clifftaylor
Absolutely retired!
Strange how anything involving Sky ends up as s**t.
Strange how anything involving Sky ends up as s**t.
Hang on, let’s have a bit of honesty here. Football sold its soul to money some decades ago. The ESL was just the logical next step.
New money in the Far East wants to call the shots - with no appreciation of the historical heritage of the beautiful game they want a euro clash of the Titans every week. I understand clubs in the ESL stood to earn 3 to 4 times the amount generated from the Champions league. If your business model is that you need the best players and you pay them £300k/week in order to retain their services, the money has to come from somewhere.
To be clear, I am not offering any support for the ESL, I am however stating that this is just the start of the big clubs regularly exploring ways in raising more revenue based on their status.
Not sure that's true. Empty grounds now, and every match on TV, have viewing figures worldwide dropped? Much less messy for the clubs' owners if they don't have to provide facilities for fans, no policing costs, online merch sales, etc.
I wonder if the pandemic didn't open their eyes to the possibilities.
But the point appears moot now, thankfully.
Until the next time.
As I said, it was better before the Premier League.For decades, fans have accepted expensive TV deals, purchased season after season of football shirts, accepted the development of the Champion's League and said nothing about the forthcoming proposals to protect the 'historic elite', not to mention the repeated expansion of the World Cup. All that is because of money and none of it is about the fans. I am ashamed of City's involvement in this project. We may have been the last to join and the first out but to have even considered it is not good, in my eyes. It is time that fans rose up and stopped these 'developments' because they only develop the pockets of owners and administrators.
I expect the Dildo brothers & Baroness Brady will apply for Chelsea's spot.
Well, that’s spot on imho
Clubs in the PL are now worth a lot of money.