Hello and welcome to the Price of Football, the show that looks at the money behind the

beautiful game and there's just brought two genuine tier-stained tissues from Leonardo

Messi on eBay. I'm Kevin Day, laughing boy in the background, he's a Liverpool University

Kiran McGuire, I hope they're genuine tissues, I'm getting a bit worried at Leonardo

Messi PSG Spain maybe a chance or he's only got 96 followers. What an emotional farewell

well, the billionaire Leonardo Messi paid to the club that made him a billionaire, he went

to the club that all make him another billionaire, how odd that he's always wanted to play for

PSG, anyway. Now Kiran, we were so intrigued about a recent mention of Channel Islands football

from the pod that we arranged to speak to Ian Horswell, whose chief executive of combined

the Counties football league side Jersey Bulls there in the ninth level of the English

Pyramid, the first Jersey club to be in the English Pyramid and we had a very very interesting

and somewhat eye-opening chat with Ian which is coming up. Before that interview we

have some news and Kiran, you've been indulging in your favourite pastime, you've been number

crunching the Premier League's finances?

Yes, I have because now that we have a full complement of accounts, it's that time of

the year where I start designing the next set of price of football top trump scads. Those

went down well last year. Nobody wants any of last years.

Oh, yeah. Actually, I have to say they're very comfortable, I'm sitting on a pile of them

as we speak. Just to sort of see the first impact of Covid as far as the Premier League as

a whole was concerned. Even though Covid only started in March and therefore it impacted

upon the last few games of the season, it was still quite substantial. Overall, 633

million pounds less was generated in 2019-20 compared to the previous season. That's the

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