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According to the BBC gossip columns, any team promoted to the top flight next season will get a GBP50m windfall.
BBC Gossip - Premiership Windfall
Re: BBC Gossip - Premiership Windfall
I read about this in the Sun today.
While this is good news if we get promoted, I still feel the amount of money going into the Prem is obscene.
I accept the top division should get more but the proportions are totally out of order with the lower leagues. I personally would like to see the wealth in football shared out a bit more fairly.
I read about this in the Sun today.
While this is good news if we get promoted, I still feel the amount of money going into the Prem is obscene.
I accept the top division should get more but the proportions are totally out of order with the lower leagues. I personally would like to see the wealth in football shared out a bit more fairly.
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I don't expect this to go down well with the anti American brigade, but the football authorities (actually the Premiership clubs) could learn how to stimulate interest in their sport, by providing a more even playing field for their clubs, and the way to do that is to introduce a salary cap.
I realise it won't happen in UK football, but it has worked a treat in North America and especially in the NHL (National Hockey League) where last season for example, my team The Edmonton Oilers against all previous odds actually reached the Stanley Cup final before losing in the seventh game of a seven game series to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Now in terms of English football, that is the equivalent over here of lets say North End coming runners up in the premiership to a slightly bigger team such as West Brom or similar. The big teams over here are (just like in England in football) the teams who represent the big cities.........ie New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings etc etc. But the way the NHL is run nowadays, no team can exceed a certain figure in salaries to their players, (I think it is about $USD42 million or so).
That is what British football is short of, competition and the ability of any club to win the league or enter the premiership etc. We more or less know nowadays before the season starts that if Chelsea don't win the premiership, then Man Utd will, and that if neither of those win it (very unlikely) then possibly Arsenal could sneak it with Liverpool and the rest just there really to make up the numbers.
But as the rich get richer, there is less and less chance of things changing, but having said all that, it will be great if PNE can get one or two (maybe even more) seasons in the prem to solidify their financial future...........but really, a promoted team should have some chance of actually winning the prem as happened in the sixties when Leeds won it after two seasons after being runners up on their first attempt. Sadly, those days have gone.....🙁 .
WINDOW FITTER said:
I don't expect this to go down well with the anti American brigade, but the football authorities (actually the Premiership clubs) could learn how to stimulate interest in their sport, by providing a more even playing field for their clubs, and the way to do that is to introduce a salary cap.
I realise it won't happen in UK football, but it has worked a treat in North America and especially in the NHL (National Hockey League) where last season for example, my team The Edmonton Oilers against all previous odds actually reached the Stanley Cup final before losing in the seventh game of a seven game series to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Now in terms of English football, that is the equivalent over here of lets say North End coming runners up in the premiership to a slightly bigger team such as West Brom or similar. The big teams over here are (just like in England in football) the teams who represent the big cities.........ie New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings etc etc. But the way the NHL is run nowadays, no team can exceed a certain figure in salaries to their players, (I think it is about $USD42 million or so).
That is what British football is short of, competition and the ability of any club to win the league or enter the premiership etc. We more or less know nowadays before the season starts that if Chelsea don't win the premiership, then Man Utd will, and that if neither of those win it (very unlikely) then possibly Arsenal could sneak it with Liverpool and the rest just there really to make up the numbers.
But as the rich get richer, there is less and less chance of things changing, but having said all that, it will be great if PNE can get one or two (maybe even more) seasons in the prem to solidify their financial future...........but really, a promoted team should have some chance of actually winning the prem as happened in the sixties when Leeds won it after two seasons after being runners up on their first attempt. Sadly, those days have gone.....🙁 .
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And of couse in the Prem,the higher in the table you finish, the more money you get which just widens the gap even more.
Something certainly needs doing cos things are just geting out of control.
As much as I would love us to get into the Prem, there are some things I would miss from the lower dvisions.
And of couse in the Prem,the higher in the table you finish, the more money you get which just widens the gap even more.
Something certainly needs doing cos things are just geting out of control.
As much as I would love us to get into the Prem, there are some things I would miss from the lower dvisions.
W
White in Exile
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Such as winning games?
WINDOW FITTER said:
Such as winning games?
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Re: BBC Gossip - Premiership Windfall
If sky pulled the plug,then a lot would pull the plug on sky.
They need the premiership just has much as it needs them.
grandad t said:
If sky pulled the plug,then a lot would pull the plug on sky.
They need the premiership just has much as it needs them.
F
fred
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Now is the time to make that gamble, we need to borrow some serious money and invest in some real quality.
Now is the time to make that gamble, we need to borrow some serious money and invest in some real quality.