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Even if you are right, and the investment of £7m to £8m does keep us in the Championship, does it end there. You see, my argument is this. It costs no more to be relegated than it does to try to compete in the Championship, with all the millionaires throwing vast sums at their football clubs. Patrick Cryne threw his millions at it during his early tenure, but he realised that he was going to go through his windfall very quickly, so he said no more. Barnsley FC has to stand on its own feet. He saw that one investment is inevitably followed by another. The insatiable desire that football fans have for success drives it, and the Premier League provides the impetus. If I was a millionaire, I would not spend my money on football, and I do not expect others to do it for my benefit either.

 

Nor would I. But neither will I subscribe my own money to a project which lacks any ambition or sense of sporting endeavour. It seems to me they have killed the spirit of the club I grew up supporting.

 

Theres a big difference to Bournemouths russian throwing money at it and our clowns trying to make a quick buck trading young players.

 

The game was better before the Premier League. It is the lure of the Premier League that sucks money into the Championship as millionaires believe that it is a cheap route to the big money. It has ruined competition there because most owners cheat, and the ones who do not are lambasted by their own fans because they have refused to join the circus. But just imagine what happens when these rich men decide they were wrong, that there isn't a cheap way to the top, and they walk away, just like the Derby owner did. There is no easy answer, in the current climate of reckless spending. None of it makes any sense.

 

Imagine Bournemouth ceo saying last season wasnt a sucsess as we didnt sell any players. At times i have thought our owners arent even bothered about competing its just about trading players.

 

We have to trade players in order to make up the shortfall in cash. We lost £4m in the previous year, even though we sold players for £3m. I can imagine how upset he was to make that remark, because he knew what came next. Every club trades players, and we were just 9th on the scale of our trading the previous year. It is a fact of life for smaller clubs.

 

I think the question was about making the play offs been a successful season his reply was no because we didnt sell any players. Wasnt it covid times when we lost 4million? Imagine how much money we stand to lose giving players like oluare 7k a week and a 3 year deal or hiring head coaches from poor leagues who have never been to england then having to pay them off. Not to mention relegation.
Dont get me wrong i dont like teams like Bournemouth getting bankrolled by a bloke who doesnt care how much money he loses. But on the other hand im far from happy with how this lot are running us.

 

I largely agree with you (apart from you wanting to deny the Cherries' supporters their moment of euphoria!). Two things though. In terms of the reported addition to turnover even in the event of an unsuccessful season in the Prem, the uplift would equate to more than the likes of Matthew Benham and Maxim Demin have put into Brentford and Bournemouth in total respectively. Admittedly, they would be unlikely to recoup all that at once. But Bournemouth survived fives seasons last time, while Brentford have secured a second season. The second is that ghastly though the financial landscape is for 'ordinary' clubs, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle in terms of the money sloshing around at the top. I don't expect that to change in my lifetime, sadly.

 

The last point is an important one.

Since the PL's inception, there's been an ever increasing level of wealthy owners taking clubs on. At first we had Jack Walker who bank rolled a title with Shearer and Sutton. That evolved again as Roman Abramovich took over Chelsea. But we're in a whole other realm now with wealthy states acquiring clubs in Man City and Newcastle. And we saw Ratcliffe making a last ditch attempt to buy into Chelsea.

The question is going to be what some of these owners do when they fail to win the title and Champions League year after year.

And what new pretenders of wealth do in future acquisitions to elevate a club into a contender.

It's not so much what happens at these clubs at the top, but the cascading effect it's having on everyone else and the destabilising impact on the football pyramid.

 

I agree. When everyone is owned by the mega rich. The player pool gets smaller too as it goes beyond finance and back to prestige. The players have all the choice. It doesn't make a difference how much is in the bank. A player is going to chose Tottenham over Aston Villa or Newcastle. However, they are going to choose Man Utd over Tottenham etc.

Eventually you get the situation at Everton which is nothing to do with finance. It's down to paying over the odds for sub standard players because they're feeding off scraps.

I hope they go down and become the first billionaire, super club to become relegated.

 

Perhaps we'll see a split at some point. Richer clubs moving to one league, where there are no rules and owners can spend as much as they like; poorer clubs moving to another league, where sustainability would be the basis.

Sounds a bit daft now I've typed it....

 

Though it failed recently, I wouldn't be surprised if in future we have another attempt at it. Perhaps a short spin off franchise akin to the IPL where the self entitled elite clubs band together to have a mini tournament in say the UAE.

Money will talk in the end. We could end up with fixtures like Amazon vs Google. Saudi vs Disney. Musk Warriors vs Apple.

 

I told you other week. A new 92 team league played over 4 seasons. You'd only lose to Man Utd twice in four years. It's the future.