Andy Holt, the chairman of Accrington Stanley, made reference to Leeds United in a tirade on the Premier League financing deal for EFL clubs.
Despite a £900 million agreement being struck, BBC Sport said on its website on Friday, February 9 that the top-flight teams were “not in a position” to clinch a deal with the EFL because of disagreements over where the money should come from.
In response to the news on Twitter on Saturday, February 10, Accrington CEO Holt stated that the 14 non-permanent Premier League members are preventing the deal from going through. However, he also said that it is “mind-blowing” that the “big-six” were permitted to exploit the FA and EFL when the league was restructured in 1992.
In his argument, he questioned why Burnley should get a vote on the “future of our game” if Leeds and other Premier League teams do not. The 14 former clubs have an average tenure of 13 years in the top division. He claimed that they should be considered as equals.
Leeds United should get a say on the issue
Because certain Premier League teams are preventing a deal to support the EFL from happening, this is a really problematic situation.
Those elite teams, who earn enormous sums of money annually, owe it to the teams below them to support the teams that helped create the current English football pyramid.
This is by far the greatest league in the world, but the extreme greed at the top may finally spell the end for football in this nation as we know it.
Holt is correct when he says that it is wholly inappropriate for teams like Burnley, who were only in the Championship the previous season, to have any influence over Leeds and even Leicester City, the reigning Premier League winners.
The big clubs stand to gain from the system, while everyone else is left to fend for themselves. To ensure the long-term survival of the entire pyramid, not just the fortunate few, it must be altered.
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