http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...bs-gambling-futures-on-premier-league?cc=5739 We are in a stronger position than most others in our division.
No details on anyone though. I guess the way that clubs release finances we would have to travel into the future to find out how we are at the moment! Could be handy though as I could then get those pesky lottery numbers every week. Here's Sky's version of it. http://www1.skysports.com/football/...clubs-reveal-financial-concerns-in-new-survey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19842397 How come 13 Premier League clubs charge less than we do for a season ticket, surely we are heading in the wrong direction here as we are one of the most expensive clubs in the championship and our area is one of the most deprived areas in the country. Maybe the saying that football is being priced out of the pocket of the ordinary man, with prices like these I am not surprised.
Already a topicfor it. http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/174332-BBC-Sport-Price-of-Football-survey-2012
stopping the deluge of average foreign players on silly money over talented home born juniors would also help
This could also help our International team. Surely there is a link between the number of average overseas players who now play every week in the Premier League and the fact that England can barely field a decent side any more?
But surely if they're good enough, the promising home-grown player would get picked? In fact, some argue that players are over-valued on account of being English, such as Downing, Carroll and Henderson at Liverpool who each cost a **** ton.
They already had a limit in place on foreigners in the nineties and it turned our club teams into shambles in Europe, hate to say it but the floodgates have opened and thats how it is now. It's a shame for the national team but we still have a few glimmers of hope in the likes of Wilshere and Chamberlain despite some of the average players in the squad now.
i d be tempted to ask warrington, wigan or st helens in rugby league how well the salary cap works. apparently, they have the most expensive anzac and south pacifican (is that a word?) office cleaners in the country. they also have the most expensive dual salaried under sixes, sevens, eights and nines coaches in the world. does salary capping work when some dummy really wants to waste their money on fast track success?
PL Clubs get so much more Sky money than the rest of the Football Leagues Clubs that its hardly surprising some Clubs in the PL can reduce prices below that of some Championship Clubs. It even costs £10 for adults to gain admission to watch Margate FC in the Isthmian Premier League - admission monies providing a bigger share of the revenue cake the further down the football ladder you go.
The problem is the PL & CL "product". We are seeing football becoming a TV commodity, watched and funded through the medium of TV by foreign armchair fans. These people don't have a local affiliation to a club, they just want to see big flashy stadiums, rich mega stars with fancy orange boots and hairstyles, they want El Classico every week as it's a "spectacle". I've asked most people I teach here in France, they don't often support smaller clubs, they don't understand why somebody would not support a "big team".. Manchester City are now included in French Canal+'s "Big 5", they even have these "Big 5" in bold for the viewers to see the results and league tables. Liverpool are still "Big 5", Tottenham are not. French people find it strange that Hugo Lloris transfered to Spurs, they don't see Spurs as a "Big" club!! You wouldn't believe the amount of Man City shirts which have suddenly appeared in the shops.. 2 seasons ago, French people only referred to "Manchester" meaning United, most didn't even know Man City existed..
Fear of falling behind other European nations will prevent a wage cap even being considered. The Premier League clubs have far too much power to consider a fairer distribution of cash, but they absolutely should. Ticket prices are the one area where things may change, as attendances continue to fall and the average age of football fans at games continues to increase(particularly when TV revenue, rather than ticket prices, generate the majority of income for football clubs), then it's likely that at some point, prices will reduce. Personally, I think the recent new deal on academy compensation was a major step backwards, anything that works against the development of home grown talent has to be a bad thing and was a very short sighted and stupid move by the Premier League clubs.
Rugby League is a joke in many ways , look at the use of performance enhancing drugs which just gets swept under the carpet ( Hull FC ) So , bad example really
I think this is the opposite of what is happening to an extent! You have 18/19 yo kids coming through at big clubs on big wages who think they are bobby big bollocks - Brady for example, and players like Rodwell, Henderson, Allen being sold for unbelievable amounts and taking massive wages, the influx of foreign players in the main comes from the fact they are cheaper (as well as better in a lot of cases) - i.e. Santi Cazorla cost the same in wages and fee as Joe Allen and has 48 caps for Spain!!!
