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WOZOFGRIMSBY
June 2, 2017, 10:46am

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The soul of football is being destroyed season over season. Foreign investment in every single premier league club, and taken away, match by match, from the working class that grew up watching it.

Atmospheres are being destroyed by 'football tourists' and the cost nowadays fits in nowhere near to what the average wage is. A mate of mine went to watch Chelsea v Sunderland (he's from there originally!) and the 'day out' cost him well over £200!


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The Championship is the holy grail for clubs like ours IMO. There are some huge clubs in there but it's still possible to operate and compete in that league without having to change the whole identity of the club. I did read somewhere though that to sign a top championship goal scorer nowadays it will cost a club £15million+, eyewatering money for clubs like Brentford that maybe want to take that extra step to compete for promotion
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Why not think in terms of 1 season in premiership = £100m min even if you stick with your Champ winning squad then anothe £40m min after relegation back to Championship would love one season up there could set us up for another 5 yrs of being competitive in the championship.
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We live in some strange lopsided world where the more you have, the more you get given.


And the fix truly is in once you add in the 'Champions' League to the equation as well.

Here's a breakdown of what the teams would receive this year:

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2398575.html

So, we've got a plan where the wealthiest clubs play in a competition to make even more money which takes them even further away from the chasing pack in their own leagues. That Leicester win the other year is even more remarkable when you consider what they were up against back then and the imbalance has got worse since then. With the bigger Premier pot and the continued funnelling of CL money into the pockets of the biggest handful of clubs, I doubt we'll ever have a situation where a 'minnow' has even half a chance of winning the PL, though I suppose you might potentially get another Porto winning the CL due to the knock-out nature of the competition.

As for Huddersfield, I hope they generally stick with the squad that won them promotion, with just a few additions to improve them here and there. Even if they subsequently get relegated, they'll be well set to win promotion again the following season due to the bags of cash coming their way.

Incidentally, I reckon it will be just a matter of time before we're down to 2 promotion/relegation places between the PL and Championship.
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Incidentally, I reckon it will be just a matter of time before we're down to 2 promotion/relegation places between the PL and Championship.


That'd be terrible as the bottom 13 in the Prem this season were all shite!


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That'd be terrible as the bottom 13 in the Prem this season were all shite!


Agreed. The only reason they are tolerated is because the big selling point of the PL to overseas viewers is the possibility that number 20 can beat number 1 on their day. That makes for better TV than week in, week out MU v MC etc. and it also opens up the betting market.

But yes, Abdul, the bottom 13 are rubbish, just the same as the wannabes at the top of the Championship. What the PL top half would love to do is leave altogether for a Euro or a global super league by invitation with no promotion/relegation, just huge cash prizes.


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But yes, Abdul, the bottom 13 are rubbish, just the same as the wannabes at the top of the Championship. What the PL top half would love to do is leave altogether for a Euro or a global super league by invitation with no promotion/relegation, just huge cash prizes.


Something they would quickly regret as they were stuffed week-in, week-out by the big clubs from the continent.
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The money floating around the PL this transfer window is crazy. Liverpool about to pay £35m for some nobody striker from Roma who couldn't get in the Chelsea side two years back. MU about to pay a fortune for Keane, a player they sold a few years ago to Burnley for peanuts, just like they sold and bought back Pogba...... and nobody bats an eyelid anymore. That's normal money these days.

And here are we, like all the proper clubs, hunting around the nether regions for cast offs and wannabes.


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Let's hope Brexit can do something in stopping OUR money in football leaving the country. Every penny that these multi millionaires get comes from us in one way or another.
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Let's hope Brexit can do something in stopping OUR money in football leaving the country. Every penny that these multi millionaires get comes from us in one way or another.


I think about £3billion of the £8billion is from overseas TV rights so it's not all OUR money.

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