen now).

The progamme showed Alan Shearer saying that he, and many others, were not worth the ridiculous money that was paid to buy them from the clubs they were at when they moved to another club.

It also revealed just how money orientated top-flight clubs now are, and how they wages consume the lions-share of the income for a club, in fact most of it is on the never-never - it is the vast overdraft that is paying most of the wages and the overdrafts are worsening for these top clubs all the time.

Alan Sugar said that top clubs are not run like normal businesses and implied that if they were many would have, and also deserve to, go bust and disappear.

They detailed how Sky TV buying up most of the broadcasting rights 20 years ago pumped so much money into the game that it was then that loads of foreigners started to arrive to play in England. Harry Rednapp said that when he was a young player most, if not all, of the players lived within 10 miles of the ground.

Did anyone else see this? It was a very interesting programme.

[Jonone]

Harry must know what players are on in order to work-out his 'bunce' from transfers !grin!

[Arginald Valleywater]

I avoid anything with Alan Sugar, he is an over opinionated bully.

[David Johnson]

Harry Redknapp - appearing in a court near you on a tax evasion charge.

He obviously has some financial awareness! But not in the way that makes the Revenue happy.

Cheers
D

[RoddersUK]

Yeh, and don't forget that most useless of articles the Amstrad computer.
The best thing that ever happened in the PC world was the demise of that shyte. Unfortunately Sugar didn't go down the pan with it as he should have.

[Dave Wells]

Most of Sugars ideas that he put forward at the end were correct and very constructive in reshaping the way football should be run. But the problem is that they probably won't happen a bit like communism really - great idea but can't work because of one thing - greed !

[max_tranmere]

[belfast_birty]

I agree.Alan Sugar's programme highlights the dire finances in football.Clubs look as if they're sleepwalking into a disaster.Bring it on!