American Couple/Sports Fans Reacts: How England's Premier Football League Is Breaking The Sport! WOW

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

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[@jessgunn6639]

guys you need to check out the FA's ban on womens soccer and how much more popular the womens games were! theres actually a record of a womens match going all the way back to the 1690's!, not happy about the money is might scenario, i prefer the Irish GAA amateur set up where its just club v club and county v county all for the honour of the game football, hurling or camogie. it gives a more genuine investment in your team and profits go right back into the game with free training and access to equipment for little kids all the way up to the age you decide you can't run anymore lol

[@gmdhargreaves]

VAR has destroyed football for me

[@WasiuAlatise]

NO ENGLISH IN THE TEAMS LMFAO THEY ARE VANISHINGH FROM FOOTBALL TV STREETS & POLITICS

[@janolaful]

​@@gmdhargreavesvar is not a thing in football its rugby

[@janolaful]

Natasha and Debbie this is a whole can of worms you have opend best put a lid on it lol ❤

[@happilyeggs4627]

Nothing against foreign owners. But my objection is that football, from its conception, has belonged to the ordinary working man. Nowadays it’s a game for the better off. Most working people can no longer afford season tickets. The loss of football to the working classes directly coincides to the timescale of this video.

[@Brookspirit]

Support your local non-league club, they will appreciate you far more and their prices are very reasonable.

[@RushfanUK]

The Ordinary Working man never owned clubs, clubs were always owned by people with deep pockets, the great and the good of local business originally and has morphed into what we have now, many owners of the clubs in the 50's actually despised fans and players seeing them as the little people in life.

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@Brookspirit It’s not United/City/Liverpool/Arsenal et al though is it. You can go and see a local performance of a well known play,but it ain’t the west end is it. As with everything,you have to pay for the best.

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@Brookspirit It’s not United/City/Liverpool/Arsenal et al though is it. You can go and see a local performance of a well known play,but it ain’t the west end is it. As with everything,you have to pay for the best.

[@happilyeggs4627]

@@RushfanUK No. The game came about in mining areas as a way for the men to exercise and get fresh air. It was only as the game became more popular that businessmen saw an opportunity to make money. Most early clubs were cooperatives. The leagues were all amateur for many years. Regardless. I am talking about the heavy commercialisation of the game during the 30 years between 1975 and 2005. The working man was forced off the terraces by price increases. Football may still be worshipped by millions of working people but no longer on season tickets. It's a middle class audience that holds the season tickets.

[@Rogue66669]

Football used to be the working man's sport, money has ruined the game with fans constantly being priced out of the game.

[@WasiuAlatise]

NO ENGLISH I THE TEAMS LMFAO THEY ARE VANISHINGH FROM FOOTBALL TV STREETS & POLITICS

[@paulgeorge6353]

And in the upcoming election a football fans vote will count the same as an intelligent persons.

[@gruunt4064]

fans who complain about the price of tickets but they are also the same fans who will be complaining when their team doesn't perform and then push the board to buy ever more expensive players to keep up with their rivals

[@Delboy0]

Not true. When British players were exploited and unpaid in 1850s to 1990s. Football is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and is a trillion dollar interest, players deserve the money they get when it is the hardest sport to be an elite players. It is just there are lot fans who preferred when players were poor so they could feel better about their lives.

[@koishikomeiji5046]

@@Delboy0 I wouldn't even put it like that when talking about money in football. The transfer fees are the real issue when I hear people talking about money in football. I doubt anybody wants the players to be poor by the way, the only people saying that are not football fans, but those who have no concept of the sport and how important it really is.

[@DaveBartlett]

Don't be misled! While all this initial massive spending and investment was going on in the English leagues, the same was happening in many of the other top leagues in Europe. It might have given SOME clubs in England an advantage over poorer English clubs, but it certainly didn't give an overall advantage for English clubs over ALL the other European clubs.

[@davehogg63]

This is why some years ago I began to watch my local semi-pro team, they played with more passion, rather than just for the money. Morpeth Town went on to win the FA Vase against Hereford, a higher-league team, and my trip to Wembley was fantastic!

[@willmathieson9583]

I remember a time when you could only have 3 non british national players, how money talks.

[@ythomitnellum]

I think that was a European rule, applying to all European clubs, but was ruled illegal under the freedom of movement laws of the European Union.

[@CatsAreRubbish]

That was due to the "Bosman Ruling" made by the European Court of Justice.

[@ythomitnellum]

@@CatsAreRubbish Yeah, I was trying to keep it understandable given the American audience, and of course the ECJ ruling was only interpreting the Treaty of Maastricht (I think) which was the legal foundation of freedom of movement.

[@SimBir08]

Chelsea were the first English team to field a full 11 and subs bench of foreign players including the manager. Not an English player is sight.

[@joelthorpe4170]

Arsenal ​@@SimBir08

[@chrismajor69]

As a Liverpool fan for 50 years the worst thing is that fact that TV dictates when games are to be played. Traditionally every team played at 3pm Saturday afternoon , now teams play on all different days and times. Ultimately every club in the premier league will be a franchise like in the US , completely changing football and its traditions

[@mattsmith5421]

No they won't

[@nmp147]

I wouldn't be so sure, nine premier league clubs are american owned plus others that are foreign owned, not a problem as such, but with 14 votes required for rule changes, it only takes a few more to start pushing through things like super league and franchising.

[@mattsmith5421]

@@nmp147 doesn't matter who owns what when it's government legislation to protect the football clubs heritage and fans. Do you not know about the fan led review the government did, they're on the verge of making it law that football clubs can't do stuff like that.

[@nmp147]

@@mattsmith5421 yeah fully aware of the fan led review, but that's gotta be pushed through first, soon as the election was announced that was paused, no garrantee yet that it will be picked up again, I hope your right because as uncomfortable as I am with politics getting involved in sports something needs to be done to protect the fans and the game.

[@katemarriner1172]

Awesome video,always interesting to see it laid out and recapped like that. Thoroughly enjoyed. Loved the amount of shocks you saw,love ur reactions. Thanks for what felt like 3 minutes,just enjoyed it so much it flew xx

[@Tommy-he7dx]

Football to us Brits is tribalism, We don't care about profits or money, we care about what happens on the field. Sadly the money has attracted those that wish to take it for themselves where that money should be reinvested into the fan experience. If memory serves me, there was one year the TV rights deal went up so much all the clubs could have had free seats for the whole season and they would still have made more money than they did the previous year......what happened, ticket prices went up also. There are very few fans that want more money in the game, quite the opposite, but the solutions are no longer easy to implement as the mega wealth use their money to influence outcomes.

[@stephentaylor9900]

One of the worst examples of foreign owners taking over a club and then ignoring the fans was at Cardiff city, who whilst Welsh play in the English football league. Like Wrexham. Cardiff city were bought by Vincent Tan. The club play in blue and are nicknamed the bluejays. Tan did some researched and discovered that clubs that play in red get a higher amount of support, so he changed their strip from blue to red. Fans were outraged, and eventually he agreed to change it back, but it’s the pursuit of money at the expense of the hearts of fans that this shows. Yes fans like success, but not at the expense of the heart and soul of the clubs they love.

[@jonallen-dt2ui]

Bluejays? Don't you mean Bluebirds?

[@Isleofskye]

So sad you lost the fabulously atmospheric Ninian Park. The Far Eastern joker who owned Hull ,until recently,wanted them called Hull City Tigers instead of Hull City:)

[@stephentaylor9900]

@@jonallen-dt2ui that too 😁

[@rjb29uk]

@@jonallen-dt2ui Was going to say the same, would be a bit odd for a team in South Wales to be named after a bird only found in North America. But then again, England's national animal is the lion, and I'm not sure there was ever a time where there were prides of wild lions roaming the grasslands of Wiltshire and Somerset.

[@catbevis1644]

Similar with Portsmouth FC. Their football club crest is the city's coat of arms. The new club owners tried to COPYRIGHT IT. Literally tried to take away the city's identity and make people pay the club for the privilege of using it. It was as if they didn't realise that the fans mostly LIVED IN THE CITY. Also story with blue and red. The Spinnaker Tower (local landmark) is mostly white with a blue base, in line with Portsmouth FC's blue strip. The tower nearly got painted red due to sponsorship by Emirates Airlines, even though red is the team colour of our "old enemy" Southampton. Sure you can guess how quickly that idea was dropped when the locals found out about the planned change lol.

[@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765]

For me the golden era for football in the Premier league was from the mid 90s to the mid to late 00s....

[@LoCoAde87]

Are you an Arsenal or Man U fan?

[@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765]

@LoCoAde87 I'm a Red....arsenal had a great squad....petit, overmars and of course Henry... we had rude hahahha and giggs FA cup.

[@benhicks9481]

@@LoCoAde87 tbf Newcastle were great during that era, Leeds peaked. WHU had some decent teams. Yes Arsenal/Utd dominated that time, but just in general the football back then was more entertaining.

[@peterward1698]

I'm a lifetime football fan. Originally from the UK but been in Canada for the last 43 years. I am 70 now so grew up watching footy in the 70s. When I first moved to Canada in 1981 it was practically impossible to watch a European sport. Soccer as it's known here was just not a thing. When the premier league came along all that changed. The game became massive around the world. Even the US was not immune. At first sports writers tried to make fun of "soccer" but they couldn't sustain that rhetoric in the face of the global obsession. I used to hear from US friends about the super bowl maybe getting a billion viewers. Well that was for 1 game once per year. Premier League was getting over 3 billion views every week. I would hear about NFL super bowl winners being "world" champions" I guess so if your world only consists of 1 country. Same with MLB "world series" 1 Canadian team and the rest American for a total of 2. The world has almost 200 countries all of which play soccer. People outside the US are not surprised by the statistics from the European football leagues .

[@revbomb9523]

Honestly you 2 are refreshing on KZbin. Just sincere wholesome interesting views and reactions when learning about new things. Keep it going big love from Liverpool UK

[@ayeready6050]

The transfer fees are different from salaries. It's the amount of money club A spends to negotiate a contract with a player from club B. The money goes to the club, not the player. The salary of the player is then negotiated separately. The world transfer fee record is about $240m which Paris Saint Germain paid Barcelona for Neymar in 2017. That's the amount PSG paid just so he would play for their club. They would also have to pay him a salary of roughly $500-700k a week. That amounts to $26-36m a year from his wage alone. He would've also earned extra for goal bonuses etc. PSG were willing to pay this much money for Neymar as he was the 3rd best player in the world at the time, behind Messi and Ronaldo respectively. PSG also paid $180m for Kylian Mbappe in the SAME transfer window as he was the best young player at the time too. He is arguably the best player in the world now, 7 years later.

[@WIDGI]

Indeed. Chelsea might have paid £300 million + in transfers but they would also be paying those players tens of millions every year!

[@TheCornishCockney]

Football in England is now firmly for the middle classes with the price of tickets going through the roof and ordinary,loyal fans resorting to watching the games on tv in a pub. As an Englishman and a Manchester United fanatic,it would be hypocritical of me to say it’s unfair when my club is the biggest,in terms of worldwide support (roughly 800million United fans around the world) and therefore one of the richest,but something HAS to be done as the Premier League is now just a cabal.

[@fayesouthall6604]

It’s out of my league unfortunately.

[@terrymason8628]

The Cornish Cockney, what a suitable name for a United fan, so which part of Salford are you from?

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@terrymason8628 I was born in Salford actually,at the old infirmary,but we moved to London when I was a baby. All my family are reds from wythenshawe and I’ve been going since 1966. Sometimes fly up from Newquay airport,but mostly the coach with the Cornwall supporters club. So,up yours.

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@Willster389 that’s a separate issue.

[@davidpeters3857]

Definitely not middle class 👀

[@Brookspirit]

Welcome to the UK where everything is for sale to anybody. 🙄

[@justinchetham-strode5234]

Unfortunately the same sort of attitude prevails in any number of countries, it's not a British disease. But that's no consolation when it's happening in your own country.

[@edmann1820]

it's called capitalism and free trade.

[@justinchetham-strode5234]

@@edmann1820 Neither capitalism nor fair trade require that absolutely everything is for sale to everybody.

[@edmann1820]

@@justinchetham-strode5234 I said free trade not fair trade. Very different things there.

[@SimBir08]

Even the county itself is up for sale. Still waiting for the Tories to sell Dover to the French.

[@rachelpenny5165]

Morning ladies. My sister's favourite football team is Southampton (been in championship for the last couple of years). They have recently moved back up to the Premier league but they will end up near the bottom of the league as they don't have as much money as the big teams. My football team (Plymouth Argyle) is in the Championship (league below Premier) but they are one of the lowest funded in that league. They are the highest they have ever been. My sister actually said that the football is best in the championship as it is more about football than money. I remember the Hillsborough incident. I have even spoken to someone who was there when it happened. I met her when I was at university. Argyle's owner lives in the US, but is from England originally. My team has made the news recently as they have hired Wayne Rooney as the head coach. I am not sure about this appointment, but will still support my team. The Premier league tends to affect the F. A. rules in their favour. I don't agree that it is now decided by how much money you have. With the exception of the Premier league there is now a spending cap on the rest of the football league.=

[@chalky29455]

As an ardent Saints fan - I loved the Championship last season winning more than loosing - the fans all coming back and having a ball culminating in that amazing day out at Wembly when we gained promotion - one of the best days of my life x But scared for next season where the success will be eroded by big money clubs we can't keep up with. I'm convinced we'll stay up but then I'm always convinced we'll do well cos Southampton are my life - Football is much more than a game - Come on you Saints

[@Jo.Math.Richar]

As a wolves fan i feel we were at our best in the championship. We now float mid to bottom table, my season ticket cost for next season is nearly £1000 with our good players get snapped up by Liverpool etc. the fans are unhappier and we’re poorer!

[@chalky29455]

@@Jo.Math.Richar You are in for Che Adams - as my sister supports Wolves if he has to go I hope you get him. My fav player very underated by Saints fans generally - he will do a job for you, for sure

[@brooklynwiegerink5581]

I’m from Burnley in England which was a small mill town, the football club was in the premier league for many years but has now lost its place. It’s shocking cause if you see the town you would never imagine that it would be able to hold such a club. It’s a small northern town with like hardly any money so even though I’m not a football fan I’ve got to say I’m pretty proud of that.

[@GaryHead-ye6rn]

Hi from Suffolk and my team not surprisingly is Ipswich Town who were taken over by American owners 3 years ago as we were languishing in the third tier of the English league. After back to back promotion in 2 years they were promoted to the Premier League last season which excited Ed Sherran who is a fan and sponsor.

[@jameson5735]

I'm upset with Ed since he's a Yorkshireman.

[@jameson5735]

Take him down to the gibbet.

[@YorkshiremanReacts26]

@@jameson5735me too. He should be a Bradford fan like me!

[@debbie8674]

This was really interesting and certainly a topic that has loads of debate, depending on who you speak to.

[@RobertLloyd-f3p]

I am a West Bromwich Albion fan, West Brom were one of the original 12 professional clubs that formed the Football League, we have been in and out of the Premier League for some years our longest stay was for 8 seasons but the fost was enormous, when you get relegated from the Premier league you get a parachute payment for three years to help with the monetary value difference between Premiership and Championship teams. So many fans now feel that the massive money pits of the Premiership have taken the teams away from the normal fans. West Brom just failwdvto get promotion this season through the playoffs, but you know what, season ticket sales for next season are high because the fans enjoyed yhe competitive Championship games far better than those in the 'Greed League' Premiership. P.S. West Brom have just been bought by Shileen Patel from Texas after 8 years of pain with a Chinese owner. Great post ladies, keep up the good work.

[@MarkRaybould-mo2tl]

i hope we can do well under the new oner

[@robh_uk]

Just a quick clarification for you - the numbers talked about in this video aren't salaries, they're transfer fees, paid from one club to another to buy a player. The player salaries weren't even mentioned in the video but obviously they're a significant outlay as well. Incidentally, check out Everton's soon to be opened new stadium. FC Cincinnati's stadium is basically its little brother. Same architect, very similar design.

[@charliepierre7224]

I love you both great to watch love from here in England

[@RockinDave1]

The transfer fee is not the salary, this is basically the negotiated price to buy out the player's contract. In other words: transfer fees are just the fee agreed with the selling club and sometimes the player's management or agents to be able to negotiate the player's contract (although this fee only changes hands in case of a successful negotiation)

[@simonmeadows7961]

Here's a little insight into what it takes to buy a ticket to a game. I'm a Spurs (Tottenham Hotspur) fan. The tickets for their games do not go on general sale. They are sold to club members, where membership has several tiers to it. Advancement through the tiers costs money and takes time. You can't just buy your way straight in. I totted up the total for the lowest tier once and worked out that to get a ticket for a fairly low stakes game (e.g. playing Bournemouth rather than Arse&All) would take 3 years of continued membership at a cost of around £800. That's before the cost of the ticket itself. Needless to say, I have never been to a Premiership game.

[@hamtaro0810]

That is inhumane. I am glad that things are different in Germany, even if our clubs suffer financial disadvantages as a result.

[@karensides8074]

I lived in Wrexham for a long time. I think what has happened there in the last few years is amazing.

[@debbie8674]

Agreed❤

[@karensides8074]

When they won the league last year, I decided the night before to make my way to wrexham to watch the players go through the city on the bus. I knew there would be a bit of a crowd, but i wasn't expecting the crowd to be as big as it was. Here's hoping 24/25 season will be as successful as the last 2 have been.

[@redscouse7056]

Nobody lives in Wrexham, you survive there. I know I lived and have family there!

[@mik99D]

My nephew worked for Everton. In Dalas Texas USA, for around 5 years. Both Liverpool and Manchester United have training clubs in the USAto promote football/soccer.

[@torbjornfalk4174]

In Sweden 51% of the ownership is the members. A company or person can only buy 49% if the club/members would like to sell a part.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

My club Portsmouth was briefly mentioned , ridiculously we were at one time bought by an owner no-one is sure even existed . We were eventually only saved by fans stumping up enough money to buy the club . After ending up in the lowest tier of the football league we have just been promoted to the second tier ( Championship ) which is now inflated by ' parachute ' payments to relegated P/ L clubs so it's harder to compete . The traditional game has suffered with clubs unable to compete . The lower leagues have been more competitive and enjoyable in many respects with real fans who support their clubs . My season ticket in 2010 cost £ 600 +( for 20 games) now it's £ 400 for 23 ( there are more clubs in each lower league ) . The only good thing I can say about the Premier league is the quality of the football .

[@Lemmi99]

The story of our collapse could be made into a film since it involves so many dodgy deals, including alleged gun running, and people going after Arkadi Gaydamak. It was great to be fan owned but I think the Eisners are doing it right by not just pumping money in. Looking forward to the Championship which, in my opinion, is a better league than the Premier League as it's more competitive. PUP PPU!

[@fayesouthall6604]

Agree 100%

[@UKJesterVids]

and the quality of the diving

[@hydroanky]

As a Pompey fan. My personal opinion was Gaydamak is responsible for trying to bankrupt the club. He owned land around the club and obviously had other intentions. The transfer fees and wages he was paying for players were ridiculous for a stadium that held only 21,000 people. I’m pretty sure he knew the people that he sold the club onto had no additional revenue hence his holding stake and we were relying on to television revenue. Personally I thought the Premier League failed in their duty to observe club business dealings as well. Personally I now prefer where we are and looking forward to next season. I just hope we don’t push for promotion. The Premier League is joke financially and not an advert for the true football fan.

[@Lemmi99]

@@hydroanky Indeed he did. He claimed he owned the club but when his dad's assets were frozen the money ran out. He was fronting for his dad's money laundering. Milan should never have sold it to him. As far as the Prem is concerned, couldn't agree more, I'd rather stay in the Championship.

[@VillaFanDan92]

The fees that are mentioned are not salaries, they are the transfer fees that paid to the player's club in order to release them from their contract and allow them to join the new team. So it has to be enough so that the selling team can pay another team for a replacement player.

[@rklrkl64]

The video you featured is now slightly out of date - Premier League clubs Everton (twice!) and Nottingham Forest were both deducted points in the 2023-24 season that finished last month due to breaking Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, but both managed to escape relegation despite that. Meanwhile, Manchester City won their 4th consecutive Premier League title (never been done before) while being charged for 115 violations of the FFP rules. Somehow, their case still remains pending while Everton/Forest's cases were dealt with during the season - money does talk...

[@peterjemmett6036]

I support my local team Wycombe Wanderers, currently in League 1. I started following them back in 1973 when at the time they were amauteur playing in the Isthmain League with school teachers and esteate agents playing in the team. I have seen them rise up to the Championship (division below the premiership) and reach a FA Cup semi-final - it's been a fantastic ride!

[@malcolmbrown7683]

Applies not only to football but to 'British' companies as well. Most are now foreign owned from Rolls-Royce cars to Cadbury.

[@WIDGI]

Yep, whoever allowed us to be bought up by the (mostly American) overseas corporations should be put on a plane to Rwanda! With Russians and Chinese buying up properties in London (and leaving them empty) 🙄keeping those house prices high.

[@YorkshiremanReacts26]

⁠​⁠@@WIDGIactually Saudi and Indians own more property in London than the British do. In fact indians own more real estate in the uk than us real brits do! And considering everything else going on in the country, it’s them who are the problem. It was the Russians or the Chinese who were behind Telford or Rotherham and countless other issues that wouldn’t have happened if we were a strong country.

[@charlesward4314]

What I worry about is the very slow but inexorable Americanisation of our beloved sport with the new owners coming in. The factors that make football so interesting are jeopardy (promotion/relagation) and equity (fair distributiuon of income). There was a period in the 2nd half of last season where 18 of the 22 clubs in the English Championship (2nd tier) has something the play for, either promotion or survival. This means the majority of matches are truly competitive. Equity means that smaller clubs have enough resources to assemble a decent squad which is why any team can beat any other team on their day. This happens in the English Premiership; it's reasonably competitive. If the US franchise model creeps in then we'll lose jeopardy though equity may improve. In any event sport transitions into showbiz and I don't think that's what the fans really want.

[@johnwood5414]

im a leeds fan with the 49 WE ARE STILL LEEDS AND YORKSHIRE AT HEART...

[@paulhmann]

Whilst the 49ers now own Leeds United. Worrying is the recent investment from Red Bull. Supporters are worried about this impact. Like red bull kits and renaming the club.

[@YorkshiremanReacts26]

Red bull have only really succeeded with one club they took over, RB Leipzeig in the Bundesliga. The rest get absolutely nowhere.

[@Carl-Hancox]

Im thinking 12 hours of old N & D videos to take me up to match time , aahh the beauty of being single lol 🤣🤣

[@peterjackson4763]

I am an Oldham supporter. When I first watched them they were in the 4th division. They climbed into the third and then second. They spent a long time there, becoming the team that had been in the division the longest. They came close to bankruptcy, but had a miraculous season in 89/90 and the following year got back into the first division (after 68 years). They were the last first division club to agree to join the premier league as they knew it would not be good for them. after a few years they dropped back to the second and them the third division. They were bought by a foreign owner who put his brother-in-law in charge of buying players and oversaw two relegations. They set the record for being the first ex-premier league side to drop out of the top four tiers of English football. They met Wrexham in the season the latter were promoted, which was unfortunate as my father was from Oldham and had supported Oldham, but my mother was from near Wrexham and had supported Wrexham, so my siblings and I are split between they two clubs. Oldham now have a new owner, but he doesn't have the same level of wealth as Ryan Reynolds.

[@barryelvin6600]

Hi as a Newcastle fan I think that they are now changing the rules to prevent us from being successful. We have one of the richest owners in the world but they are not allowed to buy top players, like Chelsea and Man City were allowed to do in the past.

[@KGardner01010]

We got caught on the FPP rules, Barry, m8 . . . And we don't have one of the richest owners - it is the richest . . . However, whereas the likes of the top 5-8 clubs had already been having massive investment in them to battle with each other for years . . . Our own time began with the FPP literally preventing us from doing the same thing as they did . . . Due to their earlier successes, they were able to grow their fan base hugely around the world - (i.e. sales of kit, etc) - that created for them the profits to spend a lot more at the time . . . Due to Ashley, our club almost died, as all he was interested in was promoting his companies and making profits through them . . . As of now, the money is now definitely there, but the FPP rules mean that we can only spend as much as the club can generate itself - mainly why we're touring in the summer now to try and raise our fanbase level abroad so as to to gain more followers and income through new sales . . . For us, being owned by an oil rich nation hasn't meant a lot, as we're caught by the FPP, so all they've been able to do with some of their money is to upgrade SJP a bit, and almost renew the training ground that Ashley allowed to fall into almost a pitiful ruin due to no investment in it . . . All we soon heard from other supporters, was that we had all of this oil money now - and yet the 1st season had most of the old team playing in it under Eddy . . . again, transfer-wise up to date, sales of players and bringing in new ones who have not cost the earth is paying us dividends really . . . For us as a team at the moment, all we can do is to rely on management and the players to do their best to keep us high in the PL until our revenues through various sale areas and larger fanbase worldwide allow us to expand higher team wise . . . But honestly, due to how it has been and some very wise buys, I would say we're certainly not doing too bad against the same largest spenders in the PL at the moment, m8 . . .

[@justinchetham-strode5234]

@@KGardner01010 Short term, this is an irritating obstacle that Newcastle face, but it could turn out well in the long term. Time will tell, but I think Newcastle have a big future in store.

[@Stevieb333]

​@@KGardner01010well said mate.👏👏🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍

[@Alison-du2jf]

Transfer fees are reaching a ridiculous level. Players wages are also very high and I agree with introducing a system to cap overall spending levels. Ticket prices are higher now too.

[@F11BAR84]

Personally not a big football fan, but love learning about it and seeing what has been done in Wrexham and all the good things that come from it. Thank you for the video. 😊

[@hotmechanic222]

17:43 those figures aren't the salaries of the player but just the transfer fee paid to his old club so they will "transfer" him to their club so he can play for them now, the salaries would be negotiated separately

[@christineharris4146]

When I was a teenager I went to most Nottingham Forest matches. Had a red and white scarf with the team members names embroidered in it and of course had my wooden rattle. You couldn’t do that now, the players are changing too often and I couldn’t afford the inflated prices to get in anyway. Money has taken over and it’s more a business now than sport . It’s so sad and very unfair to the smaller clubs.

[@Codex7777]

The current transfer record, for a single player is $222 million. Decent players, in the Premier League now cost £50m+ and for top players, transfrer fees now regularly sit close to £100m. With fees in excess of £100m, for a single player, now becoming fairly commonplace

[@MrMarkg9]

Watford fan here. The club with the first celebrity owner..Elton John ! He is still an active fan, and lifelong President. Attending games when possible.

[@dbasher9974]

Haven’t seen anyone else explain the transfer fees, so here goes; If a players ‘costs £80million’ that is to buy him out of his contract with his original club. The new club then has to agree a contract with him. Between 3-5 years is most common. At that point, they ‘own’ the player. In the future, they can then agree another contract with him or choose to sell him on again. The longer the contract length, the more costly it is usually for a new club to buy them out of the contract. So player X is bought for £80m, signs a 5 year contract with his new club for £20m a year (for a more extreme example), bringing the the total spending on that one player to £80m+ 5*£20m=£180m over 5 years

[@AndyMarshall-p1s]

I am a Leeds fan and so far the 49rs are doing a good job at my club, they have my support for the job they are doing, we are fortunate to have owners that seem to understand what the club means to the fans and believe as a fan base we have driven bad owners out before because you can't own the fans and the club is the fans

[@Thee_Penguin]

I'm an arsenal fan and our owner is Stan kreonke.... owner of the LA Rams Manchester City & Chelsea are known as 'oil clubs', Newcastle is now also on that list.

[@Alexm0321]

Yeah Absolutely no oil money from The team that plays in the Emirates stadium

[@iainmelville9411]

I love the passion you guys have for European football. Your the best,❤,❤.

[@malcolmlarsen4363]

Love your work ladies.

[@kimbirch1202]

Before the Premier League, English players would often go abroad to play for wealthy foreign clubs, like Real Madrid, Juventus, Milan etc. So, football has been driven by money everywhere for a long time.

[@jkpole]

I learned a lot too..... THANK YOU BOTH .... the money needs to be shared out between the lower clubs

[@lewyleedsdude]

Those fees mentioned that Chelsea paid for players are not the players salaries. They are the transfer fees, which is the fee Chelsea pays to the other club to buy the player. The salary is completely separate

[@ASUTASTUD]

Heres an example for you ladies. A world cup winner in the 1966 world cup for England actually works in a fish & chips shop. This player helped bring home the world cup for England yet because wages were different back then and he played football all his younger life had no other work experience or trade had to serve food to people. A England legend. Does that seem fair?...

[@bobclarke1815]

In Formula 1 they set a spending limit.

[@MikeyBrum]

My club Birmingham City are in the 3rd tier of English football having recently been purchased by wealthy Americans that include the GOAT Tom Brady. Even at my club they have plans to build a new stadium complex at £3-5 Billion. Player salaries in the top tier are ridiculous, many earning £200,000 + per week!! Germany has the best model. Up the Blues.

[@simonoakley5102]

Our club owner is American,, he has done a great job ..well his father did great job .. sons just took over because sadly his father passed away .

[@dreadmoose76]

Thank you both....I wouldn't have known how messed up the UK football industry is without following your channel! I am shocked and really a bit horrified. I suspect a lot of that money is from illegal or, at the very least, dubious sources. None of that money is being taxed properly because it is being channeled through offshore banks...gosh! I had no idea!

[@julianhughes6511]

"Shut the front door!" I'd never heard this expression before. Thank you so much. I'm going to try it out here in England and when people ask me what the eff I'm talking about I'm going to tell them to shut the front door....or something similar...

[@Therelegationzone]

I’m English and I thought that was a very common saying?

[@alpey8487]

Transfers in football aren’t the same as the US. The clubs own the players so the transfer fees of say 100m are the fee they pay the club to buy that player. Wages are seperate and are typically stated on a weekly basis. Enzo Fernandez who was bought by Chelsea for 120m is probably on a salary of £150k a week and I think he’s on a 7 year contract. Profit and sustianability rules now mean clubs can spend a % of total annualised revenue over a 3 year period on player and staff costs. This doesn’t help lower revenue teams that much as it’s even more difficult to break into the top as they have lower revenue to begin with.

[@Really-hx7rl]

Well Bournemouth is juat a small seaside town on the South Coast of England and yet we still managed to get into the Premier League Everyone thought we would be a 5 min wonder ....Hpw wrong they were!

[@craigchadwick839]

One thing to add, is that the English 2nd tier (Championship) is the 4th Richest league in Europe generating more money than most other European top leagues. As a Leeds United fan I am more than happy with the 49ers "Enterprises" buying the club. Individual sports stars & film stars are investing in the club via that route.

[@ianharvey8025]

3.2 billion people watch the Premier league every week on earth. That's half of humanity! It is a monster

[@AANDYist]

lmao say no to drugs

[@solidsteel3634]

And all are disappointed that not a single team reached the CL quaterfinals 😂

[@davidmcc8727]

@@solidsteel3634for this season look at earlier years

[@BogusDudeGW]

you need to give your head a good shake if you believe that LMAO

[@theevilmrfry]

Thats how many people would be ABLE to watch a match should they wish to...the TV broadcasting rights are sold to approximately half the people on Earth, and around 800m homes WILL watch some premier league football per weekend, an incredible number.

[@Rob_Infinity3]

For a long time. My team, Aston Villa had a British owner. They then sold the club to an American businessman who at the time owned MBNA and Cleveland Browns. But it was a bit of a disaster and he seemingly lost interest in owning the team. He then sold Villa to a Chinese businessman who was somehow even worse. He almost ran the club into the ground. But then Villa were saved from going under by two more businessmen, who bought the club and resurrected it both on and off the pitch. One of them is an American who is one of the owners of Milwaukee Bucks and the other is sn Egyptian man. So there have been bad and good experiences with foreign owners at Aston Villa. But the current owners are doing a great job and the team is on a great but steady trajectory at the moment. As long as they are legitimate and truly care. I have nothing against foreign ownership.

[@NOKK72]

I'm a Chelsea fan and Todd Boehly has ruined Chelsea. It's an embarrassment. It has really upset me to see Chelsea end up in the mess that they are in after so much success in the last 20 years. Boehly has no idea about English football. American "business men" should stay away from our game unless they are a true fan of the club they are taking over or at least keep the staff that are already at the club and not get rid of staff that have been at the club for decades.

[@catieburnside3751]

Chelsea (I have been a fan since 1970) were a stable club until the U.K. Government sanctioned our owner forcing the sale of the club. The new owners don’t know anything about English football and are making huge mistakes. The fans are the ones who are suffering.

[@justinchetham-strode5234]

Chelsea since 1966, and I've seen so many ups and downs over the years, but the last 20 years have been crazy ! To be fair, Abramovic was also crazy, look how many coaches he hired and fired, changing direction every couple of seasons - but somehow, amassing an amazing amount of siverware. We now have crazy American owners, who have tried to change too much too quickly, and have spent enormous sums of money haphazardly (how many wide players do Chelsea have on the books?). There is plenty of talent at the club, but even if the coach does galvanise them and forge a successful team, will the owners support or undermine him with their transfer policies? And will Chelsea manage to balance their books in time to avoid serious penalties for breaking the FFP rules?

[@LForbes95]

I support Huddersfield town and have seen them promoted up into championship then into premier league and then back down to championship and this season back out of championship again. We won Premier league in 1924, 25 and 26 but when we finally managed to be promoted in the 21st century we only managed to stay 2 seasons. It's almost impossible now for smaller clubs to be promoted and stay up in Premier league

[@mattbaker3797]

The Premier League is the best league in the world but you’re right. It makes it impossible to compete if you’re one of the small clubs. My team , Derby County, were Division 1 (the old version of the Premier League) champions twice in the 1970s but I’m afraid that now being able to compete in the Premier league is just a pipe dream. I have friends who support smaller clubs who were in line to be promoted last season and they were saying they actually wanted to stay in The Championship which is the second tier of English Football because they didn’t want to go and see their team get beaten every week.

[@justinchetham-strode5234]

If I may make a suggestion for you to watch, try Jeremy Clarkson's VC documentary, on what it takes to win Britain's highest military medal. It is simply staggering, your jaws will drop, and you'll be hitting the pause button constantly, trying to digest what you've just seen and heard. If you haven't already seen it, give it a try, there are some truly astonishing acts of heroism that weren't considered worthy of the highest award. Apart from that, I've watched a number of your shows now, and know you seem to have an interest in military stories and in British culture in general. I'm British, and I enjoy your shows, keep it up !

[@86wellacre]

Money talks in this world. Definitely within this sport.

[@mcmiller555]

Your the first Americans I've seen actually call it football ⚽️ subbed just for that lol 😆 😂

[@Jo.Math.Richar]

The whole system needs revised. As a Wolves supporter I’d love to see money ploughed into the team however this isn’t happening right now and instead ticket and shirt prices are going up and the fans are suffering!

[@DerkHat]

It's not impossible for smaller clubs to compete, but they still need substantial investment. Leicester City won the Premier League, and relegated a few seasons after, but even they had a multimillionaire owner (admittedly much much less wealthy than Sheikh Mansour).

[@carolineskipper6976]

And they are back up again after one season.

[@woooster17]

As a die hard Chelsea fan.. we haven’t always had money, or spent money like that.. Early 2000’s started with the Abramovich era. I’ve been a fan since we were the late 70s.. The golden era for me was at the start of the Ruud Gullit and Gianluca Vialli.. true glory days 💙 Football is much better today compared to the dark 70s/80s era.. I’ve taken my kids to Stamford Bridge a few times. They loved it

[@JungleTunes94]

I really liked that late 90s Chelsea team, Zola was of my faves but as a neutral it went too far after 2000. They were playing fantasy football

[@inaxaaji1935]

Shut the front door 🚪 😂😂😂

[@Mlreau]

Same thing with the UK film industry - Thatcher removed the restrictions on foreign films. Total deregulation. Around the mid 80s the former UK Hollywood died in terms of original British films production French retain the same restrictions protectionism against foreign cinema they've always had to this day.

[@anotherother]

Course John Harkes the former Cincin. coach played for Sheffield Wednesday so he just swapped industrial cities on 7 hills.He swapped Eccy Road for Hatch Street

[@anotherother]

Had family live up on Hatch St. I used to go a wandering over the Roebling bridge ,Over the Rhine etc.I took my cousins child to.see Wednesday he's a Wisconsin Badgers fan. They moved to St Louis for a few years...not my favourite...no,Graeters ice cream in those days

[@nicholasperry619]

This video is not saying how all this started. European clubs mainly Spanish started paying certain stars ( top espanic players) huge weekly wages. The wages race started in Spain.

[@neilbiggs1353]

The two clubs also had a very lopsided domestic TV deal. The ratio from the top club to the bottom in the PL is

[@josiebridle1947]

Due to the different FA regulations between league & non-league clubs, some non-league clubs decline to be promoted as they can't afford to upgrade their grounds & facilities.

[@nikandjb1]

I enjoyed watching FC Cincinnati when they were in the USL and I'm happy they're in the MLS now. My own team, Derby County, almost died trying to get into the Premier league, and we're only just back in the championship. There's a lot of 'sports washing' by dubious owners in the premier league and I think that there needs to be a lot more regulation about who can own a football club. I'm enjoying what Rob and Ryan are doing at Wrexham but they will need a lot more money to get into the premier league.

[@Stand663]

The British don’t use euros. The commentator keeps using the term euros.

[@AlBarzUK]

They do when they’re buying players. 🤗

[@silveraudi2]

If an English club buys players from one of the other Top 5 leagues (Germany, France, Italy, Spain) they buy in Euros.

[@lordprefab5534]

​@@Stand663it is for buying players .

[@nari5025]

In Germany Sports clubs are historically community clubs governed by the community. The law about those is more 'lax' because they are usually not professional 'players'. But when your revenue reaches millions that had to change eventually, so your professional football club is now a business company but has to be majority owned by the original sports club still. Billionaire investors hate this trick. (It's not that they are blocked by law, they just don't get majority rule, which... yeah exactly) Other countries, esp. England had patronage owners from the start afaik, so I can understand the different attitude there. It also doesn't help to change the European Cup rules every so often (There are 3, not just the Champion's League). Sure, more games generate more revenue, but giving clubs more games will also reduce the nuber of 'upsets' that are bound to happen sometimes in football, and, well... you know who will win again.

[@markdermody9698]

Nottingham Forest are my local Club and despite my Dad supporting Notts County, I decided to support the other local Nottingham Club in Nottingham Forest! However, like many children do, I also followed clubs from many other European Countries too therefore from when I was just 8 years old I have also supported all the following Clubs too; In Scotland I support Celtic, In The Netherlands I support Ajax, in France I support St. Etienne, in Germany I follow Borussia Monchengladbach, in Belgium I follow Anderlecht, in Italy I Support Juventus, in Spain I support Barcelona but also have a soft spot for the small club Girona who are also based just outside the city of Barcelona, in Portugal I support Benfica and in the USA I now Support Inter Miami from the Eastern Conference and LAFC from the Western Conference. Though when I was a young child, I liked Now York Cosmos as they were the only team I had heard of at the time and that was through my Dad having worked over in New York for 6 weeks in the 1970's for the Parent Company for whom he worked here in the UK! Great show as ever Girls, keep up the great show!

[@GlennDouglas-kr8lb]

One of the biggest problems is that only a few clubs can have success and the American / Arab money invested in clubs are all chasing limited opportunities. I feel lucky my club Brighton is financially stable and owned by a local man who is a supporter.

[@BG_MKY]

I actually played at the cincinnati stadium when I played for Chicago fire academy and I have to say the mps stadiums are elite . Atmosphere isn't there but the stadiums are unreal

[@jamielindsay1506]

It's always fascinating to get your views on our Premier League. Like most things, the rich have taken over and changed the landscape. We'll see how Man City get on when they face those 115 charges. Will you be watching the England match today? See you tomorrow!

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

City will be cleared as the premier league has nothing.

[@jamielindsay1506]

@@mancuniangamecat8288 But surely when you are charged with something there is evidence of wrongdoing?

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

​@@jamielindsay1506uefa couldn't prove it but you think the premier league can.

[@barbieblacksheep8440]

True British Football was always about local lads, playing proudly for their local team... once it became about money and best players from who knows where I lost interest... RIP Football 1992 !!!...

[@ChefKeyBrien]

They aren't salaries.. those are simply transfer fee's the club then also provides the player a weekly wage which can be anywhere from 20-50K up to 200-350K depending on how good the player

[@karazor-el9596]

Since getting relegated gets you a 100m payout it's more beneficial to try a reach the PL just to get relegated and collect the payout then do the same season after season there's a reason promoted and relegated teams are almost always the same teams

[@manlikemark9641]

When your outside of the premier league, like my club Charlton are, we see no money. We lose £8 million a season.

[@skillspronto3401]

As a pompey fan (Portsmouth) the administraton was the worst time of my life not knowing whether or not you had a club the next day, at one point Portsmouth was in such financial distress that it got bought for £1, come 2014 the fans bought the club after years of sanctions and poor owners we became the largest fan-owned club in europe, 2016 we won the 4th tier title and the 16/17 season we got bought out by billionaire ex ceo of disney michael eisner. personally this money has damaged the sport but its helped develop youth attention etc. only issue is fans are outpriced

[@WWitchHazel]

Football was known as "the working mans sport". Everyone could afford to go to weekly matches, the players were ordinary people working normal jobs during the week. But as like everything else, money changed it, and not for the better. Its now obscene, greedy, and the general working man can barely afford to watch their beloved local team anymore, or watch it on normal TV

[@russellbradley454]

Too many glory hunters following successful teams instead of their local sides

[@cfp8872]

On a more positive note Ipswich Town one of the founding clubs of the Premier League have been promoted back after an absence of 22 years. Struggling two leagues below the Premier League they were bought by Americans who were looking for a club with significant history and potential to play in the Premiership. Essentially majority owned by an Arizona Public Service Pension fund they appointed a brilliant new Chief Executive and a young Manager who had been an assistant at Manchester United. The next year (2023) they were promoted to the Championship and this year after only one year in the Championship they have been promoted back to the Premiership. A fairytale thanks to ethical new American ownership. Follow the ‘ Tractor Boys’ when the League kicks off the new season in August albeit with the finances and story outlined in your VLOG they will do well just to avoid relegation. COYB ( come on you blues).

[@lenwilcock3937]

"The Premiership" is a Rugby competition ffs.

[@jasonsmithgooner]

My team Arsenal is owned by Stan kroenke whose family own Walmart, and many sports franchises in the states.

[@captainadams8565]

Stan Kroenke doesn't like sports, he likes money. He has now given the club over to his son.

[@jonathanvince8173]

Don't forget Spain had at one time the most expensive players in the world including Cristiano Ronaldo who was not a team player as Manchester united found out Twice. Tickets are expensive.

[@joshualiley]

The reality is it's not fair for local fans either. Money is taking over everything. This year's Champions League final was not available on free to air TV or streaming (legally) for the first time in I don't know how long. Fans are getting priced out of the game. The only saving grace for that is that more and more fans are going to support their local non-league clubs, who are struggling financially themselves especially due to the increasing costs (and especially reduced revenue during covid). Last year, the EFL Championship, England's second tier, was the world's 2nd most attended football league, behind only the English Premier League. The Championship certainly isn't amateur, but if that doesn't tell you the quality and interest in English football, I don't know what will.

[@simonoakley5102]

How much does yr football tops cost to buy ? In usa that is

[@SJG-nr8uj]

The Premier League's wealth came in stages. Firstly, the Football League was the first and oldest, formed in 1888, so we had a head start, with fanatical fans from early years of the competition. Secondly, freedom of contract in 1978 meant that players could move to the wealthiest clubs to maximise their earnings, and smaller clubs therefore had no real control over their star players and their careers. Thirdly, and most importantly, when satellite TV appeared in the Eighties, the companies like Sky needed material that was cheap to produce and with mass popular appeal to bring in revenue and fill their schedules. They chose football, and conspired with the biggest clubs to break away from the Football League and form the Premier League, which meant that the clubs therein would keep all the TV revenue for themselves (the Football League had been redistributing it down the divisions). That, and not the disasters, was the main catalyst. The Premier League clubs were so scared of getting relegated that they had to keep scouring the world for the best talent they could find, and the majority of the clubs' revenues now goes to the players. Several clubs that have been relegated have nearly gone out of business: Wimbledon, Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth etc.. Oldham Athletic, founder members of the Premier League, are now in the fifth League down, the National League. There is a saying among football club owners: "How to make a small fortune in football? Start with a large fortune."

[@TomClarkSouthLondon]

*The CRYSTAL PALACE football club! was saved from extinction by it’s own fans. A club that was founded 1861, played in the first ever FA cup competition, and a founder member of the Football Association.*

[@eddhardy1054]

​@@TomClarkSouthLondon But not to be confused with the current Crystal Palace FC which was founded in 1905 and had absolutely no connection to the Crystal Palace FC of 1861...except the name.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@TomClarkSouthLondon But not of the Football League. It joined the League in 1920

[@TomClarkSouthLondon]

*the CRYSTAL PALACE football club! since 1861* ❤️👍

[@Scottthewholeworld]

So, here's the thing about investment in football; it means nothing if the manager/ coach is terrible. At Man City, it looks like they 'bought' the leagues in all that time by just buying great players. Look at Chelsea, look at UNited. Spent more than City as a net spend, yielding not very good results. Leicester and, before that, Blackburn bucked the trend by having amazing coaches with their teams. At City, yes, the resource is there, but they happen to have an AMAZING coach as well.

[@PhilK84]

Just seen this and I’d just say compared to the other leagues it’s better tan in terms off the tv right deals, the guy mentioned it saying in England tv revenue is split almost equally so each team can grow depending on their placed finish, if Europe would adopt this method their leagues would get better