Gab & Juls: Are Chelsea following the rules?
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Gab, he's Jules Bliskeyes over West London, blue is still after Chelsea spent all that |
| 0:10.6 | party in the transfer window, we'll be getting into that one, we'll be getting into some |
| 0:13.8 | of the broader issues the people raised about, oh the Premier League destroyed the transfer |
| 0:18.2 | market for everybody, user sounds coming out of Italy and Spain, and of course, but |
| 0:23.2 | there's so much else going on because we have a league cup finalists, Newcastle and |
| 0:26.5 | Manchester United, who could possibly foreseen that? Pogbet, not back, Bapé missing penalties, |
| 0:33.5 | I know, I know, Joe Cancelo, I think that's an under reported story, but let's start |
| 0:41.1 | with the window, that everybody loves quoting, like, oh they spent this much, and I think |
| 0:49.7 | we need to, first of all, absolute spend doesn't really, gross spend, you need to look at |
| 0:53.7 | that many times, we said it many times, net spend, Premier League absolutely outmossing |
| 0:59.0 | everybody, and so as a result, you have it again coming from the usual suspects in |
| 1:04.2 | Italy and Spain saying, oh you afe need to do something, we need a super league, blah, |
| 1:09.0 | blah, blah, and then when you explain, when you ask them, how would a super league fix |
| 1:13.0 | this, they're like, but, but, but, but, they don't know, no, they would get more revenue |
| 1:17.2 | which they don't get, now which Premier League clubs do, for example? |
| 1:19.5 | No, only those clubs that would be in the super league, and by the way, you know, in the |
| 1:23.8 | super league parent, six of the clubs in it, more than any other country, were Premier League |
| 1:29.7 | clubs, so they'd be getting all the extra money from the super league, and then having |
| 1:33.1 | all the extra money that they get from the Premier League. |
| 1:36.0 | I mean, I don't want to get philosophical about the buddy wheel, it's not just about money, |
| 1:44.8 | they can spend more money because they make more money, because they have bigger television |
| 1:49.0 | contracts, because they have bigger commercial deals, because whether we like it or not, |
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