| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' 20:05 - Oct 13 with 836 views | Zx1988 |
Quite a shocking and sobering read here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo
Is it all so far gone that it doesn't necessarily feel wrong to hope that English football ends up collapsing in on itself, in the hope that a more sustainable and fan-focused game can rise from the ashes? |  |
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 20:19 - Oct 13 with 776 views | NthQldITFC |
Wind up Man City, sell off all their assets, distribute the funds in an inverse pyramid manner from the National League upwards? |  |
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 20:21 - Oct 13 with 764 views | ITFC_Forever |
Surprised it’s not a higher %, and not new news.
In any other industry, a high number of businesses would have gone to the wall.
Football seems to think it’s different- but it needs a hard reset to show otherwise. A couple of high profile clubs going bust might be needed… hard for those fans, but it’s for the greater good.
Derby, Portsmouth, Bolton all come very close in recent years.
And all the more reason why Man City can’t get away with their misdemeanours. |  |
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 20:38 - Oct 13 with 727 views | BlueBlueBluex2 |
Not sure this is news.
Football has continued to eat itself since the inception of the premier league. From a moral standpoint I have never subscribed to Sky as I don’t want to be part of the problem.
Given my way, premiership players would be on £10k a week max and ticket prices reduced accordingly. [Post edited 13 Oct 20:39]
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 20:41 - Oct 13 with 716 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Isn't this the whole reason rules like the ones Man City have flouted were brought in - to prevent this?
Doesn't this go to show the rules don't go far enough? |  |
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 09:26 - Oct 14 with 433 views | Radlett_blue |
| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 20:21 - Oct 13 by ITFC_Forever |
Surprised it’s not a higher %, and not new news.
In any other industry, a high number of businesses would have gone to the wall.
Football seems to think it’s different- but it needs a hard reset to show otherwise. A couple of high profile clubs going bust might be needed… hard for those fans, but it’s for the greater good.
Derby, Portsmouth, Bolton all come very close in recent years.
And all the more reason why Man City can’t get away with their misdemeanours. |
Clubs have gone into administration, but often the ground is the only real asset so it's best for the administrators to have a football club to play there, or else it's a near worthless asset. These events are rarer - Sheffield Wednesday have been the only one in the last 5 years that I can remember. But football clubs live beyond their means all the way down the pyramid - an ambitious owner comes in & the obvious way for the team to progress is to get better players, which requires higher wages. |  |
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 09:47 - Oct 14 with 389 views | baxterbasics |
Too many clubs trying to chase that next step up - qualifying for the CL, or promotion to the next league or just survival within it. So they take a punt spending big and not everyone is going to make it. The gaps near the top getting bigger and bigger. Wages and transfer fees have massively inflated far beyond the growth in revenue. How to fix though? CL level teams aren't going to willingly give up profits to help everyone else out - they are competing with the Real Madrid's and Bayern Munich's as much as with the Brighton's and Brentford's. |  |
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| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 09:50 - Oct 14 with 384 views | SWLondonBlue93 |
Seems like we get a story like this every year or so, and the world doesn't cave in so everyone carries on as before. Hard to see anything significant changing until big clubs start going out of business. | | | |
| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 09:55 - Oct 14 with 376 views | ITFC_Essex |
| >60% of EFL and National League clubs 'technically insolvent' on 20:21 - Oct 13 by ITFC_Forever |
Surprised it’s not a higher %, and not new news.
In any other industry, a high number of businesses would have gone to the wall.
Football seems to think it’s different- but it needs a hard reset to show otherwise. A couple of high profile clubs going bust might be needed… hard for those fans, but it’s for the greater good.
Derby, Portsmouth, Bolton all come very close in recent years.
And all the more reason why Man City can’t get away with their misdemeanours. |
The "ownership" laws are very weak too, allowing many, frankly gamblers, to play with our historic football clubs and potentially end them. If the owners were the ones sanctioned, and not the clubs, for these botched ownerships, things would be very different.
Clubs gone since the Premier League came in:
Telford United (2004)
Scarborough F.C. (2007)
Halifax Town A.F.C. (2008)
Chester City (2010)
Rushden & Diamonds (2011)
Hereford United (2014)
Macclesfield Town (2020)
Clubs who have been in administration/close to extinction:
Barnet 1994
Barnsley 2002
Boston United 2007
Bournemouth 1997, 2008
Bradford City 2002, 2004
Bury 2002
Cambridge United 2005
Chelsea 1993
Chester City 1998, 2009
Coventry City 2013
Crawley Town 2006
Crystal Palace 1998, 2010
Darlington 2003, 2009
Derby County 2003
Doncaster Rovers 1997
Exeter City 1994
Farsley Celtic 2009
Gillingham 1995
Halifax Town 2002, 2008
Hartlepool United 1994
Hull City 2001
Ipswich Town 2003
Kettering Town 1992
Leeds United 2007
Leicester City 2002
Luton Town 2003, 2007
Maidstone United 1992
Millwall 1997
Northampton Town 1992
Northwich Victoria 2009
Notts County 2002
Oldham Athletic 2003
Plymouth Argyle 2011
Port Vale 2002
Portsmouth 1998, 2010
Queens Park Rangers 2001
Rotherham United 2006, 2008
Salisbury City 2009
Southampton 2009
Stockport County 2009
Weymouth 2009
Wimbledon 2003
Wrexham 2004
York City 2002 |  |
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