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Birmingham owner Wagner breaks ranks over Premier League redistributions
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Birmingham owner Wagner breaks ranks over Premier League redistributionsBirmingham City owner Tom Wagner says the Premier League’s top clubs should be protected at all costsBirmingham City owner Tom Wagner has broken ranks with his EFL rivals over their attempts to extract more money from the Premier League.
The thorny issue is among the top priorities for the incoming Independent Football Regulator after years of talks between the Premier League and the EFL ended in deadlock.
Top flight teams currently share around 14 per cent of the Premier League’s central revenues with the divisions below them but the EFL has called for this to increase to 25 per cent.
“We’d love to have to have more revenue, and we’d love to see the pyramid strengthened, but what we don’t want to see is for whatever percentage we land on result in a less competitive top of the pyramid,” Wagner added.
“It doesn’t have two or three dominant teams, like many other leagues do.