Fans Back At VP - A Plan

Just answer the question and stop slagging off your business mentor.

You must be exhausted with the number of conclusions you are jumping to.

 

Government has made a total mess of the situation and continues to do so, there policy seems to be to stick a finger in the leaking dam wall and hope that will stop the leak?

 

Not disagreeing just wanted @Fordy117 to describe what he means by Billy big balls-which he avoids to do.

 

I am not sure we will get much help from the premier league any time soon.
Because Fulham were promoted via the play offs they no longer need the second set of parachute payments, around 34 million. The efl asked for this to distribute it to cash strapped clubs as it was going out of the premier league anyway if Fulham stayed down.
The premier league has rejected it and will now redistribute to its own 20 clubs. Says it all really

 

The premier league has no interest whatsoever in the football league, if it could i would expect it to break away and form its own league altogether along the lines of a buy in franchise model. Its purely business run and the EFL business model simply hemerrhages money. If you want to know where football is heading Wolves have just signed a player for £35 million, £9 million which goes in agents fees. At the top level football is turning into an elite sport like formula one, a far cry from its beginnings.

 

i agree. I don’t mind the top clubs paying stupid transfer fees. You look at Man City and Man U etc they generate around half a billion a season in revenue anyway.
It’s things like this that annoy me. It’s pure greed.

 

To be fair it's money created by the Premier league and nothing else and as such it's theirs to do with how they see fit. But now we effectively have two organisations within the 92 club league structure, one which generates hundreds of million, the other that creates very little, the championship being one of the biggest money divisions in the world is wholly built on money coming down from the premiership via relegated clubs. The discrepancies between the divisions is like no othet league structure in football, we will never see the likes of Eibar and Freiburg getting to the premiership like they have done in Spain and Germany. We are nearer to a two tier competition as we have ever been with the salary cap introduced, if the championship goes down the same route we could literally end up with a closed shop syndrome.

 

And we're about to see that it doesn't even need fans in the ground to succeed. Its eating itself.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8722725/Premier-League-say-CANCEL-test-events-fans-hit-Government.html

 

7500 fans at this game in Germany yesterday without distancing.

 

1st October still the target

 

But they don’t say at what levels

 

end of the 2nd last paragraph it says that the aim is still to reopen elite sports fixtures (premier league to conference north/south) to socially distanced crowds in a COVID safe venue subject to the test events.

 

yep so they reopen but cap at 1,000.

 

Considering clubs below national league north/south already have fans and the mention of elite fixtures, I think its fair to say he's talking about prem-national league.

 

I didn’t mean the level of football, more the level of reopening. 10%, 20%, 30% or more. They could easily say all grounds can reopen with 10% knowing that no one will as it wouldn’t be financially worth it

 

I think the DCMS and SGSA had already stated it would be 25%-33% depending on the size of the stadium. Nothing seems to have changed in that guidance.