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Premier League: Is £3bn transfer window spending a cause for concern?

Sports editor Dan Roan assesses a summer during which Premier League clubs spent more than ever.
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Really interesting article.

“ But for some, serious questions are raised by the fact Premier League clubs spent more than those from the Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A combined - with concern over competitive balance.”

“Promoted Sunderland, for instance, had a bigger net spend (£118m) than any club in mainland Europe, apart from Real Madrid.”

“And even in the Championship, Wrexham's £30m summer investment ensured a higher net spend than the likes of Barcelona, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund.”

“Not only are we seeing the unintended PSR consequence of a perverse incentive to sell homegrown talent [because clubs' own academy products are counted as 'pure profit' in their accounts when sold]”
 
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Kitwally said:
www.bbc.com

Premier League: Is £3bn transfer window spending a cause for concern?

Sports editor Dan Roan assesses a summer during which Premier League clubs spent more than ever.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

Really interesting article.

“ But for some, serious questions are raised by the fact Premier League clubs spent more than those from the Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A combined - with concern over competitive balance.”

“Promoted Sunderland, for instance, had a bigger net spend (£118m) than any club in mainland Europe, apart from Real Madrid.”

“And even in the Championship, Wrexham's £30m summer investment ensured a higher net spend than the likes of Barcelona, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund.”

“Not only are we seeing the unintended PSR consequence of a perverse incentive to sell homegrown talent [because clubs' own academy products are counted as 'pure profit' in their accounts when sold]”
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The recent Premier League TV deal with Sky Sports and TNT Sports was a four year deal rather than the normal three year deal signed in the past.

And I think that the extra year has been a factor in the increase in transfer spending. It’s given the clubs a little extra room to move in terms of their finances.

A lot of these deals may have been spread over four years instead of three.

And while it may seem reckless to the likes of me and many other fans who might have similar concerns about over spending on players a lot of these mega clubs have been built on huge relative transfer spending.

People have been writing articles like the BBC one for as long as I can remember. But these clubs keep on spending and the football wheels keep on turning....
 
Sky has begun heavily promoting its new £1.6bn-a-year Premier League deal, which will see it broadcast 215 matches per season from August 2025. The agreement, signed in December 2023, is the most lucrative domestic TV rights package in the league’s history: a four-year, £6.7bn deal that will run until 2029.
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yer look I agree its madness.
 
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The recent Premier League TV deal with Sky Sports and TNT Sports was a four year deal rather than the normal three year deal signed in the past.

And I think that the extra year has been a factor in the increase in transfer spending. It’s given the clubs a little extra room to move in terms of their finances.

A lot of these deals may have been spread over four years instead of three.

And while it may seem reckless to the likes of me and many other fans who might have similar concerns about over spending on players a lot of these mega clubs have been built on huge relative transfer spending.

People have been writing articles like the BBC one for as long as I can remember. But these clubs keep on spending and the football wheels keep on turning....
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The smart Clubs have really worked out how to play the accounting game better than the game on the pitch :)
 
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The smart Clubs have really worked out how to play the accounting game better than the game on the pitch :)
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True...

And I may add, maybe a touch 'toungue in cheek' that in a business sense football, particularly English Premier League football seems to exist in a totally different world to what you might consider normal business.

Like their friends Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain it exists in a guilded world, it’s like a financial 'matrix theory' which can function outside of the reality of normal business practices.
 
Fans are just as much to blame though. How often were fans calling for their club to "just pay the money and sign him". We talk about players and are like, "50M, that's cheap for a player". No player should be being bought for 100M. The other thing is players wage demands. They hold clubs hostage if they don't get their move, and some clubs will just need to win, so they will pay the wage for that players.
 
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Football us life said:
True...

And I may add, maybe a touch 'toungue in cheek' that in a business sense football, particularly English Premier League football seems to exist in a totally different world to what you might consider normal business.

Like their friends Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain it exists in a guilded world, it’s like a financial 'matrix theory' which can function outside of the reality of normal business practices.
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RM & Barca have been the worst getting away with so much the last decade then followed by City.
Barca were what something like a billion in debt and still survive and carry on spending - like how does that pan out getting away with that.
City - what it’s been in court for some 4/5seasons.
Talk about outside normal business practises as mentioned.
 
According to the UK Daily Telegraph Daniel Levy has quit his role at Tottenham....

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Daniel Levy’s dramatic Spurs exit set in motion by wide-reaching review

Exclusive: Telegraph Sport can reveal the process that led to chairman’s surprise departure with Enic targeting sporting success
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Pay walled

Here's the article....

Daniel Levy has dramatically stepped down from his role as Tottenham Hotspur chairman in a move Telegraph Sport can reveal was set in motion at the beginning of the year with Enic prioritising sustained sporting success.

Levy’s departure has prompted immediate speculation among well-placed insiders that Enic – owned by the Joe Lewis family trust – has taken full control of the club ahead of a potential sale.

But a source close to the Lewis family has insisted the change has been made in order to put sporting success first and described it as “a new era” for the club.

Tottenham’s announcement of Levy’s departure may have come as a huge shock to staff. But Telegraph Sport can reveal that the first wind of change came at the beginning of the year when an operational and sporting review was carried out by American consultants the Gibb River Group.

Tavistock, the investment firm founded by Lewis, whose family trust holds the controlling ownership of Spurs, were also said to be involved in the review that put Levy’s running of the club firmly under the spotlight.

Sources have claimed that Tottenham required further investment from the Lewis family trust and that senior figures at the club, including Levy, were interviewed on a number of occasions as part of Gibb River’s wide-reaching review.

Peter Charrington, a director at Enic, was announced as a non-executive director in March – shortly after the review had been completed – and a month later Vinai Venkatesham was announced as the club’s chief executive.

Tottenham won the Europa League to qualify for this season’s Champions League, but that did not stop the changes that sources close to the Lewis family insist are aimed at bringing about sustained sporting success.

At the start of June, Telegraph Sport exclusively broke the news that Levy’s right-hand woman Donna Cullen was stepping down from her role as an executive director before Tottenham appointed Thomas Frank as Ange Postecoglou’s successor as head coach.

Cullen’s departure was seen by those who have worked closely with Levy for years as highly significant, as was the fact that the daughter of Lewis, Vivienne, sat next to Levy at Tottenham’s victory over Burnley on the opening day of the season
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Worth a watch. It's in regard to if EPL should launch it's own streaming service
 
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hehe - poor Nuno was on the plank for sometime now.....
Sky Sports News has been told that no one has yet been lined up to replace Nuno, but Oliver Glasner, Andoni Iraola, Mauricio Pochettino and Marco Silva are all coaches that are widely admired by the Forest hierarchy.

Come on bugga the above lets see Ange :)
 
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hehe - poor Nuno was on the plank for sometime now.....
Sky Sports News has been told that no one has yet been lined up to replace Nuno, but Oliver Glasner, Andoni Iraola, Mauricio Pochettino and Marco Silva are all coaches that are widely admired by the Forest hierarchy.

Come on bugga the above lets see Ange :)
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Ange to Nottingham Forest a done deal. He'll be under contract for the next two seasons through 2026-27.
 
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I'm kinda deflated about this. Seems stale. Hard act to follow as Forrest were second up until late November I think. System and players don't seem to match. Ange himself with a top first season and then a trophy. I think this could be the blip on his CV. The honeymoon stage is over.
 
I’m hanging for re commence Saturday night our time !
Great round coming up.
I was having bants and fun with my local team chat group that is full of epl devotees - some ex UK pats mixed with us Oz/Wogs.
We have one ex living Gooner - he’s already copping look out Ange to get a point at emirates haha
 
Ange debut coming up. Glad I sold Saliba on fantasy.
 
Is anyone able to tell me whether goal rush is also on UK sky? German sky show all EPL games at once where the action is. I like individual matches but waiting 70min for something to happen is frustrating. This is good for showing all the action.
 
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