I dont understand this "subsidised" payment rubbish that people keep going on about, Sky Sports/BT Sports pay the SFA what they think the TV deal is worth, me personally thinks it's a pittance, but they signed on the dotted line anyway. SKY/BT Sports offered the EPL what they thought was the best deal, so the three of them signed on the dotted line. Why don't we Scottish football supporters just accept THAT and move on and stop blaming the EPL for our bad TV deal.
Thats one way of looking at it.
But if they had given Scottish teams 100million per team each and English football pittance then all the best players would play here.
So its self fulfilling.
If you give a team guaranteed 1 billion every 10 years then that team will crush the teams that don't get 1 billion every 10 years.
If the money makers decide to give the money to a selection of people while everybody else struggles to earn money through the rules then the people who get gift subsidy will control everything and every time you create something worth anything they have all the cash to take it from you.
Its legalised form of theft.
You paid money for what you want in what appears fair deal, but the circumstances that led to the conditions of price rather than value is dominated by the wealth holder.
So if you have power to decide who gets money then you can control the market conditions that allow the theft by wealth holders be sophisticated to extent that it can appear fair.
The satellite tv deals skew wealth towards all the satellite teams
So they become monarch of the Neo feudal system
they destroy the non satellite teams without realising those teams are the foundation and it will collapse. but in meantime the money scam makes the agents between the deals mega rich through constrained markets.
in short if I give you 100 million per year more than other people then you will dominate them fulfilling the idea that you were worth the investment because you crushed everyone.
satellite tv now decides who they want to win and they usually do. that was only possible by subsidy.
football is broke in traditional sense