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If you remove that, instead of investing more in players, they will be doing the opposite. They will be thinking, “My goodness, I had better get rid of some of these players. I had better make sure, because if I get relegated, I am absolutely stuck; my income is going to dramatically decrease and the responsible thing for me to do now is to offload players instead”. The net effect of that is, suddenly, we get a whole lot of games that become uncompetitive. They become walkovers. Those teams are now playing teams with a lot more financial resources, and they become much less attractive to watch. What does the whole game depend on? It is the attractiveness of all the games. That is what the TV companies all around the world pay for. That is why we get more money in the Premier League—double the amount that the other divisions in Spain, Italy, France, et cetera, are getting—because all the games are competitive, unlike in these other countries, where you get a few top teams and then a lot of teams that are not nearly so competitive.