Charlieblade
Well-Known Member
Is the gulf in quality between the EPL and other clubs a financial one or a football one? It’s both because at the very top of the EPL, clubs are able to buy players at silly transfer fees, and wage structures that support it.
Players like Haaland and Rice want to play at the highest level, and the financially secure clubs always take advantage of this.Top quality players will almost always be attracted by high salaries and access to successful clubs who are more likely to compete for trophies.
The EPL funding as an in demand entertainment package ensures this. Currently this package is paid by Sky. The EPL are obliged by the sport in general to ensure this financial package trickles down to EFL clubs, but the majority of top players in the EPL are usually foreign players.
With playing careers as short as 10 - 15 years, it no wonder that top players expect top wages! It all revolves around money. Most players can only expect to be on top money at a top club for about 10 years of their professional careers.
Given the foregoing, at its most simple, the success of clubs and leagues is driven by money, and the individual aspirations of players. The beneficiaries of this are the top clubs in the EPL. Short of external capital injection ala Newcastle, the only teams to enjoy limited success, like Brentford and Brighton, have to employ a different method. Will that eventually take them to the top of the league on a regular basis? It remains to be seen, but it’s laudible all the same.
Top clubs ensure their seat at the pinnacle of football. To me, transfer fees and wages seem obscene.
Everything is driven by money, fees, wages and not forgetting, agents. Very little of this applies to Sheffield United. Do we as supporters want to be a top EPL club? Or are we happy to be an underdog, enjoying a very limited measure of success.
There isn’t much player loyalty to clubs these days. Ndiaye was not driven by money, but the altruism of playing for his boyhood club. We are fortunate in my view, to have players like Sharp, Egan and Baldock who have all shown that their club colours exceed their financial ambition.
Money is motivation for most and given a lack of years at the top, this will drive most players to insist on being paid well, whatever we think about it.
Players like Haaland and Rice want to play at the highest level, and the financially secure clubs always take advantage of this.Top quality players will almost always be attracted by high salaries and access to successful clubs who are more likely to compete for trophies.
The EPL funding as an in demand entertainment package ensures this. Currently this package is paid by Sky. The EPL are obliged by the sport in general to ensure this financial package trickles down to EFL clubs, but the majority of top players in the EPL are usually foreign players.
With playing careers as short as 10 - 15 years, it no wonder that top players expect top wages! It all revolves around money. Most players can only expect to be on top money at a top club for about 10 years of their professional careers.
Given the foregoing, at its most simple, the success of clubs and leagues is driven by money, and the individual aspirations of players. The beneficiaries of this are the top clubs in the EPL. Short of external capital injection ala Newcastle, the only teams to enjoy limited success, like Brentford and Brighton, have to employ a different method. Will that eventually take them to the top of the league on a regular basis? It remains to be seen, but it’s laudible all the same.
Top clubs ensure their seat at the pinnacle of football. To me, transfer fees and wages seem obscene.
Everything is driven by money, fees, wages and not forgetting, agents. Very little of this applies to Sheffield United. Do we as supporters want to be a top EPL club? Or are we happy to be an underdog, enjoying a very limited measure of success.
There isn’t much player loyalty to clubs these days. Ndiaye was not driven by money, but the altruism of playing for his boyhood club. We are fortunate in my view, to have players like Sharp, Egan and Baldock who have all shown that their club colours exceed their financial ambition.
Money is motivation for most and given a lack of years at the top, this will drive most players to insist on being paid well, whatever we think about it.