My first inclination is to agree. But then I realise that success in the Championship, which is what we’d be aiming as achieve, is rewarded with access to the EPL. And the whole cycle starts again. Really, the best solution for me would be for the top 6 to reignite their failed super league project and fuck off, leaving the rest of the Premier League teams to form a new and fairer pyramid league with the EFL.
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Babelfish says: "Game's gone."
You can't fix what is terminally broken. I think that would be the best course of action. But not at all likely.
Broadcasters and club owners want to destroy the English game, but use the English brands to get a big share of a European television game.
As a fan I'm not interested in European games, or flying around Europe to see them, except where it's a knock out competition where the elite in each country play off for this seasons best. Like it used to be. I do not believe where they are headed is how an environmentally sustainable community connected game should be structured. I'm more interested in the FA Cup.
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I'm unclear how you think the current rules stop this scenario?
The rules actively encourage offering longer contracts to spread transfer fees into the future, which if the owner then walks away leaves the club with future liabilities to players in wages that it may not be able to afford.
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The fair sporting competition was lost once Jack Walker started putting lots of money into Blackburn and bought them a title. The old days are gone.
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I don’t think they do. Hence I doth said
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Yep. The fundamental problem is that the Premier League is first and foremost "the best league in the world" global franchise where rich owners lock everyone else out and our owner is fully signed up to that. As a result, the Premier League does not fulfil it's actual true identity as the top flight of English football, a role it has no interest in and which does not pay its bills. The only ways to solve that are to either distribute the money more evenly (but how much and how far down the pyramid?) or to close the door, either at the base of the Premier League or more likely for the top few to create a new league with their buddies from Spain etc. No solution is ideal as the fallout is huge, not just in the game but in the country as well given the economic impact of the PL, but otherwise we just go round these circles for all time making up silly rules to pretend anyone cares, which is probably what will happen.
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I like, on balance, us being shit in the Premier league better than us being shit in the championship and league one (which we were quite a lot). It's also freed up a lot of bandwidth because I only follow the Premier league now, whereas before I followed the champ and had an eye on the Premier league.
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The Times is saying that we have to sell a player(s) for £30m profit by the end of the season to comply next year.
I'm not sure if they have taken the Mangala agreement into account.
It is based on the £12m to 17m loss stated by Forest.
But as Steve said that may be accounts loss rather than PSR loss.
The sports journalists are mainly completely clueless when it comes to finance
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If an owner can't finance the success of their club with large amounts of cash due to these rules, then they will run up a big debt, decide it's no fun, and then walk away leaving unmanageable and unwanted players and costs in place.
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I'm all for the Premier League cutting itself off, but only if we are in the Championship at the time. An alternative competing league would be fabulous, play off between league champions for the European places.
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I don't think we'd get 30M profit for him as he cost an astronomical amount, but I can see why even if we stay up we might want to sell the Telford Messi if any of the big buggers wanted him. He's a very good player but I sort of feel we try and put everything through him (set pieces are the obvious example and he largely wastes them) and maybe we would have more of a balance if we didn't. I can also imagine he's looking at the likes of his buddies Cole Palmer, Mainoo, Braithwaite and Gordon and thinking he is not going to have a chance of getting a kick for England until he is at a bigger club.
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I don't think Gibbs White would get into the teams of any of the big 6. Maybe Villa or Newcastle.
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MGW is vastly over rated he isn't a match winner and is worse than terrible on set pieces. His final ball is dreadful. Any team buying him for a fraction of what we paid are mugs. Im struggling to think of a player worth 10k in our side.
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Donnybot has been overstimulated I think
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I could see him going to Spurs or even Arsenal.
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Did you miss his final ball for Wood's goal on Saturday?
