Proposed changes to the Premier league

[paulbefc]

It does make sense that an owner such as Abramovich now sees the PL as a completely different investment to what it was in 2003. Back then, you genuinely could "buy" the premier league and enjoy all the returns that brought you. You only needed to worry about United, Liverpool and Arsenal. CL football was near enough guaranteed every season.

In 2020, City and Spurs have come along and a bad managerial appointment or two in succession could see you out of the CL for years, missing out on a 9-figure number in revenue, while you have to spend enormous amounts trying to do the rebuilding job that may take a decade, as your rivals hoover up the money you're now missing out on. Meanwhile, Everton and Aston Villa, already big clubs with sizeable fanbases, have been taken over by ambitious and rich investors who pose a very credible threat of muscling into the elite, just as Roman did and making the situation even worse.

Do the likes of Abramovich have the stomach for that kind of competition? Will they start pulling investment as risk rises and expected returns fall? It would make perfect sense to do that to some. But why do that when you can just kick the ladder down, raise the barriers to entry and continue to profit?

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

How Rick Party is still in his role after personally destroying Wigan and Macclesfield and soon to be Oldham is beyond me.

Him backing this proposal which will screw two other sides, and give full power to his former club is nothing short of unexpected.

Absolutely joke.

All because Liverpool and United want a lions share of Tv Money and Prem money.

Farce.

The longer this Covid period disrupts, the more desperate the 2 big RS machines will get.

Make no mistake, they are suffering hugely with this pandemic. Most clubs live within their means, or are propped up by financial powerhouses (ourselves, City and Chelsea). They have operated on an unrealistic financial blueprint for many years, relying on vast spending of bandwagon fans. They represent everything that is wrong with the capitalist nature of modern day sport.

Hopefully these proposals are thrown out.

 

[bluenorthwarrior]

I read the summer PL tournament to be each team committing to compete in it once every 5 years, i.e. it takes place every summer but not all 20 teams. It might be a 4 team tournament as part of the pre-season that takes place wherever the biggest market to milk is. You can bet it would usually only have one of RS/utd/city/Chelsea/arsenal in it to give them a free run at another 'trophy' every few years.

I might be wrong but that makes more sense than all 20 playing in what would be a huge and lengthy tournament every 5 years.

 

[Zezti]

Its atrocious.

 

[The Legend of Southall]

Football has been dying a slow death since 1992. This, in it's way, is just it's natural conclusion.

A split is coming. Similar to the one that created the Rugby Union and the Rugby League. And if it isn't, it should be.

Money is the corrupting factor here. Money equals power, and power always corrupts. We need this financial bubble football is in to burst, and soon.

These proposals will need fighting. But I don't think they are going to be.

I fear, with board we have and position we currently find ourselves in, we're going to end up on the wrong side of the fence for this one.

 

[tonyhorne]

The latest in a long line of 'reforms' designed to make football less of a sporting contest and more of a money making exhibition along the lines of the Harlem Globetrotters ...

 

[4737carlin]

Things wont change until the fans of the other 14 clubs (and minority of fans of the "big 6" who still care about footie) take a stand.

Make it clear if this carries on they will be cancelling Sky/BT sports and no longer going the games / buying merchandise.

Sky wont like it, 2 less teams means, 40 less games being played a season, less for them to show.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Yeah, stuff that

 

[paulbefc]

If Moshiri had tried to buy his stake in Everton under these rules, they'd have vetoed the frig out of it without reading the application and Kenwright would have remained the largest shareholder for the rest of his days.

 

[4737carlin]

Thing is every few years stuff like this comes up, and it goes nowhere, it's a none starter, these things always are

 

[JohnTheBlue]

I’m sure the PL and FA will just hand over control to two American owned clubs

 

[LABlue2]

Disgusting attempt to bribe and take advantage of bribe suffering clubs into giving up any semblance of power.

Dressed up with the veneer of cheap away fan tickets and meaningless votes for clubs like Everton.

Scumbag proposal from two scumbag clubs.

 

[The Legend of Southall]

Yeah, stuff that

This post is a thing of beauty.

The entire proposal summed up in 3 words

 

[Zezti]

 

[barneygumble]

The longer this Covid period disrupts, the more desperate the 2 big RS machines will get.

Make no mistake, they are suffering hugely with this pandemic. Most clubs live within their means, or are propped up by financial powerhouses (ourselves, City and Chelsea). They have operated on an unrealistic financial blueprint for many years, relying on vast spending of bandwagon fans. They represent everything that is wrong with the capitalist nature of modern day sport.

Hopefully these proposals are thrown out.

Man Utd have nearly 27,000 hospitality seats for every game. Liverpool have 14,500 per game, and that is increasing soon enough.

That's millions per game they're losing out on. For us it's like £1.5m, theirs is tenfold. But they proposed it last year that the TV money should not be evenly distrubuted, but by Team Popularity and placings. I think each team gets an "equal share" of £31.8m for Domestic and £43.2m for Oversees, and they wanted that to be top heavy for the big sides creating a gulf.

Look at Spain... It's Barca and Real who dominate and they get all the money from TV Deals, smaller teams like Eibar etc get a fraction of what they get. Is that really what anyone wants?