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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.
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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.
 
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MLsfc said:
Really? They had Lovren and Matip play majority of the season next to van dijk. Need a new CB to compete with Gomez. Henderson would get no where nr the man coty team. Wijnaldum unlikely to either
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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.
 
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!
 
Qwerty said:
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.
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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
 
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