Truer words never spoken. When I was a kid I managed to persuade my dad to pay a fiver to have a 1p piece flattened and stamped with the Center Parcs logo. It really improved my life did that penny.
Only thing anyone should pay £100m for is to build a hospital. £100m on a man with an Alice band is obscene.
Has Del Amitri once sang… While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs For the price of a hospital wing
Something needs to be done because this isn't paper money. The sums are that high that nothing actually changes hands. We're going to enter a time when the answer will be simply to print more money. Some big clubs are going to fold eventually.
Trevor Francis, first million pound player in UK 1979, that's about £4.5 million these days. I don't blame the players, it's the system that is mad. We are all paying for this whether it is upfront or via a drip-drip method from subscriptions, buying advertised products etc.