Election Year or Fear!

[MadAmster]

Hedigree?

At a time of austerity by any other name, when people are facing genuinely hard times and numerous shortages the UK transfer window is apparently worth around 2.7 billion GBP. That’s 2,700 million!
Just sayin’, but food for thought.

According to dear old Aunty beeb, the total topped 3 billion GBP

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/c20755y05ydo

[Andy_Faber]

According to dear old Aunty beeb, the total topped 3 billion GBP

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/c20755y05ydo

Supply and demand in action, and anyone who watches tv feeds to machine. As with so many things, there are no clean hands

[ramAnag]

According to dear old Aunty beeb, the total topped 3 billion GBP

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/c20755y05ydo

I’m sure they’re correct. Bit of a paradox though isn’t it? Football clubs having so much wealth while society’s general infrastructure seems close to collapse.

[MadAmster]

I’m sure they’re correct. Bit of a paradox though isn’t it? Football clubs having so much wealth while society’s general infrastructure seems close to collapse.

Int capitalism grand?

Football is the biggest spectator sport going. That's why TV companies pay exorbitant amounts for the broadcasting rights. As game will be broadcast, companies will pay big bucks to advertise/sponsor on TV and at the stadiums. That gives the clubs a massive income. Players, not surprisingly, want their share of the spoils. Then it's "if you won't pay me 500K a week, club X will". Clubs cave and pay the daft amounts. Then there's the transfer fees. Clubs know that the other clubs have a huge wedge. You want our player, you pay what we want as opposed to what it's worth. As my physio said to me just now, visit all the old grounds (he's just been to Liverpool) and the housing around the ground is old and decrepit and obviously houses some of the poorer in society and they are among the first to shell out for a season ticket...

[ramAnag]

Int capitalism grand?

As my physio said to me just now, visit all the old grounds (he's just been to Liverpool) and the housing around the ground is old and decrepit and obviously houses some of the poorer in society and they are among the first to shell out for a season ticket...

Spot on that, MA, although I’m not sure they can still afford that season ticket. Anfield is the classic example, but Goodison was much the same and Old Trafford isn’t far behind. The stadiums are a monument to wealth and inequality surrounded by some of the poorest housing in Europe. Wonder what Messrs Shankly and Clough would have had to say.

[swaledale]

I’m sure they’re correct. Bit of a paradox though isn’t it? Football clubs having so much wealth while society’s general infrastructure seems close to collapse.

I am proud to say, I have never contributed to SKY or any other such platform and therefore have in no way contributed to this rather unseemly situation. In fact these days I'm more likely to be found at my local football team ground, watching players who play football for sport.

[Andy_Faber]

I am proud to say, I have never contributed to SKY or any other such platform and therefore have in no way contributed to this rather unseemly situation. In fact these days I'm more likely to be found at my local football team ground, watching players who play football for sport.

Do you not pay your TV license?

[swaledale]

Do you not pay your TV license?

What part of Sky or other such platforms do you not understand?

The BBC and indeed ITV have covered football for decades, the fees they pay and have paid for showing highlights and some cup games have clearly not contributed to the flow of hundreds of millions into football and especially the premier league and created the situation we have today.

[Andy_Faber]

What part of Sky or other such platforms do you not understand?

The BBC and indeed ITV have covered football for decades, the fees they pay and have paid for showing highlights and some cup games have clearly not contributed to the flow of hundreds of millions into football and especially the premier league and created the situation we have today.

Wrong again, just logically wrong - If they've paid ? hundreds of millions for those rights, which they have, they they and by extension you clearly HAVE contributed to 'the situation we have today'. Your virtue signalling (lapped up by rA) is just cheapskating really

[ramAnag]

Wrong again, just logically wrong - If they've paid ? hundreds of millions for those rights, which they have, they they and by extension you clearly HAVE contributed to 'the situation we have today'. Your virtue signalling (lapped up by rA) is just cheapskating really

Oh God, here we go again. ‘Your virtue signalling (lapped up by rA) is just cheapskating really’.

…and your personal comments, point scoring, cheap shots and sad attempts at division are exactly what was being criticised by another poster recently.

On topic. Clearly licence payers are not to blame for the current situation, but those, including myself, who do pay a monthly amount to Sky (and others) specifically in order to have direct access to high quality coverage of live sport, do have to take a proportion of the blame.