Adam Crafton

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Was this the summer the Premier League ate itself? · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, it's, you know, as as we just said, it is on average four times higher than what we were seeing, you know, just a couple of years ago over an extended period of time.

I think that that tells us a few things.

I think it tells us that the league is no longer scared to trade with each other.

You know, the idea of Chelsea selling one of their best players to Manchester City direct rival a few years ago probably would have scared

Many fans and maybe it still does, but certainly coaches and executives a lot more than it seems to do now.

But I think more than anything, it tells us there isn't a market anymore outside of the Premier League.

There is a lack of clubs with the money to actually be able to do these deals anymore.

So outside of Bayern Munich, PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona, maybe certain summers athletics.

Madrid or Dortmund if they've made a big sale, a random one, sometimes like a Galatasserai.

there is a real lack of competitive tension in the market, which means these clubs can now only sell to each other, which, you know, means that all of that that big Premier League TV money ends up swishing around within the Premier League, or at least a big portion of it, instead of going to the rest of Europe.

Yes, though actually since then I've slightly reconsidered whether it's a disaster and whether it's actually more of a mild disaster.

I think it is in the sense of th the money is contained in the Premier League.

What the the advantage of it though is maybe it means that some of these teams are actually able to now keep hold of their players as well.

So they're not being gutted of their best players, which gives them a more of a stability.

and a continuity, which could then give them an advantage.

So if you are

You know, uh clubs like Juventus into Milan, AC Milan.

Como you know, Como got into the Champions League this year and haven't really lost so many players, which I think is a good reflection of, you know, clearly that they are well capitalised as a club, but also that they're able to keep hold of players mostly because the Premier League has decided it it it maybe it doesn't fully trust, you know, players from from other from other leagues in quite the same way.

So I I suppose that's one advantage of it.

I think there is a downside for sure for for the rest of Europe in that

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