Winding up petition for Bolton Wanderers and Greece players out on strike. Too much money swilling around at the top of football. Agents fees through the roof. Are we going to see more clubs going into administration. I couldn't give a toss what happens in champs league tonight eitherhttp://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35034077
It's only going to keep getting worse as the money pouring into football becomes more obscene and hardly any of it filters out of the top leagues. It's gone past the point of no return in my opinion.
This everytime. When football started in 1992, something like 75% of all the money in English football went to the top flight clubs. That % must be even higher now with the new TV deals.
OMG, Why do people always blame MONEY IN THE GAME. I'm not sure it's it's passed Mikeytyke34 but theres a lot of problems in Greece with National debt and other things. The players know what there doing when they sign over there. Boltons a business with Business problems. Decisions are biting them from before.
Sorry Hemsworth Tyke but I blame the money. I agree with Metatarsal when they say.... When football started in 1992, something like 75% of all the money in English football went to the top flight clubs. That % must be even higher now with the new TV deals.
As someone that likes to watch lot of Football I will tell you it's a million times better the distribution in the Segunda División or any of the other second divisions across Europe. Theres a reason we see Leicester's of this world and Bournemouth doing well. Because of how the moneys distrusted. People like you keep complaining then we'll see unfair. Manchester United could double what they get minimum Man city, Arsenal Chelsea Liverpool Tottenham would get a lot more than they do at the minute too. Or we go even further and the system becomes a joke with no money in our game and it becoming the joke that crickets got with the England odi and T/20 captain publicly calling the system no good and saying we wants go play in India or Australia.
Of course it's about money Phil. How much money trickles down the pyramid? And clubs will spend way beyond their means trying to stay in or getting to the premier league. Money is the root of all that is wrong in football.
It's good. The clubs get enough money down the pyramid. Do Rugby league or Union give money for them to other leagues?
To be fair only the blind would fail to recognise the distribution of money within the game as it's single biggest problem with unsustainable debt levels and negative impact on competitive. There are none so blind as those that do not want to see.
eh leicester and Bournemouth have done well because they have rich owners who have put a lot of cash into the clubs. They're hardly fairy tale stories are they, And now they are in the Prem they will end up super rich
It just annoys me. Every time you look. Posts about Money ruining Football, it's about the same level of Bull **** that the end of the world on x date lot come out with. How bad Lee Johnson is TheReev with a betting tip of less than even. Posts about how pointless the JPT is
You're joking right? Clubs lower down the pyramid survive on the crumbs that are thrown from the top table. Many of them survive living hand to mouth and rely on selling their best players to stay afloat. Some clubs end up in administration or even wound up for less than the top clubs pay one of their players in a month.
Hemsy - there's an element of truth in what you've said about Greece, and "business" decisions, but if the financial gap between the PL and Championship wasn't so huge then clubs like Bolton, Bradford etc wouldnt chase it by speculating to the tunes of tens of millions per year. Factor in agents and wages and an ever decreasing proprtion of football revenue escapes the game as a whole. The big clubs have always generated their own income way beyond levels we can dream of. But for 20 clubs to get the lions share of billions of income from external sources, that is what's poisoned the game. The fact that any club that's relegated from the PL could go out of business if they don't get promoted before the (wrong in my opinion) parachute payments cease defines the problem. Football ticked over pretty well for 100 years. Yes, clubs still folded but that was on a comparitively small financial scale, and the game looked after itself pretty well. The PL formed for the financial ringfencing of the few, and they never hid it. Talk of ground "criteria" to enter the PL if you remember, something that did become reality in both rugby codes. How a PL club can have ANY debt is beyond me.
And all is not well within Rugby either. Spent 6 weeks working on the medical team during the RWC, met a lot of people who fear the worst. This is from a year ago. RWC income will buy stability for a short while. http://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/feat...top-flight-payments-and-grow-grassroots-game/
I've got little sympathy for Bolton. They spent years spending money the couldn't afford & lived the dream off of it. They aren't a hard luck story they're another Portsmouth, only not quite to the same extent
