Premier League reform proposals

[LeeB]

And now the EFL are laying down a story about clubs going out of business imminently.

They are all a bunch of bastards.

The 6 develop a stranglehold whilst professing to save football. Greed is such an ugly, ugly thing.

It's like real life, the aristocracy and the no hopers conspiring to fuck over the middle classes.

[danno]

We should hold our nose, call West Ham and draft an alternative set of proposals the other 14 clubs like very much.

We may as well, before most of our votes count for nothing.

[ozzjim]

You would think Purslow and Brady would be the types to put an alternative to this tripe together.

I think it might have got a bit more traction had it not been so clearly a top 6 (2) grab for all the power. The fact is been written by people that are used to sport with no jeopardy in the US is quite telling.

[Big Ming]

This is shameless opportunism on the part of Liverpool and Man United, as is the £15 PPV charge being proposed.

The EFL and Rick Parry are simply victims of their own ineptitude. Most EFL clubs will run out of money to pay the wage bill by 1st January. 2021, yet they have kept on playing as though nothing was happening.

Common sense says the EFL should have mothballed the 2020/21 season before it started until a sustainable way forwards can be agreed.

Unless the authorities can find a way to block VPN's, people will watch these PPV games for free.

[algy]

We should hold our nose, call West Ham and draft an alternative set of proposals the other 14 clubs like very much.

We may as well, before most of our votes count for nothing.

I agree, gather with our tribute acts (West Ham, Burnley, Palace) and the clubs that owe us their existence (Everton, WBA), and the other 8 who wouldn't be playing League football if we'd not come along. Then give the Sky 6 a bloody nose. They need to be put in their place.

[kippaxvilla2]

If this has been worked on behind closed doors for months and is the so called 17th version of it and EFL clubs are about to go bust then it’s tough.  They should have been more inclusive with the other clubs from the start.  It might have been resolved by now if they had. 

[fbriai]

Rick Parry over the weekend:

"It’s a model that is broken and frankly it was broken pre-COVID".

"There’s an unbridgeable gulf between the Championship and the Premier League, and there are inequalities that parachute payments create and the crazy behaviours that arise in the Championship as a result, with 107 per cent of turnover being spent on wages and £400m of owner funding required every year."

"The struggles faced by League One and League Two clubs where again there is a lot of owner funding required, they have now taken steps to behave responsibly by introducing salary caps which is a step in the right direction – so there’s a whole series of short-term and long-term issues that need to be resolved."

This from the man who was the Chief Executive who oversaw the formation of the Premier League. He's now telling us it's all gone to hell in a handcart, but we should just trust him again and it will all be great.

He and whoever's footprints are on this document should be run out of football and never be allowed back.

[The Edge]

We should hold our nose, call West Ham and draft an alternative set of proposals the other 14 clubs like very much.

We may as well, before most of our votes count for nothing.

I agree, gather with our tribute acts (West Ham, Burnley, Palace) and the clubs that owe us their existence (Everton, WBA), and the other 8 who wouldn't be playing League football if we'd not come along. Then give the Sky 6 a bloody nose. They need to be put in their place.

Sounds great in principle but the Sky six are the brainchild of Murdoch and his brash American chums and even though the rest could outnumber them Sky wouldn't wear it. They think they have it all carved up but they can think again. Gollum (Ian holloway) called it corruption at the highest level this morning. Love him or hate him you've got to admire the little guys balls. (Ahem)

[brian green]

The beating heart they are trying to cut out of football is promotion and relegation. Everything else is gift wrapping on the priceless gift scoundrels like Parry want to give Fenway and the Glaziers.

[Ad@m]

And now the EFL are laying down a story about clubs going out of business imminently.

They are all a bunch of bastards.

The 6 develop a stranglehold whilst professing to save football. Greed is such an ugly, ugly thing.

There is a potential route where this hopefully backfires on the Sky 6.

Let's just say that the rest of the Prem vote this down. The Sky 6 have already shown their hand that they can afford to send £250m a year to the Football League.

Now that cat is out of the bag, if they don't follow through with it, even if the league isn't handed over to them, they'll be the reason those Football League clubs might go out of existence.

[simboy]

The irony of Sky slagging the "Big Picture" is something to behold. They're so fearful this will come in with losses of their most lucrative markets. As far as I see unless the six can bribe the FA it wont get very far, the golden share wont allow that. The TV deal next time around will be much smaller, which is the real driving force of this I suspect, Manure and the red scouse will lose massive revenue.

What does come through is that there needs to be a proper adjustment regarding the distribution of income downwards if we want the game to remain like it is currently. If the likes of Mansfield Town or Wycombe Wanderers are to stay professional and viable there needs to be some cash filtering down, be that as a hand out or an "association" with other, larger teams. Otherwise we will be left with a parred down top two divisions as professional.

[aev]

The 250m suggested split between the 20 PL clubs is nothing - the price of an average PL player. The power grab is disgraceful, and there is so much self interest included it is staggering.

I listened to Rick Parry yesterday and he came across as aggressive and unrepentant.

[danno]

The beating heart they are trying to cut out of football is promotion and relegation. Everything else is gift wrapping on the priceless gift scoundrels like Parry want to give Fenway and the Glaziers.

I agree, removing parachute payments is particularly cynical. There is no way promoted clubs would spend £100 million when they came up; without that safety net.

[paul_e]

The beating heart they are trying to cut out of football is promotion and relegation. Everything else is gift wrapping on the priceless gift scoundrels like Parry want to give Fenway and the Glaziers.

I agree, removing parachute payments is particularly cynical. There is no way promoted clubs would spend £100 million when they came up; without that safety net.

yep, it pretty much locks teams in as yo-yo clubs, too wealthy to struggle in the championship, too poor to survive in the premier league.

[Big Ming]

Transfer fees have become unsustainable and obscene.

A better system would see a sizeable percentage of the fee going direct to the EFL and the lower leagues around the world..