Alan Sugar on football..
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 7:13 pm
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.
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.