Cool_Blue
Player Valuation: £35m
I have actually, on the tour, but I take your point lolYou've never been in the changing rooms at Goodison I presume? What you have described would be an upgrade
All of it twice
To me that just sounds like making the bigger clubs even richer, about time the bottom 6 clubs grew a set and told them no, cash should and must be spread more even, it's supposed to be a competition.
gwladysnight
Player Valuation: £10m
If the major sponsor was paying a realistic amount for sponsorship and naming rights then we could have just replaced it. We couldn't because Usmanov an absolute monster was propping us up. Many of us warned about it because it was an accident waiting to happen. The posters now whining like a bitch about it are the same ones who looked the other way.
We dismissed Siggurddson immediately and were not paying his wages. The £10m was what we could have sued him for because we lost his transfer value. We can still sue him. So it is absolute nonsense to claim it is mitigation.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
I think people need to remember the 6 clubs did not try and leave the Premier League. They tried to leave the Champions League and form a new European Super League. They had no intention of leaving the cash cow that is the Premier League. They thought the Premier League would be relieved and let them stay, and that their fans would welcome it. They were wrong on both counts.
HowardsWay
Player Valuation: £6m
Think you need to think things through a bit more. All very well and good saying get rid of the PL institution because you may be angry, but without it, we don't have the best league in the world. I don't know if you were around pre PL days but football was dying. Attendances were down and there was huge apathy for the game. Part of this were the social issues of the day but like it or hate it, the PL reinvigorated the game.
As a result, huge money then materialised as the football product in Engand became highly sought after. This then enabled clubs to grow and become bigger. Some took huge gambles and were successful and many failed and put themselves in real danger.
The football landscape has now changed where you don't have wealthy single owners owning clubs at the top level anymore and that is starting to filter down the leagues. You mention various factors and nations but the big threat is coming from American ownership who really do want to change our game to one they understand. It won't be long until the first Prem. game is played outside of England and my money would be on America, partic. coming up to the World Cup.
So no, it doesn't need abolishing IMO. It needs a clean up and it needs proper deterrents putting in place for those that choose to violate the rules.
HowardsWay
Player Valuation: £6m
And you came to that conclusion. Wow.
Equally important to remember that this was being set up to remove any risk of these clubs ever missing out on champs league money or any up and coming clubs establishing ever have the ability to compete with them
gwladysnight
Player Valuation: £10m
We were propped up by a Russian oligarch and his bag man. We were absolutely fine with that.
Our Chairman was one of the main instigators of the Premier League and was quite happy to cut the rest of the League adrift.
If you know your history springs to mind.
Speak for yourself Baileyjon.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Every big club is either owned by an oligarch, an oil state or an American financial institution like your lot. That bit is irrelevant.
They still breached the PL rules and did not act in good faith. Yet they got a £3m fine each
gwladysnight
Player Valuation: £10m
Hopefully. For that to happen Moshiri has to stop grandstanding in public whilst pleading guilty to the commission. He has to show contrition, admit his errors and agree to follow the rules in future.
Evertonthat
Player Valuation: £8m
Sorry if this has already been asked, but these clubs queuing up to sue Everton because they were relegated had me thinking. They're all assuming that any points deduction should have been applied last season, or the season before. Was it not the 2020/21 season that the rule break was taken from? A season where we finished 10th on 59 points? Take 10 points off that and we would have finished 11th and wouldn't have affected any relegation. Added to that, the commission have clearly stated that "no sporting advantage was gained". I cant see how any of them have a case to sue.
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