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Premier League to assist lower leagues

Spoonz Red E

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There has been nothing in the entire history of faultless management by the FA to suggest the current difficulties to find a sensible solution ...
 

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There is a bit of me that wonders if this is the Tories settling old scores with football in general and thus not supplying. Regardless of footballs overall wealth, it is currently being forced into the loss of its main income stream and most vital. The government should bail out all sports in this position to the tune of last seasons gate income to cover this season.
 

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There is a bit of me that wonders if this is the Tories settling old scores with football in general and thus not supplying.
If that were the case they would not have bailed out the Arts to the tune of £1.5bn.

Football unfortunately does not help itself at times.Billionaire owners from overseas at the top
two levels skew the football model encouraged at times by the FA & EFL with their laughable ‘fit for purpose owner’ check.

Putting taxpayers money towards in effect subsidising some out of kilter with the real world salary’s of players would not fit well with many I suspect(at the top 2 levels)
 

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How rich are the Premiership teanms anyway? I estimate that with every empty stadium the home team must be losing at least £2million, does TV money really cover this with wage bills and tnansfefees rmaining so high?
 

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How rich are the Premiership teanms anyway? I estimate that with every empty stadium the home team must be losing at least £2million, does TV money really cover this with wage bills and tnansfefees rmaining so high?
They have their fingers in a lot of pies, These owners have multiple businesses and can write off any losses with a good accountant. The last TV deal was £5bn+? that was just for the domestic market, Add on overseas rights and other incomes its a huge amount, There was a survey done not that long ago where most if not all PL teams do not need fans in the ground to make money, This was long before Covid came along. While clubs at our level will obviously struggle without fans and some at risk of going under, I'd say after spending over £2bn in transfers during the summer the PL are pretty rich and the income lost for them will be offset in some way.
 

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People's perceptions of football in England are skewed by the Premier League and the silly transfer fees and salaries. The problem is that there's an assumption that the wealth is shared much more evenly through the FL than is reality. Asking the Premier League clubs to bail out the lower league clubs is no different to asking the giant supermarkets to bailout corner shops, when in reality those big boys want to take the market share of the small businesses.
 

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Talks concluded

 

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Talks concluded

With some sort of outcome Hants?
 

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£50 million made available to L1 and L2 clubs in the form of grants and "managed grants" according to Sky Sports. Not sure what the differential between the two are. £200 million in interest free loans available for Championship clubs.
 

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£30million grant to be paid immediately from the Premier League to EFL Clubs for distribution based on lost gate receipts in respect of the 2019/20 and 2020/21 Season.
Each Club will receive a minimum payment of £375,000 in League One and £250,000 in League Two.
The remaining £15m to be distributed using a lost gate revenue share calculation, which will be approved by both the EFL and the Premier League.
In addition, a further £20m ‘Monitored Grant’ is to be provided with Clubs able to apply for it based on ‘need’, with a joint EFL and Premier League panel to determine Club eligibility.
Clubs subsequently in receipt of a ‘monitored grant’ will be subject to certain restrictions, in respect to transfer spend and player wages.
Clubs who keep to the restrictions will not have to repay any of the funding required, whereas for Clubs in breach, the ‘monitored grant’ becomes repayable by the Club.
Any Club in receipt of a grant or monitored grant payment will be required to continue to maintain compliance with the EFL’s financial regulations.
 
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