Championship

[10-0 win]

Interesting read on the championship, finances and more.


http://outsideoftheboot.com/2017/10...ng-the-championships-new-financial-realities/

 

[Snowman]

Too green man!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Good article, albeit a bit out of date now, but the points are well made.

The main thing I took from it were the same points I made in another post on here a few days ago. The money gap is widening between the Prem and the rest of the football league and even within the Championship we are seeing a financial gap starting to appear.

Unless there is some radical change to the way that finances are distributed more evenly throughout the football league ( and this seems extremely unlikely) then what inevitably follows is a huge rift between clubs and the emergence of an elite set of clubs who have the financial clout, infrastructure and support to compete at the top level and the rest.

This is a football apocalypse - make no mistake. Never before in the history of our game has there been such a huge divide developing, one that will result in those who “have” and those who “have not” as the author correctly states.

He also makes the point that big city clubs with good support and infrastructure, like Sheffield United, have far better chance of being amongst the “haves”.

But to achieve that we need to get back to the top table quickly. Because, as he clearly points out, the gap is widening. Every season we are outside the top flight we take a step backwards in terms of our chance of ever being a major football club again.

There is no such thing as being able to “consolidate” or “become stronger” by standing still. Stand still and you’re actually going backwards - that’s what it means in this situation.

I’m delighted with what we’ve achieved this season and with the manner in which we’ve done it. If we don’t get promoted then I’ll still feel proud of the club and the fantastic effort we’ve made, against difficult odds. But I won’t console myself with thoughts about next season being a better opportunity, because we don’t know that at all. And whilever promotion this season remains a possibility it should be of absolute paramount importance that we strive to achieve it. The opportunity may not come again for many years, if ever.

 

[RealMcCoy]

What if “top table” means that we fall into a huge debt situation like Bolton “trying to compete in the Premiership” and then plummet down the leagues. What is the argument that said Bolton would fail whereas Stoke/Bournemouth/Leicester would succeed?
I confess I ran out of patience/concentration reading this article, but I’m never sure what the fundamental argument is about when people talk about the “growing gap”. Is it just a problem that there is a growing gap (in terms of rewards) between the leagues?
3 get promoted/relegated every year.
It’s all about management surely?

 

[Tom Bott]

Had to stop reading after this paragraph.

Compare this to Sheffield United, who in September 2013, when the club were languishing in 17th place in League One, saw 50 per cent of their club acquired by Prince Abdullah bin Mossad bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, of the royal family of Saudi Arabia. The wealth of the prince’s family is an estimated GBP 12 billion, which gives the Blades significant spending power to establish themselves in the Championship and possibly even win promotion to the Premier League in the non-too-distant future.

More internet mis - information.

 

[I should coco]

It seems to obsess a bit with simple stats about populations in the immediate area that a club is based. That might be relevant for Bolton but DirtyLeeds have been dragging fans from all over the North and Midlands since Don Revies sheating days.

Apparently although Sheffield has two teams, the population of 500k+ gives us more potential then Bolton with their 130k. Absolute stunning insightful analysis there!

 

[cahill]

It seems to obsess a bit with simple stats about populations in the immediate area that a club is based. That might be relevant for Bolton but DirtyLeeds have been dragging fans from all over the North and Midlands since Don Revies sheating days.

Apparently although Sheffield has two teams, the population of 500k+ gives us more potential then Bolton with their 130k. Absolute stunning insightful analysis there!

Bolton’ has a Metropolitan Population of 250,000 ( exactly,unless someone’s just pegged it ) and the Met population of Barnsley is 230,000 ( exactly) so the article is way off. Plus the London Borough of Hammersmith has three professional’clubs so no reason to claim QPR as a potentially huge club. Ipswich is the local club for Suffolk which has a population of 700,000 ( exactly) so the « Town Club » claim is a misnomer. Ergo the article is rubbish.

 

[cahill]

Article also refers to Leeds as a mid size city but the Leeds Urban area has 775,000, include Wakefield and surrounding areas that don’t have a football club and you’re looking at 1 million plus. A very simplistic article

 

[8lade]

But is there really a gulf between Prem and Championship? Whatever is made in income is spent and more trying to maintain a position at the top, the top 6 clubs are still sweeping up all the talent more than ever if you peruse the size of their squads. Teams leaving the Premiership who do not return straight away are being allowed to incur massive debts - totally at odds with the idea of parachute payments. New teams are arriving in the Prem every season, it's not a closed shop yet. And the 3 relegated teams from last season are proving that no their isn't a gulf in footballing standards otherwise they would have swept all before them and returned instantly.
The only gulf is in income between the 2 leagues.