Gents, et al..
If we look through the Premiership hand outs, in 2000/2021, Crewe received over £700k as a contribution for the Academy, today, with increased hand outs, guessing at £1.2m., added to that general fund (unsure if that includes revised TV monies), so say £600k. So possibly up to £2m into the club. In League 2, 50% gate receipts only on player wages, based on what 4500 average gate, that is not going to really increase and if so with Stockport and Wrexham pulling in excess of 10000 through the gates and relatively close to Crewe, difficult to see a 5500-6000 crowd in League 2. So the cash is what it is. Drop the Academy level, reduced Academy proportion from Premiership!, if non-league, I think it goes away!
So Sugar Step-Daddy, let's see how that works, look at Swindon (absolute disaster), Gillingham, probably just about breaking the player wages to gate scenario, but has cash to attract incoming players. Fleetwood ex Chairman in jail, Morcambe owner fined for late player payments. Crewe needed the HR2 to buy the ground, but we are never lucky! We are not in a bad spot really, League 1 would be really nice.
Can you imagine the financial scenario at Burnley, today, its another Sunderland possibly.
UK league ownership rules will not allow clubs to own smaller clubs aka USA Baseball where basically the main MLB club (Houston Astros) also owns its own feeder network of what is a championship AAA (Sugarland Space Cowboys) and League 2 - AA (Corpus Christi Hooks) equivalent teams and bring up junior players. So an Everton (not saying Everton!) owing part of Crewe and say Stafford Rangers. The biggest issue in UK is tradition and promotion/relegation, which does not exist in USA. Together with the 92 clubs + non League, say just 1 x level below. I think it's within the next decade that 20-30 clubs go away financially.
Again as said in the blog, these are thoughts, but need to be addressed and soon
Domesday, is European Super League craters the Premiership and the cash to EFL dries up!
Thoughts