Money in the EPL and Where It Should Go

Clubs in the Premier League get an disproportionate amount of money compared to lower league clubs in League Two, League One and even the Championship.

No fan can disagree with this whichever club you support.

For the 2008-2009 season Machester United as the winner of the EPL and runners up in the Champions League received 90 million pounds.

In comparison Sheffield United, runner up in the Championship playoff final received a pittance in comparison. Even relegated West Bromwich received £32,000,000.

League One clubs like Leeds or newly promoted Gillingham receive absolutely nothing from this deal as their matches hardly ever get televised at all.

What I think should happen is all of the Premier League Clubs' money to be reduced. 

This would not impact on EPL teams as a whole because the amount to be reduced would be minuscule—a mere 1 percent of the money. Such a small amount of money would not be missed from the vast sums teams already get.

However the main reason for this is investment in the structure of English football as a whole, which eventually even the Premier League will benefit from.

What, in my opinion, should happen is this money should be used to make small grants to lower league teams to be used to improve the infrastructure of their football clubs and invest in their young players.

This improvement in lower league teams' ability to train potential football stars would eventually create an environment where the overall quality of players in all league would be raised. That can only be a good thing.

This elevating of quality would eventually trickle though to the Premier League clubs. Then they would not have to bring in big money foreigners but merely look into the Championship and select the top quality available there.

This seems impossible imagine but players who get promoted to the EPL with their club can prove they are effective at Premier League level. Also players from the championship are already making an impact on the big clubs.

Michael Turner, for example, has gone from strength to strength in his season at Hull City and is being tracked by several clubs including (possibly) Liverpool and Spurs.

Introducing a slight tweak in money distribution would only increase the kind of players likely to interest top clubs.

Overall I think that the Premier League has a duty to improve the standard of English football as a whole, not just the itself. This new distribution of wealth would help towards this. There should be an effort to promote the long term future of English football.

But what do you think—am I wrong?