Arsenal’s £65M rejected bid for Brighton’s 21-year-old midfielder Caicedo gives some idea of the different planets between the Scottish Premiership and the English Premier League.
Ok, so we already knew the realities of the top flight down south and our own division were completely at odds, but that a team as small as Brighton and Hove Albion can now command around £80M+ for a 21-year-old player gives some context to the £23M or so that Rangers got for our star man back then Calvin Bassey.
We already know the numbers in England dwarf our own, but you only have to look at Newcastle spending £45M on Everton’s Anthony Gordon (who doesn’t even have an England cap and his stats aren’t that great either) to grasp the completely different ball game in England compared with Scotland.
Ok, true, we’re a nation of 6M people, and England approach 45M, but the Sky money in the early 90s really has made a true freak of a league down there where numbers have gone completely out of control.
That a diddy team the size of Brighton are realistically to expect around £100M for a player while a team as big as Rangers can’t even expect a quarter of that for their star man gives a rather grim reflection of the status of England’s big league compared with our own.
Yes, this is not news, yes, we know England is night and day with the SPL, but the offset seems staggeringly more exaggerated than ever before, highlighted by Spurs demanding £10M a year for a tiny advert on their arm while the SPFL could only get less than three times that for a sponsorship covering all four divisions.
And while Rangers negotiate with Swansea and Liege respectively over a matter of a few hundred thousand, Arsenal are throwing nearly £100M at Brighton for a 21-year-old kid. True, he’s a player, and has 30 caps for Ecuador, but it’s still utterly insane money.
Rangers will always be restricted by the walls of Scotland, but the numbers explosion in England shows just where we could be now if we could just shift south…
As I said in an earlier post these small measures could be critical in winning or losing a cup or two . It’s also doesn’t begin the re build we need across the whole team . Goal CH RB and striker we shouldn’t be playing this much catch up with the rotten mob again . Not happy with our business, Cantwell exception .
Disgusting the corruption in football all over the world 🌎 especially the English Premier league.over rated and over payed prima Donna’s.with gangster Arabs and billionaires filtering dirty money through clubs.football is finished.
engerlish football sold out for money,took anything we had away from us,the amount of money sky bt etc is scandalous.engerland owned by foreign owner’s, with foreign manager’s and foreign mercenaries.the name’s on their doors are the only thing engerlish about them.
The people that run our game have a lot to answer for they except the first offer that comes in for the TV rights yet we have the Old Firm one of the biggest Derby’s in world football the people in charge just don’t know how to sell our game . Also the league set up is so boring playing each other 4 times 42 clubs in Scottish football is just to many everything about our game is wrong , empty stadiums , ticket pricing , winter shut downs , the split , astro turf pitches in the Premier league all wrong it all needs ripped up & starting again .
The walls of Scotland…
What?
Your talking as if we’re isolated away from Europe and all other countries leagues are interlinked.
Scotlands problem is the SFA and their inability to negotiate even the most basic tv contract.
Years of establishment corruption is Scotlands problem.
Albanias TV deal is worth 5 x ours.
Let that sink in.
Let’s rinse them from the face of Scottish football.
We bit out on you’re populations, England has 55 million and scotland is nearer to 5 million.
That’s because Scotland is getting ripped off by Sky ,the people of Scotland pay the same as England to watch it if that’s the case every club should get a share and not just the spoilt English premiership
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