Why we will always be a "selling club"

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www.nytimes.com

Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are raiding poorer clubs at record levels as wealth gap grows wider

Arsenal signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle has taken recent 'Big Six' spending on players from other Premier League clubs to £1.2bn
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

(NB I have shared this article so you don't have to be a subscriber to The Athletic to read it)

A really depressing article about how the "big six" richest clubs in England continue to poach the best talent from the "other 14". The current SCR means that this will continue for the foreseeable future and "making the next step up" for clubs like ours is impossible.
 
Lancspalace said:
www.nytimes.com

Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are raiding poorer clubs at record levels as wealth gap grows wider

Arsenal signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle has taken recent 'Big Six' spending on players from other Premier League clubs to £1.2bn
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

(NB I have shared this article so you don't have to be a subscriber to The Athletic to read it)

A really depressing article about how the "big six" richest clubs in England continue to poach the best talent from the "other 14". The current SCR means that this will continue for the foreseeable future and "making the next step up" for clubs like ours is impossible.
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And the 2 best clubs in Spain poach from everyone else.

I know everyone gets angry about it, but we should be happy that we are relatively close to the top of the food chain
 
MrRobbo said:
And the 2 best clubs in Spain poach from everyone else.

I know everyone gets angry about it, but we should be happy that we are relatively close to the top of the food chain
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As one of the "boring old farts" who has watched Palace since 1963 I completely agree. The last thirteen seasons, and especially the last two, have been completely magical. I can understand however the frustration amongst those supporters who have only known the current Premier League phase and not suffered for decades like some of us.
 
The premier League is a business after all, and to have unpredictable results is a massive risk to profits. It will always be protected.
 
Lancspalace said:
www.nytimes.com

Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are raiding poorer clubs at record levels as wealth gap grows wider

Arsenal signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle has taken recent 'Big Six' spending on players from other Premier League clubs to £1.2bn
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

(NB I have shared this article so you don't have to be a subscriber to The Athletic to read it)

A really depressing article about how the "big six" richest clubs in England continue to poach the best talent from the "other 14". The current SCR means that this will continue for the foreseeable future and "making the next step up" for clubs like ours is impossible.
Click to expand...
Actually until we had to let Olise go we hadn’t been a selling club for 20 years mostly due to Wilf making us a one man team.
Back in the day we had to let players like Peter Taylor, Kenny Sansom and Ian Wright go but it was the exception rather than the rule. Now that’s been made much worse by players being able to run down their contracts and go for nothing. I’m afraid it’s a fact of life now that any young player we sign on a 5 year deal that turns into a great player will be sold in 3 or 4 years.
 
Because we are a small club with a small ramshackle ground and compared to the big clubs we haven’t got a pot to piss in

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Every club is a selling club. What I am sure we've got under Steve Parish and co is a club that balances the books. There are rules in place we dont want any more punishments do we?
In the pecking order of top clubs in Europe, we are much further up the ladder than we've ever been but no we are not the Top6 in England or in Europe (PSG, Real, Barca, Bayern Munch, Inter, AC, Juventus).
I'm ok wth that.
Players are leaving Villa this Summer even though they are a pretty big club who is also playng in the Champions League next season.
 
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This will always be the case now, but I get a lot of enjoyment from these teams finishing way outside the top 6 because the players they plundered weren't as good as they thought.
 
It's not as if we havnt pinched talent from other lower clubs either.

Eze from QPR
Wharton from Blackburn
Olise from Reading
Zaha from Man u 😏

It's just how it is. I'm thankful that we had the right players and right manager at the right time to win somthing before they all moved on.
 
With the system as it is being a selling club merely mirrors our success. The system more or less demands we sell our best players. The Clubs demand it , the players demand it, the agents demand it. Us punters think it’s a crap situation, unless we are pulling Readings trousers down to get an Olise.
 
I've said it before on this subject so apologies for the repetition, but it seems pertinent.

As a general rule, all clubs lose their better players to bigger clubs. Always have. We took the best player from QPR, Blackburn, Reading etc, and so, in that respect, can't complain about losing them to the big boys.

There is a difference, though. QPR, Blackburn, or Reading can realistically hope to one day replace us as a mid table premier league club. If they run themselves well for long enough then, with a fair wind, promotion is realistic. If we make a few bad decisions or have some bad luck, we could easily be relegated. Most of us accept that we will go down one day, even if only due to the law of averages. In other words, QPR, Blackburn, or Reading could take our place. Then they would sign our best players.

What the article shows is that there is little to no realistic prospect of us replacing one of the big boys, no matter how much we expand selhurst or how well we trade, and even if they make poor decisions for a sustained period.

Look at Newcastle and Villa. Huge clubs, big grounds, massive fanbases, both put together very good teams and achieved cup wins and champions league football. End result? Teams broken up and best players sold off to the bigger clubs, even though they haven't performed as well as Newcastle and especially villa.

That's the difference. There is a reasonable chance of QPR replacing us in the pecking order, but almost no chance of us replacing Chelsea.
 
They're just better than we are, apart from city and Chelsea who were fortunate enough to get a sugar daddy before psr, but if you want to spend what the big clubs spend then generate the money they generate.

Its why I don’t really understand the hate for spurs as a club. They're about the best run club in the world, have rarely won anything over the last 50 years, have managed to become one of the richest clubs in the world, live within their means, fortunate to be a London club but still bang in the middle of Arsenal and West ham. I think they're a great example of how poor teams from south have been run because atleast one of us should have a similar size fanbase to them.
 
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