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EPL 2013-14; Better late than never
Topic Started: Mar 25 2014, 10:31 AM (1,227 Views)
kaatz
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I expect the 04-13 Liverpool VS Manchester city. If this game. Liverpool to victory. I think that for him the top position has been further consolidated.


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Apr 2 2014, 08:40 PM

Wenger's had a lot less money to spend than his competitors plus he tries to entertain.
He's provided me with plenty entertainment of the sadistic kind over recent years.
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kaatz
Apr 10 2014, 06:13 AM
I expect the 04-13 Liverpool VS Manchester city. If this game. Liverpool to victory. I think that for him the top position has been further consolidated.


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And anyway, if you're expecting the 04-13 Liverpool, they'll shit right all over the eggs at the final hurdle.
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Liverpool certainly putting up a good show of putting in a title challenge. Can't help but feel disappointment will come soon however.

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Cracking game that. With Chelsea to visit Anfield the title is still wide open.

Liverpool looked properly good in that match. I hope they do it.
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vvhatsthatonyourback
Apr 14 2014, 07:44 AM
Cracking game that. With Chelsea to visit Anfield the title is still wide open.

Liverpool looked properly good in that match. I hope they do it.
If there's one team who're well placed to ruin liverpools dreams, it's chelsea. They do seem to be able to upset pretty much any team through a mix of mind games and good tactics.
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Apr 14 2014, 11:13 AM
vvhatsthatonyourback
Apr 14 2014, 07:44 AM
Cracking game that. With Chelsea to visit Anfield the title is still wide open.

Liverpool looked properly good in that match. I hope they do it.
If there's one team who're well placed to ruin liverpools dreams, it's chelsea. They do seem to be able to upset pretty much any team through a mix of mind games and good tactics.
And a ridiculously expensive team...... recent signings Schurrle (£18M), Willian (£32M) and Matic (£21M) cost a combined £71M, but the media still managed to portray them as plucky outsiders when they played PSG. ^o)

You're right though Set, they're far from out of it and Mourinho's experience will see them go close of they don't win it. It's mental that Liverpool are even in the frame, though still fancy Man City or Chelsea to win it. Maybe.
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Man City slip up against Sunderland. 3 points behind if they win their game in hand.

Chelsea set up nicely 2 points behind, ready to pounce...

Must be the most interesting Top 5 for a long time.

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Moyes not quite the chosen one afterall. I guess being soundly beaten by your old team who'll finish above you in the league isn't a good sign. Or not really having much of a transfer success history as your owners are thinking of getting their chequebook out.

Good time to get rid however, a few months to sort something out, no real pressure for the remaining games, nothing really to play for.



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So it appears the financial behemoth that is the EPL continues to grow relentlessly. Clubs still don't make much profit, and all the additional revenue generation is mostly p*ssed up against the wall on player's wages, but given it's withstood a global recession with barely a hiccup and the next BT deal's still to kick-in, I can't see any decline in the power of the game Down South anytime soon... :fisted:

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The Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance has revealed that revenue of Premier League clubs has broken the £3bn mark for the first time, just four years after passing the £2bn figure.

The study also shows that English Premier League clubs were stretching the wealth gap over their European rivals, although the Bundesliga remains the most profitable championship.

In England, the profitability for Premier League clubs is affected by the rocketing wages on offer in the division. The average Premier League player earns more than £1.6 million a year.

Dan Jones, partner at Deloitte, said: ‘Once again the global appeal of the Premier League has continued to drive commercial revenue growth, particularly at the highest ranked Premier League clubs. Matchday revenue also increased by 6% with fewer unsold seats at Premier League games than ever before.’

The audit and consulting firm described the league's financial performance as a remarkable achievement in isolation, and ‘phenomenal’ given the global economic climate.

Deloitte senior sports business consultant Austin Houlihan also predicted Premier League revenues will reach £4bn for 2014/15 as extra broadcasting money is added to the English game.

In 2013/14 top flight clubs benefitted, on average, from an extra £25m in broadcast revenue.

Jones continued: ‘The entry of BT Sport into the market to compete with BSkyB has applied huge upward pressure to broadcast revenue - from the 2013/14 season onwards each domestic live game on average generates broadcast revenue of £6.5m.’

Premier League operating profits decreased slightly with clubs working on what Deloitte describes as ‘razor thin’ margins. Ballooning wage costs hit a new high, representing 71% of revenues.

These increases led to the aggregate profit falling by £2m to £82m, although 13 of the Premier League clubs made a profit in 2012/13 compared with 10 in the previous year.

Deloitte also revealed that clubs' aggregate net debt grew by £139m to a total of more than £2.5bn by summer 2013, largely driven by an increase in interest-free "soft loans" from owners of £228m.

As a result, soft loans totaled £1.6bn, up from £1.4bn a year earlier, with 90% of this figure attributable to four Premier League clubs - Chelsea, Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers – the last of which suffered relegation in the same season, but will return to the top division after a play-off victory last month.

Deloitte expects UEFA's Financial Fair Play break-even requirements to focus clubs' minds on balancing their books. Mr Jones added: ‘The signs are that most clubs are adopting a more financially robust and balanced approach to the way they run their businesses, and they must continue down this path if they are to safeguard the long term financial health of the game.’

Both the English Premier League champions Manchester City and French title winners Paris Saint Germain agreed sanctions packages with UEFA last month that will see them comply with UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules.
- See more at: http://www.sportindustry.biz/news/view/13273/deloitte%3A-premier-league-revenues-break-%C2%A33bn-mark#sthash.MA6nYio5.dpuf


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