The rich get richer..

As in life in general..


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40125394

Obscene amounts of cash. Even more obscene that the bulk of that money will go out of the country to agents and foreign clubs and players.

Be good to see some of these modern players become football club owners when they finish, but it's very rare (I can only think of Salford)

Quoted from GrimRob

Be good to see some of these modern players become football club owners when they finish, but it's very rare (I can only think of Salford)

Don't hold your breath many are now more concerned about taking more subscribers & broadcasters money as pundits. Feels bizarre that in the case of Sunderland, Boro and Hull you get "prize money" for being relegated.

I am personally developing a massive grudge against the premier league and all it stands for a well as the seismic negative impact it has on the league pyramid, FA Cup, England team etc...

TBF Football is not the safest way to invest your money, property is much safer read somewhere Steve (interesting) Davis has some of his fortune invested in forestry in Scotland. Most prem players are millionaires come a long way from the old days.

One thing that did strike a chord though I heard Bournemouth had signed ex Chelski keeper Asmir Begovic for a staggering ten million notes. Does not seem that long ago they were penny less on the brink of extinction just before we beat them in 98. Eddie Howe had the biggest ever last laugh against us.

Wonder how Huddersfield will cope in the big time?

Whatever we may say about the premier league that is the place every club wants to be, it's alright saying you like the friendliness of division 2, so suppose we won our first 20 league games and were running away with the league, would we be happy if the team then lost every other game just to stay in league 2. The premier league is a different animal but it's where everyone wishes to be.

As kammy would say, UNBELIEVABLE JEFF, Hull to receive 97 million alone!

Bottom club Sunderland received more money this season than Champions Leicester did last season. That is one hell of a pay rise and comes weeks after the Accrington Chairman was all but threatened to be cut off by the powers that be for daring to question the 1/2 million pounds League 2 clubs get. We live in some strange lopsided world where the more you have, the more you get given.

Quoted from Gaffer58

Whatever we may say about the premier league that is the place every club wants to be, it's alright saying you like the friendliness of division 2, so suppose we won our first 20 league games and were running away with the league, would we be happy if the team then lost every other game just to stay in league 2. The premier league is a different animal but it's where everyone wishes to be.

Most "small" clubs always have wanted to be up there to be among the elite, to see the really big teams performing on their park. I think promotion to the top league has always frightened some owners though. There was even talk like that when Town were in the running to go up into the old Div One in the 80s. It is possible to still be a community club in the PL but it's getting harder and harder because the smaller clubs are not run in the same way as the big ones where money is immaterial. The small club can compete for a while but in the long run it's like poker, the biggest bankrolls eventually win. So it's forcing those small clubs to become mini versions of the big ones by means of prize money, parachute payments and so on.

It's no coincidence that 5 out of the top 6 Championship clubs had foreign managers this year. The top half of the Championship and the bottom half of the PL are almost interchangeable. Huddersfield appear different. They have a richer Fenty in David Hoyle but even he can't bankroll a PL club so they will have to operate differently to survive. They won't be the same local community team by the end of this season, they will have at least 50% foreign players for starters.

I'm convinced the top 6 PL clubs plus  a few others would jump ship into a Euro league in a heartbeat if the chance came along. Some of them already have franchise clubs in America, Australia and Asia. They have no loyalty to English football or even to England for that matter.

Quoted from Gaffer58

Whatever we may say about the premier league that is the place every club wants to be, it's alright saying you like the friendliness of division 2, so suppose we won our first 20 league games and were running away with the league, would we be happy if the team then lost every other game just to stay in league 2. The premier league is a different animal but it's where everyone wishes to be.

Absolutely not. I would love to see Town in the Championship, but I can genuinely say that given the choice, I wouldn't have us in the Prem.  Maybe in 5 years time with a new Stadium etc I might think differently, but I would be surprised if I did.