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Football league clubs want more money (article)

flyingkiwiDK
flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,724
edited April 2013 in General Charlton
Anyone seen this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22205419

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  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,915
    Who can blame them.

    How can it be fair that Man U get £158 million for calling their training ground a new name and wearing a sponsored training kit when clubs like Bury could fold for a debt of £1 million?

    Football is well and truly f**ked up!
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    And rightly so, the amount of money the Prem gets compared to the whole of the football league is ridiculous.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,899
    The thing is, if the Championship gets more money the clubs will simply pay more in wages to the same pool of players who are not seen as being quite good enough for the Premier League.

    Ticket prices won't fall. Clubs will still spend beyond their means and face financial ruin when they get things wrong And round we go again.

    Quite depressing really.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,618
    Off_it said:

    The thing is, if the Championship gets more money the clubs will simply pay more in wages to the same pool of players who are not seen as being quite good enough for the Premier League.

    Ticket prices won't fall. Clubs will still spend beyond their means and face financial ruin when they get things wrong And round we go again.

    Quite depressing really.

    That is oh so true. Excellent post. Football in this country is well and truly mucked up.

  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,161
    LargeAddick said:

    Off_it said:

    The thing is, if the Championship gets more money the clubs will simply pay more in wages to the same pool of players who are not seen as being quite good enough for the Premier League.

    Ticket prices won't fall. Clubs will still spend beyond their means and face financial ruin when they get things wrong And round we go again.

    Quite depressing really.

    That is oh so true. Excellent post. Football in this country is well and truly mucked up.

    I agree . Off_it is probably right.
    In Germany the TV money is more equally shared out across the top 2 divisions. So why don't they all spend like hell on players wages? They don't have a wage cap, so the answer must be the ownership model, with 51% in the hands of members -fans. Which of course we are not easily going to implement here. But 10% would be a start.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,358
    Like many I think football sold its soul many years ago.
  • samcooke91
    samcooke91 Posts: 97
    seems fair, theres been a lot of outcry against the increase in parachute payments as it'll affect clubs like ours and make it far harder to compete
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,828
    Off_it said:

    The thing is, if the Championship gets more money the clubs will simply pay more in wages to the same pool of players who are not seen as being quite good enough for the Premier League.

    Ticket prices won't fall. Clubs will still spend beyond their means and face financial ruin when they get things wrong And round we go again.

    Quite depressing really.

    great post and absolutely spot on

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