View Full Version : Could football survive without tv money?
I see Villa have announced that they lost 600000k and they blamed it on the fact they lost the same amount of tv money. It got me thinking, could any club really survive anymore if the tv money wasnt so large? Even lower league clubs get reasonable tv money (not the obscene amount prem clubs get i know) .I would like to know how many clubs balance their books without including the tv cash (probably none, i know). If clubs want to survive in the future i reckon they are gonna have to treat tv money as a bonus, big tv money cannot last forever.
wolfie smith
27-01-2006, 07:48
of course we can, we have sir jacksmileys/smiley2.gif
it just means cutting the cloth according to jez, our expectations should go down slightly, there was football before sky you know and it was more interesting imo
Football survived two world wars, I think it can survive without television. The only difference TV makes is that Carl Cort drives a Aston Martin and not a BMW, and I can't afford to buy a season ticket next year.
It would end as we know it and probably start up again from scratch. It entirely possible that it could be a good thing if it did.
99% of football has never seen a single penny of TV money, and never will. My 14 year old son is going through the hassle of forming and registering a team.
Jack Bauer
27-01-2006, 10:06
The Sky money has possibly been the worst thing to happen to football over the last 10 years. At least before it players played because they needed to make a living, now they can get one big contract off some mug team like Wolves and then relax and play s!$*e for years.
See Mark Kennedy as an example.
Notty Wolf
27-01-2006, 10:19
Foorball has raised its expectations financially because of TV money imv - It has caused in some cases almost bankruptcy due to the collapse of ITV digital - and I personally blame the powers behind the FA for not checking the small print when agreeing to the deal - I know that alot of clubs banked on the money coming forth which never appeared and yes, they - the clubs should'nt have relied heavily on that - but if the deal was rubber stamped by the FA - I suppose the clubs trusted that - and it was as good as "money in the bank" to them
the Sky deal - where the FA bottled it against the bigger clubs in the Prem who threatened a break awy league - imv, the break away league would never have happened - Can any of you imagine the chaos of trying to get the chairman of Man ure, Liverpool, Arsenal etc etc to agree with each other? They'd spend more time arguing - so the super league would have taken an age to attempt to put together and in the end they (Big clubs) would have preffered a ready made deal - and perhaps swallowed their pride and got on with it - but the FA bottled it - as per usual - and that has imho led to the FA treating the bigger clubs better than they treat everyone else
If the Sky deal was allowed to filter down the leagues - it would/ could have been a very good thing for the whole of the football league and improved conditions/ help develope home grown talent etc etc - but with the bigger clubs its all me me me and now - there's no tommorrow - and thats a sad indictment of football today
Football does need TV money and financial input from corporate deals - the likes of the FA have allowed football to spiral into another world and it constantly needs feeding due to its greed that is never satisfied - long gone are the days of the £100pw footballer - that is as ancient as cavemen - reasonable salaries that are capped like in American sports - not possible now - the horse has well and truely bolted - Some day soon, imv, the way things are now, the Premiership will be the place where money men play with their toys - and the players act like pop/ film stars - sport - what sport?
We are already seeing this at Chelski/ other clubs- this is imv destroying sport and its becoming more a case of "our owner's got more money than yours" FA Cup - Premiership - Whats the point? We've got a choice of Chelski/ Man ure/ Liverpool or Arsenal - the Super clubs
Yes the minnows get a chance early doors - but in reality which one of the above is not a bookies favourite to win a title or a cup today?
the FA should have rules that prevent/ or make these teams field their youth or something for 75% of the league games - just to give them a handicap - perhaps something like that would give others a fighting chance! But will that ever happen? Dream onEdited by: Notty Wolf
squirewulf
27-01-2006, 10:36
personally i think it would be interesting to see how much these players really do 'love' the game and not the money. it would soon clear out the foreigners too!
footy should be saturday afternoons at 3pm full stop. home one week and away the next. then look forward to match of the day on the night to see whats been happening. nothing worse than sunday and midweek games.
crowds could be boosted to as people cant sit at home in front of a tv calling themselves fans any longer! nothing worse than having someone who watchesfooty on tv only telling you heknow's more than you when you see a game live.
