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Why do the leagues punish clubs for the Feckless owners cowboy behaviour? The club should be protected in such a case and the owner should be subject to charges by the respective FA or the national government. Football is woven in to the cultural heritage of Europe. It's legacy should be protected by law from the franchise scumbags across the Atlantic.
I do not get why FIFA is trying to sell it. Give it public services or free to air channels the first time, just like the PL. Then when the next one will take place in Spain and Portugal they could sell it then, and if dont work cancel it.
So when big 6 selling to saudi was fine, but teams trying to come up it's a problem. A non big 6 getting less $ than a big 6 n champions league even though they finished better isn't crooked? Heritage right? That's slave talk.. Justify that.
Doncaster is a smart man. He has a tough job but sadly he can never give honest answers to these questions due to being compromised in most of them. A bigger league setup like the Belgian model would be perfect for the SPFL prem. It would tick every box needed ticking. All the other leagues in Europe of 10,12 and 14 teams do not have 2 global clubs and then the rest being domestic small-medium to small clubs making up the numbers. So that point does not fit the reality in Scotland. Scottish Prem is unique becaise of the gap between the big 2 and the rest. Scottish football also doesn't have any squad size caps and youth quotas. It is a free for all and the richest tend to have bigger squads which gives another advantage. This can be a league rule that balances our the leagues a little. It would also mean the budget for 28 players (Kilmarnock) would be for 25 players in higher wages and better quality. Introduce Youth quotas as part of that squad cap and the number of senior drops again to say 20 players, so the quality increases due to spending money on less players but of higher quality. I emailed Doncaster a couple of years ago and he advised the league reconstruction being a non-starter was due to the clubs not being interested. Which is it? Scottish football needs a reset and sadly Doncaster is too nice to get it done.
To be fair, the women's teams are largely an irrelevance to the majority of supporters. Bar a few hyped London or Manchester derbies the general attendances (or severe lack of them), the lack of major sponsorships, lack of recognition of female players bar perhaps a couple of England internationals, all speaks for itself. Why would someone like Radcliffe who has invested so much money in a club invest significant time and money on a team that isn't likely to generate any significant financial income, sponsorship or in addition oveseas support at the expense of investment in the team that is recognized and supported globally but currently underperforming? It's just the reality of the situation.
And did the premiere pass this sponsorship within such a short space of time without due diligence because Crystal Palace appear to back anything that the Red Tops want ?.
the government are happy to take taxes from gambling companies but premier league clubs taking money is bad. The government is going to be so gutted when they find out Fifa arent big fans of government's trying to control countries football over the Football association
City took action against the PL this february and not just now although the hearing is just now. Facts please. But I have to say that the presenter has put forward the most balanced argument in relation to both the current City hearing and the 115 hearing that I have ever heard on you tube.
39:00 The UK football betting market is worth billions per year, and they should be taxed the same way 🎤cigarettes & alcohol🎤 are taxed to help fund the damage they cause
@@brucepackard2729 He's invested £100M and plans to sell for £400M ...Man Utd were bought on borrowed money, used the club to pay the interest (while the debt remains) & just sold a chunk for £1.3B
Thanks for this lads! No surprise with Brentford, they have a super smart owner. 1. What was the ROI calc used? EBITDA/? 2. What ROI did these clubs generate My understanding from my time in finance is a 15%+ cash ROI is excellent... wonder how close the clubs get to that! Thanks as always gents.
Premier League will back down they are corrupt to the core. City should lose their titles and kicked out of English football for the equivalent period of time that they cheated i.e.) 9 years! If they don't want to play by the rules they can go elsewhere! It is the perfect chance to make an example of cheats and show others they cannot bend or blatantly break the rules to win.
It’s amazing that guys like Mr. Earphones can still be so absolutely clueless after (a year ?) yet still are in the public eye. The guy giving explanations has to treat him like a child and repeat the clarifications we’ve all heard 115 (ahem) times.
The whole competition is at stake. They bullied UEFA with their financial muscle and if they do it again, you can expect more people to start switching off. State owned clubs should never have been allowed. The UK government wants to regulate football now. You can bet they will interfere should the a major gas exporter and owner of a lot of land in this country wants some influence in favour of Manchester City.
So City will try to bring legal action against the EPL for accusing them? Seems kinda guilty to me. Also, the second Pep leaves they will go back to a mid table team like they are. Sooner the better because they're not a dominant club, they just won a watch with Pep.
I’m only 10 mins in but thanks for tackling this. I’m a United fan so it’s easy for me to be bias against the ideas put forward by Newcastle and City and the like, but I appreciate you guys (at least so far) dealing with the facts and steelmanning the position of City. I sympathise with clubs like Villa who will have to sell to comply with PSR. Less so with city cos they have all of those allegations against them. Is there a better way to govern the league spending without it becoming a free for all? Right now it’s mostly Club vs Club, but if city were to win this it could very well become country vs country…
I’m pretty sure the Premier League have just voted for an alternative to the current PSR rules. Essentially a clubs spending power would be based on the revenue earned by the bottom club in the league I believe. That would simply mean that every club would be allowed to spend exactly the same amount of money and the revenue of the individual club would be irrelevant.
@@markygti138 I don’t think that would work either… why should United, Liverpool, villa or Everton be limited by Luton’s budget? That would mean that no one could afford the best players in the league The idea is there in spirit but I don’t think that is the right execution
@@justdavelewis haha no it’s not quite that. It’s a multiple of the lowest budget. I can’t remember the exact details but I believe it worked out around 500 million a season which would include transfers and wages. Like I said, not sure on the exact details but it would allow more money to be spent than is currently allowed for the majority of clubs.
18:00 The Watford share issue sounds interesting as they've posted record profits & growth. The minimum investment is $128 and the maximum is $6.4M....Nearly $3M has been committed in a few days. I'd be eager for my club Millwall to do something similar as we're in bad shape financially.
9:54 The new lease is brilliant news for Millwall as it now allows residential property to be built on site, which should attract investment & provide serious long term income. COYL
Premier league teams should be official parent clubs to a team in each division below based on Geographical locations/availability. So Chelsea would have say Millwall, Charlton & Bromley as their feeder clubs, and could help provide coaching, facilities & loan players (maybe these deals could be exempt from FFP?)...clubs like Chelsea can stockpile young players & loan them around the World , while clubs like Millwall lose 10M+ per year & always need 4 good loan players every season
