The thing is for Bournemouth, they’ve shown over the last decade that they’re a pretty well run club. It’s not like they’re a flash-in-the-pan, Barnsley-type team.
But it’s not actually _feasible_ for them to compete at the top end of the league currently. They’d need a huge revenue (and rich owner isn’t enough, as shown by our case) … but realistically how many teams are in our position? Where the owners can shove ticket prices up to being some of the most expensive in the world, and *still* be expanding the ground to 50k (presumably they’ve good reason to believe they’ll sell the extra tickets).
The thought of 99% of teams ever filling a 50k+ stadium is laughable. The rules as they are prevent all bar maybe a dozen teams from competing in *any* circumstances (the scab 6, us, Everton, Newcastle, West Ham, Sunderland, Leeds). That’s without the elements of the rules that allow say Man Utd to spend £200m a year indefinitely whilst we pretty much have to break even whilst slashing our wage bill.
I mean, regardless of whether those rules are just or not, it’s pretty obvious that both ourselves and Newcastle have been prevented from competing on a level playing field as a result. That’s going to be much, much harder for any club outside that dozen clubs who even have the capacity to generate revenue at a rate that even allows them to make a push for the top end of the table.
