Money can’t buy you cups

Raghav · 31-03-2010, 01:30 AM

"I bet he was well pissed off when Inter dumped Chelsea out of the Euro Champs. All that money, up to £160,000 a week, plopping into the pockets of Terry and Lampard and Drogba, being feted and cosseted, but doing no real work in return, showing no fire or energy, just take take take."

Money can't buy you cups

BoyBrumby · 31-03-2010, 03:12 AM

Money alone doesn't win cups, but it does help. You only have to look at Chelsea's pre and post Abramovich records.

Author weakens his point by referring to Fulham as an example of a non-moneyed club too; before Al Fayed took over they were flitting between the second and third tiers and hadn't been in top flight for (I'd guess) 30 years. Uncle Mo might not have Roman's bottomless pit, but by any reasonable measure he's one of the super-rich.

GIMH · 31-03-2010, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Money alone doesn't win cups, but it does help. You only have to look at Chelsea's pre and post Abramovich records.

Author weakens his point by referring to Fulham as an example of a non-moneyed club too; before Al Fayed took over they were flitting between the second and third tiers and hadn't been in top flight for (I'd guess) 30 years. Uncle Mo might not have Roman's bottomless pit, but by any reasonable measure he's one of the super-rich.

More like third and fourth

BoyBrumby · 31-03-2010, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

More like third and fourth

Good pedantry under pressure from the young Liverpudlian.

GIMH · 31-03-2010, 07:04 AM

GingerFurball · 31-03-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Money alone doesn't win cups, but it does help. You only have to look at Chelsea's pre and post Abramovich records.

Author weakens his point by referring to Fulham as an example of a non-moneyed club too; before Al Fayed took over they were flitting between the second and third tiers and hadn't been in top flight for (I'd guess) 30 years. Uncle Mo might not have Roman's bottomless pit, but by any reasonable measure he's one of the super-rich.

Even that's misleading.

The most important person at any football club is the manager. Split the Abramovich era into with Mourinho and without him and I'd wager that there'll be a pretty wide gulf.

marc71178 · 31-03-2010, 10:41 AM

Actually IIRC Ranieri's last season wasn't that bad and he was the one who bought most of the team that went on to win the league under Mourinho - could it be they needed time to bed in?

Prince EWS · 31-03-2010, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Raghav

Money can't buy you cups

DWTA

GingerFurball · 31-03-2010, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by marc71178

Actually IIRC Ranieri's last season wasn't that bad and he was the one who bought most of the team that went on to win the league under Mourinho - could it be they needed time to bed in?

No it wasn't, and with the exception of Carvalho and Drogba, the spine of the team was either signed by Ranieri, or in the case of John Terry, developed by Ranieri.

Still didn't win anything mind. That didn't happen until Mourinho.

Marcuss · 31-03-2010, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Prince EWS

DWTA

Beaten

Redbacks · 01-04-2010, 11:56 PM

clearly can and does!

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BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,642	Money alone doesn't win cups, but it does help. You only have to look at Chelsea's pre and post Abramovich records. Author weakens his point by referring to Fulham as an example of a non-moneyed club too; before Al Fayed took over they were flitting between the second and third tiers and hadn't been in top flight for (I'd guess) 30 years. Uncle Mo might not have Roman's bottomless pit, but by any reasonable measure he's one of the super-rich. __________________ *- As featured in The Independent.* "This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers." - Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads

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