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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flankers&#039; paradise" data-source="post: 1223818" data-attributes="member: 88834">You're absolutely right, I just think that obviously clubs are still paying NI on players' wages, and so still giving something to the treasury. It may not be the same value as the loan but it's still consistent year on year. If clubs go bust and more players either sign contracts abroad or move home or whatever then that tax base has shrunk - and the gov gets neither. If they can afford to give every mp a 2k pay rise and fail to tax wealth properly then they can afford to be lenient in the way they go about regaining the loans.Take your point about them being private businesses but they're more than that, they are of public interest and provide community services. Maybe that is the answer though, local government could take shares in their clubs with oversight on how to help sustainability?</blockquote>