Is reform of domestic football still needed?

I'm certainly not against a more equitable distribution of cash, but I wouldn't be onboard sharing it equally across all divisions. Issue 1 - why should a 30 year old lower league journeyman playing in front of 3,000 earn the same as the top players in the Premier League? Issue 2 - all the top players would exit English football, thereby decimating the TV revenue and potentially making everyone worse off in the end.
That's fine WillamMunny & good points

But there should be a better way to distribute the pot of money in a more balanced way
 
Given the statement by Florentino Perez that this is a set back rather than a defeat for the ESL project, I think it's all the more important that we look at domestic reform sooner rather than later.

The English clubs need to know that they can be members of English domestic football, or a European Super League, but not both.

 
Perez really is a deluded little scrote.

He also said in that interview that the fan protests in England were staged.

But as deluded as he is, he's still powerful, measures definitely need to be taken to prevent it coming up again.
 
If ever an industry should be 'not for profit' then its football.

Transfer fees should be solely linked to buying out current contracts and ticket prices should be more accessible.

When you see Haalands agent boasting that he will make him a £1m p/w player and the super league plans are laid bare, it doesn't look like change will be for the better.

The fans are football, but money has got the game by its throat.
 
Seen on BBC gossip that Perez is concerned that without the ESL the Harland transfer can’t happen.

He is also claiming the ESL will save football.

Or as I read it, Real need the ESL due to mounting debt and may struggle to survive and he will not be able to afford to buy Harland and pay him his £1m a week...

It appears what football needs is saving from him and the other ESL founding members.

a special thought to Harland who will have to survive on only a few £100k a week.. and possibly have his career destroyed by having to stay at Dortmund.
 
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