Leominster_Wolf
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Saw this article today, in which PL may be reluctant to assist, especially championship clubs, who may in theory be competitors next season.
I know this topic was done during lockdown and in relation to players wages.
i understand the reluctance and I also understand the viewpoint that we do not urge other sectors to behave to same way, and prop up smaller businesses in the same sector.
but is football more than just a business. This last summer has highlighted how much money there still is in the top level. Big transfer Fees, big wages, big agents fees. should they help lower leagues who are clearly going to struggle without fans in the ground?
one interesting stat in the article is that of the 31 players called up by England in the last squad, 80% have been part of the EFL at some point.
most PL clubs use EFL clubs to some extent to ‘blood’ younger players, get them game time. without the EFL, would it hamper the development of young players?
should there be some sort of ‘adoption’ club system, whereby a PL would financially assist a local EFL club (mainly L1 or L2)
so for example, if we ‘adopted’ Shrewsbury - the average L1 players weekly wage is approx £2300. If we agreed to assist by paying squad wages - 25 x 52 x£2300. This would come to just under £3m - not a huge outlay in terms of our overall expenditure.
Of course the FA and EFL would have to do their bit too, and prop up the others.
maybe instead (or as well as) assistance in terms of online presence/ expertise/ infrastructure to help L1 & L2 clubs generate more income via match streaming etc , to offset loss of crowd money. We’ve been wanting to club to spend big this summer, but not long ago we were L1.
Premier League 'may be reluctant' to bail out EFL clubs
Nowhere else is a company being asked to support a competitor and I think a lot of Premier League clubs will think why should we bail out clubs in the Championship who might be competing with us this time next year?
www.skysports.com
I know this topic was done during lockdown and in relation to players wages.
i understand the reluctance and I also understand the viewpoint that we do not urge other sectors to behave to same way, and prop up smaller businesses in the same sector.
but is football more than just a business. This last summer has highlighted how much money there still is in the top level. Big transfer Fees, big wages, big agents fees. should they help lower leagues who are clearly going to struggle without fans in the ground?
one interesting stat in the article is that of the 31 players called up by England in the last squad, 80% have been part of the EFL at some point.
most PL clubs use EFL clubs to some extent to ‘blood’ younger players, get them game time. without the EFL, would it hamper the development of young players?
should there be some sort of ‘adoption’ club system, whereby a PL would financially assist a local EFL club (mainly L1 or L2)
so for example, if we ‘adopted’ Shrewsbury - the average L1 players weekly wage is approx £2300. If we agreed to assist by paying squad wages - 25 x 52 x£2300. This would come to just under £3m - not a huge outlay in terms of our overall expenditure.
Of course the FA and EFL would have to do their bit too, and prop up the others.
maybe instead (or as well as) assistance in terms of online presence/ expertise/ infrastructure to help L1 & L2 clubs generate more income via match streaming etc , to offset loss of crowd money. We’ve been wanting to club to spend big this summer, but not long ago we were L1.