While Pogba has moved for £89 million, Scottish clubs have been short-changed by the departures of Irvine, Magennis and Hemmings Matthew Peters/Getty ImagesConfirmation that football has gone to hell in a handcart supposedly comes from the fact a young midfielder, Paul Pogba, changed clubs for £89 million. Apparently it is evidence of the game’s lunacy that an even younger defender, John Stones, can switch for £49 million. These and other fees and salaries washing around football are also “obscene” and “grotesque”. What’s actually happening is that the English game is accelerating away to a new, turbo-charged level of spending and supporters need time to get used to the numbers. Back in 1979 it was obscene, grotesque, to hell in…

Source: The Times August 16, 2016 23:15 UTC