Almost two pounds for every second of play

(…) If the current trend continues, in three years all Premier League clubs will be among the top thirty richest clubs in the world. For English clubs, this is, of course, good news. They will have more funds, be more stable, and be able to spend more generously and invest more. In practice, this will very likely mean — as Jozef Tokos stated in the Straight Talk column in our edition yesterday — that the spiral of astronomical player salaries will now spin even faster. However, this does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with quality… (…)