The race to the bottom: Premier League giants face up to the costs of failure
Alamy | Demarai Gray at Everton's 1-4 loss against Brighton in January 2023.
This year’s Premier League relegation battle is the most intriguing in years, with eight clubs sucked into it. But what are the costs of relegation, and who is most vulnerable to the economic impacts?
Everton have had an uninterrupted run of 69 top flight seasons, but their recent accounts warned that relegation posed a “material uncertainty” over its future as “a going concern”. Could relegation cause existential problems for other EPL clubs?
Why it matters: Huge broadcasting revenues means EPL relegation poses a much bigger economic challenge than that from other leagues. In 2019 a relegated EPL club saw a 58 per cent drop in turnover, while an equivalent Bundesliga team saw just a 4.1 per
The perspective: To US investors relegation seems an inconceivable prospect. Could it jeopardise investment deals for Everton and Leeds?
17 April 2023 - 4:21 PM
Almost sixty years to the day last Saturday, a sparkling 4-1 victory over Fulham secured Everton the sixth of their nine league titles. Prior to the weekend’s encounter against the same opponents the two surviving players from that great team – Derek Temple and Tony Kay – were paraded in front of the Goodison crowd.
But Everton in 2023 are a very different proposition to the class of 2023 and the octogenarians were unable to lift them: the Blue
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