I hope some of these clubs are being looked into. How can Fulham spend that much, have spent a Couple of the last 5 seasons in the championship and don’t make fortunes on their gate. I get we’ve paid high wages and paid off managers. I think Fulham have gone through a few managers as well.
I think on the flip side of this maybe this shows that the 105m permitted losses is too dated now after covid. Nobody in the right mind wants their business to lose money, especially on a grand scale but to be allowed to lose 105m over a three year period is, in my opinion, now to little a figure when most half decent transfers will cost you anything from 15m upwards.
The reality is without a stadium which is about 50k and selling out every game and without competition money, I.e Europe, how are you expected to actually comply with these rules. It’s like saying to someone, here’s £110 but I need £105 back. So, I’ve got a fiver to spend but the cheapest packet of sweets is £20 quid. It just doesn’t really make any sense to me.
I was against the whole Super League but at one point I thought you know what, let them have it. Get them out of the league and if and when they want to come back make them start in the lower divisions and work their way back up. I would have promoted 6 championship teams such as Norwich, Sheffield United, Burnley, Blackburn, Sunderland, Watford and just been done with it. There would have been a new big 6 and Sky could have reformed the whole ethos of Premier League football.
I actually think the Super League would of only last a few years anyway, soon as they realised that the average fan(s) can’t afford to go to Milan away on a Saturday night and then Madrid away a week or two later.