Parachute Payments Are Killing The Championship

Re: I hope Birmingham and West Ham do go back up

I think you are right, no distribution of the parachutes anymore when clubs get back to the PL.

 

Int that great?!

 

Absolutely tip-top fantastic.

 

One of the few clubs in our league we could compete with money wise, yet crazily LOADS on here were HAPPY they got promoted.

 

I admire your thinking that football sould be a level playing field, but why do you think that the idea should be confined to the Championship. Do you not think that the Premiership should also be a level playing field. You argue that promoted clubs can use exactly the same revenue that established Premiership clubs are using to maintain their playing squads in order to buy an entirely new squad that will allow them to compete at the higher level. This is simply not logical. Is it your argument that newly promoted clubs should be given a grant on entry to the Premier League (to be used to purchasing a team of Premiership players but with no help from a parachute when they drop a division) That will enable them to compete on a level playing field in the Premiership. However, there would be no parachute payments which would still mean that upon relegation they are left with the same problem as I described earlier, and there would be no division between remaining members of the Championship of unclaimed parachute payments.

I am afraid that any notion of the idea of level playing fields disappeared with the formation of the Premier League. We can only make the best of a bad job. I guess that your views would be different on the subject of parachute payments if BFC were one of the clubs in receipt.

 

Again, there isn't going to be anyway.

 

February? This is when it started to go tits up.

 

Haven't changed my tune, James. I didn't have an opinion by the looks of things. Although tbf, I was being made redundant in February so I'll let myself off this one time. At band camp.

 

So what is wrong with having relegation clauses built into the contracts?

If the team goes down, the wages of the players go down as well. Many players have relegation release clauses in their contracts, so this is just an extension of that.

That is surely common sense.