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A friend told me an amazing statistic that by 2016 /17 season even the bottom premiershio club will receive £100m a year in TV money. Italian clubs like ac / inter and juve get about £15m. So the greats of football like AC Milan under financial fair play cannot compete with burnley. As an Englishman and with several of the benefitting clubs living a short drive from me maybe I should be pleased about this. But I actually find it obscene clubs are elevated due to tv ratings and nothing to do with the fans or the traditions of the club. Great clubs and others I gave mentioned right accross Europe will be unable to compete english clubs will rule everything or rather 18 will the rest of english football the many clubs in the lower leagues and grass roots football will be thrown to the dogs. Long term this won't end well as I fear premiershio football and it's popularity globally is a fad built on sand once people start to lose interest there will be nothing to fall back on not just english football but european too which I now fear for
IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY
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Agreed. It's developing into an unhealthy critical mass.
It's great for players and agents and will be a crapp deal for fans.
It's bad for the Championship too; trying to get promoted is fuelling massive overspend by some teams.
The Premier League has benefited from some of the competition having problems; Teams in Serie A have yet to recover from bribery - many fewer countries take their football.
La Liga is second behind the premiership but get's less than half the TV income and the deals there are by individual club, concentrating the money with Real and Barcelona.
South American football is a corrupt, busted-flush.
The Bundesliga is good to watch, cheap and has great fan participation. Efficient Germans .....
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You are looking soon european football will be a merry go round of the english top four and 2 Spanish clubs the champions league will be a precession every year. Boring as hell football has descended into a popular TV programme and no matter how good we always get bored of TV shows
IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY
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The world can do a lot worse than follow in the footsteps of the Germans. German football is the closest we have to the real thing right now and they are reaping the benefits on and off the field.
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Mercifully, there are still good players and managers that come together to create competitive teams in the Champions League but they're becoming fewer and most group stage matches are dull.
Bayern, PSG and other propped-up, oligarch clubs will provide competition for the best players and keep the money flowing, though.
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Agree Stan. What sickens me the most is the stories you hear up and down the country of lower league clubs having charity events or struggling to pay for a genuine lick of paint etc, when most top 6 club players could probably buy 70% of these clubs with a year's salary!
Yes it's a little exaggeration but it's to the total detriment of the game. Look how many players are not becoming what they could be in the lower leagues. Surely the FA could insist more was diverted but then I guess that would need people who actually gave a damn running it all.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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The rich will always get richer, the poor poorer. An eternally true fact, but none more so than these times we're living.
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Agree Stan. What sickens me the most is the stories you hear up and down the country of lower league clubs having charity events or struggling to pay for a genuine lick of paint etc, when most top 6 club players could probably buy 70% of these clubs with a year's salary!
Yes it's a little exaggeration but it's to the total detriment of the game. Look how many players are not becoming what they could be in the lower leagues. Surely the FA could insist more was diverted but then I guess that would need people who actually gave a damn running it all. A good post top 4 and I agree with every word. It's not going to be long before the top premiership players are on £500k a week and the average ones on £100k a week. I can't take that seriously
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A friend told me an amazing statistic that by 2016 /17 season even the bottom premiershio club will receive £100m a year in TV money. Italian clubs like ac / inter and juve get about £15m. So the greats of football like AC Milan under financial fair play cannot compete with burnley. As an Englishman and with several of the benefitting clubs living a short drive from me maybe I should be pleased about this. But I actually find it obscene clubs are elevated due to tv ratings and nothing to do with the fans or the traditions of the club. Great clubs and others I gave mentioned right accross Europe will be unable to compete english clubs will rule everything or rather 18 will the rest of english football the many clubs in the lower leagues and grass roots football will be thrown to the dogs. Long term this won't end well as I fear premiershio football and it's popularity globally is a fad built on sand once people start to lose interest there will be nothing to fall back on not just english football but european too which I now fear for Why would people start to lose interest, with TV the popularity has only increased worldwide and there is still room for growth in Asia, Africa and North America.
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Yep, saying British people will lose interest in football is like saying americans will lose interest in baseball.
The demand to watch football, in stadiums and on tv will always be there. At some point stadiums may not be at capacity then ticket prices will be frozen or perhaps even fall but while pretty much every premier league ground is full every game they will continue to rise.
I'm yet to see Premier league dominance, I've seen plenty of dominance from Spanish and German teams in Europe and as far as I'm concerned Premier league is still behind those leagues in quality despite there being more money.
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