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Author Topic: Premier League chairmen set to vote at Thursday's fair play showdown meeting  (Read 8044 times)

Offline Ad@m

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Well, why are Everton voting for it? It wouldn't seem to suit them at all either.

For how many years have Everton been scraping the barrel now while they watch everyone else spend money catching up on them?  Put this in place and it gives them a huge amount of breathing space.

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But they evidently have ambitions to break into the top tier yet generate nothing like the revenue of the top teams.

Online Monty

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Also, the plans seem to be a lot like the one the Bundesliga has in place, and that league is much more competitive than ours. Granted, Bayern win every other year, but every year other than that it's anyone's game.

Offline Ad@m

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But they evidently have ambitions to break into the top tier yet generate nothing like the revenue of the top teams.

I don't think the current owners have realistic ambitions to break in to the top four at all.  I'm sure they say the right things to the fans but their number one priority is to sell up ASAP.  This will cement the value of the club for them so that's why they'd vote for it.

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Stop televising it. It's the only way it'll ever go back to being competitive. Either that, or let the top few go and form their superdoopereuroleague, with which there is neither relegation from nor promotion to. Anything else will always simply be the wealthiest getting their snouts in the trough first, whilst the rest wait politely behind to share out whatever's left, knowing that if they rock the boat they won't be allowed even anywhere near the trough. The FA were instrumental in the creation of this monstrosity. Where are the guardians of the game now? Sat on their greasy palms in their shiny new palace, awaiting tribute from their immoral barons whilst their humble subjects eke out merely a subsistence, year after year. Arseholes, every last one of them

Offline steffo

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What's to stop the top 20 clubs start a Euro league? With the time difference they could actually have every game televised live over the weekend.

A break in the winter and they take the show to South America or Australia. We could then have Euro league 1,2,3 etc.

The Premier league would be shot and would revert back to the football league. What goes round.

Offline Ad@m

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What's to stop the top 20 clubs start a Euro league?

FIFA and UEFA at the minute - they sanction all competitions and won't allow it.  Now of course that only theoretically stops them, the clubs could still organise their own competition but FIFA and UEFA would probably then ban any players involved from competing in FIFA and UEFA tournaments, so the best players would then need to make a choice between getting millions playing in the Euro Super League or representing their country at the World Cup.

Offline Concrete John

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What's to stop the top 20 clubs start a Euro league?

FIFA and UEFA at the minute - they sanction all competitions and won't allow it.  Now of course that only theoretically stops them, the clubs could still organise their own competition but FIFA and UEFA would probably then ban any players involved from competing in FIFA and UEFA tournaments, so the best players would then need to make a choice between getting millions playing in the Euro Super League or representing their country at the World Cup.

It'd be almost worth it to see Blatter & Co fall on their arses when the players chose the money!

Offline Villadroid

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Well, why are Everton voting for it? It wouldn't seem to suit them at all either.

Seems a bit daft.

If Everton lose Moyes they would suddenly become vulnerable to relegation, so they are thinking short-term.

Two-thirds of the clubs in the Premiership are vulnerable to relegation, so they should vote against it, but they all think they are fire-proof right now and creating a football caste system protects them against Championship wannabes.

They think that can create a virtual NFL franchise system without anyone noticing.


Offline David_Nab

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I think this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/07/football-transfers-european-commission?CMP=twt_gu

sounds a better idea than this FFP system which is anything but fair.As noted it basically means if your Man U for instance you have HUGE commercial revenue, £559 Mil shirt sponsorship with GM alone !!! and huge stadium then no one will ever be able to compete with you.It's essentially the old school clubs of Man U , Liverpool stopping another Chelsea or Man City.Whilst you could argue on the fairness of a billionaire taking over a team and investing in it this FFP is just as unfair.Maybe whilst they are in discussions they can discuss Man United having it's last 39 FA cups games televised which at currents rates is £250k per match extra revenue !!

I believe Randy and Fayed know they are going to lose this vote hence Randys lack of Spending and Fayed turning his loans to Fulham into equity making them debt free.

Why are Everton interested ..who knows seemingly under the assumption this will help with wages and help them stay competative. Can't see it myself

David Gold has said FFP has reached an agreement ..so looks like us and any team not in current top 4 and Liverpool just got shafted.
« Last Edit: February 07, 2013, 02:43:59 PM by David_Nab »

Offline bertlambshank

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Well it's been voted in,the bunch of twat's.

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Good stuff. Expect numerous iffy commercial deals to miraculously appear from the top sides to help offset the loss. £105m is now the cap on losses, so all you have to is ensure whatever deal you come up with is able to cover that. It should have been a min and max wage cap irrespective of revenues. The top teams can spend to the cap and the other teams must at least spend the minimum. This ensures owners don't just pocket the excess by spending as little as possible. All this has done is kept things exactly as they are while the PL makes it self feel better appearing to take real action.

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Thing is regardless of what happened, it still comes down to how our club is run and currently the focus on the playing side of things is completely unacceptable.

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There is only one truly massive club in England and that is Man Utd, they are followed world wide and have a commercial value second to none, all the other so called big clubs just have owners that are willing to bankroll them. If the Arabs at Man City or Abramavich at Chelsea walked away they would revert to being small London clubs, the way that the football league has allowed wealth of owner to determine the make up of the top four for the last five years is depressing.

Online Dave

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It should have been a min and max wage cap irrespective of revenues.
Surely the only thing that would be achieved by that is that anyone who could earn higher than the cap would head off to Russia, Ukraine, Germany or Turkey?

The level of quality would drop and interest and revenue would drop with it.

Why would voting for that be in the interest of any of the people making the decision?

 


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