As a Watford fan, it's always funny to see the disconnect between what the fans think and what the media/general football fans think. Glad you actually took the fan point of view! Happy with our placement, we're the best run we have been for decades but still room to improve
spot on!!!! we ( leicester ) are so lucky to have such wonderful owners that really care about not only the club but the community and the county as a whole we can never thank them enough rip vichai xxx
Entire way through, I was like "Brentford is going to be up there". When they came around at 2 and Norwich had already gone, I wasn't entirely sure who would be at top. In tears when it was Leicester. If anyone's in doubt how much those owners mean to the club, just take the year where the helicopter crash happened. Everyone were distraught. Players, fans and even some opponents. They are, in every way, enviable. Also becoming quite a fan of Bloom in Brighton!
I'd love to see one of these for the championship or league 1, where I'm sure the worse run clubs are now - if this video is received as well by others as it was by me of course
Well speaking as a Spurs fan I think this was actually a pretty reasonable assessment of all the clubs in the league . I must admit I never thought Norwich got enough credit for even being able to get into the premiership as a relatively small fan base and a regional team I think they’ve done bloody brilliant without having to break the bank The same thing goes for Brighton who have done even better , very impressed with both of these clubs .
I don't disagree with Chelsea being middle of the pack, but I don't see how City can be so far above them. Abramovich needs the vote of the CPO to move the stadium. He can't just uproot and move off.
Oldham athletic are currently one of the worst run football clubs in the whole football league (soon to be national league), despite formerly being a premier league club. Really hoping you can make a deep dive on the club soon
As a Liverpool fan, I am very happy to see how the team is performing especially last few years however, I do agree that sometimes it feels frustrating to see the lack of depth or wiling to push for the players they want. The team is aging though the new arrivals from the acedamy are exciting some new players might help in overall performance of the team.
I agree, as a Leicester fan, it's been crazy but in a good way. I suppose the best thing is that it gives hope to smaller teams that you can win the biggest prize in football.
There is absolutely no way Tottenham are 8th. 15th at best. - Constant transfer market failures - a stadium that looks good but is atmosphere deprived - trying to move Spurs to Stratford, not even anywhere near Tottenham, taking the club out of the community - £1bn debt when Joe Lewis, the man with the money, has a net worth of billions - Tried to demolish parts of the road the stadium is on even when the new ground was built - no signings for 18 months - most expensive tickets in Europe - Red sponsors - Changing the name of white hart lane - low ball offers for EVERY player tried to sign - 9 month delay to build an NFL stadium - Sacked Pochettino and replaced him with two useless managers - Furloughing staff - £60 ticket for Villa at home at the end of last season, 2-1 loss and the fans were forced to sit in the upper tier just so that the fans watching on TV could see the advertising things on the seats in the lower tier was an absolute disgrace - having Darude Sandstorm on as goal music in the absence of fans - Tried to join the ESL - total of £0 pumped into the club in the last couple of years compared to 500m from the likes of Chelsea despite Lewis’ wealth
The true problem at Tottenham is Joe Lewis. So much of the blame always goes to Levy, but Lewis is the man with the money who refuses to invest in the team. Then when he does, he wants to spend bare minimum on academy players from the championship. On the rare occasion he buys a big player, he buys the wrong ones with shit attitudes and actively makes the sqaud worse. He's a cancer on our club
I agree with most of the list, but would bump Spurs closer to 14 - better run than Arsenal, as much as it pains me to say, but not by much. They've managed to go from title candidates back to 6th favourites for the Champions League, and while they could never financially compete with Man City for example, a little investment would have likely got them over the line at least once
As a Brentford fan since the dark days in league 2, I never thought in my lifetime I would see them in the Premiership. To see them run so well now is just incredible. I just hope that they can keep up the success. I do think they will need to invest some more in players at some point if they want to stay up for multiple seasons.
also gives hope for fans of newly well-run clubs like me with port vale. always something to look at among the hopelessness of the big fans big money clubs
While I agree with the high wages being seen as an issue, you have to look at where we were when Steve Parish and co took over at Palace nearly 12 years ago
Good video but think you got us wrong, at Brighton our recruitment has been great but we have been unable to do what Chelsea and Man City do and thats is make good money of the players not good enough for the first team (ie Gyökeres, Locadia, Tau etc) but as a fan the biggest love I have for Bloom is not the improvement in the training facilities but it is the his loans and money into the club is unsecured, which sets us apart if he dies or loses interest there is no commitment for us to pay them back.
Chelsea are way lower than I expected but listening to Alfie’s reasons, I understand why. I still would’ve put them higher though. What I do not understand at all, is how spurs are higher than chelsea
17th for Southampton is incredibly unfair given the size of their fanbase and the fact they have had one of the lowest net spends in the Premier League for the last 5-8 years. I would argue Watford are a worst run club than Southampton given they have a similar sided fan base and have injected similar levels of funding into the club but have achieved different results (e.g. relegation).
Yeh we are pretty well run over the last 3-4 years considering the circumstances. I mean Newcastle consistently moaned about Mike Ashley as an owner but how many £40 million players have Saints signed? None, we have had virtually zero outside investment for like 5-6 years now relying entirely on staying on the league and player sales. You could criticise the regime like around 2015-16, sales that gutted the team, poor replacements and poor managerial appointments. But since those people have gone we have been stable and self sustainable. Plus I don't think you can count clubs like Watford or Villa as being better run, they have been relegated and got promoted, and Villa have spent millions to sit basically the same level in the table as us (and have just replaced their manager, and almost got relegated the season before last), they have had far far more investment for no more success and they have had the benefit that all promoted clubs have, they come up in the PL get all the PL money but have players basically on championship wages for a while. When you are in the PL for a long time you tend to accumulate your longer term players on bigger contracts and strain the wage bill without necessarily having more quality. Bar maybe Burnley I doubt you will find many clubs that have been in the league for the last 5 years that have a lower spend or net spend than us.
@@bananaboy7687 Yeh we have though basically the same people who were running the club are in place. We got a new CEO like 3 years ago, and new DOF and Chief scout over the last two years and the club has been much better run under them even though the club had no money because our owner couldn't get any money out of China. So now we have a new owner and hopefully some new investment so we should do even better considering what they have done with little resources. Also the guy that was a Brentford's co-DOF and a big part of their success is also part of our ownership group as well.
absolutely right about liverpool. they're a fantastically run club and deserve to be 3rd on this list, but what feels like most of liverpools fanbase will tell you that the owners are horrible. foolish
Facts!!! I'm a Chelsea fan and I agree the 9th spot is right....yes we've won big trophies but our scouting and transfer records recently have been horrendous..
They're not well run though are they. Like Man City they're bankrolled by an oligarch, and without that money to falsely prop them up they'd be mid table or worse.
@@faze_garbage6673 The main difference is that City were properly run before Mansour took over, unlike Chelsea who were in crippling debt and heading for the championship, or worse.
Longest club/Player associations, basically the longest running relationships between clubs and players/Managers/Directors. I.E. Diego Simione spent 5 years as a player at Atletico and 11 as manager for 16 total years present day.
Can you do a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they went up the English football leagues.
Given all that happened at Villa during the season before Smith came in, I'm genuinely shocked I'm not supporting AFC Aston at this point. I generally agree with Villa's place but given that we came out of the pandemic debt free, no furloughing staff whilst also not firing anyone, I think aa place or two above where you've put us.
When I was travelling through Bangkok airport on holiday in 2011 I think I might have been there team at the time. Imagine going up to them and say that in 4 years time you would win the Premier League.
Suggestion: Rank the premier league academies. With so much emphasis on home-grown talent coming through and some great shots of academies and training grounds in this accomplishment, why not feature this. Base it on either success, investment, potential or a mix of all three.
I think the stadium mention for Chelsea is unfair because what stopped our ground expansion was Roman being deported for simply being Russian and knowing putin cuz of Salisbury and that we don’t want to move ground away from the bridge and leave our only home
@@hoze1235 fair point but I still fail to see the link between a football club owner and poisoning by Russian agents like yeah fair if he ordered it on another club owner or player but come on lol
As a Sheffield Wednesday fan this video makes me sad. Bring back the Chris Waddle and David Hirst days pleeeeaaase. Oh and do a video on the Owls please. However depressing it’ll be. 😭
Agree for the most part but no way Chelsea are below Tottenham or Norwich. Not a Chelsea fan but you can`t put a club that is regularly competing for (and winning) Champions League and League titles below a club who gets relegated every other season, and a club who literally hasn`t won a thing even though they had some of the best young talent in England and arguably the spine of the national team. The argument to justify Manchester City in the top 5 could be easily applied to Chelsea, though I would still put City ahead of them.
I wish the FA would ban leveraged buyouts of clubs. There is minimal risk to the individual owners involved and everything to gain. This is not a mortgage against a house, it is buying something that every fan of that club has a stake in. To show your commitment to it you must use your own resources to buy it IMO.
I'm standing by my idea "7 footballing fairytails that fell at the last hurdle"...maybe I'm just cynical but I think those seasons/club campaigns deserve more attention!
at the start of the decade, we were emerging from a drop into league 1 and by the end we’ve won a premier league and fa cup and established ourselves as a top 8 side 💙🦊
Absolutely fantastic video bro 1st thank you for time spent making this the quality and effort is unmatched the facts and in depth breakdown of each club the pics where hilarious your sense of humour was too much as well lol if anybody questions this man’s judgment go do one #glazersout
How on earth can you put Watford and others as a better ran club than Villa? I always agree with you Normally but you're miles off with where you ranked villa here Alfie. Villa are superbly ran nowadays & definitely should be in the top 5
Pretty pleased with Norwich's ranking although they really could be higher. Although the performances on pitch recently aren't much to shout about, they've achieved Premier League status whilst being a self-sustaining club without any big investment from the owners, have a loyal fan base who regularly sell out home games and away ticket allocations, having a decent youth academy system that has produced the likes of Max Aarons and Todd Cantwell in recent years as well as recently redeveloping the club training ground. Considering the state the club was in a few years back, it's been one hell of a turnaround.
They're incredibly well run and their model of getting young players and selling them on for profit while being able to be in around the top 20-25 teams in the English football pyramid has been very successful
I'm glad other people aswell as our fans have begun realising how badly everton have been run. As a fan it's been excruciating watch us pay ott prices for poor average players, failing to sign young and exciting players to replace the good ones we have, failing in long term planning, lack of consistency in terms of types of managers overpaying mercenaries who just sit on the bench or reserves and finally the lack of communication from the board. Everything has been a shambles under Moshiri except for how the new stadium has been handled and a restructure from teb top down is desperately needed
Tbh all of our stars for the most part have been young and good prospects , the experienced additions like Allan and James were made to get an immediate impact as well as show the future/current world class players (like Richardson / Pickford / Calvert lewin / digne) that we mean business .
Albeit digne looks headed out . Evertons a top 7 mainstay (qualification for Europe) , the new stadium will help us break into that top 6 and hopefully kick a big boy down a peg
See you put Leeds lower mid table even though they’ve been completely ran within FFP without any risk of falling foul of it. Now add on the renovation of the training facilities and the stadium being updated in a years time, they’re progressing the actual way a well ran team should. Cannot argue about the strength in depth but 100% better ran than Norwich, spurs and Watford
Now that there's a video like this done with the Premier League clubs, there should be ones done with the Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 & La Liga clubs because it would be interesting to hear HITC Sevens take on how Juventus, Bayern, Dortmund, Inter, AC Milan & especially Real Madrid, Barcelona & PSG are run.
Please do a video about the Portuguese 'club' , 'Belenenses SAD' , that recently went to a game with only 9 players against Benfica .Its a 'fake' club playing in the First League , but the 'Original' club had to start in the Non League Portuguese Football .
So far 2 of my video ideas got accept so I think my comments aren't the worst run ones. So I suggest: Day 9: Top 7 second/amateur teams in football (Hertha BSC II which almost won the DFB Pokal, Real Madrid Castilla who lost to their first team in the spanish cup in 1980 but got into Europe, Wellington Phoenix Reserves who play in the NZ National League)
liverpool 3rd with a net spend below huddersfield since december 2018. New training ground, stadium expansion and FSG bought the Pittsburgh penguins but we have ZERO depth. We dont sign anyone its horrible. We are wasting this golden era with Salah, Trent, Mane, VVD with Klopp to win some trophies and we only have a few to show for it because FSG refuse to spend money on signings. As a liverpool fan i am disgusted with FSG.
Great video mate, as a norwich fan, nice to hear good things said about our club as a lot of people do laugh at us for being a self funded club and a yoyo club, but at least we live within our means. If you'd are this video a couple of years back we'd be near bottom as when we sold James Maddison that actually saved the club from liquidation but since then we've been very well run
Spurs fan here. The club is run fine from a business standpoint. But football wise it's so frustrating. Our scouting has been terrible bar one or two signings (Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Moura), we've buy players who don't fit the system/manager, and Levy's transfer fee demands have made selling deadwood near impossible at times. Then there's the whole bit where our managers haven't been backed in transfer windows. Poch's whole interview about getting washing machines instead of dryers comes to mind. Poch had wanted Grealish, Mourinho wanted Fernandes, it's the same story season after season. And then we end up buying players for high fees who are trainwrecks (Ndombele, Sissoko, Sanchez)
As a West Ham fan, I agree with your placement here. We have gone from being one of, if not the, worst run club in the PL, to slightly-less-badly-run! I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact we've now got a manager who has some balls and is delivering with results on the pitch. That gives Moyes a lot more clout to tell GSB to back the hell off and keep their collective mouth shut, which was part of the problem. Moyes has proved with his signings that he knows what he's doing so I feel that's given him more autonomy and there's a feeling that it is the manager making transfer decisions now, rather than the board (Benrahma transfer being the possible exception, although he seems to be coming good now) so that also helps. Time will tell how Kretinski's involvement will work out.
As a West Ham fan I think we are more well run than you think and we have made some very good signings lately, including Said Benrahma, Jarrod Bowen, and we have done a very good job at keeping Declan Rice so far.
As a Liverpool fan I’d put them maybe 11/12 owners that make a profit every year are not good owners, klopp is doing amazing as are the players but with more and more clubs having billionaire owners it won’t be long until they start slipping down heck they won’t pay the worlds current best player 400k but man United (a terrible run club) pay that to bench warmers and around 90% of his wealth comes from Liverpool and Red Sox
While i agree with then lower and they have the sell before buying rules,i disagree on the 400k wage ,yes he should get that hands down (even if i cant stand him i know fully well he is a great player that we got lucky to get for nothing) BUT that could have a domino effect that we cant afford,imagine he gets that then vvd mane fabinho and other future players ask for that much,its a risk and while we need to keep our best players we cant just throw money around just cause other clubs are run poorly,look at the mancs wage bill and see how bad it is with them paying huge money for deadwood.
Aston Villa is top 4 imo saved the club and invested heavily with fantastic signings now including digne and Coutinho, also plans to increase the stadium and the transport around it along With the entire city near considering neither owners are even from the country is massive
Despite our uptick in form, Arsenal should be a bit lower on the list around 17th (we’re not the circuses that are Everton and United and the Burnley situation is deeply troubling), years of underinvestment and extraction of funds into Kroenke’s other teams still have us in a massive predicament
Under investment? Quite a bit has been invested into arsenal's playing squad the last half a decade and some. The problem it was a bit of a throw shit at the wall approach. Another problem is match day costing a fortune
I feel so bad for Burnley, considering that they were at two points in their history, English champions, fielded a great team in the 50s and 60s, and were in a European Cup.
People need to understand That Chelsea pitch owners will never allow Chelsea to play at another Stadium rather than Bridge If Roman wants to Make a new stadium He'll have to give up the name Chelsea And everything related to it And give anew name to team Hence The price of tickets is High and yes 42k Seats is Quite low Considering its Chelsea Plus if you wages into account Chelsea are A very good run club No wonder they aren't Giving Rudi what he wants
The money mostly came from abramovic, and actually in huge debt. Many failed big transfers like bakayoko and drinkwater. If abramovic suddenly leave then it will be in similar situation with doing a leeds.
You could do a full video on Man City like all the other football UA-camrs, or you could do something like an XI of players from clubs in sub-Saharan Africa and truly make your mark in the world of football UA-cam. Your choice, Alfie
The only gripes I have with John Henry and FSG is that they invest in everything except what really matters, the team, all success has been down to lucking out with getting the most perfect manager Liverpool could ever have, and that after 12 years of ownership, FSG still don't seem to understand the fanbase whatsoever.
Best run clubs = Man City, Chelsea, Leicester, and Wolves (recent years) Good run clubs but not the best = Liverpool, Brentford (recent years), and Brighton Decent run clubs but could be a lot better = West Ham (last couple of years), Spurs, Aston Villa, Southampton, Leeds, Burnley, and Crystal Palace Poor run clubs = Everton, Watford, Norwich Worst run clubs = Man United (recent years), Arsenal, and Newcastle (until recently)
@@bri1085 I’m not a Chelsea fan whatsoever, but ever since Abramovich took over they’ve been the most successful English club. Abramovich may not do things the good way, but he gets the trophies.
Brighton should be higher. Bloom is a boyhood fan who's built the club on sustainable foundations whilst making an effort to constantly invest in the future.
@@nu-metalfan2654 haven't looked like winning the league in quite a while now, Chelsea have been mostly restricted to the Cup competitions most people don't care as much for. It's like envying city for their success in the league Cup calling Chelsea the most successful team of the century, because it's built on winning the smaller trophies
Southampton in 17th is a rare howler from you Alfie. Honestly, you could swap Norwich and Southampton and the list would make more sense. I'd also bump up Palace and Villa a couple of places. And this might just be the Chelsea bias inside me but I can't understand how Spurs are above us just cause they have a shiny new stadium for the NFL and Dua Lipa concerts. Maybe if you're an accountant that ranking makes sense but from the perspective of a football fan, not really. Marina Granovskaia is an absolute legend and we're probably the best selling club in the world, Cobham is now the best academy in the country and arguably the best in Europe. Most importantly, our transfer model is on its way to making us self sustainable. This summer we broke our transfer record by signing Lukaku but still had a net spend in the positive. When we spent 200 million in the summer of 2020, that money came from the sales of Hazard and Morata. We have one of the best managers in the world and a young team of world class talents. Even the whole reason why we won't get a new stadium is because the fans won't allow it. Abramovich has already tried in the past to move us to a new venue but there is no Chelsea FC without Stamford Bridge.
Also might be worth noting - Leicester has managed all this, while simultaneously investing the in city itself - that alone should separate them from Brentford, imo
This is true however they also entered the super league there is also the current disgrace of tickets in a certain area going up by 200% and also the fact they’re 1.5 billion in debt to their owner
I would put Manchester City and Chelsea 1 and 2 respectively as they are the best run clubs. Their owners have made them very successful and deserve a lot of credit.
You should consider making one of these video's about the best run clubs in Europe, or just the premier League. Edit: Im very eager to know if my club would end up in the video.
Spurs above Chelsea is so laughable. I've never heard a fan say they don't like Abramovich. He's prepared to put money from his pocket into the club when it's needed, has gifted us with so much sucess and stays out the spotlight (but in a good way). Chelsea fans will forever be thankful for the Abramovich era.
Yeah I have to disagree, as an LFC fan, with your placement of FSG. They obviously aren't awful, but they have really not invested into the squad in the same way as even the Glazers at United or Moshiri at Everton have. With them we essentially need to sell before we can buy which, for a club who recently won both the Champions League and Premier League, is frankly just embarrassing
What are you expecting from FSG, to keep a squad that's too big just to say at least we don't have a buy to sell policy? Liverpool have a 24 man squad, with the foreign quota already having been met, the pull for players you can sign isn't particularly massive.
@@bri1085 I mean we're one of thr biggest clubs in the World and have come off the back of two incredibly successful seasons so I pull was and still is massive. Actual backups are actually required and replacements are needed when we sell. Last season there was no CB replacement for Lovren, this season no CM replacement for Gini, we also didn't replace Shaqiri and with AFCON have some pitiful choices for a forward line wanting to gun for the league. Investment is really needed and they've been incredibly poor with it in those regards
As a Liverpool fan as well, I love what FSG is doing with the club. Their philosophy is sustainability whilst winning. If we pump in money to buy players, we would be just another City, or yet worse another Man United. Our club has been self-reliant and sustainable since they took over whilst winning the most prestigious cups in club football. They have kept all their promises to us. New stand built, another in the works, new state of the art training facilities. They have won us the league as promised as well. They also listen to Jurgen, the design of AXA training is based on what Jurgen demands like integrating youth facilities with the senior team for more inspiration for our youngsters. As for transfers, Klopp and Edwards doesnt want to rush and sign players cus they need to, they sign the right players, even if it takes time
@@cameron9385 Shaqiri hardly played, he was replaced by Elliott, but did he really need replacing? AFCON affects 2 league games, if missing 3 players for 2 games, against Brentford and Palace is what undoes your season, then probably weren't winning the league anyway.
@@bri1085 He does need replacing, our attacking back ups are simply not good enough. On the wings we have nobody! Minamino and Origi are not good enough wingers, Minamino is a failed signing now while Origi is good as someone to stick up front. But we need wide players. Elliott also isn't a wide player, he's obviously been deployed as a CM this season so that solves nothing, on top of the fact we're putting a lot onto a teen AND that he's injured. You cannot say we don't need backups. This isn't just about AFCON, it's about the whole season
A lot of Wolves fans have been very upset at the owners for the past few years, but especially last Summer, over a reluctance to spend big (ignore the championship winning season and first season in the Prem, all Wolves fans know we spent well there). I think this is a problem of fan bias causing error, as opposed to an outsider seeing things wrong, though. Our owners are reluctant to spend big, because spending big isn't necessarily a good thing. As the current Premier League table should illustrate, big wages and signing fees aren't conducive to success, and our spending has generally been very efficient, if relatively low. As well as this, our Summer window spend available was reportedly net £2 million, if memory serves correctly, yet we still have managed to sign one of the top-performing goalkeepers in the league, make official the signing of one of the best full-back prospects around (in my *totally* unbiased opinion :) ) in Ait-Nouri, and propel ourselves back into European contention by addressing our biggest short-fall last season - our complete demolition of a formerly solid defence. Next Summer, with more profits from league position (assuming we don't fall apart) and stadiums selling out again, should be a good one. If not, I will retract my defence of the current board strategy, but in the meantime I am firmly on team Fosun, against a decent chunk of fellow Wolves fans. (also, to be clear, the anti-Fosun sentiment has vastly diminished this season compared to the end of last, but it feels like fans are very much so ready to turn on the board if this season peters out and the lack of spending appears detrimental)
As a Watford fan, it's always funny to see the disconnect between what the fans think and what the media/general football fans think. Glad you actually took the fan point of view! Happy with our placement, we're the best run we have been for decades but still room to improve
As an Everton fan a few seconds before he said Everton I thought to myself “Everton are going to be the first one”
So true
Congrats! Top of the table.
Im an everton fan and i thought the same thing....LOL. My heart sank when he said only Chelsea have spent more than us in the last 6 years🤕
@@BlueSkies8967 Good old Everton 🙃
Lol I’m an Everton fan and was also thinking “I bet we’re #1” and there it was lol … COYB!!!
spot on!!!! we ( leicester ) are so lucky to have such wonderful owners that really care about not only the club but the community and the county as a whole we can never thank them enough rip vichai xxx
So so true
About that...
Entire way through, I was like "Brentford is going to be up there". When they came around at 2 and Norwich had already gone, I wasn't entirely sure who would be at top. In tears when it was Leicester. If anyone's in doubt how much those owners mean to the club, just take the year where the helicopter crash happened. Everyone were distraught. Players, fans and even some opponents. They are, in every way, enviable.
Also becoming quite a fan of Bloom in Brighton!
Not only could Leicester replace players they sell on to other clubs, their ownership didn’t fall apart after that fateful helicopter crash.
I'd love to see one of these for the championship or league 1, where I'm sure the worse run clubs are now - if this video is received as well by others as it was by me of course
Well speaking as a Spurs fan I think this was actually a pretty reasonable assessment of all the clubs in the league .
I must admit I never thought Norwich got enough credit for even being able to get into the premiership as a relatively small fan base and a regional team I think they’ve done bloody brilliant without having to break the bank The same thing goes for Brighton who have done even better , very impressed with both of these clubs .
Yeah
Norwich have decent support and sell out every week, every season in the champ. They clearly need a bigger stadium.
I think this idea would be cool in a "Top 7 worst run clubs in the English Football League system"
I don't disagree with Chelsea being middle of the pack, but I don't see how City can be so far above them. Abramovich needs the vote of the CPO to move the stadium. He can't just uproot and move off.
He can, he's part of the mafia
Do you know what the CPO is?
Chelsea are 1.5B in debt to Roman
City have Zero 0 debt!!!
@@moaz6588 aged well
Oldham athletic are currently one of the worst run football clubs in the whole football league (soon to be national league), despite formerly being a premier league club. Really hoping you can make a deep dive on the club soon
Might be worst ran in any professional league of Europe although with Malaga, Southend United, and a few others around.
Hey Alfie, reckon you could do a video on the Top 7 players who can sign a precontract this window? Keep up the great work!
That’s a good one for this summer, some amazing free agents this year.
As a Liverpool fan, I am very happy to see how the team is performing especially last few years however, I do agree that sometimes it feels frustrating to see the lack of depth or wiling to push for the players they want. The team is aging though the new arrivals from the acedamy are exciting some new players might help in overall performance of the team.
19:34 As you can see, Alfie is not biased
I mean Wolves clearly employes his brother and they still don't get first
Well Everton is dead last so i agree
Who is his brother?
@@lucikarl4241 Fabio Silva looks like him
So do Norwich
I agree, as a Leicester fan, it's been crazy but in a good way. I suppose the best thing is that it gives hope to smaller teams that you can win the biggest prize in football.
That is an inspiration for sure. It must be a great feeling to know your club is run by decent people. People worthy of respect.
There is absolutely no way Tottenham are 8th. 15th at best.
- Constant transfer market failures
- a stadium that looks good but is atmosphere deprived
- trying to move Spurs to Stratford, not even anywhere near Tottenham, taking the club out of the community
- £1bn debt when Joe Lewis, the man with the money, has a net worth of billions
- Tried to demolish parts of the road the stadium is on even when the new ground was built
- no signings for 18 months
- most expensive tickets in Europe
- Red sponsors
- Changing the name of white hart lane
- low ball offers for EVERY player tried to sign
- 9 month delay to build an NFL stadium
- Sacked Pochettino and replaced him with two useless managers
- Furloughing staff
- £60 ticket for Villa at home at the end of last season, 2-1 loss and the fans were forced to sit in the upper tier just so that the fans watching on TV could see the advertising things on the seats in the lower tier was an absolute disgrace
- having Darude Sandstorm on as goal music in the absence of fans
- Tried to join the ESL
- total of £0 pumped into the club in the last couple of years compared to 500m from the likes of Chelsea despite Lewis’ wealth
I liked the darude sandstorm music🤷♂️
The true problem at Tottenham is Joe Lewis. So much of the blame always goes to Levy, but Lewis is the man with the money who refuses to invest in the team. Then when he does, he wants to spend bare minimum on academy players from the championship. On the rare occasion he buys a big player, he buys the wrong ones with shit attitudes and actively makes the sqaud worse. He's a cancer on our club
I agree with most of the list, but would bump Spurs closer to 14 - better run than Arsenal, as much as it pains me to say, but not by much.
They've managed to go from title candidates back to 6th favourites for the Champions League, and while they could never financially compete with Man City for example, a little investment would have likely got them over the line at least once
As a Brentford fan since the dark days in league 2, I never thought in my lifetime I would see them in the Premiership. To see them run so well now is just incredible. I just hope that they can keep up the success. I do think they will need to invest some more in players at some point if they want to stay up for multiple seasons.
Im Gooner, we lost to you this season, but I always wish well all new clubs in EPL, you showed spirit and courage Good luck :)
also gives hope for fans of newly well-run clubs like me with port vale. always something to look at among the hopelessness of the big fans big money clubs
You must have had the day of your life when the Bees gave a spanking to Man U just a couple weeks ago!!!
Proud of my club off the pitch, embarrassed by it on the pitch. Just the life of a Norwich fan 💛💚
Pukki the goat
While I agree with the high wages being seen as an issue, you have to look at where we were when Steve Parish and co took over at Palace nearly 12 years ago
Parish literally saved the club from extinction which got no mention
I reckon Palace wage bill is lower since the big recent clear out. Think only Zaha and Benteke would be on big $.
Good video but think you got us wrong, at Brighton our recruitment has been great but we have been unable to do what Chelsea and Man City do and thats is make good money of the players not good enough for the first team (ie Gyökeres, Locadia, Tau etc) but as a fan the biggest love I have for Bloom is not the improvement in the training facilities but it is the his loans and money into the club is unsecured, which sets us apart if he dies or loses interest there is no commitment for us to pay them back.
He pays for this training facilities from HIS own money and your club is going to benefit from them for decades
Chelsea are way lower than I expected but listening to Alfie’s reasons, I understand why. I still would’ve put them higher though. What I do not understand at all, is how spurs are higher than chelsea
Spurs above Chelsea is a joke
Chelsea have way more money to throw around
@@who2495 1 billions in debt, if roman gone it will be really ugly for you, that's the problem.
17th for Southampton is incredibly unfair given the size of their fanbase and the fact they have had one of the lowest net spends in the Premier League for the last 5-8 years. I would argue Watford are a worst run club than Southampton given they have a similar sided fan base and have injected similar levels of funding into the club but have achieved different results (e.g. relegation).
This was absolutely crazy. Sheer disbelief.
Yeh we are pretty well run over the last 3-4 years considering the circumstances. I mean Newcastle consistently moaned about Mike Ashley as an owner but how many £40 million players have Saints signed? None, we have had virtually zero outside investment for like 5-6 years now relying entirely on staying on the league and player sales. You could criticise the regime like around 2015-16, sales that gutted the team, poor replacements and poor managerial appointments. But since those people have gone we have been stable and self sustainable.
Plus I don't think you can count clubs like Watford or Villa as being better run, they have been relegated and got promoted, and Villa have spent millions to sit basically the same level in the table as us (and have just replaced their manager, and almost got relegated the season before last), they have had far far more investment for no more success and they have had the benefit that all promoted clubs have, they come up in the PL get all the PL money but have players basically on championship wages for a while. When you are in the PL for a long time you tend to accumulate your longer term players on bigger contracts and strain the wage bill without necessarily having more quality.
Bar maybe Burnley I doubt you will find many clubs that have been in the league for the last 5 years that have a lower spend or net spend than us.
Didn’t Southampton have a takeover?
@@bananaboy7687 Yeh we have though basically the same people who were running the club are in place. We got a new CEO like 3 years ago, and new DOF and Chief scout over the last two years and the club has been much better run under them even though the club had no money because our owner couldn't get any money out of China. So now we have a new owner and hopefully some new investment so we should do even better considering what they have done with little resources. Also the guy that was a Brentford's co-DOF and a big part of their success is also part of our ownership group as well.
I'd honestly say Arsenal should be quite down too
Amanda Staveley looks like a full make-up applied character in the musical, "Cats."
This is th perfect description of her😂😂😂
I always see her as the female version of Kenneth Copeland 😅
absolutely right about liverpool. they're a fantastically run club and deserve to be 3rd on this list, but what feels like most of liverpools fanbase will tell you that the owners are horrible. foolish
They are good in recruiting but they are tight bastards
@@somecutepuppy3125 Thiago, Diaz signing. Come on
Facts!!! I'm a Chelsea fan and I agree the 9th spot is right....yes we've won big trophies but our scouting and transfer records recently have been horrendous..
I would argue regardless of how you measure success, Chelsea have to be top 5
They're not well run though are they.
Like Man City they're bankrolled by an oligarch, and without that money to falsely prop them up they'd be mid table or worse.
@@ultrademigod with that logic city should be bottom of this list, they were literally a league 1 team
@@faze_garbage6673 The main difference is that City were properly run before Mansour took over, unlike Chelsea who were in crippling debt and heading for the championship, or worse.
Manchester United are definately the most poorly run in the Premier League
Arsenal would like to have a word with you
"They're better placed to consistently challenge the big 6... ...than West Ham or Newcastle"
Hindsight is crazy
Could you do a video about the shocking state the Manchester United are in
Longest club/Player associations, basically the longest running relationships between clubs and players/Managers/Directors. I.E. Diego Simione spent 5 years as a player at Atletico and 11 as manager for 16 total years present day.
I would love to see this format for other leagues or at least a "top 3 and bottom 3" version! Great work as always.
Can you do a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they went up the English football leagues.
Given all that happened at Villa during the season before Smith came in, I'm genuinely shocked I'm not supporting AFC Aston at this point. I generally agree with Villa's place but given that we came out of the pandemic debt free, no furloughing staff whilst also not firing anyone, I think aa place or two above where you've put us.
What on earth is going on at Oldham Athletic?
Also, Alfie, you really are the people's channel and champion! Keep up the great work!
He's already said he is doing a video on that, cant wait for it
When I was travelling through Bangkok airport on holiday in 2011 I think I might have been there team at the time. Imagine going up to them and say that in 4 years time you would win the Premier League.
As a United fan straight off the bat Everton 20th us 19th is exactly how I would have put it too
Suggestion: Rank the premier league academies. With so much emphasis on home-grown talent coming through and some great shots of academies and training grounds in this accomplishment, why not feature this. Base it on either success, investment, potential or a mix of all three.
Brentford automatically bottom because we don’t have one 😂
This would be extremely interesting to see of the championship clubs as well
I think the stadium mention for Chelsea is unfair because what stopped our ground expansion was Roman being deported for simply being Russian and knowing putin cuz of Salisbury and that we don’t want to move ground away from the bridge and leave our only home
Being close to putin
Will always be politicised
@@hoze1235 fair point but I still fail to see the link between a football club owner and poisoning by Russian agents like yeah fair if he ordered it on another club owner or player but come on lol
As a Sheffield Wednesday fan this video makes me sad. Bring back the Chris Waddle and David Hirst days pleeeeaaase.
Oh and do a video on the Owls please. However depressing it’ll be. 😭
Chelsea’s success speaks for itself. No way should they only be 9th.
Agree for the most part but no way Chelsea are below Tottenham or Norwich. Not a Chelsea fan but you can`t put a club that is regularly competing for (and winning) Champions League and League titles below a club who gets relegated every other season, and a club who literally hasn`t won a thing even though they had some of the best young talent in England and arguably the spine of the national team. The argument to justify Manchester City in the top 5 could be easily applied to Chelsea, though I would still put City ahead of them.
Love to see this 10 years ago pl and seeing what they did right
I wish the FA would ban leveraged buyouts of clubs. There is minimal risk to the individual owners involved and everything to gain. This is not a mortgage against a house, it is buying something that every fan of that club has a stake in. To show your commitment to it you must use your own resources to buy it IMO.
I'm standing by my idea "7 footballing fairytails that fell at the last hurdle"...maybe I'm just cynical but I think those seasons/club campaigns deserve more attention!
at the start of the decade, we were emerging from a drop into league 1 and by the end we’ve won a premier league and fa cup and established ourselves as a top 8 side 💙🦊
I think Brighton are a team to keep an eye on got a feeling they will go onto to do big things
I certainly hope they can hold on to Potter. He continues to impress.
Absolutely fantastic video bro 1st thank you for time spent making this the quality and effort is unmatched the facts and in depth breakdown of each club the pics where hilarious your sense of humour was too much as well lol if anybody questions this man’s judgment go do one #glazersout
How on earth can you put Watford and others as a better ran club than Villa? I always agree with you Normally but you're miles off with where you ranked villa here Alfie. Villa are superbly ran nowadays & definitely should be in the top 5
Brighton's set-up, driven by an inspiring young manager, with a unique skills set, backed by the board, is the team to watch in the future 👍
Cracking video again!
Pretty pleased with Norwich's ranking although they really could be higher. Although the performances on pitch recently aren't much to shout about, they've achieved Premier League status whilst being a self-sustaining club without any big investment from the owners, have a loyal fan base who regularly sell out home games and away ticket allocations, having a decent youth academy system that has produced the likes of Max Aarons and Todd Cantwell in recent years as well as recently redeveloping the club training ground. Considering the state the club was in a few years back, it's been one hell of a turnaround.
I dont think some people realise how little resources Norwich have achieved all of this on
@@kiria1975 yeah Delia's net worth is around 100m in a league where most owners are billionaires
They're incredibly well run and their model of getting young players and selling them on for profit while being able to be in around the top 20-25 teams in the English football pyramid has been very successful
Ranking the best & worst Premier League walkouts.
Let's go cards
I got headliners Gnabry as a walkout last week.
Good to hear someone finally telling it as it is at Norwich .
I'm glad other people aswell as our fans have begun realising how badly everton have been run. As a fan it's been excruciating watch us pay ott prices for poor average players, failing to sign young and exciting players to replace the good ones we have, failing in long term planning, lack of consistency in terms of types of managers overpaying mercenaries who just sit on the bench or reserves and finally the lack of communication from the board. Everything has been a shambles under Moshiri except for how the new stadium has been handled and a restructure from teb top down is desperately needed
Don’t worry mate . I can’t see Leicester or west ham sustaining the pomp
Tbh all of our stars for the most part have been young and good prospects , the experienced additions like Allan and James were made to get an immediate impact as well as show the future/current world class players (like Richardson / Pickford / Calvert lewin / digne) that we mean business .
Albeit digne looks headed out . Evertons a top 7 mainstay (qualification for Europe) , the new stadium will help us break into that top 6 and hopefully kick a big boy down a peg
Please do the same video for the championship, would love to know the state of how badly the majority of clubs are ran in that league
Chelsea should be way higher
See you put Leeds lower mid table even though they’ve been completely ran within FFP without any risk of falling foul of it.
Now add on the renovation of the training facilities and the stadium being updated in a years time, they’re progressing the actual way a well ran team should.
Cannot argue about the strength in depth but 100% better ran than Norwich, spurs and Watford
Love how Hull City is always the starting point of any football issue
Glad to see someone bar a United fan can the Glazers out, I respect it. Well said.
Now that there's a video like this done with the Premier League clubs, there should be ones done with the Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 & La Liga clubs because it would be interesting to hear HITC Sevens take on how Juventus, Bayern, Dortmund, Inter, AC Milan & especially Real Madrid, Barcelona & PSG are run.
Please do a video about the Portuguese 'club' , 'Belenenses SAD' , that recently went to a game with only 9 players against Benfica .Its a 'fake' club playing in the First League , but the 'Original' club had to start in the Non League Portuguese Football .
So far 2 of my video ideas got accept so I think my comments aren't the worst run ones. So I suggest:
Day 9: Top 7 second/amateur teams in football
(Hertha BSC II which almost won the DFB Pokal, Real Madrid Castilla who lost to their first team in the spanish cup in 1980 but got into Europe, Wellington Phoenix Reserves who play in the NZ National League)
I think most Palace fans are very happy with how we are run. We remember before Parish took over.
liverpool 3rd with a net spend below huddersfield since december 2018. New training ground, stadium expansion and FSG bought the Pittsburgh penguins but we have ZERO depth. We dont sign anyone its horrible. We are wasting this golden era with Salah, Trent, Mane, VVD with Klopp to win some trophies and we only have a few to show for it because FSG refuse to spend money on signings. As a liverpool fan i am disgusted with FSG.
@@johnnym3071 can’t wait to see stadium expansion bagging the goals in the prem once FSG let half of our players go and sign some bums.
Man United wage bill is by far the highest at 226M with Chelsea second at 162M.
Great video mate, as a norwich fan, nice to hear good things said about our club as a lot of people do laugh at us for being a self funded club and a yoyo club, but at least we live within our means. If you'd are this video a couple of years back we'd be near bottom as when we sold James Maddison that actually saved the club from liquidation but since then we've been very well run
Spurs fan here. The club is run fine from a business standpoint. But football wise it's so frustrating. Our scouting has been terrible bar one or two signings (Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Moura), we've buy players who don't fit the system/manager, and Levy's transfer fee demands have made selling deadwood near impossible at times.
Then there's the whole bit where our managers haven't been backed in transfer windows. Poch's whole interview about getting washing machines instead of dryers comes to mind. Poch had wanted Grealish, Mourinho wanted Fernandes, it's the same story season after season. And then we end up buying players for high fees who are trainwrecks (Ndombele, Sissoko, Sanchez)
Brilliant vid!!!
It’s cool you mentioned your a hill city fan. It’s nice to know that!
As a West Ham fan, I agree with your placement here. We have gone from being one of, if not the, worst run club in the PL, to slightly-less-badly-run! I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact we've now got a manager who has some balls and is delivering with results on the pitch. That gives Moyes a lot more clout to tell GSB to back the hell off and keep their collective mouth shut, which was part of the problem. Moyes has proved with his signings that he knows what he's doing so I feel that's given him more autonomy and there's a feeling that it is the manager making transfer decisions now, rather than the board (Benrahma transfer being the possible exception, although he seems to be coming good now) so that also helps. Time will tell how Kretinski's involvement will work out.
As a West Ham fan I think we are more well run than you think and we have made some very good signings lately, including Said Benrahma, Jarrod Bowen, and we have done a very good job at keeping Declan Rice so far.
I would love to see this kind of a video but about clubs in the efl. I’d love to see videos about the smaller clubs.
As a Liverpool fan I’d put them maybe 11/12 owners that make a profit every year are not good owners, klopp is doing amazing as are the players but with more and more clubs having billionaire owners it won’t be long until they start slipping down heck they won’t pay the worlds current best player 400k but man United (a terrible run club) pay that to bench warmers and around 90% of his wealth comes from Liverpool and Red Sox
True under woodward and the parasite owners we have we pay fukin 100k to mata for. Benchwarming and the same to Henderson
I really admire Liverpool’s wage structure which shows that a player is not bigger than the club but in united it’s the polar opposite
While i agree with then lower and they have the sell before buying rules,i disagree on the 400k wage ,yes he should get that hands down (even if i cant stand him i know fully well he is a great player that we got lucky to get for nothing) BUT that could have a domino effect that we cant afford,imagine he gets that then vvd mane fabinho and other future players ask for that much,its a risk and while we need to keep our best players we cant just throw money around just cause other clubs are run poorly,look at the mancs wage bill and see how bad it is with them paying huge money for deadwood.
Aston Villa is top 4 imo saved the club and invested heavily with fantastic signings now including digne and Coutinho, also plans to increase the stadium and the transport around it along With the entire city near considering neither owners are even from the country is massive
Some of these takes did not age very well (I just came across this video now) :D. Crazy how quickly things can change within like half a year.
Alfie: Manchester City can afford to spend £100m on Jack Grealish and ease him in
Irish Guy: DID I MENTION JACK GREALISH HAS BEEN A FLOP
You wait mate. They said the same about Mahrez and cancelo
Despite our uptick in form, Arsenal should be a bit lower on the list around 17th (we’re not the circuses that are Everton and United and the Burnley situation is deeply troubling), years of underinvestment and extraction of funds into Kroenke’s other teams still have us in a massive predicament
Under investment? Quite a bit has been invested into arsenal's playing squad the last half a decade and some. The problem it was a bit of a throw shit at the wall approach. Another problem is match day costing a fortune
We are in the circuses of United and Everton both even beat us this season
We are literally known fr being the biggest laughing stock
I feel so bad for Burnley, considering that they were at two points in their history, English champions, fielded a great team in the 50s and 60s, and were in a European Cup.
People need to understand That Chelsea pitch owners will never allow Chelsea to play at another Stadium rather than Bridge
If Roman wants to Make a new stadium He'll have to give up the name Chelsea And everything related to it And give anew name to team
Hence The price of tickets is High and yes 42k Seats is Quite low Considering its Chelsea
Plus if you wages into account
Chelsea are A very good run club
No wonder they aren't Giving Rudi what he wants
Lol chelsea in 9th when they have just won club of the year, makes no sense.
The money mostly came from abramovic, and actually in huge debt. Many failed big transfers like bakayoko and drinkwater.
If abramovic suddenly leave then it will be in similar situation with doing a leeds.
@@r3zaful The Academy, the women and the men teams are one of the best in England if not Europe
You could do a full video on Man City like all the other football UA-camrs, or you could do something like an XI of players from clubs in sub-Saharan Africa and truly make your mark in the world of football UA-cam. Your choice, Alfie
It’s laughable when people say “why are man United fans unhappy about there owners” purely based on how much money they soens
The only gripes I have with John Henry and FSG is that they invest in everything except what really matters, the team, all success has been down to lucking out with getting the most perfect manager Liverpool could ever have, and that after 12 years of ownership, FSG still don't seem to understand the fanbase whatsoever.
Best run clubs = Man City, Chelsea, Leicester, and Wolves (recent years)
Good run clubs but not the best = Liverpool, Brentford (recent years), and Brighton
Decent run clubs but could be a lot better = West Ham (last couple of years), Spurs, Aston Villa, Southampton, Leeds, Burnley, and Crystal Palace
Poor run clubs = Everton, Watford, Norwich
Worst run clubs = Man United (recent years), Arsenal, and Newcastle (until recently)
Chelsea aren't the best run, not until they leave Stamford Bridge, and with multiple transfer bans under the belt I don't know
@@bri1085 I’m not a Chelsea fan whatsoever, but ever since Abramovich took over they’ve been the most successful English club. Abramovich may not do things the good way, but he gets the trophies.
Brighton should be higher. Bloom is a boyhood fan who's built the club on sustainable foundations whilst making an effort to constantly invest in the future.
Agree with Everton
@@nu-metalfan2654 haven't looked like winning the league in quite a while now, Chelsea have been mostly restricted to the Cup competitions most people don't care as much for. It's like envying city for their success in the league Cup calling Chelsea the most successful team of the century, because it's built on winning the smaller trophies
Southampton in 17th is a rare howler from you Alfie. Honestly, you could swap Norwich and Southampton and the list would make more sense. I'd also bump up Palace and Villa a couple of places. And this might just be the Chelsea bias inside me but I can't understand how Spurs are above us just cause they have a shiny new stadium for the NFL and Dua Lipa concerts. Maybe if you're an accountant that ranking makes sense but from the perspective of a football fan, not really.
Marina Granovskaia is an absolute legend and we're probably the best selling club in the world, Cobham is now the best academy in the country and arguably the best in Europe. Most importantly, our transfer model is on its way to making us self sustainable. This summer we broke our transfer record by signing Lukaku but still had a net spend in the positive. When we spent 200 million in the summer of 2020, that money came from the sales of Hazard and Morata. We have one of the best managers in the world and a young team of world class talents. Even the whole reason why we won't get a new stadium is because the fans won't allow it. Abramovich has already tried in the past to move us to a new venue but there is no Chelsea FC without Stamford Bridge.
Also might be worth noting - Leicester has managed all this, while simultaneously investing the in city itself - that alone should separate them from Brentford, imo
WHO IS THE BEST EVER CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM TO BE PROMOTED? That’s a good video to do
How are Chelsea not higher they have a great Academy champions of Europe and made a profit last summer
They are also 1.5 billion in debt to their owner.
This is true however they also entered the super league there is also the current disgrace of tickets in a certain area going up by 200% and also the fact they’re 1.5 billion in debt to their owner
1.5 B pound debt. There's your answer.
No premier league title in 5 years, underwhelming given they are 1.5 billion in debt to their owner
They play in a potato
Man Utd will never win the league again with the Glazers there.
Exactly they are a business it's embarrassing as man utd fan if this happen to your club then I will feel your pain
Evertonian here, have to agree with you’re assessment.
I would put Manchester City and Chelsea 1 and 2 respectively as they are the best run clubs. Their owners have made them very successful and deserve a lot of credit.
Me: I should be going to bed
YT: HITC Sevens anyone?
This list gets more confusing the higher we move
You forgot to mention that last season Utd's revenue fell short of city by around 50 million euros
Top 3:
Chelsea
Man City
Leicester
Bottom 3:
Burnley
Arsenal
Everton
Leicester's position is this list didn't age well...
You should consider making one of these video's about the best run clubs in Europe, or just the premier League.
Edit: Im very eager to know if my club would end up in the video.
Spurs above Chelsea is so laughable. I've never heard a fan say they don't like Abramovich. He's prepared to put money from his pocket into the club when it's needed, has gifted us with so much sucess and stays out the spotlight (but in a good way).
Chelsea fans will forever be thankful for the Abramovich era.
If abramovic left suddenly
The club will left to dust, that 1.3 billion debt is not going anywhere.
@@r3zaful That would never happen, And if he left we would be bought by richer owners
Yeah I have to disagree, as an LFC fan, with your placement of FSG. They obviously aren't awful, but they have really not invested into the squad in the same way as even the Glazers at United or Moshiri at Everton have. With them we essentially need to sell before we can buy which, for a club who recently won both the Champions League and Premier League, is frankly just embarrassing
What are you expecting from FSG, to keep a squad that's too big just to say at least we don't have a buy to sell policy? Liverpool have a 24 man squad, with the foreign quota already having been met, the pull for players you can sign isn't particularly massive.
@@bri1085 I mean we're one of thr biggest clubs in the World and have come off the back of two incredibly successful seasons so I pull was and still is massive. Actual backups are actually required and replacements are needed when we sell. Last season there was no CB replacement for Lovren, this season no CM replacement for Gini, we also didn't replace Shaqiri and with AFCON have some pitiful choices for a forward line wanting to gun for the league. Investment is really needed and they've been incredibly poor with it in those regards
As a Liverpool fan as well, I love what FSG is doing with the club. Their philosophy is sustainability whilst winning. If we pump in money to buy players, we would be just another City, or yet worse another Man United. Our club has been self-reliant and sustainable since they took over whilst winning the most prestigious cups in club football.
They have kept all their promises to us. New stand built, another in the works, new state of the art training facilities. They have won us the league as promised as well. They also listen to Jurgen, the design of AXA training is based on what Jurgen demands like integrating youth facilities with the senior team for more inspiration for our youngsters.
As for transfers, Klopp and Edwards doesnt want to rush and sign players cus they need to, they sign the right players, even if it takes time
@@cameron9385 Shaqiri hardly played, he was replaced by Elliott, but did he really need replacing? AFCON affects 2 league games, if missing 3 players for 2 games, against Brentford and Palace is what undoes your season, then probably weren't winning the league anyway.
@@bri1085 He does need replacing, our attacking back ups are simply not good enough. On the wings we have nobody! Minamino and Origi are not good enough wingers, Minamino is a failed signing now while Origi is good as someone to stick up front. But we need wide players. Elliott also isn't a wide player, he's obviously been deployed as a CM this season so that solves nothing, on top of the fact we're putting a lot onto a teen AND that he's injured. You cannot say we don't need backups. This isn't just about AFCON, it's about the whole season
A lot of Wolves fans have been very upset at the owners for the past few years, but especially last Summer, over a reluctance to spend big (ignore the championship winning season and first season in the Prem, all Wolves fans know we spent well there). I think this is a problem of fan bias causing error, as opposed to an outsider seeing things wrong, though. Our owners are reluctant to spend big, because spending big isn't necessarily a good thing. As the current Premier League table should illustrate, big wages and signing fees aren't conducive to success, and our spending has generally been very efficient, if relatively low. As well as this, our Summer window spend available was reportedly net £2 million, if memory serves correctly, yet we still have managed to sign one of the top-performing goalkeepers in the league, make official the signing of one of the best full-back prospects around (in my *totally* unbiased opinion :) ) in Ait-Nouri, and propel ourselves back into European contention by addressing our biggest short-fall last season - our complete demolition of a formerly solid defence. Next Summer, with more profits from league position (assuming we don't fall apart) and stadiums selling out again, should be a good one. If not, I will retract my defence of the current board strategy, but in the meantime I am firmly on team Fosun, against a decent chunk of fellow Wolves fans.
(also, to be clear, the anti-Fosun sentiment has vastly diminished this season compared to the end of last, but it feels like fans are very much so ready to turn on the board if this season peters out and the lack of spending appears detrimental)