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Training Ground confirmed on 01:44 - Jul 8 by DavieQPR
Wrong Benham has not put up all the money. He has sold the new Stadium to the developers and will buy it back once Griffin Park is sold. This was also done because Brentford are on track to lose £24m this season and would have been hit by FFP.
Semantics. Benham has been underwriting the whole deal from the start - how/when it's actually paid for and delivered is more of an accounting process than anything else.
Brentford FC will get their new stadium, and very soon.
As for your £24m loss, I'm not sure where you get that from (not saying it's wrong, btw), but Benham have been careful always to keep within allowable losses, both to the letter and to the spirit. So if they're moving money around from the sale of GP, it's "real" money, not some imaginary sale-and-leaseback between related companies like certsin other clubs are doing.
Anyway, what's £24m? A downpayment on Said Benrahama?
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Training Ground confirmed on 17:02 - Jul 8 with 1048 views
Training Ground confirmed on 04:54 - Jul 8 by SydneyRs
The TV money may even things out a bit between the have nots in the prem, but there is huge chasm between the top few and the rest. Even among the rest stadium size, fanbase etc then come into play. TV money is also priced into transfer fees at that level, hence the blind panic to get restarted after covid because the system would collapse without it..
I'm not convinced in the parachute argument. Look at Stoke, Reading, Hull, QPR. Top players simply don't want to be in the championship so there's a limit to what you can do and even if you have them how motivated they are. Plenty of teams have gone up without it and more, including yourselves Forest and Leeds, may do so this season. There's always teams without parachute payments in and around the playoffs.
The championship is a league where anyone can beat anyone else, the prem is not. Tough definitely, but that's partly due to the sheer number of games and the fact there not a lot of difference in quality across the division. Top two are not even averaging 2 points a game this season which is normally needed to be up there.
Re your 1st para, there is undoubtedly a chasm between the top 6 or 7 and the rest (though Leicester might claim to be able of breaking through). But Ankersen was not talking about competing with those clubs; rather he feels that even if small, a well-run club should be well capable of competing with the other 13 or 14. The emphasis is on the "well-run", which BFC aspire to be.
Re your 2nd para, granted not every club with parachute money manages it properly. But neither do they all screw it up, either. Meaning you only need 3 or 4 of them to be run even half-decently to make it hugely difficult for the "have nots" to outdo them. I mean, look at Leeds - clearly the "biggest" club in the division, but really struggling to get out of it.
Re the 3rd para, you just have to look at the number of yo yo clubs to see how uncompetitive the "have nots" are. The occasional Sheff U are clearly the exception who prove the rule.
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Training Ground confirmed on 17:23 - Jul 8 with 1004 views
Training Ground confirmed on 11:56 - Jul 7 by BazzaInTheLoft
Ironically I think that was filmed at the Army Cadet centre in White City.
That Monty Python sketch was filmed at Canberra School on the White City. Its on the right hand side of South Africa Rd going towards LR The playground is used as a car park on match days.
The "Army Cadet centre in White City". That's a Territorial Base for the Parachute Reg at the top end of South Africa Rd.
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