From next season clubs relegated from the EPL will receive 'parachute payments' of £ 60 over the next 4 years ! Can this be right ? What other business ( other than our poor bankers ) reward people when they fail ? Is the relegation from the EPL really different to relegation from any other division ? The answer is ' Yes' - other divisions don't receive parachute payments when teams are relegated. Clubs in the Premier are handsomely rewarded for life in that league. Apart from anything else they take 85% of the TV money - with 'overseas' rights, the deal is worth about £ 5billion. The clubs are quite happy to run their businesses according to this level of income - well they need to adjust their business finances according to lower levels of income following relegation. Even if you agree with the idea of parachute payments, it cannot be right to continue to pay a failed club for 4 years after their relegation. I might be able to accept the situation for one season following relegation ( whilst most existing wage deals see out their contract ) - but no longer. I'm not so sure that there is a real claim that parachute payments are needed to help pay players wages - these days there will always be clauses written into contracts to cover review of contracts subject to promotion or relegation - where wages need to be slashed to reflect the loss of income in a lower league.
Oh it's only 8am, please don't get me started on the Premier League this time of the morning. Who do we blame for the modern game: Jimmy Hill: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17260554 (watch video) Brian Clough, Trevor Francis: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...y-Trevor-Francis-broke-footballs-1m-mark.html Thatchers Army: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/hillsborough-cover-up-margaret-thatcher-1321049 I seriously could go on and the list would be endless. There is only one disease in football and it is not the one that the Daily Malice would have us believe but instead it goes under some strange abbreviation called EPL.
Well you can tell me over a drink tomorrow - or give me the extended version next week - when I can't get off the coach to escape
Alwaysright my friend just a brief visit on the said subject. for one...I have no time whatsoever for the premiership and two...when have they ever given a hoot about life outside there bubble. is it any surprise that clubs are bankrupt and playing with fire to achieve the future we all want for our clubs and is it also any surprise that the sentence being used now by most chairman is "we just want to be in the premiership if only for one season if that be the case" it's a complete and utter farse and i'm sorry to say money power is ripping apart our English structure of the past and present game and I expect some euro super league is in the making and we will be left behind once and for all ! p.s. was that you outside the stadium last weekend shouting your head off while we were trying to watch a match...well if you can call Frampton going to leftback and killing any chance we had of getting a point that is
gills4everandaday .... I knew you couldn't keep away ! Sadly I agree with your thoughts - especially about a euro super league. It's quite frightening to see what has rapidly happened to the financial fortunes of many clubs since the EPL began & with the interferrence of Sky TV. The situation can only get worse - and even more rapidly. The main impact will be felt in the lower leagues, as each club tries to stay afloat in the face of competition for fans and finance. I started another thread today relating to Orient giving away 1500 season tickets next season. I'm not sure to applaud the chairman or feel sorry for him. I suppose they have problems in attracting fans - when you've got West Ham & other London EPL clubs within a stone's throw. - but - it just goes to show that clubs in the lower league have to make 'suicidal' type decisions to 'gamble' on their future.... When you play Russian Roulette, eventually you will find the bullet !
gills4everandaday No - that wasn't me shouting ! When Joe Martin had to go off injured, and Frampton moved to left back, I knew that McGlashan would destroy him and that it would only be a matter of time before we conceded from that side of the pitch.... OK I know that it was from poor marking of a corner ( hardly an acceptable excuse ) but we continued to have problems down Frampton's side - I just resigned myself to the loss.... ( I've had plenty of practise over all the years watching the Gills )
yes always you drew me in, if only but briefly and as for the orient thread, i'd say it's a gamble for them and one worth taking regards the future and youthful fans, though again I think with what clubs are around that area it's also a sticky situation they are in the midst of...like I say though surely worth the gamble, what harm for one season can it have if it means a handful of life long supporters were to come of it
I thought we already had a European Super League, starting from next season there will be 2 foreign teams playing in the EPL meaning 2 English teams will be denied the chance.
the game was crying out for DANNY EAST to be brought on and show what he can do, just hope Frampton is not MA choice tomorrow because he was all over the place against Cheltenham...not in a good way either ! Best last Saturday...WARD Worst...Frampton. harsh but true !!!
grumpygit There is a sub plot to my thread ( brb in which will be very interested.) The fact that the EPL, for whatever reason, is able to attract so much money - which will lure the 'cream' of players from around the world. These players will NOT be English. The situation is definitely a major problem for the development of the National team..... too few opportunities for English players to gain experience in the Top league - this being reflected when in the latter stages of major tournaments.
though I didn't mention the national side, that in respect to my first thread was what I also was referring to as well. all this talk by the FA restructuring our grassroots game to improve the future and what we have coming through, yet this money will with out doubt recruit more players and managers and chairman from abroad much to our detriment. as I say the so called premiership are in there own bubble and will take anything down in there wake ! sad times ahead I feel if they aren't already upon us
Many years ago on a galaxy far, far away...we envisaged the day that Division One would become merged into a European Super League on the introduction of the then newly named Premier League. We hoped that day would never come but now we wished they would just...I'm not allowed to swear. I hate the Premier League and everything it stands for with such a vengeance that I could be classed as an extremist. Sadly this is where politics enters the domain but it would take me millions of light years to tell you my version of events.
