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Originally Posted by st06nc2
With all the foreign players the EPL bring in, the EFL is the future or the national team, thus deserve more funding, without the lower league teams England wouldn't have players like vardy and smalling, even Joe hart started at Shrewsbury, we provide the future stars and we need more money to improve facilities and produce better stars
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Spot on St0zie!
Some Premiership teams barely feature a natural born Brit in their squad.
The idea of the PL was to allow the big city clubs to get even richer.
Without doubt it's been successful due to TV money, but most of the wealth generated has gone to pay for foreign players earning obscene wages.
Even the managers are now largely foreign.
Then so called football pundits moan about the lack of quality English born players & managers available to the national squad.
The PL seem to feel they are somehow divorced from the rest of the EFL, but football is still pyramid based with every league cherry-picking the best players, usually from a lower league.
League 2, and indeed even the Conference, are just as important to the welfare of English football as the PL.
Andy Holt has invested his own money keeping ASFC afloat. Why is his opinion any less important than say Jose Mourinho?