transfer rant

they're all selling?
then BUY! BUY!

oh they're all buying? then SELL! SELL!

rodney might have had it right after all.

as ridiculous as this quote is, its only my precursor to an even more ridiculous thing. the summer transfer window of the modern footballing era. Brits will point the finger at real madrid, and what is essentially a blank check that has been given to them by their government to go out and buy the best team they can. (sound familiar yankees fans?) But the brits are no angels either. Unless you've been living under a rock you'll know what's been going on at Man City over the past 1 1/2 years, which in my eyes is worse than what is happening at the bernebeu.

I've got no problem with the transfer market in general. No monumental changes were put in place this year, but we've seen an insane amount of activity culminating with madrid's triple signings and leaving gap between the rich and the poor the widest its ever been, at least in terms of buying power mind you. Where does this leave us? Us non Madrid/Man-U/Chelsea/Man City fans.

As an Arsenal fan I'm all for Wengers policy. Who wouldn't be? But from a sheer fan's perspective, theres no joy in operating in the black where teams can be millions of dollars in debt and have their slates wiped clean at the drop of a hat. Everything is cheapened, but for some reason, europeans dont see it that way. Maybe this is their equivalent of giving the winner of the conference tournaments in the NCAA the automatic bid in that it is equally senseless, maybe not.

And you can call footballs mercenaries all you want, but you can't really blame them. I only know 2 things for certain going into this season: that rooting against Real will be more fun that its been in some time, like back in the derdemezis era. And that I'm gonna see way too much of Niklas Bendtner once again for the third straight year.

oh, and check out these price is right clips
http://www.manofest.com/Content/the-10-funniest-moments-in-the-price-is-right-history/Page-2.html