København manager off base
By: j | February 17th, 2009Leading into Wednesdays UEFA Cup match between F.C. København and Manchester City, the Danish clubs manager Ståle Solbakken directed some heated comments towards the English Premier League side. Speaking to Ekstra-Bladet he said:
“The amounts of money that has been mentioned are incredible
“I think that such incredible sums will take part in destroying football.”
“They are creating too big a mental distance between what we call reality and then Manchester City.
“The hardest part for City is that they, by tradition, are not a big football club and therefore all the money in the world does not make a difference for them.”
“They brought in Wayne Bridge even though he is only marginally better than what they had already and that says how hard it is to get the best players even though you have lots of money.”
With respect for the long-time Norwegian international, Man City is not “destroying Football” nor is even a link in the long chain of the games emergence into a worldwide business vehicle. However while I don’t dispute his concerns, they are based upon a wide variation of clubs underlying financial strength and business partnerships which of-course puts the true competitiveness of sport in question. Unfortunately Mr. Solbakken, 40, does not understand the beautiful game became a global business vehicle long ago and one of the reasons these clubs are meeting on the international stage. If someone was going to cast blame they would need to look back a number of decades and understand the destruction of true “sporting clubs”, which in my opinion is one the sports greatest errors.
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