Why don’t the 14 clubs in the top flight...



How many and which teams do you think will qualify for this Euro

Think of it like a Gentlemen's Club. This has been built up over about 4 decades. Sulver spoon globalists. Arsenal and ManU have seats at the hightable - thet are The Establishment clubs of England. Chelsea and Liverpool forced their way in. ManC and Spurs are doing the same today.
 
Will all the top 6 get in though? If it's based on European history Arsenal, Man City and Spurs wouldn't get a look in.
If it's the top 20 teams based on income, Everton, mags and WHU would be in.
 
1984/85
1.st Everton
2nd Liverpool
3rd Spurs
4th Man United
5th Southampton
6th Chelsea
7th Arsenal
Meanwhile, just 4 years earlier:

1980/81
1st Aston Villa
2nd Ipswich Town
3rd Arsenal
4th West Bromwich Albion
5th Liverpool
6th Southampton
7th Nottingham Forest

Exactly! There was more of a mixup and variety of teams every few season. Clubs could bring in unknown players and they'd develop as a team whereas now a team will just be picked apart sharpish if a player is good enough for top 6.

As chriswallace85 couldn't be arsed to answer my earlier question, I've just downloaded the league tables since 1970 and hoyed them into Excel. A simple pivot table just shows how little other teams have finished top 6 and even less in top 4 compared to years ago!

This is the top 6 team list over a 20 year period for 1970-1990 with 26 different teams and the times they were top 6. The period 1999-2019 had just 15 teams with more topsided figures from the big 6 highlighted in red

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This is the top 4 showing even more how hard it is now to break into it! There were 18 teams 1970-90 but there were only 10 between 2000-19. Take out the big 6 it leaves only 6 places out of the 80 with the only 1 top 4 place in the last 14 seasons being Leicester as the other 5 were early 2000's!

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What's even more shite is the last decade has been a canny close shop for other teams trying to get top 4/6 with very few succeeding! Only 5 more teams have managed to get top 6 place a paltry total of 6 times in the last 10 seasons, mainly at just Liverpool's expense. The top 4 is a forgone conclusion these days given the last 3 seasons and points gap to 7th of 8,9,11 points respectively!




How the fuck anyone can think the league is still cyclic when it's heading to a complete shut out is beyond me! :lol: If anything it will get worse as the big 6 just battle it out at the top between themselves like they have the last 3 seasons in a row. With the billions now in the game, the big boys simply have too much revenue every season, at least double than any other team and in some cases triple. This is gained from being at the top that keeps them growing while the rest just toddle along way behind feeding on the scraps. This also allows them to have squad players that would walk into any other team which other teams don't have the luxury of. Or they can fuck up buying players who can't perform whereas it could cripple some of the other teams.

I don't really want them to fuck off to a Super League but it was obvious years ago that it would happen and it has so I can understand why some do want it. I don't know how they could change it as salary caps and drafts etc like NFL would mean players just go to another country.
 
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There can only be one champion though, which means 19'or so mega teams are gonna end up with nowt. They'll get bored after a while.
It won’t be a conventional league structure though. NFL style conferences, divisions etc leading up to. Superbowly Final.
 
Manchester City fans thought exactly the same for years. You never know when your fairy godmother might pay a call .
If a fairy godmother (or Thai billionaire) had rocked up at Sunderland and they were now probably the most likely contenders to take advantage of a serious dip for one of the “big 6” (hate that term) then I don’t think this thread would have ever started on here
The lad who listed the 24 clubs and said how cracking it would be , well it would basically be like a normal 2 game a slog same as every Championship season between clubs who think they are better than that , only there would be no pot of gold at the end of it
Let’s be honest the Championship is just a bun fight of clubs desperate to get their snouts in the PL trough and without that incentive it would be pointless pretty quickly

Still be only one winner though, the rest will be losers. Supporters of these clubs don't do losing.
Spurs don’t really do winning do they?
 
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This. There's probably very few CEO types who give a fuck about football as a sporting contest. They're businessmen first and foremost, that's what gives them their big salaries and bonuses. They'd never dream of deliberately slashing the income their club can receive which is exactly what would happen if the big clubs left. This attitude is also evident at the big clubs who have employees desperate to pull the drawbridge up and ensure they're allowed in the CL every season no matter how badly their club does in the league
and thats why ` our owners abolished the role of ceo-they want one person doing the football side and one the commercial side-with a chairman over all
 
Imagine a championship with:

Sunderland
Newcastle
Aston Villa
Leeds
Everton
West Ham
Wolves
West Brom
Sheffield Wed
Sheffield Utd
Birmingham
Nottingham Forest
Derby County
Middlesbrough
Leicester
Burnley
Stoke
Portsmouth
Southampton
Norwich
Bristol City
Fulham
Cardiff

Would be class.


Sky would pay more for European football than a competition that most of their customers have a vested interest in?
Palace, Watford,Bournemouth,Brighton and a few more might think they should be on that list before a few on there
What’s the criteria there?
 
If a fairy godmother (or Thai billionaire) had rocked up at Sunderland and they were now probably the most likely contenders to take advantage of a serious dip for one of the “big 6” (hate that term) then I don’t think this thread would have ever started on here
The lad who listed the 24 clubs and said how cracking it would be , well it would basically be like a normal 2 game a slog same as every Championship season between clubs who think they are better than that , only there would be no pot of gold at the end of it
Let’s be honest the Championship is just a bun fight of clubs desperate to get their snouts in the PL trough and without that incentive it would be pointless pretty quickly


Spurs don’t really do winning do they?
they are very successful...they are making progress every year and doing it sustainably..would they be more of a winner if they won the league up this year and lost the champs league semi final?
are portsmouth winners cos of the chekatrade and spurs not?

Exactly! There was more of a mixup and variety of teams every few season. Clubs could bring in unknown players and they'd develop as a team whereas now a team will just be picked apart sharpish if a player is good enough for top 6.

As chriswallace85 couldn't be arsed to answer my earlier question, I've just downloaded the league tables since 1970 and hoyed them into Excel. A simple pivot table just shows how little other teams have finished top 6 and even less in top 4 compared to years ago!

This is the top 6 team list over a 20 year period for 1970-1990 with 26 different teams and the times they were top 6. The period 1999-2019 had just 15 teams with more topsided figures from the big 6 highlighted in red

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This is the top 4 showing even more how hard it is now to break into it! There were 18 teams 1970-90 but there were only 10 between 2000-19. Take out the big 6 it leaves only 6 places out of the 80 with the only 1 top 4 place in the last 14 seasons being Leicester as the other 5 were early 2000's!

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What's even more shite is the last decade has been a canny close shop for other teams trying to get top 4/6 with very few succeeding! Only 5 more teams have managed to get top 6 place a paltry total of 6 times in the last 10 seasons, mainly at just Liverpool's expense. The top 4 is a forgone conclusion these days given the last 3 seasons and points gap to 7th of 8,9,11 points respectively!




How the fuck anyone can think the league is still cyclic when it's heading to a complete shut out is beyond me! :lol: If anything it will get worse as the big 6 just battle it out at the top between themselves like they have the last 3 seasons in a row. With the billions now in the game, the big boys simply have too much revenue every season, at least double than any other team and in some cases triple. This is gained from being at the top that keeps them growing while the rest just toddle along way behind feeding on the scraps. This also allows them to have squad players that would walk into any other team which other teams don't have the luxury of. Or they can fuck up buying players who can't perform whereas it could cripple some of the other teams.

I don't really want them to fuck off to a Super League but it was obvious years ago that it would happen and it has so I can understand why some do want it. I don't know how they could change it as salary caps and drafts etc like NFL would mean players just go to another country.
how can the top four be a foregone conclusion-this year spurs only scarped over the line?
 
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they are very successful...they are making progress every year and doing it sustainably..would they be more of a winner if they won the league up this year and lost the champs league semi final?
are portsmouth winners cos of the chekatrade and spurs not?
Winners is not a way to describe Spurs
If they beat Liverpool that changes
Arsenal have won plenty of FA Cups the last few years and done the same as Spurs in the League
 
they havent done the same as spurs in the league-they used to finish above them-now its below them-spurs have been promoted to the champions league regualrly-arsenal relegated from it..
 
Btw I think the top 6 can be broken into next season, although If it doesn’t this coming season it won’t be for a long, long time time ......
It used to be the top 4, now its the top 6, this shows teams are catching up, I know man city and Liverpool were streets ahead but Watford,wolves and everton all had good season I think, not going to bother looking at the table but 2 of them 3 could chase 5 our 6th spot next season making git a top 8 of clubs if they stay there for the long run, they may never win the league but neither do spurs
 
how can the top four be a foregone conclusion-this year spurs only scarped over the line?
At least you read it ;) I did and should have 6 in there but after posting I mistakenly edited it to 4 before my 5 min time limit as I was rushing through some edits. What it means is that one of the big 6 will end up in the top 4 as has been shown over the last 15 years apart from just Leicester. Given the Champions League money is constantly creeping up, over £90 million for both Spurs and Liverpool this season, then it just gives them a constant advantage every season in finance and global exposure and marketing.

It used to be the top 4, now its the top 6, this shows teams are catching up, I know man city and Liverpool were streets ahead but Watford,wolves and everton all had good season I think, not going to bother looking at the table but 2 of them 3 could chase 5 our 6th spot next season making git a top 8 of clubs if they stay there for the long run, they may never win the league but neither do spurs
Man City caught up as they've hoyed cash at it but that's been stopped now. Spurs had good revenue but have caught up to a few others now due to getting into Europe in the last 10 seasons (as have all the other 5 apart from Liverpool in 2015). They have a global market and now have their stadium pulling in even more money and you can see how their revenue has shot up.

The rest won't catch up anytime soon and the fact that over the last 3 seasons they've been at least 8 points ahead of the rest and pulled away before half of the season has even completed just shows how topsided the league is now.

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You can see below in the 2017-18 revenue table that the big 6 get double the revenue of the rest of the league. Once you take away the ridiculous wages, a side effect of the top clubs paying silly money, then then 14 clubs are not left with much in comparison. What the big clubs earn outside of the Premier League prize money is still more than than what any team gets in all their revenue!

This is the 2017/18 revenue and it just shows how the rest are quite competetively placed but the 6 just dwarf them now. In fact the 6 teams get £2.7 billion between them whereas the other 14 teams get £1.9 billion between them :lol:

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Still be only one winner though, the rest will be losers. Supporters of these clubs don't do losing.
Do you think Spurs are bothered about making £100's of millions but not winning silverware? The fans may think they are losers (tho they've now got a Champions League Final to look forward to) but football clubs have evolved into fully into a business now and Spurs aren't exactly struggling in that area and are quite successful and show no signs of failing at all.

I was looking for a recent post of mine and this one from over 5 years ago popped up in the search results/ Even back then it just showed the global pulling power of these clubs that can generate extra revenue for them. How on earth anyone can think think that a Watford, Southampton, Wolves or even Everton can now mount a serious challenge into being a 'big' team with global attraction is beyond me as a rich arab can't just bankroll it any more. Leicester's freak season came and went as even the extra £70 million they got for that one off Champions League didn't do much at all for them maintaining the challenge and they finished 12th.

Why football is dying a death due to the 'big' teams revenue!
 
At least you read it ;) I did and should have 6 in there but after posting I mistakenly edited it to 4 before my 5 min time limit as I was rushing through some edits. What it means is that one of the big 6 will end up in the top 4 as has been shown over the last 15 years apart from just Leicester. Given the Champions League money is constantly creeping up, over £90 million for both Spurs and Liverpool this season, then it just gives them a constant advantage every season in finance and global exposure and marketing.


Man City caught up as they've hoyed cash at it but that's been stopped now. Spurs had good revenue but have caught up to a few others now due to getting into Europe in the last 10 seasons (as have all the other 5 apart from Liverpool in 2015). They have a global market and now have their stadium pulling in even more money and you can see how their revenue has shot up.

The rest won't catch up anytime soon and the fact that over the last 3 seasons they've been at least 8 points ahead of the rest and pulled away before half of the season has even completed just shows how topsided the league is now.

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You can see below in the 2017-18 revenue table that the big 6 get double the revenue of the rest of the league. Once you take away the ridiculous wages, a side effect of the top clubs paying silly money, then then 14 clubs are not left with much in comparison. What the big clubs earn outside of the Premier League prize money is still more than than what any team gets in all their revenue!

This is the 2017/18 revenue and it just shows how the rest are quite competetively placed but the 6 just dwarf them now. In fact the 6 teams get £2.7 billion between them whereas the other 14 teams get £1.9 billion between them :lol:

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Do you think Spurs are bothered about making £100's of millions but not winning silverware? The fans may think they are losers (tho they've now got a Champions League Final to look forward to) but football clubs have evolved into fully into a business now and Spurs aren't exactly struggling in that area and are quite successful and show no signs of failing at all.

I was looking for a recent post of mine and this one from over 5 years ago popped up in the search results/ Even back then it just showed the global pulling power of these clubs that can generate extra revenue for them. How on earth anyone can think think that a Watford, Southampton, Wolves or even Everton can now mount a serious challenge into being a 'big' team with global attraction is beyond me as a rich arab can't just bankroll it any more. Leicester's freak season came and went as even the extra £70 million they got for that one off Champions League didn't do much at all for them maintaining the challenge and they finished 12th.

Why football is dying a death due to the 'big' teams revenue!
great post thank ypu.
Interestingly the commercial director at arsenal is in the Financial Tomes today talking about how the premier league is much more important to them commercially than the champions league.
I think his point was that while the champions league is extra moeny for TV and gates etc..sponsors are happy to pay up just for premier league and dont put in big bonbues for champions league qualififcation.
 
great post thank ypu.
Interestingly the commercial director at arsenal is in the Financial Tomes today talking about how the premier league is much more important to them commercially than the champions league.
I think his point was that while the champions league is extra moeny for TV and gates etc..sponsors are happy to pay up just for premier league and dont put in big bonbues for champions league qualififcation.
Aye probably due to the global scale of the Premier League giving them far greater exposure than Champions League. Is this the article? I don't know if the link will work for anyone or if it was generated individually for me though.

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I see they're even trying to shut shop in the Champions League now anyway!

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Proposal to Restructure Champions League Leaves Out Most of Europe

This is a big step to the European League of course if it does head that way. It doesn't look like it will be just 1 league either but rather a few so that means all the big clubs will eventually get into the top league any way, they may just have to start in the 2nd division! :lol:

While the Champions League’s main competition will continue to be the 32-team event it is today, UEFA envisages substantial changes to its format to ensure a longer group stage in which teams would play in four groups of eight, with the top four teams qualifying for the knockout stages. Such a setup would create dozens more matchups of elite clubs to sell to broadcasters, with some perhaps on weekend dates that are traditionally reserved for domestic league play.

Champions from lower-profile leagues like those in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and most of Eastern Europe, as well as elite-league clubs outside the top four or five spots in their domestic competitions, would be relegated to a 32-team second-tier competition and to a third division with 64 teams. Teams would be eligible to be promoted and relegated among the three divisions, but the financial resources available to those at the top could create a competitive advantage that might secure their places in the Champions League for the foreseeable future. Only four of the 32 places would be reserved for incoming clubs each season.
 
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Aye probably due to the global scale of the Premier League giving them far greater exposure than Champions League. Is this the article? I don't know if the link will work for anyone or if it was generated individually for me though.

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I see they're even trying to shut shop in the Champions League now anyway!

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Proposal to Restructure Champions League Leaves Out Most of Europe

This is a big step to the European League of course if it does head that way. It doesn't look like it will be just 1 league either but rather a few so that means all the big clubs will eventually get into the top league any way, they may just have to start in the 2nd division! :lol:

While the Champions League’s main competition will continue to be the 32-team event it is today, UEFA envisages substantial changes to its format to ensure a longer group stage in which teams would play in four groups of eight, with the top four teams qualifying for the knockout stages. Such a setup would create dozens more matchups of elite clubs to sell to broadcasters, with some perhaps on weekend dates that are traditionally reserved for domestic league play.

Champions from lower-profile leagues like those in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and most of Eastern Europe, as well as elite-league clubs outside the top four or five spots in their domestic competitions, would be relegated to a 32-team second-tier competition and to a third division with 64 teams. Teams would be eligible to be promoted and relegated among the three divisions, but the financial resources available to those at the top could create a competitive advantage that might secure their places in the Champions League for the foreseeable future. Only four of the 32 places would be reserved for incoming clubs each season.
diffrenet article-the arsenal guy is-perhaps not surprisingly against the champions league changes

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If a fairy godmother (or Thai billionaire) had rocked up at Sunderland and they were now probably the most likely contenders to take advantage of a serious dip for one of the “big 6” (hate that term) then I don’t think this thread would have ever started on here
The lad who listed the 24 clubs and said how cracking it would be , well it would basically be like a normal 2 game a slog same as every Championship season between clubs who think they are better than that , only there would be no pot of gold at the end of it
Let’s be honest the Championship is just a bun fight of clubs desperate to get their snouts in the PL trough and without that incentive it would be pointless pretty quickly


Spurs don’t really do winning do they?
they weren;t invited last time there were talks
 
Anyone can break into the top table if they want to, just have to persistently throw money at the club.
Been that way for a hundred years, the figures are bigger, but the principal is the same.
Clubs to have done it recently are Chelsea and City. We were one of the first.
 

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