£75 million for finishing 11th in the Premier League

[Lord Bracknell]

... and £63 million for finishing bottom.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/305773.html


It might be worth beating Derby on Sunday.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Exactly. This means that lot up the road are rolling in it.

The team that finishes bottom - Cardiff will earn more than last seasons champs Utd.


Madness.

 

[ali jenkins]

If the 3 that come down don't at least all make the play offs then someone has seriously ballsed up!,

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Still beats me why your team can get £63 million for bring crap over a season !

 

[Carshaltonloyal]

Still beats me why your team can get £63 million for bring crap over a season !

Explain how palace have been crap over a season ..........

 

[Finchley Seagull]

This shows what's really wrong in football. That amount of money is ludicrous but nobody would dare touch the Premier League so they have to come up with proposals like introducing B teams. The Premier League and Sky money are what's to blame for the problems English football has.

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Explain how palace have been crap over a season ..........

Read the thread, it says for finishing bottom. He's not talking about you

 

[Dorset Seagull]

The trouble is the bulk of the money is probably used to continue to pay high player wages to average players......this is where the whole problem lies

 

[Horton hears a few]

The trouble is the bulk of the money is probably used to continue to pay high player wages to average players......this is where the whole problem lies

Yep.

 

[upthealbion1970]

Explain how palace have been crap over a season ..........

 

[Gazwag]

If you took a long term view, if we got promoted, kept the same team, finished bottom what would that be worth
70 million or so giving us say 60 million profit add the parachute payments for the following season and we could buy a team to smash the championship and compete in the premier league.

Or is that too simplistic.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

These are mind-boggling sums of money. How brilliant would it be if some of that came Tony Bloom's way as a massively-deserved return on his investment.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

If you took a long term view, if we got promoted, kept the same team, finished bottom what would that be worth
70 million or so giving us say 60 million profit add the parachute payments for the following season and we could buy a team to smash the championship and compete in the premier league.

Or is that too simplistic.

Do it twice and we can pay the stadium costs off.

 

[Peter Grummit]

So what? Who follows the Albion so the club and it's players can become rich(er)?

I want us to get promoted, but for the GLORY not the cash (which none of us will see) - in fact it will cost us a lot more £ to watch fewer matches.

PG

 

[Questions]

Explain how palace have been crap over a season ..........

You haven't. Now go AWAY.

 

[Mileoakman]

I must say that I still feel there is a lot of myths built up about how much money a club promoted to the Premier will make. People see a figure of £65 million banded about for finishing bottom and equate that with profit. Its not because the club finishing bottom has probably spent that and quite a bit more in trying to stay up.

How much did Manchester City lose last year, £120 million wasn't it. Apart from Arsenal and a handful of others there are very few making any sort of profit. Ok, its argued that you would have 4 years parachute monies when you come back down, so why are we talking about Reading going into possible admin, QPR losing a stack of cash this year, Birmingham and Blackburn basically bust.

Next year the monies available in the PL from Sky & BT are going up again but as has happened before it will end up being spent on ever higher wages, agent and transfer fees so I bet you the clubs won't be any better off.

So if we go up as far as I can see we get 8 games less, probably pay 20% more for our tickets and get stuffed nearly every week. Not too attractive for me but I'm sure I'm in the minority.

 

[Steve in Japan]

I must say that I still feel there is a lot of myths built up about how much money a club promoted to the Premier will make. People see a figure of £65 million banded about for finishing bottom and equate that with profit. Its not because the club finishing bottom has probably spent that and quite a bit more in trying to stay up.

How much did Manchester City lose last year, £120 million wasn't it. Apart from Arsenal and a handful of others there are very few making any sort of profit. Ok, its argued that you would have 4 years parachute monies when you come back down, so why are we talking about Reading going into possible admin, QPR losing a stack of cash this year, Birmingham and Blackburn basically bust.

Next year the monies available in the PL from Sky & BT are going up again but as has happened before it will end up being spent on ever higher wages, agent and transfer fees so I bet you the clubs won't be any better off.

So if we go up as far as I can see we get 8 games less, probably pay 20% more for our tickets and get stuffed nearly every week. Not too attractive for me but I'm sure I'm in the minority.

I agree, despite the massive payouts some (most?) PL clubs will still run at a loss. And some will lose enough to run foul of FFP rules.

 

[Bob!]

... and £63 million for finishing bottom.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/305773.html


It might be worth beating Derby on Sunday.

Still beats me why your team can get £63 million for being crap over a season !

Explain how palace have been crap over a season ..........

You've not learnt to read yet then?