Agreed, but I don't think that tele money should be scrapped, but it should be spread more evenly. Would have a knock on effect with the national team too. Lower league clubs would have the ability to nurture their talent better. This Academy rating system is stupid. How can a team lower than the PL afford 2m a year so they have te ability to pick and choose? How is that fair? I honestly think that the football league havnt looked into it enough.
Says the Leeds fan who spent money they didn't have to get into the Champions League like Ridsdale did. At least we have the money to do it. We'll be just fine mate mark my words.
Agreed. Although I wouldn't blame the FL for it; Greg Clarke and his merry men appear to be at least trying to make a change. It's the greedy Premier League and its puppet-masters at BSkyB that have English football by the scrotum. It's in their self-interest to keep the spending a-flowing, the Deadline Day excitement a-coming, and the glorious HD 3D money ker-chinging into their coffers. We deride FIFA and UEFA for being corrupt and self-serving, but it might be that they're the ones who give English football the kick up the backside it needs. But like I say, there needs to be compliance rather than rule-bending from the Football League clubs and eventually the Premier League ones too. Otherwise it will be bound to fail, and you really will get an entrenched hierarchy of clubs: those who cheat and those who are cheated.
The German teams don't fair too well in Europe anymore. It can only be fair if it's installed all around Europe, including the rising nations in eastern Europe. I realise the big five are in debt, but so are most Prem clubs. If it comes down to spending matching income, no-one will be able to compete against the big five clubs, who have massive fan-bases around the world. They will also get more for advertising and sponsorship, as they're on TV more than anyone else. So basically, I don't thing this will change things, except maybe for clubs like Portsmouth, who under this new structure wouldn't have won the FA Cup and wouldn't have gone now to League One either. They would have just be average also-rans like everyone else outside the elite.
They had the same number of teams in the CL semis as us, and their domestic competition is so much better it would be worth it anyway.
Munich have done exceptionally well this season. An exception - not the rule. Aside from Munich, what other German sides have done well over the last 5-6 years? Germany's league has always been more competitive than ours, as are most leagues to be honest. Even the third ranked team in Scotland is different each season.
You're not saying the Scottish league is more competitive than the PL? Celtic or Rangers will win the league, that's it, whereas (just) realistically you could see any of ManUre, City, Arsenal, Spurs, Newcastle, Chelsea and Liverpool winning it at some point in the next 5-10 years.
Why not every team in the country? How can it be competitive when only 7 of the 90 odd league sides have a chance? I know it won't ever happen and no league has that now. But why shouldn't it? Just saying like.
And how would you establish a system that allowed this? And I'm talking one that wouldn't eventually leave half the clubs in the country threatened by liquidation?
It's better than any other. Footy was more competitive before billionaire chairmen could throw cash at clubs, why shouldn't going back to that time financially work?
Because it changed. It can't go back. Clubs like Manure managed to become massive and they have a 72k seater stadium that is filled week in week out. All because of success during this period of tele money. They will continue to grow. How is it fair? It's not.
What's that your always saying ?.Stop living in the past.and i think you mean,HAD the money as it starts next season.got a big wage bill to cut.
What I'm saying is, as I think you know, that outside, the top 2, any team can finish anywhere in Scotland. There's a real possibility that Rangers won't finish in the top two next season too. In England, out of the current top eight, only Newcastle (for one season only) and Man City (can't see that happen again any time soon) have even been relegated. The PL is quickly heading towards a situation where clubs are finishing in size order. FFP will ensure that it happens. At the same time, I don't want to see clubs going bust either. But if clubs can NEVER achieve promotion to great heights because they will never be able to spend above what they are earning, then fanbases could decline and clubs could go under anyway. So it may not even help there.
Funny that! Not West Ham? I suppose they think they think of themselves as a Championship club in name only. This ruling will stop promoted clubs finishing above them when they finally go up.
Reading and Southampton presumably voting that way because they're worried about the repercussions if they're relegated after their first season(s). Pussies. Run your club in the right way and you won't be in the ****. Not hard, is it?
