AuthorJeffEyesRimmer The player farm method is one that I have used on every game of football manager game ever and I have often wondered if sides actually did what I and many of us do on the computer game. That tactic is the development or buying cheap of young football talent that one day will either be good enough to make the first team or be sold for (hopefully) a huge profit if they fail to make the grade for your team. Seems straight forward enough right? Well this method is being used in real life and Chelsea are the highest profile side at the moment that employ this method of business. To great success I might add as well.
Chelsea do have this reputation of spending big since Roman Abramovich came in and this is very much true, since 2014 they have spent over a $1bn in transfers. However, that spending has been supplemented through the sale of unwanted players or youth team players sold on at a high fee. This has been their method of business for some time now, in fact Chelsea with all their spending their transfer income since the summer of 2013 is over the £400m mark. These figures can only ever be rough estimates but, in comparison Tottenham have brought in around £320m, Liverpool £250m, Manchester United £175m, Manchester City £150m and Arsenal just £60m. This all makes perfect business sense, Chelsea have found a very sensible, if slightly immoral, way of staying within the financial fair play rules. I say immoral not just because this method not only treats players like cattle, to be fattened up at other clubs before sold off to the highest bidder later, the choice cuts saved for Chelsea themselves, no, it also has an effect on how the league may end up. Currently Chelsea have out on loan a total of 22 players, a ludicrous amount of players that are technically on their books. It has been suggested Chelsea’s squad is too small for them to compete on four fronts this season, maybe they should bring back some of those players on loan? Out of those 22 players Chelsea have out on loan a total of 5 are at other Premier League clubs. Those players can’t play against their parent club and so Chelsea in effect are weakening those sides every time they play them. That’s a total of 10 games that sides are weakened and these loan players are removed from the starting line-up. This obviously can have quite the knock on effect for the league positions at the end of the season. Personally I think you shouldn’t be able to loan players to teams in your own league because of this. As I said, for many of us Football Manager fans its been a tactic we have used for decades to make money in the game and its quite odd to see a real life side use this sort of method. It is the epitome of seeing players as commodities rather than the humans that they are. While I applaud the method in Football Manager and can understand the business sense of it in real life I can’t help but feel a very uneasy feeling over the hoarding and loaning of players. |
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