[Albion] Asset stripping

[Surrey Phil]

I’ve always hated the summer transfer antics of the big clubs but this season is a bit different. Whilst some of our players are linked with summer moves away, there are far more clubs around us in the table, losing players & managers to bigger clubs. Brentford are frankly being asset stripped and Bournemouth now have lost 1 player and have 4 others strongly linked with moves away. Without tempting fate, it’s usually us losing all our star players. I don’t know whether to laugh or just hate the bigger clubs and their antics even more.

 

[Beach Hut]

Fear not the Glazers asset stripped Manure by £1.2b

 

[A1X]

I’m just delighted it’s someone else for a change

 

[Wozza]

Gotta feel sorry for Liverpool losing their star defender.

 

[Mustafa II]

We could introduce a draft system like in American sports - where weakest teams get first pick of the best players - to make it fairer and more competitive.

...or perhaps bigger teams attracting better players is part of what makes football so entertaining.

It's not as if takes away the competitiveness completely - Palace, Forest, Newcastle, Villa are all in Europe now, having been in the Championship fairly recently. Us and Brentford aren't far off either. Man Utd are in real crisis and are at genuine risk of relegation next season.

Remember, we 'poach' top young talents from 'smaller' clubs that our own these days as well.

Selling top talents sucks as a supporter - but the cash injection is significant. Well run clubs like us benefit from this model - and the 'big clubs' splashing the cash will end up in serious trouble one of these days (I think it's coming soon, for more than one of them).

We'll lose one or two of our best players this summer for sure, and probably for silly money too.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'm not sure it's "asset stripping" when the selling team are negotiating a price which they are happy to sell for. I think that's just trading

 

[Weststander]

Bloom’s model exploits this to a tee. In addition the PL broadcasting deal is like no other in Europe, giving huge income to all 20 clubs. That isn’t the case in Spain or France. Enabling Bmuff, Fulham, Albion and Brentford to beat huge spenders with regularity.

The one bummer as a supporter is that affinity to special players, can be broken very swiftly. White, Caicedo and Cuckoo were only first teamers for a proverbial ten minutes.

 

[Surrey Phil]

I’m just delighted it’s someone else for a change

Agreed. I just hate the way these big clubs just click their fingers ………!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We could introduce a draft system like in American sports - where weakest teams get first pick of the best players - to make it fairer and more competitive.

...or perhaps bigger teams attracting better players is part of what makes football so entertaining.

It's not as if takes away the competitiveness completely - Palace, Forest, Newcastle, Villa are all in Europe now, having been in the Championship fairly recently. Us and Brentford aren't far off either. Man Utd are in real crisis and are at genuine risk of relegation next season.

Remember, we 'poach' top young talents from 'smaller' clubs that our own these days as well.

Selling top talents sucks as a supporter - but the cash injection is significant. Well run clubs like us benefit from this model - and the 'big clubs' splashing the cash will end up in serious trouble one of these days (I think it's coming soon, for more than one of them).

We'll lose one or two of our best players this summer for sure, and probably for silly money too.

A non starter.
You'd have to get all European and Saudi clubs to sign up to the plan.
Or FIFA to impose it.
That's FIFA, a company with a license to steal money and corruptly award world cups to dictatorship nations.

 

[JBizzle]

For goodness sake. "Asset stripping"? Talk about dramatic. Losing one player for £50m to Real Madrid isn't asset stripping. Losing Mbuemo (who's been there for 6 years) for a massive fee, and a manager (who's been there for 7 years) for a reported £8m also isn't asset stripping.

Is it a shame? Yes. Would I prefer it if clubs like Manchester United and Chelsea didn't do it? Yes. But it isn't asset stripping. That's what Belotti and Archer did. This just big clubs with a big budget and a lazy recruitment team.

 

[Surrey Phil]

I'm not sure it's "asset stripping" when the selling team are negotiating a price which they are happy to sell for. I think that's just trading

I'm not sure it's "asset stripping" when the selling team are negotiating a price which they are happy to sell for. I think that's just trading

But the selling team often don’t want to sell but are forced to once the bigger clubs wave their wads of cash in front of a players nose!

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

As Uncle Tony has always said. If the player wants to leave then it's over to me to get the best price.
No point in keeping players who don't want to wear the shirt.

 

[Weststander]

For goodness sake. "Asset stripping"? Talk about dramatic. Losing one player for £50m to Real Madrid isn't asset stripping. Losing Mbuemo (who's been there for 6 years) for a massive fee, and a manager (who's been there for 7 years) for a reported £8m also isn't asset stripping.

Is it a shame? Yes. Would I prefer it if clubs like Manchester United and Chelsea didn't do it? Yes. But it isn't asset stripping. That's what Belotti and Archer did. This just big clubs with a big budget and a lazy recruitment team.

Yep, this bears no relation to asset stripping.

Genuinely data driven clubs such as Brentford and Albion are set up to exploit the raids.

 

[Berty23]

Us and Brentford moaning about people signing our best players is hypocritical in the extreme!

 

[Surrey Phil]

Us and Brentford moaning about people signing our best players is hypocritical in the extreme!

No one’s moaning, just pleased other clubs are having their prized assets taken!

 

[Weststander]

No one’s moaning, just pleased other clubs are having their prized assets taken!

Players sold for huge sums, allowing the conveyor belt to continue?

 

[Brian Munich]

I'm not sure it's "asset stripping" when the selling team are negotiating a price which they are happy to sell for. I think that's just trading

Was going to say the same. Asset stripping is when the owners of a business sell the assets for their own financial gain - like selling the home ground without funding a replacement.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Players come and players go.

It is what it is

 

[Cheshire Cat]

That's capitalism for you.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Call me shallow but I'm in complete favour of Bournemouth, Brentford and Palace being asset stripped if it takes the attention away from us.