The Premier League Thread

Well, it has also been a few years since I was called a nipper too, so I am having that

 

Anyone under the age of 40 is a nipper to me.

 

Yeah, like I said, Im taking that anyhow

 

Prize money table. Saints got less than Brighton, because fewer of our matches were televised. Man City got less than Liverpool for the same reason.

 

How on earth were Newcastle worth 19 games? Top 6 I understand having more games shown..........but Newcastle had 11 games more than us? I take it someone high up at sky is a Newcastle fan.

 

Nice moves Pep

 

It was a lot more tuneful than Madonna’s rendition of it on Saturday!

 

You are cutting out old people??

 

So are old people before or after elders. I need to know where I am in the new food chain

 

Apparently they will be targeting FB and another front-3 player as cover. Problem is, they can't fix all those areas in one go. Man City have much more fixable weaknesses, Liverpool are just slightly worse in a lot of places.

 

Well... he is the second best player in the world.

 

Last one from me. The winners only get 1.6x what the20th placed team get for showing up. The PL is amazingly equal, stop saying it's unfair.

 

Have to say that that was a pleasant surprise for me too. I thought the difference would be far greater.

 

So then maybe he should play for a better team than PSG.

Like Liverpool.

 

Welcome to the club. Only I am not getting I have got old.

 

Petr Cech announces he’s returning to Chelsea to be sporting director....a week before his club plays Chelsea in a cup final. Timing, Petr!

 

Yep. If footballers had brains hey...

 

They do have brains usually located below their belts. Thoughts vocalised via the orifice close by.

 

That explains the beer belly bulge in the new kits.

 

Indeed. Here's a bit of a secret: financially, the PL is more fair than it has ever been. In 2017-18, the revenue of the biggest club was 4.72x that of the smallest. In 1999-2000, it was 8.07x. Suspect it was even more extreme in the early days.

Hell, for the sake of comparison, here's the whole of the PL as a percentage of the club with the highest turnover:

1999-2000:

Man Utd: 100%
Chelsea: 66%
Arsenal: 52%
Leeds: 49%
Tottenham: 41%
Liverpool: 40%
Newcastle: 39%
Sunderland: 32%
Villa: 31%
West Ham: 31%
Everton: 24%
Middlesbrough: 24%
Leicester: 22%
Derby: 19%
Bradford: 17%
Coventry: 17%
Sheff Wed: 15%
Watford: 15%
Saints: 15%
Wimbledon: 12%

2017-18:

Man Utd: 100%
Man City: 85%
Liverpool: 77%
Chelsea: 75%
Arsenal: 66%
Tottenham: 65%
Everton: 32%
Newcastle: 30%
West Ham: 30%
Leicester: 27%
Saints: 26%
Palace: 25%
Brighton: 24%
Burnley: 24%
Bournemouth: 23%
Watford: 22%
Stoke: 22%
Swansea: 22%
Huddersfield: 21%
West Brom: 21%



The big difference is that it's no longer graduated to the extent it once was; there are six huge (on the global scale) teams followed by fourteen merely big teams, whereas once it was one huge team and a fairly distant chase pack. But even then, the table rather much resembled a financial chart:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1271968.stm