Thursday, September 15, 2005
Murray's mint
Another excellent article from one of this weeks papers here
- could all this exposure be because we are playing Chelsea in a top of the table clash of the 100%'ers at the weekend??? Probably...
The Independent writer has a nice chat with our esteemed Chairman - Richard Murray - and discusses the inequalities in footballs Premiership finances. Interesting to see that Murray says Charlton have had a wage cap of £10,000 a week in the past. How far back he doesn't say but I'd be surprised if contracts signed by Parker (just six months before he left), Euell, Johansson, Kinsella, Kiely, etc were not for a lot more than this figure.
The comparisons between Chelsea's transfer outlay and ours is open to doubt, but the turnover figures will be accurate as they will come from published accounts.
Bearing in mind New York Addict's post earlier in the week where the question of Sky TV money was raised, and the problems it has caused longer term, Murray has an interesting slant on how he thinks the TV money should be split. Were this to be so, then we would definitely have a more competitive league in which to ply our trade.
There really is so much inequality with the top four most seasons getting huge chunks of Champions league money to go along with their finishing place and facilities fees that unless something is done soon, we will never have new Champions in this country ever again....
