Rory Smith
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first heard Apr 2026
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That that the club's basically driven by the
the the Champions League five, I suppose, that they have basically looked at it and thought, Well, we're no longer hidebound by this need to not make losses.
We can just cut loose and do what we like.
The the the part of S C R that wasn't passed by the Premier League was the bit w that would anchor it as a by a factor of one point eight or whatever to the bottom club, which a which would effectively have put a cap on spending, even for the richest team.
That bit didn't get through.
So now what you have is a this sort of kind of supercharged market where the big teams can basically do what they want.
As long as they
kind of keep some money rolling in to offset a bit of it from sales.
Yeah, and even then you could take it as a luxury tax, which is not unfamiliar to people in in US sport.
The the other thing I'd say
Oh, I'd I'd ask you.
You mentioned revenues are going up, which I it is obviously true.
They cannot possibly, even for the like the big clubs, be done at up at the rate of football inflation.
Because you're looking at if suddenly ten of it's seventy, eighty million quid for a
pretty bod standard right winger.
That is th that is a factor of you know, it's that maybe not quite doubled from a couple of years ago, but it's not far off.
That for most clubs, their revenues are not going up that way.
So is that just kind of an an inflationary spiral that prices at the top are driving that and everyone's kind of saying, Okay, well we'll have to pay that to keep up, or is there something else at play?
that's the that's the bit that I find baffling is that y y you can say the the big club's revenues have gone up to six, seven hundred million twiddy a a year.
But as a percentage of those revenues, the amount that these deals are costing is much higher because they're doing multiples of them.
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