Real Madrid defend spending spree

Good that Blatter doesnt share the same idea with Platini . The best thing to think about right now is the 6+5 idea they were talking about last year.

Making a cap for transfer fees will kill the English teams anyway and 6+5 will hurt them but also will help them to devellop their own players.

We are used to see Blatter and platini in contradition about different subjects which means they can never make any rules which are good for the beautiful game .

Teams should make own cap like Liverpool who never payed over than £30 m . Clubs will be at the same level if Fifa settles £ 30-40 m as a maximum transfer fee.

There is no doubt that Real Madrid will become more high profile with the new players that they have bought. This generates a lot more money for the club. They are are in a good position because most of these so called football stars, are just mercenaries.

Whether what they are doing is right, it is hard to know. There doesn't seem to be a level playing field anymore. The ones with the money get the big names, simple as that. As long as these stars have this mentality about money, there is not a lot anyone can do.

I feel that going to teams because of their love of the beautiful game is all bullshit. Money is the single factor for all these so called superstars.

Phughes , read something else than The Sun and Mirror.co.uk and try to find out that if money is the factor Madrid wont compete with Manchester City to sign any single player .

We experienced a bad year without winning a single trophy but still those players wanted to join us , you have to respect their choice to join Madrid , it's unfair to call them with such words .

We had players who chose to go like Makélélé , Robinho , Etoo who left the club but I think I have to respect their choice also .It was not important for them to play for a big club or better league , but when they said one time they wanted to leave if they dont play more or get better money they were shown the exit door . That's how clubs must act and that's my opinion .

Giorgio,

Free market economy? Socialism? You sound like a good example of why Republicans still have a strong hold in America despite running this economy into the ground and making us weaker in every way in the face of the world. There should be a rule for scared people like you that says, before you use the word socialism, define it. I swear everything that democrats enact, Republicans label as socialist and bad. That's the only reason they give. If something's bad, it is socialist. Please learn to see through right-wing slogans before using them in a football forum! And let me ask you this. If your city team in Italy was not able to compete with the likes of Inter and Milan, should they just quit and not have a club because they don't generate as much revenue? Ask someone from Parma or Livorno or Bari what he thinks about that.

I don't have any opinion on caps. If the club can afford it, let them do it. All I know is that the biggest clubs will continue to get bigger and richer and the smallest clubs will have no chance of ever catching up. If they do produce their own stars, they will not be able to hold on to them because they will be bought by bigger teams. For better or for worse, this is today's football. When money wasn't as important into the game, players played for honor and pride with spirit and desire. Now they play to earn more.

Alboi,

I can understand your point of your point of view, but I stand by what I said earlier.

In a free market economy, clubs should be free to spend unlimited amounts of money, if they can afford it. Those clubs that can't afford it, should resign themselves to being relegated to a lower league, or they should consider getting into another type of business. That's how it works in business, be it football, or any other type of business.

The worst thing that could happen to European football is to have more regulation, from UEFA, the EU, or anyone else.

And not that it has anything to do with our discussion, but if I lived in the States I would vote Republican.

I think Perez presented a good idea to UEFA about the European Super League , where all big European clubs will meet every week instead of the champions league where you can be lucky to meet easier teams and go far with the actual system .

The only problem is hooliganism , hate can grow between some clubs especially if some Turkish club has to meet English one, or Russian against Ukrainian etc .....

pedroSilesia,

Sometimes these research forecasts are not worth the paper they are written on.

Football is the most popular sport in the world and there is no reason why things should change, at any time in the foreseeable future.

Many people forget that football is a business. In fact, it has become very big business. That's the reason why football players are paid such huge salaries. And similarly to any other type of business there is always the real danger that some clubs may go insolvent.

At the end of the day, the amount of money that comes in has to be greater than what goes out. And at the end of the day, those clubs that have the best (i.e. prudent) management have the best chance of surviving, and of being successful, even in difficult times.

Glory, in any sport, is short-lived, because there is always new glory that beckons just around the corner. And spending huge amounts of money to buy the best-known players is not a guaranteed recipe for success.

But, in spite of the highly publicised moves in this transfer season, football will continue to be the beautiful sport. And by the end of next season we'll know if Real did the right thing, or if they were being reckless.

Alboi. Your pushing your democratic ideology to the extreme and, when applied to football, it would actually lead you to subsidize weak clubs so they can keep on losing money just to entertain the fans. In USA the democrats have not subsidized any company be it large or small. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Wall Street and a number of major financial institutions have been receiving help from both governments not in the form of subsidization but in the form of a deal which permitted the government to buy stocks of those companies with the understanding that they will have to buy them back from the government within 10 years and at the going price. I don’t know if you live in a utopian world but I, also being a democrat, understood what Giorgio was trying to say about Free Market Economy and Socialism. As far as my previous comment, I stand by it.