TwelveAngryMen
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Still digesting but extracts from the Times report below
Seems like Tracey Couch has adopted many of the recommendations BST has been championing including the independent regulator !!
Personally as an ex-youth coach very glad to see the 10% levy It’s criminal how much money goes out of the game whilst grassroots struggles to even provide the basics
Well done all those who have worked so hard to get this to where it is
Seems a long time since we met the EFL at the Village and had to listen to Shaun Harvey waffle about the ODT not being retrospective in application despite it saying just that and telling us he saw the EFL as being there to represent its members not to regulate !
The Report
Premier League clubs should pay about £160 million a year in the form of a 10 per cent levy on top-flight transfers, a fan-led review into English football governance has recommended.
The 162-page report, written by Tracey Crouch MP with the assistance of an expert panel, calls for the formation of an independent regulator for English football with powers that would extend to seizing control of a club from their owner. The government will give its public support to the formation of a regulator, which would also introduce a single owners’ and directors’ test that would have placed the controversial takeover of Newcastle United by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund under far greater scrutiny.
Included within the new owners’ and directors’ test would be what the report terms an integrity test. Crouch told The Times: “I don’t know all the details of the [Newcastle] takeover but the integrity test would certainly have stressed it a bit more than what happened. The character aspects and relationship aspect of the integrity test, which is what is relevant in the security services, for example, is something that I don’t think exists within the current test.”
The transfer levy, designed to distribute more cash to lower-league clubs and the grassroots of the game at a time when the Premier League has secured a £2 billion American broadcast rights deal, is likely to be met with resistance by top-flight clubs.
But Crouch is confident that any attempt to block the formation of the regulator, either by the Premier League or the Football Association, will fail.
“They can stick their fingers up but there would be a parliamentary process that sees legislation enact an independent regulator,” she said. Crouch predicted that the regulator would be fully operational by the start of the 2023-24 season.
The review panel was formed in the wake of the thwarted attempt by the Premier League’s “big six” clubs to join a European Super League. It included the Everton chief executive, Denise Barrett-Baxendale, the former England manager Roy Hodgson and the former Professional Footballers’ Association chairman Clarke Carlisle. Together they listened to more than 100 hours of evidence from fans’ groups as well as key stakeholders.
These are the details of the most significant proposals:
The 10 per cent transfer levy
The attempt to take money from Premier League transfers to redistribute down the pyramid is certain to be a battleground. Top-flight sources were privately pointing out that such a levy already exists: it is set at 4 per cent, with the money distributed between a player pension fund and the Premier League and EFL academies.
The independent regulator
The regulator’s board would be appointed by experts independent of the government and supported by a staff of experts in various fields. The call for a regulator is a devastating judgment on the FA, which the report says is old-fashioned, unwieldy and not a reflection of modern football fans.
Owners’ and directors’ test
Motivated principally by the demise of Bury, the review seeks to protect clubs by introducing a more stringent test for owners and directors, replacing the tests operated separately by the Premier League, EFL and FA.
Golden share
The report recommends the foundation of a community benefit scheme for supporters, with a “golden share” that will protect key aspects of a club’s heritage.
Under the “golden share”, owners will require the consent of fans before selling the club’s stadium, relocating the club outside of the local area, joining a new competition such as a European Super League and changing the club’s name, badge or home shirt colours.
The FA and Premier League issued statements saying they welcomed the review but would need time to study its contents. The Football Supporters’ Association said the recommendations “represent a massive step forward”.
Crouch said: “What’s really important is this is not an à la carte menu. This has to be done holistically. This is a whole package of reforms.”
Crouch said change would begin with the formation of a “shadow regulator” in the new year. “That means it can start soon,” she said. “And then I would suspect that we could get this fully operational by 2023.”
Seems like Tracey Couch has adopted many of the recommendations BST has been championing including the independent regulator !!
Personally as an ex-youth coach very glad to see the 10% levy It’s criminal how much money goes out of the game whilst grassroots struggles to even provide the basics
Well done all those who have worked so hard to get this to where it is
Seems a long time since we met the EFL at the Village and had to listen to Shaun Harvey waffle about the ODT not being retrospective in application despite it saying just that and telling us he saw the EFL as being there to represent its members not to regulate !
The Report
Premier League clubs should pay about £160 million a year in the form of a 10 per cent levy on top-flight transfers, a fan-led review into English football governance has recommended.
The 162-page report, written by Tracey Crouch MP with the assistance of an expert panel, calls for the formation of an independent regulator for English football with powers that would extend to seizing control of a club from their owner. The government will give its public support to the formation of a regulator, which would also introduce a single owners’ and directors’ test that would have placed the controversial takeover of Newcastle United by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund under far greater scrutiny.
Included within the new owners’ and directors’ test would be what the report terms an integrity test. Crouch told The Times: “I don’t know all the details of the [Newcastle] takeover but the integrity test would certainly have stressed it a bit more than what happened. The character aspects and relationship aspect of the integrity test, which is what is relevant in the security services, for example, is something that I don’t think exists within the current test.”
The transfer levy, designed to distribute more cash to lower-league clubs and the grassroots of the game at a time when the Premier League has secured a £2 billion American broadcast rights deal, is likely to be met with resistance by top-flight clubs.
But Crouch is confident that any attempt to block the formation of the regulator, either by the Premier League or the Football Association, will fail.
“They can stick their fingers up but there would be a parliamentary process that sees legislation enact an independent regulator,” she said. Crouch predicted that the regulator would be fully operational by the start of the 2023-24 season.
The review panel was formed in the wake of the thwarted attempt by the Premier League’s “big six” clubs to join a European Super League. It included the Everton chief executive, Denise Barrett-Baxendale, the former England manager Roy Hodgson and the former Professional Footballers’ Association chairman Clarke Carlisle. Together they listened to more than 100 hours of evidence from fans’ groups as well as key stakeholders.
These are the details of the most significant proposals:
The 10 per cent transfer levy
The attempt to take money from Premier League transfers to redistribute down the pyramid is certain to be a battleground. Top-flight sources were privately pointing out that such a levy already exists: it is set at 4 per cent, with the money distributed between a player pension fund and the Premier League and EFL academies.
The independent regulator
The regulator’s board would be appointed by experts independent of the government and supported by a staff of experts in various fields. The call for a regulator is a devastating judgment on the FA, which the report says is old-fashioned, unwieldy and not a reflection of modern football fans.
Owners’ and directors’ test
Motivated principally by the demise of Bury, the review seeks to protect clubs by introducing a more stringent test for owners and directors, replacing the tests operated separately by the Premier League, EFL and FA.
Golden share
The report recommends the foundation of a community benefit scheme for supporters, with a “golden share” that will protect key aspects of a club’s heritage.
Under the “golden share”, owners will require the consent of fans before selling the club’s stadium, relocating the club outside of the local area, joining a new competition such as a European Super League and changing the club’s name, badge or home shirt colours.
The FA and Premier League issued statements saying they welcomed the review but would need time to study its contents. The Football Supporters’ Association said the recommendations “represent a massive step forward”.
Crouch said: “What’s really important is this is not an à la carte menu. This has to be done holistically. This is a whole package of reforms.”
Crouch said change would begin with the formation of a “shadow regulator” in the new year. “That means it can start soon,” she said. “And then I would suspect that we could get this fully operational by 2023.”