The rich will get richer, the greedy will get greedier and those not clinging to the 'gravy train' like one of those trains you see in India will be left high and dry. The Premier League have just accepted total bids of £5.136 billion for 2016-19 matches. The team finishing BOTTOM of the Premier League will then receive £100 million and the Champions £156 million. Every PL club will then be in the Top 25 richest clubs in the world. Perhaps TF should have foreseen this when playing silly buggers with Harry...
We keep on thinking that it can't get any sillier, that it will implode and the gravy train will stop. But it doesn't. It is crass, gross and stupid and ruining the game.
So what this really means is: - an ever increasing gap between the Prem and the rest, Promoted teams relegated every year. - worse football, as the fear of relegation outweighs the extra prize money of finishing a couple of places higher - yet more foreign owners, but increasingly ones who will want to take a profit out of clubs - the final death knell of the England team, when you can buy any player around why would you invest in growing your own? - higher subscription fees for all you Sky junkies - actual fans who go to matches still treated like scum and fleeced for the privilege. Excellent, made my mind up for me, if we are relegated I won't need an ST, easy to get tickets if you are a member, if we stay up I won't want one, sick of this circus. I'll come back when I can get 3 seats for 50p each in our 45k new stadium.
Of course, short of starting a PL2 the Championship could become a graveyard of formerly big clubs left behind...
I've heard some strange stuff about splitting out matches into day packages. Whatever, I think this may be the death knell for one of the few treats in my house.
Just been hearing on the wireless that according to Alan Sugar much of the cash will go to players and agents, we can expect £500k a week wages for players, and most clubs still won't turn a profit and would be declared bankrupt in any other industry. It's going to be really messy when it all comes crashing down. The nihilist in me is looking forward to it. As for the impact of the Prem, English clubs won more European competitions in the 20 years before it was formed than in the 25 after. And that includes 5 years when we were banned.
agree, its losing its ground roots. No more a working mans sport as most cannot afford. Players get too much money and you would have thought they would address that? i guess they have by giving them more.
Alan Sugar was shown on Beeb Breakfast this morning and he used the Prune Juice anecdote to describe where the money will go, "in one end and out the other"...... It just means that for the foreseeable the title will be won by City, Chelsea or Utd the rest in the league are also rans.......No competition makes the Premier League the most boring........
You'd think we've this increase in money that they could be persuaded to reduce ticket prices for us fans, or at least set a ceiling price....Shame that wasn't placed in as part of the agreement.
