I'm a Sunderland fan who will be forever grateful for Charlie's work on the board, stabilising the club after Ellis Short's total dumping of affairs, and handing things off to the new ownership
I used to support a championship club. It's now too expensive i now watch a None league side. Its affordable for myself and is enjoyable and you are part of a step 2 none league club. Players are friendly and approachable our board help around the ground. Supporters are leaving the higher league clubs because they are simply too expensive. The fall off in working class youngsters as supporters after 14 is huge.
This was an absolutely great podcast. Well done. Would love to hear Daniel Levy on something like this. He’s someone who comes to mind and always gets the abuse.
It's funny that he doesn't realize that EPL already gets more broadcast money from the states than MLS does. I also feel like it's kind of a pipe dream for EPL clubs to double their valuations and get more than nfl teams considering how much the nfl/nba are getting in their new broadcasting deals. US broadcasting deals are skyrocketing and while it seems like Europe has plateaued in that area. I don't see the EPL getting a huge amount more in their US broadcasting deals unless they play games during primetime in the US which won't happen. I do agree with him that the women's league in the US is set up more for success than the wsl is currently. They just got a 60m per season tv deal which will no doubt go even higher in a couple years while the wsl seems to be struggling getting more than their current 10m per season. I also don't see Americans waking up early in the morning to watch the wsl like they do with the EPL. The lack of competitiveness in the wsl makes it really only interesting to watch the top teams against each other so that has to hurt the tv numbers. Attendances are going up but ticket prices need to go up as well to see the full benefit of that which I'm not sure they're willing to do if it lowers attendances.
Every club USED to be social and cultural clubs for the local community. Now sadly, football is not a sport - it's a business, making ridiculous amounts of money for parasitical business people.
If you’re club like our with 40,000 each home game you can make money Sunderland are the biggest club in the championship and bigger than some of the premier league clubs
I know he is a bully. But that is business. It's harsh, but when there is a money at stake. They will sack anyone. Sunderland and Durham is a footballing area if they couldn't sell 40,000 with not much else to do besides there and pricing done right then what's wrong with them. Fleet Street 90s and The City, even market stalls, are ruthless it's business. I know it's harsh she was sacked as she had a baby, but the reality is these lads were never in a position to buy Sunderland they didn't have the capital and lied to the Mackems and gambled on going up and getting a quick sale... so they were chancers/charlatans and any Collateral Damage like the Marketing Lady were expendable to them. It's harsh but they didn't have the money, so they were desperate to buy sell flog high and that's the case in a lot of businesses. They'll be your best mate when they need you but sack you off the minute they can. Football has a lot of this, with low margins. Despite having big wages and expensive ticket prices. The business isn't run that well.
@daveseville7394 you dont need to behave in that manner. I've worked for and with some much bigger names and have never seen anyone behave so abhorrently to staff members.
I agree but Donald and him were frauds. They wanted to get Sunderland up on the cheap and the lack of enthusiasm for her trying shift tickets was a pretext to cut costs and sell for a big amount of wonga. And needless to say I'm happy they have new and better owners @jackb5640
Spent 4 years in league 1 is the reason why it wasn’t seen as a success. It was when KLD came in and had sole control after buying half the club that we eventually got promoted. They basically got the club for free on the basis the parachute payments payments went to the last chairman. Very economical with the truth this guy.
@@Micfri300 under no circumstances was it like they paid £50m - £60m for it, I don’t think I am the one with an issue with economics if you have come to that conclusion. They took the club on thinking they could get us up first season and flip for a profit which didn’t happen. They were then left them with a club that was to big for them.
@an4189 revenues in league 1 are significantly lower than in the premier league. You paid the price for paying over the hill big team reserves stupid amounts of money and nearly went under.
@@Micfri300 go learn economics 🤣 your comments don’t relate to anything I have said or express any worthwhile economics. The only thing you have stated economics wise is that we had huge debts, but if you had any clue what you were talking about you would know the last owner cleared the debts before these guys took over.
didnt know he was back in football at charlton, good luck to them. does anyone know who he was talking about when he said sunderland successfully sued a player? all i could find was them suing a doctor over the medical on someone
Certain parts of this interview are downright appalling. Charlie: We turn "street boys" with "good DNA" into respectable people? Pox on the committee of, you know, "women" (apparently that's an ick) who advocated for equal pay? Mentioning the female player who recently committed suicide to bolster his sneering arguments about women's football? We don't know everything about that situation. We do know that her manager was sacked, at the time for an inappropriate relationship with another player. Keep that poor young woman out of this. Again, appalling.
Charlie Methven talking shite about his Sunderland time again. The bloke is so narcissistic that he's probably reading this comment, he's an absolute charlatan who will take money out of any club he gets his hands on. It would be nice if the interviewer pushed back with some basic research, Methven talking about revenues that didn't exist and were never achieved at Sunderland.
EPL1 and EPL2 leagues? That' would be a big change. Not sure why he keeps mentioning MLS as it always trails EPL in TV viewership and general interest in the States. He's probably targeting the Mexican league Liga MX who has the highest TV viewership among leagues in the States (~ more than the EPL).
@@callumalston5755 bloody hope so, since Duchalet came along and trashed Powells newly promoted side its been depressing seeing us tossed about by billionaires.
