How wonderful must it be to live in the world of football? Men all run free around the grassy areas, kicking balls around aimlessly for hours on end. Getting paid hundreds of thousands of pounds each week to show up for a few hours a day to play football, yet moan about everything and break every moral rule there is within the social life. Complaints of tiredness are frequently brought to our attention, so much so that everyone (including the players) are sick of it.
Yet the best part of the football world has to be how money is no object to anyone within this unreal community. The third world is still amassed in poverty, the rest of the world has a crippling debt overhanging which the loyal taxpayers are forking out for. But, within eight days of the transfer window opening, the footballing world has dealt some unbelievable price tags for players that are certainly not worth these ridiculous amounts.
Today has seen 'hot prospect' Phil Jones leave Blackburn after Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United were all interested. United look to have won the race for the nineteen year old at the price of £16Million. Jones made twenty-five appearances last season in a team that narrowly avoided relegation and only kept twelve clean sheets all season.
Jordan Henderson has left Sunderland to join Liverpool for £20Million plus David Ngog. I do personally rate Henderson but he's nowhere in the region of £20Million, the play maker scored three goals in thirty seven league matches last season. To think I originally thought the £20Million offer of Ashley Young was extremely high.
Although the fantasy of the football currency which appears to exist in real life as well as on the latest FIFA video game, it's nice to hear stories of those teams that are still slightly down to earth. Swansea broke their transfer fee record this week for Watford striker Danny Graham, a fee that cost £3.5Million, by today's standards it's an absolute bargain. God help us all when September 1st comes around and the Premier League spending totaliser hits around the £1.5Billion region!
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