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£900m, split equally over the 6 years, amounts to £7.5m a year for each team. However, we’d likely be receiving less than that as presumably it’d be based on league position and we wouldn’t be at the top end I wouldn’t think.
So deduct the TV money we wouldn’t be seeing, add in our additional costs (imagine it would cost the club a 7 figure sum over a season for travelling away to Europe every couple of weeks).
Best case scenario, initially, you are a few million quid better off a year. Aberdeen, for example, currently bring in a few million quid more than us each year but they’re not paying anyone £20k a week.
On McGinn, he reportedly left us for in excess of £20k a week and ended up on £60k odd a week when he signed his new contract.
Not saying it wouldn’t make us better if financially, but to think we suddenly end up paying that type of money is crazy IMO.
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17-11-2020 05:15 PM #31
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If you add in the teams from Holland and Belgium then I think it's potentially a goer but not without them. There's just not enough big name clubs in it to make it interesting.
Celtic and Rangers would also still be the biggest clubs in it and would likely be the most successful teams.Last edited by Since90+2; 17-11-2020 at 05:43 PM.
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17-11-2020 05:41 PM #33
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While there’s been endless chat about such things for years and years, does seem like some changes are starting to happen. There’s talk of Balkan and Baltic leagues as well.
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17-11-2020 05:53 PM #35
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I’m not totally dismissive of it because it’ll happen at some point in my life, whether I like it or not I think. But folk need to be realistic if they think we would have players like McGinn for longer and be paying them 20k a week because of this.
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17-11-2020 05:57 PM #36
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17-11-2020 06:02 PM #37
Playing devils advocate, a lot of people criticise or have no interest in the champions league, for example, as it’s about making the same dozen or so clubs richer and ensuring they are always in the latter rounds. Is that much different to a league based on size of clubs because we’re potentially on the inside this time and it’s ok for us to chase the money? What happens to the Scottish clubs we leave behind?
I’d be open to a proposal and would judge it on merit, but suspect I’d probably not be in favour of it or end up drifting away from Hibs once the novelty wears off.Last edited by The Modfather; 17-11-2020 at 06:06 PM.
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17-11-2020 06:07 PM #39
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I don’t think it automatically means bigger crowds, no. Winning games does that, regardless of the opposition.
Sponsorship, yes potential there I’ll give you there.
On the point of wages, it’s not a case of just giving one player £15k a week. Yes players will earn varying amounts but you can’t have a squad of players earning £3k a week with the odd player earning 5 times that. It wouldn’t work like that. Yes you’d have an increased budget but it would be spread across the squad.Last edited by B.H.F.C; 17-11-2020 at 06:09 PM.
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17-11-2020 06:19 PM #41
Personally i don't fancy it. Looking at the various leagues mentioned i can see us being mid table regularly. If we say no and the top 5 Scottish clubs say yes and move, what are we left with top of the also rans league.
If Celtic are holding back for some reason then you can bet your boots the huns will be looking at the same avenues.
I'll still be supporting the Hibs thoughLast edited by offshorehibby; 17-11-2020 at 06:22 PM.
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17-11-2020 06:47 PM #42
This stuff normally rears its head after an abysmal Scotland result that cements our underachievement as a nation at international level and we spend the next few weeks incessantly discussing the number of teams in the top league of Scottish football like that's the problem.
Maybe this chat was pre-prepared by a lazy journo in anticipation of us doing the usual over the past few weeks?
I'm a bit lukewarm about it. Hibs at Easter Road will hopefully always interest me. Pushing to be the strongest we can be within the current set up, becoming a hot bed of young players who grow into teams who punch above their weight and get properly in about the OF and start to make good progress in European football would probably be my ideal.
If this league happened then I'd like to think I wouldn't be done with football altogether. I can't say more games against moderate European opposition in a league with zero history or tradition really gets my juices flowing or represents any sort of an improvement on what we currently have. History would tell us that if we got slightly more money, rather than actually have a better team we'd end up just wasting it anyway.
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4th and 5th in Sweden last season were AIK and Norrkoping.
4th and 5th in Norway were Odd and Viking.
None of them seem more exciting than playing Hamilton to me.
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17-11-2020 06:57 PM #44
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Makes sense to me that the first year would be based on size of teams for financial reasons but then there is full opportunity to be relegated and promoted to and from the league's from then on.
I'd be keen for us to investigate something like that if it improved the standard of players and football we watch at Hibs.
Suppose you could argue that it would give us less chance of securing European cup football?
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17-11-2020 07:13 PM #46
I imagine Celtic will have been looking for some special treatment like a veto vote or something. Didn’t get it so chucked the toys out of the pram.
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I’d wager a pretty large bet that in 40 years time I’ll still be watching Hibs in a domestic Scottish league, competing with the same clubs.
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17-11-2020 08:44 PM #51
A non starter for Rangers and Celtic who would still be massive clubs compared to the rest so they wouldn't get the massive increased revenue they crave.
3rd biggest team would be Hammarby from Sweden who have average crowds of 24,000
4th AIK from Sweden who have average crowds of 19,000
Then you have Hibs & Hearts 5th & 6th after that.
So a non starter
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There's probably somebody somewhere talking about TV revenues as if it will attract all sorts of new people to watch this interesting new league - which it wouldn't really, other than the folk who might have gone to an away game who then couldn't because it is too far away and in a really expensive country.
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Celtic & Rangers will forever have their noses against the English Premiership window but will never be allowed inLast edited by CMurdoch; 17-11-2020 at 08:57 PM.
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The only way some sort of change doesn’t come is if the owners of these clubs suddenly develop an emotional attachment to their domestic leagues.
The reason Celtic will have gone cold on this for now is only because they think it’s not quite big enough a market for them and they think there is a bigger move out there for them. Either way, change is on the way.
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The ones "left behind" so to speak would argue that it would leave a gap in revenue between the top and 2nd leagues far too great, maybe some would need to trickle down the league's a bit more to make it work? Not sure how it would work tbh but would need to address these kind of issues otherwise it should be a non starter
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Scotland has a tv market of 5m but how many will watch Hamilton v St Johnstone?
How many of the 25m potential viewers are going to want to watch Viking Stavanger against whatever crappy Irish team was being invited to the Atlantic league? Not many is my guess.
There will be loads who’ll watch the Old Firm game, but there already is.
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