League of England season 21
Forum: League forum 
Discuss your league, who are the favorites to win the league this season? Who will be promoted/relegated, how are you doing in the cup?
Season 76 (78)
My attack was all padding and no substance, falling flat with our only attempt on target, which was sadly into the wrong goal.
Scoring into the wrong 'goal'.
When I was a child that was illegal. Then it became lawful and commonplace and now it's celebrated and ubiquitous.
I hope to leave before it becomes compulsory.
The decline of civilizations, some would argue.
That's a good point. I'm no student of history but apparently all great civilizations go through a cycle. Apparently the latter stages are often characterised by moral decay and decadence.
I'm now officially safe from relegation, and must say I'm very surprised at how easy it was - are managers simply focusing more on their facilities, and not falling into the trap of spending millions on players to chase silverware?
Good question Lee.
What I do know is that despite the high wages of the top players and cost of facilities, the average club in England has been getting a lot richer.
The total funds are now over £52 billion. This has grown from roughly £30 billion in the last 10 or 15 seasons.
Although it's likely that most of it is held by a handful of around 5 or 6 clubs. At least 2 of them aren't in the first division.
I'm not trying to brag but the Pixels account for 0.0016% of that huge pot of funds!
Most important trophy of the season won - the U21 Cup returns :)
Looking good for me in the South Sudanese league for a first title there
Anything else from here is a bonus!
Looking good for the title again BakerMan!
Well the Wonderbra's account for less than 1% of that pot of money. We are paupers compared to the mega rich.
Maybe I'm wrong, but most likely the richest team are Liverpool City, currently in division 3/2.
He hasn't bought any players for around 20 seasons and hasn't tried to compete for a lot longer. The wage bill is low and he's been stockpiling cash for a long time and mostly building a few museum levels.
I can't figure out what the plan is either. If it was all about the cash then he could be making a much bigger profit by selling off his costly YA5 youngsters - which are being wasted - and making a few staff changes.
Edit
Correction...
I occasionally check at the season rollover to see which clubs might have a vey large balance. Although I don't keep a record. A long while ago they (Liverpool City) had over £10 billion and were clearly the richest club in the country by a long distance. Then a few seasons ago I estimated that they had around £7.5 billion, and because I was expecting at least £10 billion I presumed that I had made a mistake.
So today I decided to do a deep dive into his finances and because there are no transfers it's possible to make a rough estimate of his profit/(loss) for the season.
I now reckon that he's making a loss, and the likely loss this season is around £240-250 million. This is mostly down to a very large wage bill of over £6 million a day. There are no players on massive wages, but with a full squad of 44 players from YA5 - mostly untrained - the average wage is around £140,000 per day.
So I was probably correct with the £7.5 billion which is gradually eroding every season. Everyone else is getting richer but it's not Liverpool.
I also came across an untrained YA5 supertalent. He's Loyal too. Aged 19 and he's never played a match or even a friendly:
https://rockingsoccer.com/en/soccer/info/player-2699114
What a waste! :/
And another one:
Well I make a 0.36% contribution to that wealth...
Every game is very squeaky for me at the moment - if Stephen could just lose or draw a couple it would be appreciated.
Congratulations to Stephen on Seaburn's latest cup win.
Oh, that one got very squeaky!
Congrats Stephen on the cup and BakerMan on the title.
A close run thing. Everyone else pretty much trailing in the top two's wake. I think this is my best season in the top flight on Points and goals scored, still a mile behind the top teams, and likely to fall to 6th by the end of the season, so won't match my best ever placing. No money at all to strenghthen.
