Bristol Rob Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Opinion piece from the Guardian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Haha. 1. PL don’t want to share their money with any more clubs 2. PL don’t really want to share it with the unfashionable teams in their own league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 11 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Haha. 1. PL don’t want to share their money with any more clubs 2. Big, fashionable clubs with global market presence PL don’t really want to share it with the unfashionable teams in their own league That's more like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Haha. 1. PL don’t want to share their money with any more clubs 2. PL don’t really want to share it with the unfashionable teams in their own league Agreed- what's the incentive for the PL to spread the wealth further? I keep hearing of PL 2 or it comes up every so often, but there's a theory that TV rights are approaching peak value. If that's the case, PL definitely wouldn't want a PL 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheddarReds Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Finances in football aren't my strong point but it's not a good article I don't think. The article doesn't really do much to support it's argument that it'd reduce the financial gap between the championship and premier league and money within the game would be distributed more evenly. There's no research in that article regarding TV money or the likes of FFP or parachute payments. Ground sharing and making L2 part-time is going to annoy a lot of readers too. Surely making L2 clubs part time for this would kill off clubs and therefore fan bases, careers at that level etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Reading that, assuming promotion to PL2 for League 1 clubs, doesn't this just shift the financial chasm from promotion to PL1, on to promotion to PL2? Given the already quite large gap between L1 and the Championship, both in standard and finance, doesn't this plan just pass the problem on to even smaller clubs? A high % of current Championship clubs bounce back post relegation to L1 now, surely this would make it even more of a 'closed shop'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Football will end up killing itself if too much more of this goes on. And it will go on. And on. Until it’s fckued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 This reads like a guy that doesn't follow football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Everything about the game today smacks of football being prepared to kill the goose that laid the golden egg as clubs. in their attempts to improve their lot and share of the money in the game, are prepared to dismantle everything that made the game great in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMWANG50 Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Seneca the Younger said: This reads like a guy that doesn't follow football It was actually written by a woman but that shouldn't detract from its lack of journalism. Football is eating itself, the FA are yet again to blame for selling its most marketable asset to the highest bidder that is now an animal out of control... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Exile Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Louise Taylor has been the Guardian's reporter in the North East for a long time. Knows her stuff. Not sure I agree with her though. Heavy whiff of the entitlement of fans of Newcastle, Leeds, Sunderland and Boro to a permanent existence on the sunlit uplands, no matter how poorly run. And not a mention of us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherDerbyFan Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 This comes down to a lot of Championship chairman believing the EFL's deal with Sky was vastly undervalued. In terms of the domestic TV deals, The Premier League gets £1.7b pa, whereas the EFL is £120m pa. From all of this, each L2 club gets around £1m, L1 get £1.7m, Championship £7.5m and Prem £100-150m [rough estimates] Average viewing figures on Sky are over 300k in the Championship, with the odd game getting close to 500k. Premier League games average 1.5m, but have been lower than 500k on a number of occasions, balanced out by topping 3m for a couple of games over the past decade. There's also the 5 year deal which limits the 3 divisions when technology is quickly advancing, which will leave us trailing further behind. One league being advertised considerably more than the other, resulting in the equivalent to 4 times as many viewers per game, but receiving almost 17 times more money (exc parachute payments). See why there's talk of a split from the EFL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappers Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 All the usual garbage, focussing solely on money in the short term and ignoring what makes English football so appealing. I don’t suppose that clubs living within their means might be an option, rather than destroying the lower levels in search of a few extra pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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