A video about the richest clubs outside of Europe could be interesting

I'm 40 years old and consume an unhealthy amount of football content on here and your channel is by far and away the best. Always, quirky, in depth and very well written. Massive respect lad😎

It was exciting being a Newcastle fan back then. People called them a small Club back then and they do now. If Newcastle won the Champions League and had the highest revenue in the same season, bitter rivals would still call them a small Club.

Appreciated the message to Van Gaal, hope he comes out of this stronger than ever

The Mars delight was so elite aswell

Honestly this channel pumps out quality content daily and its always interesting. Just want to say thanks, keep up the good work 👍

Could you do a video on the rise of Burton Albion? They have absolutely no right to be in football league and they've not been relegated from it since being promoted from the conference. They actually managed to get to the Championship in something like 5 seasons. They essentially soley rely on loans and low paid contracts. It's quite remarkable.

Alfie you savage loll, the intro had my cracking up the whole time…I love your content my friend!!

Ah yes, love 1998, miss being in the womb with nothing to worry about.

Great video Alfie, please continue the great job and keep posting more of these.

Very much enjoyed this one ☝🏻

Serie A was the top league back then so not surprising that it had more teams on the list back then and the riches of the EPL had really yet to kick in at the time it's all changed now of course with the EPL being a financial behemoth with mega TV deals and attracting the best managers and players while Italian football teams struggle to compete financially and are no longer genuine contenders for the champions league.

Im always amazed by the lack of European success Man U had under SAF given they were consistently among the richest club in Europe and England.

It was genuinely exciting to be a football fan back then and the Man Utd and Arsenal rivalry was far more intense than anything i remember with either Liverpool or Man City maybe because at the time they were both the 2 best teams in the PL and spent several seasons fighting it out for the league title and you had the Ferguson and Wenger and Keane and Viera clashes on top of it while the rise of Liverpool and Man City largely coincided with the decline of Man United as a force in the league so rarely have competed for the title in the same season.

The intro to this video is hilarious 😂

that's why its good to know about the history

kaiserslautern having a decent season this year hopefully a promotion on the way.

1969 actually when Newcastle last won something Hull fan

I don't know exactly how to word this but a video on teams who have had particular fortune with players of a certain nationality or have tended to favour players from a particular country either all time or in a particular era. I was thinking like Liverpool or Leeds with Scottish players, particularly in the 60s and 70s for leeds. Or AC Milan having surprising success with Swedish players or their dutch trio in the 80s. Or more recently with Arsenal favouring french players or wolves with portuguese or shaktar with brazilians.

“Everton were in a relegation scrap” That still sounds like 2022

Make a starting 11 & manager but you can only include players who where born in a single month once. ( all months only used once)

dudeeee, that was by far your best intro hahah

Great video! Seems to gloss over the impact of Pep at Barcelona tho? People forget they weren't the dominant force when he took over (and he jettisoned some of those big stars)

7 managers that left and took players with then

fifa 98 road to world cup what a game what a soundtrack ahhh the days rushing home from school to play DAMN I miss those days ☹

1:07 I had this very poster of Barcelona hanging on my wall back in that time (I was 11 in 1998). It’s funny I can easily still name most players in this photo :)

Rolling back the years when I was just 5 years old when the sport was indeed a real sport to be watched for the passion and love on it,good friends!!!:-D

Oh my days , Kars delight was amazing 🥳🤤

Nice video. at one point we struggled to get 50 000 together to get Andy Morrison.

Football has been took over from the rich from the poor

Don't worry Squeaky, it just means you're still growing

Nice one dude 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪✌️🔰🔰🔰

Not a surprise for me that Newcastle were 5th in these rankings in 1998, given I _am_ old enough to remember that era. As to not doing much in Europe... perhaps not that season, but Newcastle were real threats to anyone in that era and did progress to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in 2002-03. Still, they didn't actually win it, nor any domestic trophy in that time, so your point is still valid.

Love your voice

Mars delight was an elite chocolate bar, up there with the bueno in the pantheon of chocolate

Now I really want a mars delight... Thanks

1998...good times. Like really those were good times.

Would love u to do a video about chesterfield. Very historic club. Recently 2013/14 won promotion to league 1 with paul cook, eyes on championship, but ended up getting back to back relegation to the national league. About to get relegated to national league north, sign a new manager (james rowe) takes us to top of national league the season after, got fired, n now being run under paul cook again.

I didn’t know words could hurt before I head that Arsenal jab

Alan shearer was signed in 1996 not 1995

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 303) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the turbulent recent history of Goztepe in the Super Lig? They’re one of the Super Lig’s most well supported clubs (a bit like a Newcastle United, Sunderland or Strasbourg if you may). In the 2001/02 season, they finished seventh in the top flight, however from 2002 to 2008, they were relegated five times in six seasons, due to their inability to reduce their outstanding debt which resulted in the football club being banned from signing new players during that time. In August of 2007, a business based in Istanbul, vowed to take them back to the top flight making them one of the top five clubs in the country, but they were met with lots of suspicions from the fan base, and then they handed over the ownership to another bloke called Mehmet Sepil in 2014. Anyway, they’re back in the Super Lig as a solid mid table/weaker top half team. Why am I bringing all this up? Because apparently Abramovich is looking to possibly buy the club himself, after being sanctioned from the UK. It’s a crazy crazy story and may you could look into this, not to mention, they are not only a rare example of a club that is considered a neighbourhood club, as well as the fact that they’ve played in 3 different stadiums since 2011, but also in 1969, they became the first Turkish football team to play a semi-final of a European competition.

This will be painful as a United supporter.

Wtf....your 26yrs old lad? Hey, I can't complain. Keep doing what you love bro

You should continue this series every year after then..

“Wow that hurt.” -resident arsenal fan

5.09 even quardiola looked like kloop back in the days😊

Day 18: best sons of former players currently playing (example: Diego Simeone’s son is killing it in Serie A) Criteria: dad must have played top flight football

Didn’t JLS form on X factor or something or am I completely wrong?

Newcastles last major tophy was in 1969

i miss the mars delight a lot :(

Dunno if I recommended this ages ago but would be interesting to see your opinion on the 7 best ballon d’or seasons ever? Like if you agree and want it to be a video like me!

Alfie What you like with the Arsenal winning the prem we know Hull City never will 😆 but otherwise a good video keep up the good work 😎👊

Wow admin recognized JLS

1998,the year I was born.. What a terrible year.

I got flash back off juventus going into serie b how did they get too there best so quickly again makes me think they will be ok again soon Evan tho there struggling a bit at mo

My dad didn’t pull out of my mom in 1998 then I popped out

Day 243: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.

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Saka and ESR have born too

What happened to Panathinaikos?

Day 417: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions

I was 7 living in Washington DC and Europe Leagues were not as accessable. My only way to watch these Legends was the World Cup.

Commercial Club Utd still winning off the field if not on it

Best player from each country a lot will have changed in the three years you last did it

Day 11 of asking awesome person Alfie to make a video on Detroit City FC and to look at a club with partial fan ownership, a historic stadium built during the great depression as part of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, and a rowdy group of supporters known as the Northern Guard who are championing the fight for equality for all minority groups.

It is SO gratifying to hear Chelsea were also Financially solid before Roman Abramovich - I'm not a Chelsea fan, but I do defend their takeover when compared to Man City since they had won a trophy and been half decent in the decade prior to it happening - knowing the finances were good too adds another point to my argument. That being why I despise Man City - for context.

JLS? Who? I definitely remember N*Sync, Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees.

inter milan broke the transfer record twice during the late 90s, and they are not even in the top 7? Serie A spent the most money in the 90s, why there are so low on this list?

Day 1 of asking Alfie to make 2019 Tottenham Hotspur UCL finalists where are they now

You should make a video titled “7 clubs that are least likely to win their domestic league in the next 10 years” Love your contents.

It will be interesting to see Man United in a few years. Their financial decline will start to accelerate, unless things improve on the pitch.

Alright squeaky.

before watching the video, i think man utd will surely be first or second

Dude. Wimbledon. Really? MK Dons is the same 'entity' or 'franchise'. Who has the triangle corner flags?

Jeez born in 96?

17:49

JLS weren’t formed in 1998, aston would’ve been 10, oritse and jb 11 and Marvin 13😂

Brøndby💛💙

Newcastle??

Newcastle are he richest club in the world now period.

Why 1998?

Richie rich

AC Milan Barcelona Newcastle United Juventus Real Madrid Manchester United. I'd say Manchester United has fallen off the most. AC Milan second.

I disagree, it is 1998.

As a Arsenal fan, I disagree.

JLS formed around the 2010s The iPhone launched mid 2000s ….don’t know what he’s on about

JLS was 2008, not 1998 😂😂😂

iPhone came out in 2007 lol and jls was about the same because of X factor??

nothing beat man u vs arsenal... man both teams HATED each other... you'd never see shit like swapping shirts or shaking hands even between those teams. the managers hated each others' guts. arsenal could take on any team on the world, barca, real madrid, bayern, it didn't matter. siggh..... 😢 then again everything's cyclical so who knows...

Newcastle have 320 billion

Villarreal* not Viarreal

So my question is what do you really know about Figo going to Madrid? Well you were like 1 when it happened… watch a proper documentary because it was Madrid playing dirty and Figo did not want to go.

Come on HITC sevens let's leave the nonsense City sponsorship deals conspiracy theories to the jealous children, thought you were better than that!

Arsenal not winning the league right?

Mk don fans be like….

Top 7 then and top 7 now 🤣 come on newcastle 🤣🤣🤣

4 mins of this presentation on Ac Milan at 7th place?? bored after 1 min.

I was 2 in 1998, nobody cares though. That was the coming of age of the young Man Utd team who would go onto doninate proceedings for the next 15 years.

Day 166 of asking why is messi better than pele