Steve Gibson Supports the New Proposals for the League Shake Up According to the Telegraph.

indeedido said:
I will only make a comment about Gibson’s views when I have actually heard them.
We don’t yet know what his position is and why.
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When was the last time Gibson made any football related public statement? I don't even remember him publically welcoming Warnock to the club.
 
As long as there's a clause in about not changing or removing relegation without agreement from the EFL i am broadly in favour. An 18 club premier league is inevitable but it will also improve the standard of the championship. getting rid of parachute payments and redistributing money more equitably would be massive improvement. 25% of all future tv revenue is a huge amount of cash which could save the efl for decades if done carefully. i don't care one jot about the premier league the big 6 rule everything anyway through tv revenue so changing voting powers is to me a Boro fan largely irrelevant. let the big 6 change the premier league to fit there own agenda, all it will do is make the premier league even more sterile than it is now and make the championship more attractive.
 
I understand your scepticism, but I’d still rather wait a little longer before condemning him based on what scumbag Parry has said.
BoroFur said:
When was the last time Gibson made any football related public statement? I don't even remember him publically welcoming Warnock to the club.
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He will be exasperated but not surprised that the Premier League appear to be stepping back and allowing EFL clubs to go to the wall. I suppose clubs are likely to fold one at a time. First another Macclesfield and then a Bury. Sad but life goes on. What would it need for them to act? A big club to announce it was failing? Nottingham Forest, Derby or Sheff Wed on the edge? Or for the League as a whole to say we have to stop as we cannot afford to continue?
But even then you head Sean Dyche, won't they just say we have our own problems. Very sorry. But it is what it is. And less competition for our tv and crowds.
Maybe Stoke and Middlesbrough are under real threat here. Two of the better run clubs with local chairmen. That is a big warning sign.
Could this project force a response? Or will it be the start of a landslide engulfing football and leaving only a chosen few surviving and communities everywhere counting the cost.
 
Abel Tasman said:
Thats not in the least bit surprising. I suppose if our share of TV income goes up by 25% it’s an easy sell.
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But it's a way of allowing the top 4-6 clubs to be even further ahead financially AND to give those same clubs veto power in future.....that can't be good for a club where the chairman claims to be in it for sporting glory?
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
As a supporter of football in general the proposal fills me with complete dread and sadness. As a solution to the current crisis it offers I think the only way to protrct many Clubs.

Either that or we turn the game amateur below the top
Tier and no way the owners of EFL clubs will
agree to that. When I saw that this was driven by the EFL i assumed that most EFL clubs were behind it. No club has so far come out against it outside the Premier League have they?
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IT feels to me like the top 4-6 are using the impact of covid for power and profiteering. It feels very much like in 1990 and again in the late 90s when the big clubs wanted greater power and threatened to walk away from the football league (and did) and then threatened to form a European super league, which didn't happen.

The lack of parity is insane, and this reaction is because a handful of clubs like Leicester and Wolves have threatened the big teams seat at the top table. They've had it easy so long. Man Utd must have had 20 champions league seasons without fail. Now they've had the loss of revenue from that and feel the need to stack the odds in their favour again
 
Gibson is perfectly entitled to support this (or not).

I’m still getting my head round it but, a few points,
A power grab? - they have it now financially anyway. The Premier League gets TV rights largely as a result of the big 6. Southampton, Sheff Utd et al bring little or nothing to the financial party.
They are proposing giving 25% of that revenue to be shared with other clubs. That is a game changer.
The funds are likely to increase which just makes the pie bigger for everyone (including the big 6 and EFL clubs).
Reports suggest this could protect every club for the medium term,

There is a real worry that all future power would be with the 6 and that this has been cooked up by two American owners.
I’d like to see the league cup stay and for prem clubs top 6 not to participate.

Football has changed and people like me get all gooey eyed about pre SKY.
The future for those businesses is not with the local community it is with with the audiences of China, Far East, Middle East and beyond.
 
Apparently Spurs are due a 125 million stadium rebate if this proposal goes ahead. Unbelievable, just unbelievable.
 
BoroMart said:
But it's a way of allowing the top 4-6 clubs to be even further ahead financially AND to give those same clubs veto power in future.....that can't be good for a club where the chairman claims to be in it for sporting glory?
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They already are that way ahead and there is no pulling them back. They are gone!
 
Block21 said:
Apparently Spurs are due a 125 million stadium rebate if this proposal goes ahead. Unbelievable, just unbelievable.
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I don't understand how they have the nerve to declare themselves "Big 6"

They last won the league in 1961. Last trophy the League Cup! Off Woodgate's shoulder. 12 years back. Plenty "smaller" clubs have won more since then.
 
let the premier league go there own way, we don't want or VAR, limitless subs, Quarters aka drink breaks, and the many more changes to come. Lets hold firm to traditional British football values in the EFL.
 
Borobuddah said:
I think it was Facebook, reporting comment he’s made in talk Sport or something
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As far as I know Warnock has not spoken publicly on the matter. What he did say on Talksport was about the proposal to put premier club B teams in the EFL. He hated that idea.
 
Colin Warnek said:
I don't understand how they have the nerve to declare themselves "Big 6"

They last won the league in 1961. Last trophy the League Cup! Off Woodgate's shoulder. 12 years back. Plenty "smaller" clubs have won more since then.
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I reckon its all about the ££££s. They are generating and capable of generating more of that than the vast majority of Prem clubs.
Manchester clubs, Liverpool , Chelsea Arsenal and Spurs generate the cash for the Prem.
 
1finny said:
I reckon its all about the ££££s. They are generating and capable of generating more of that than the vast majority of Prem clubs.
Manchester clubs, Liverpool , Chelsea and Arsenal and Spurs generate the cash for the Prem.
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Domestically, I don't believe that is true. Leeds, Villa, Newcastle for example are all better-supported clubs in this country than Tottenham and City.

But if we're talking solely about overseas telly money, then yes.
 
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