Reply With QuoteWould be very funny if it wasn't so true. RIP the competitive competition previously known as English Football League 1st Division.
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Would be very funny if it wasn't so true. RIP the competitive competition previously known as English Football League 1st Division.
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Brilliant!😂😂😂Originally Posted by boingy
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Totally agree. Sky/money/greed has ruined the game in so many respects. Like so many, I actually prefer the Championship to the Premier League. It may not have the quality players but it's far more competitive and has significantly less "plastic fans" to boot😁
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Absolutely brilliant! 🤣
And, sadly true. 😥
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We might get the chance to be the “plucky” little Baggies soon who knows. Its all patronising and often from clubs who cant remember when they used to be on a level playing field with everyone else.
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Yep, totally closed shop the Prem. The likes of clubs such as Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth haven't got a hope in hell of promotion let alone staying up. Oh.
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BBB, top three this season, nailed on… 😇
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That's the point isn't it. If you look over the past 5 years, yes 2022-23 saw Brighton 6th with Brentford and Fulham making the top 10, the year before Leics and Brighton were 8th and 9th respectively, Leics were 5th in both 2020-21 and 2019-20 with Leeds, Sheffield Utd and Burnley breaking into the top 10 but-Leics aside-the top 6 tend to be same old same old as is ordinarily the case with the top 10 finishing clubs. Man City, Manure, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, West Ham and (gritted teeth!)the Vile are all usually up there while the rest fight for positions below.
Not saying that there is no room at all for other clubs to break into the Premiership and begin a reasonably sustainable run there because that is clearly possible-but you do have to have money to enable this and there does indeed appear to be something of a glass ceiling above 5th place! All in all, I'd argue that the Championship is more open/competitive in this regard.
Money isn't everything of course and won't in itself guarantee success (e.g.Chelsea, Newcastle and Everton)but it at least allows clubs to be able to afford to buy the best players or hire the best coaches.
Top 10 richest Premiership clubs in terms of their owners net worth are Newcastle, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa, Everton, Liverpool, Fulham and West Ham. Interestingly, however, the total net debt of all Premiership clubs in 2023 was estimated at £3.14 billion (an 18% increase on the year before).
For 2022-23, by far the biggest debts (£600m plus) were owed by Spurs and Man Utd whilst Brighton, Liverpool, Arsenal and Leicester had debts of roughly between £200m and £400m each with only Man City (surprise😂and Fulham recorded as being in the black. Man City may indeed reap the most money from assorted revenues but they also spend an awful lot so maybe a bit of creative accounting going on?
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Over the last 15 years I believe Villa have only made the top half in the last two seasons Omeg, fans of the "big 6" these days are more or less Johnny come lateleys and going to games regularly is unaffordable for a sizeable chunk of legacy fans. Since the inception of the PL I think it's been won by just 8 teams?
The financials now feel wholly unsustainable and perhaps those lukewarm fans will get bored, who knows.
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