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Regulator and Redistribution of Wealth down the Pyramid

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It's a good article, and a good representation of DK's appearance yesterday, which I watched.

On the backstop power, he's quite right. When people talk about the Bill "forcing" leagues into a particular outcome, they overlook two things :

a) the Leagues are perfectly at liberty to strike a deal before the clock stops ; and

b) they have been free to do so ever since the Crouch Review exposed the inequalities of where we are - four years ago.

In fact, I remember the Junior Sports Minister standing at the Dispatch Box in the summer of 2021 and soberly telling MPs that the Leagues needed to sort something out before the new season started. The reasons they haven't is twofold :

- the EFL want a better deal, but have next to no leverage

- the EPL don't want any change to a highly lucrative status quo that delivers 92% of the broadcast money to around 25 clubs or so (including those getting parachute payments). The parachute clubs get more each year than the whole of League 2 combined. In your Division, you get next to bugger all.

I think that if a deal is to be struck, it will have to be this calendar year ; the nearer the State of the Game Report gets, the more the EFL in particular may think they may as well go to arbitration and take their chances.

Going back to Kogan, he was very interesting - he views the Regulator as a football asset, rather than a policeman. And he sees his first State of the Game Report at the back end of next year as being a Manifesto setting out his office's future work programme.

He's keen on fan empowerment too, which may well mean that he visits your club sooner rather than later. I'm sure the Trust will have plenty of insights to share with him.
 
Blue Yonder said:
On the face of it a helping hand towards sustainability at lower levels of the pyramid. Or just more money to put into wages and transfer fees and the overreaching cycle goes on ?
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A good question.

The IFR has a responsibility to protect sustainability of the pyramid, and the resilience of individual clubs.

The first battle will come when the licensing system is introduced and IFR tells a club its business plan won't do.
 
Blue Yonder said:
On the face of it a helping hand towards sustainability at lower levels of the pyramid. Or just more money to put into wages and transfer fees and the overreaching cycle goes on ?
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I remember this coming up many years ago with Peter Kenyan, then CEO of Chelsea, stated that any attempt to regulate the PL independently and redistribute the wealth was a waste of time as clubs lower down the pyramid would just fritter away any extra money on transfer fees and wages. This was when Winston Bogarde was on their books!

My own opinion is that some trickle down money should in some way be ringfenced into improving facilities at training grounds, for women's and youth football, projects in the community and for supporters in general.

Also, it seems that many PL clubs are actively trying to reduce the number of seats available to season ticket holders in favour of selling them to people visiting from overseas as they spend more money in the grounds on match days, and they are much more flexible over kick off times.

Clubs like Southend have to be ready to hoover up disaffected fans of PL clubs but we can only do that with a reasonable product on and off the pitch.
 
maninasuitcase said:
I remember this coming up many years ago with Peter Kenyan, then CEO of Chelsea, stated that any attempt to regulate the PL independently and redistribute the wealth was a waste of time as clubs lower down the pyramid would just fritter away any extra money on transfer fees and wages. This was when Winston Bogarde was on their books!

My own opinion is that some trickle down money should in some way be ringfenced into improving facilities at training grounds, for women's and youth football, projects in the community and for supporters in general.

Also, it seems that many PL clubs are actively trying to reduce the number of seats available to season ticket holders in favour of selling them to people visiting from overseas as they spend more money in the grounds on match days, and they are much more flexible over kick off times.

Clubs like Southend have to be ready to hoover up disaffected fans of PL clubs but we can only do that with a reasonable product on and off the pitch.
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He's probably not wrong, but that's another matter entirely.

It's still an easy thing to say as owner/Chair/CEO of a club that competes in the breakaway league which is the root cause of the financial disparity and issues in our pyramid. It's about time the Premier League stopped shirking responsibility for the role it has played in creating this mess.
 
Medway Blue said:
He's probably not wrong, but that's another matter entirely.

It's still an easy thing to say as owner/Chair/CEO of a club that competes in the breakaway league which is the root cause of the financial disparity and issues in our pyramid. It's about time the Premier League stopped shirking responsibility for the role it has played in creating this mess.
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The Premier League is no more than the collective will of its twenty owners though, I'm afraid. They can't agree on anything, their Executive has no power to make them do so, and the FA, who hold the 21st vote, are about as much use as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.

Where we are now - with **** competition rules, poorly drafted and inconsistently applied - is what happens when club owners are effectively marking their own homework. The whole governance structure of English football is an Augean Stable that needs purging from top to bottom.
 
basilrobbie said:
The Premier League is no more than the collective will of its twenty owners though, I'm afraid. They can't agree on anything, their Executive has no power to make them do so, and the FA, who hold the 21st vote, are about as much use as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.

Where we are now - with **** competition rules, poorly drafted and inconsistently applied - is what happens when club owners are effectively marking their own homework. The whole governance structure of English football is an Augean Stable that needs purging from top to bottom.
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Top marks for getting a Greek mythology reference in there. Did you 'labour' long over that? 😉
 
OldBlueLady said:
A positively Herculean task!
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With a Cyclops overseeing everything?

The comment that lower leagues would fritter additional money on transfer fees is, unfortunately, correct.

The only way football is ever going to change is if people start voting with their wallets. Less money to cable and satellite firms means less advertising revenue and less money at the top. When/if this happens the pain will be met more acutely at the top end of the pyramid rather than way down it. Quite frankly I can’t wait for that day. Haven’t watched a Premier League game in eons. Seen the occasional highlight and I’m not missing much.

VAR, Pep, tappy tappy football is dull as dishwater. I watched a Yorke/Cole documentary the other day. One of the points that came up was the demise of the number 9. Where is today’s equivalent of Shearer, Fowler, Owen, Cole, Wright etc etc? They both said they would love to play in today’s game. As a non contact sport they don’t understand why more players don’t drive forward. Sure they’ll make the occasional mistake but they’ll win more the the occasional penalty.

As for the regulator. I won’t hold my breath. Whatever we end up with will be a compromise that only benefits the PL.
 
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