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Message: [QUOTE="spsct, post: 2473412, member: 658"] 8-9 years ago is when the billionaires started buying into all of these teams, and within the last 4-5 years the Sky payout to the EPL clubs skyrocketed. Perhaps I said the clubs/business thing wrong. What I meant by clubs, is that for most of the German clubs there is no private owner who can dump in a ton of money and have control. Everything comes from sponsorship and league payouts. A couple of clubs do have sugar daddys (HSV, Hoffenheim), but they have (officially) no say in how the club is run. Clubs like Bayern and Dortmund have big sponsorship; Augsburg not so much. But 100 Million € sponsorship + 40 million € league payout for Bayern still doesn't compete with a club that can spend that on a single player acquisition. [/QUOTE]