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Has thè extra money in the prem inceased the gap between top and bottom?

Lilbaz

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Just a random thought from me, but has it? I remember stoke being an absolute pain to play against. Then Hughes took over, spent money and they tried to play against us. We destroyed them. With the extra money are the smaller teams trying to buy players to play positive fotball rather than 10 behind the ball and try to nick something?

Honestly, mostly watch spurs so there might be some dier football out there that isn't played by man utd. But the divide from top to bottom seems bigger thàn ever, even though there is more money than ever for smaller teams.

Thought?
 

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Just a random thought from me, but has it? I remember stoke being an absolute pain to play against. Then Hughes took over, spent money and they tried to play against us. We destroyed them. With the extra money are the smaller teams trying to buy players to play positive fotball rather than 10 behind the ball and try to nick something?

Honestly, mostly watch spurs so there might be some dier football out there that isn't played by man utd. But the divide from top to bottom seems bigger thàn ever, even though there is more money than ever for smaller teams.

Thought?
How do explain a team is sitting in 3rd place that has spent no money?
 

Lilbaz

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How do explain a team is sitting in 3rd place that has spent no money?

Not sure i understand your point. I'm talking about the smaller teams getting more money and spending it on more flamboyant players but suffering result wise. Where you had the wba's, hulls etc... willing to defend for 90 mins you are getting fulhams spending £100m and getting ripped apart.

40 points was regarded as the safe zon for relegation. The bottom 3 teams this season will be lucky to get 30.
 
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nailsy

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There were always teams getting ripped apart though. There's definitely a bigger gap between the top six and the other side's but that's as much to do with the owners as the TV money. And the managers. With the odd exception most of the bottom sides are at a similar level these days which is probably why we're seeing lower point totals as they can all beat each other, but they can't beat the teams higher up the table. In the old days there were probably six games a season that the smaller teams would expect to lose. These days there's probably ten or twelve matches that they write-off before the season even starts.
 
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