Was listening to Simon Jordan’s show on Talksport when driving earlier and

He had what I thought was a pretty sensible suggestion about how football could restructure its finances.

Basically involved combining wage caps from the champ down with a move to the premier and EFL selling their broadcasting rights collectively and then splitting the proceeds 80/20 or 70/30. In a nutshell each prem club would take a £2m - £3m a year hit but every champ club would get around £15m a year in guaranteed tv income and leagues 1 and 2 would also get more even if you got rid of or reduced parachute payments and ditched solidarity payments.

Thought it was an interesting starting point for looking at changing things.

Posted By: Jim, May 10, 19:19:14