Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner says the Premier League’s top clubs should be protected at all costs

Birmingham 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.

“I think that the top clubs of English football have to be protected at all costs,” Wagner said at The Summit, part of Leaders Week London 2025.

“We can’t take too much from the top clubs because if

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