As others have alluded to, this is a red herring. A dead cat thrown on the table, a tactic often used in political strategy. I have no doubt it has been deliberately leaked despite the public protestions of Parry the willing stooge. Look how available he was to conduct media interviews with all and sundry immediately. Uncanny. They know there is not a chance in hell this would get voted through in its leaked form. What it has achieved is to open the discussion, shift the narrative and give a starting point for negotations with the aim of settling on a proposal a step or two back from the current, somewhat nuclear opening gambit. This is just a continuation of English club football being tenderised and manipulated further by financial aims. This is now big business after all, the prime concern being profit.In terms of a work around, a Netflix style subscription service would give an opportunity for the equitable sharing of revenues to all, fuck sky/BT/Amazon etc - go straight to market. Would be worth billions and piss all over any current TV deal in terms of club revenues.
Rick Parry over the weekend:Quote"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.
"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."
I don't think putting something on the table that leads to the response of 'fuck off' can be seen as opening discussions.
Ourselves, Leicester and Arsenal are the 'undecided's' according to the Daily Mail (not providing a link). What's to decide really. It's utter cack.
Villa effectively formed the Football league, we have owners who are as rich as Croesus, perhaps Villa (well our owners so as not to breach FFP!!) should offer a loan to the EFL on fair commercial terms to show the alleged "Big 6" what class, history and respect for your fellow competitors looks like. Just a thought
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