Bit of financial perspective

[Hoop-du-Jour]

https://twitter.com/SimonGleave/status/627554881419743232

EPL wages, ridiculous!

[californiahoop]

Wow

[Kirill]

All down the drain eventually.

[yugohoop]

So are we to believe that all those clubs with their superstars spent less money than us on their players contracts? Something smells very off! Most of those clubs do have bigger grounds but they also change half as much for their tickets.

[klonk]

https://twitter.com/SimonGleave/stat...54881419743232

EPL wages, ridiculous!

sorry... don't really get the point of this graphic.

it's often stuck up on twitter by fans of french football teams to claim that it's absurd that their biggest teams receive less than the lowest team in the premiership. incidentally, it ignores the dubious accounting that uefa turns a blind eye to that makes paris saint-germain the best sponsored team in the world, despite having no real history and playing in the 5th or 6th best league in europe.

what it actually shows is something different though... it shows that the top team in the premiership receives about 150% of the tv income of the bottom team, while the same ratio is 250% in germany, 400% in france, 450% in italy and 1150% in spain. essentially... as uncompetitive as the premiership is, its finances at least allow it to be far more competitive than any of the other leagues.

big news for fans of french/german/italian football - when you go on holiday, no matter where you go, it's not difficult to find a pub/bar that shows premiership football. it is, however, quite difficult to find pubs/bars showing french/german/italian football (unless you are actually in france/germany/italy). that's life... get used to it.

[bakes8]

https://twitter.com/SimonGleave/stat...54881419743232

EPL wages, ridiculous!

People in this country love to watch football on tv and arent worried about paying for it.

Clearly not the same in other countries. It's a free market and we move on.

[stationcafe]

Punters here get skinned by Sky and BT, paying outrageous prices that wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else, and the Prem has the best global marketing of the top leagues.

Funny thing is our teams repeatedly get shown up by their European counterparts, there's truly more money than sense over here.

The unpredictability of the Prem and lesser emphasis on tactics makes it popular, but also means our teams mostly can't/don't dominate in European competitions.