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I do not think it is the case that we "massively outspent our rivals" to get where we are. City, Chelsea and Arsenal are capable of offering double the wages we do. Arsenal offered a world record fee for Russo in January.
Our rivals in reaching the WSL. I thought that was pretty clear.
The difference is United made their own money, Newcastle did not :-)
Our women's team wasn't operating at a loss back then?
I have no idea.The only womens team in the WSL that made a profit during 2021-2022 season was Manchester United. You have to go back and check the books I guess. But regardless its still Manchester Uniteds money, which is the point. The club can do whatever they want with the money they earned. United also brought back several former youth players that had to leave because we did not have a womens team back then. And we also caught up with Arsenal, City and Chelsea spending way less money, so we done really well and should command respect for that!
A part of me feels like this is the point of a conversation we should take it to another thread but I fear this is the 'another thread'.
The point is that I would gladly accept if any club that is running the show on their own without state funding invests in their womens team, they earned the money and can do whatever they want with it. Hence why I respect Arsenal in the womens game but I have zero respect for Citys womens team.
Agree with all this.
Compare this to my club Hammarby women in sweden, thats now 2nd in the swedish league and set to qualify for champions league Qs for the first time. The main reason for the clubs surge is the fans attending games and pushing the club into the top of swedish football. It did not happen overnight, but its authentic and if we ever get into the champions league we have done it ourselves, which is the only way its fully enjoyable to me. The journey is whats matter to me, not the titles. The journey is always ongoing, titles are temporary and if not earned the right way meaningless. Just my opinion of course.
Fair enough, but did we really massively outspend our then rivals, Spurs? I can see no evidence for this. Most transfers in the women's game are free or undisclosed.
It's a difficult one because, regardless of the money coming from a dodgy regime, the investment is obviously good for the club, the players, the fans and even Women's football in general
Perhaps not in terms of transfer fees but I believe wages had a big part in getting Zelem, Greenwood, Chamberlain etc. to play in the Championship.
Possibly so, but we're they not all part of United youth? I may be mistaken on this.
Zelem was, Greenwood & Chamberlain were not.
The likes of Toone, Zelem and Turner had been in United's academy but had to go to other clubs once they reached a certain age as there was no further pathway at United while the rest of that initial team came in having previously been at other clubs (Lauren James was breaking through at Arsenal while Leah Galton was in Germany for instance).
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She announced she was leaving PSG a few weeks ago, so I assume she was a free agent. I think everyone was expecting her to head to Chelsea.
We have lost six players so far this window and signed non. They must be working on something big I reckon. Russo and Ona are massive losses to the first team where nothing but top class signings will replace them.
Jade never really looked like becoming more than a squad player and had some injury troubles as well.
Thats a nice way of putting it. Agreed
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Not a surprise to see him moving for a management role. I'm a bit surprised that it's for a Norwegian team, but I guess he's impressed someone at Brann and they've impressed him.
I believe Brann are in the CL this season, so there's one extra incentive for him.Not a surprise to see him moving for a management role. I'm a bit surprised that it's for a Norwegian team, but I guess he's impressed someone at Brann and they've impressed him.
Good luck to to him.
ETA: just realised this is Sandviken, a team I have heard of
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We do have a MUTV televised match coming up, though the timing means I guess not many of us will see it.
It’s been removed from the MUTV schedule.
That's annoying. I wonder what went wrong.
It’s either cancelled/postponed (nothing on Everton social media either) or they’ve decided they want to keep this one under wraps too.
Looks like it's been moved to Saturday, to be played at Carrington. Then Liverpool on the 13th & Spurs on the 17th. Looks like there is no official 'game' against Bayern, but instead a training camp in Germany.
