We know about things like FFP and home grown talent. But the teams at the bottom of the table generally come up one season from the Championship and then go down the next season.
How would you change this? Or should it be changed?
I still think City are going to be hard to beat this season which would make it about a million league titles in a row. It’s fair but is it ‘fair’ to all the other teams in the bottom half?
Better distribution of the money. Including international tv deal. Potentially even the part of the European tv money. And not just in the premier league, you need to reduce the gap from PL to championship and from Championship to L1 and from that to L2 and maybe even to National League as well.(gosh it’s both good and bad that England is football mad).
This should make the incentive to overspend in order to move up a tier smaller and clubs can run more sustainably. And allow teams to do more long term planning and not hire 9 new players if they win promotion. Now this doesn’t impact the top so much as the bottom; but it’s the most important change.
In the top we probably have to wait it out until Abu Dhabi gets bored and hope the Saudis gets bored before they take over. We did see this with China where the central government from one day to the next decided to just stop private citizens from investing in football and Inter had to sell out some very good players.
We could make a hard salary cap that fits what - say - Spurs or Palace are capable of sustaining. That way you almost all clubs would have a fair chance of getting into Europa and big legacy clubs would regularly miss out. Problem is that if KdB then get a private sponsorship deal with Ethihad Airways or something… it’s tough to police efficiently.