BARNSLEY owner Patrick Cryne believes the football's attitudes and rules regarding finances need are in need of an overhaul.
Speaking after seeing Rotherham United, Luton Town and AFC Bournemouth hit with punishments from the Football League this summer, Mr Cryne told Barnsley Football Weekly: "The rationale behind the punishments is clear and within the rules, whether it is fair or not is another matter. Not many fans understand the rules relating to entering and exiting administration, or the conflict of interest that the Football League has in relation to the application of the rules.It is clear that a club entering administration will suffer a ten point deduction and I don't think that is unreasonable.
"There is no doubt that football finances need a complete overhaul for those without billionaire support, because at present it is operating as a false economy isolated from the real world.In my view the preferred status of football creditors should be ended.This would encourage more considered trading between clubs, particularly if the risk of doing bad business is the same as it is in the real business world.
"It is also socially unfair that football players should be insulated from the risk experienced by ordinary employees within a struggling business in the real world.Renegotiating players' contracts should be a permissible method to balance the books of a failing football business, which is what happens in the real world for any other type of business.The ordinary football fan is exposed to the real world's financial pressures, and at the same time is funding absolute security for everyone in the football community.Am I the only one who sees this as a little obscene?
"If the Football League wishes to encourage prudence in a world where the odds are stacked against the smaller clubs in the sticks, then it might be more successful to distribute the proceeds of its own television rights etc to clubs that agree to operate a balanced trading budget and withhold it from those that do not.I think that in the long run incentives for the future will do a better job than punishing cash-strapped fans and new owners for past financial failure by others".
Read more from Patrick in this week's issue of Barnsley Football Weekly.
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