Adam Crafton
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3,592 appearances
27 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Sep
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But I was I was just working it out last night, it took quite a long time.
For Premier League teams spending
On players registered to Premier League clubs last season.
So that includes players like Mateus Fernandez from West Ham and Gomez from Wolves, Sevilla.
That spending is now at over $1.4 billion by Premier League clubs on players who played in the Premier League last season.
Right?
So that's almost $2 billion.
That's going to be over $2 billion by the end of this window.
Just washing around the Premier League.
Now, what is the impact of that on the rest of Europe where the TV deals are a lot smaller, where there isn't that capital injection being given by owners?
That's a lot of money being kept basically in the Premier League.
Now, I don't know if that's a deliberate strategy by Premier League owners to try and keep as much money as possible within its league to retain the strength of the league, whether it's merely competing.
coincidence.
I'm not getting into sort of conspiracy realms here, but that is gonna give the Premier League a big competitive advantage, not only you know, for this year, but the years going on.
I don't I don't know.
Matt, has anyone that you've spoken to said this is intentional?
by the Premier League or it's just the trend that is happening?
and I don't know if it's just
You know, we've seen sort of some big bets in the last few years by some of the some of the big clubs on kind you know, Tottenham spent a lot of money in Serie A, didn't they, when Par when Paratici was particularly prevalent, didn't really work.
Man United spent a lot of money on the Dutch market when Eric Ten Hag was there, didn't really work.
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