Quote Originally Posted by sancho_panza View Post
It is obscene if you think about it morally, but that isn't going to stop people going - no more than the huge amounts of money Mayweather/McGregor earned stopped people wanting to watch the fight, the huge amounts film stars make stop people going to the cinema and so on.

Will the bubble eventually burst? Possibly, but there are some reasons to think it won't matter that much if it does. Some of these clubs are backed by states and may as well have infinite resources. Even the ones that aren't explicitly owned by countries have a kind of under the table de facto guarantee that if they got into serious financial trouble they'd find a way out of it. At worst they'll drop down the leagues and come back again like Sevco. There is essentially a zero percent chance Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG (and so on) will somehow cease to exist. Governments won't allow it, UEFA won't allow it, so there's no real jeopardy. Even a catastrophic financial collapse would be forgotten about in a few years.
I sort of disagree. For these clubs to crash in the first place, there would have to be a burst of the bubble or less demand from the fans to pay these obscene amounts. If either happen, the so called 'fans' will walk away. There is no affiliation when it comes to these 'big' clubs and they will soon find something else to focus on.

Football is just another fad for those with money to burn. The hardcore bunch will always go to games, but the glory hunters and the masturbators of transfer windows will vanish quickly. Lets face it, half the guys in the stands in England or Spain etc do not anything about football. Its about prestige and signing multi million pound kids with sh!te haircuts. Transfer deadline day epitomises English football and its as cringy as it is immoral. W@nking over £1.5bn being spent is utterly tragic and football has forgotten itself.