The premier league is a big money earner for the UK.
Huge TV money comes to UK and filters into local economy - not via profits as most clubs don’t make any - but via players, staff spending their salaries locally.
A franchise model would allow clubs to move elsewhere.
Huge TV money comes to UK and filters into local economy - not via profits as most clubs don’t make any - but via players, staff spending their salaries locally.
A franchise model would allow clubs to move elsewhere.
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What many fail to realise:
Most Premier league clubs never make a profit so the money they earn is “sticky” - it leaks out to players, staff, agents etc most of whom are resident in UK.
So for UK economy having foreign owners of non profitable clubs has been a huge benefit.
What many fail to realise:
Most Premier league clubs never make a profit so the money they earn is “sticky” - it leaks out to players, staff, agents etc most of whom are resident in UK.
So for UK economy having foreign owners of non profitable clubs has been a huge benefit.
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But in a franchise system foreign owner could have huge incentive to take their clubs where the money is...rather than being the money to where the club happened to be when they bought them.
But in a franchise system foreign owner could have huge incentive to take their clubs where the money is...rather than being the money to where the club happened to be when they bought them.
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The current UEFA rules act as a money harvesting machine for European countries. So long as the biggest clubs stay in Europe playing in European cups then we extract huge benefits.
The super league is in effect a US/Chinese/Middle East 1st attempt to detach this from Europe.
The current UEFA rules act as a money harvesting machine for European countries. So long as the biggest clubs stay in Europe playing in European cups then we extract huge benefits.
The super league is in effect a US/Chinese/Middle East 1st attempt to detach this from Europe.
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The Idea that the world’s biggest club league - owned by US, Chinese billionaires or Arab SW funds and standing alone from national leagues - ...will be content to have 3 major teams coming from a corner of North West England and none from US or China is absurd.
The Idea that the world’s biggest club league - owned by US, Chinese billionaires or Arab SW funds and standing alone from national leagues - ...will be content to have 3 major teams coming from a corner of North West England and none from US or China is absurd.
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