Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
Football clubs are business first and foremost and if you have to constantly bail out a business because it cant function on its own. then that cant last. Again 92 professional clubs is way way too much and no country has close to those numbers. Some of these clubs need to become semi professional. Every other country function with way less professional clubs and they produce enough young playersWhy? Most football clubs were started in a different era where wealth and economy were not so centralised and urban. Rising income and wealth inequality along with movement of industry away from the small towns and villages to the large cities is a phenomenon outside the world of football. As such the small towns that are victims of this will also struggle to support their teams financially.
If football can find a way to not be totally under the sway of the rising inequality we find ourselves in then I say that's a good thing.
These clubs are important cultural and societal things that can help support and hold communities together. I'd argue this is a wonderful idea (the redistribution of money bit).
The PL is a microcosm of all wrong with capitalism. It concentrates power and wealth with a few who were lucky enough to have success in an industry at the right time.