http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/mar/20/football-league-parachute-payments According to the article the football league are looking at Salary caps. It is clear that the current system does not work with clubs coming down with mad salary bills and for clubs trying to go up the money isnt there to compete. so there does need to be changes to how clubs run their business as we as a club have made large changes but still making a loss. Using them as an example, Bolton this season received a parachute payment of £23m compared to us receiving £2.3m in solidarity payments. Over 3 years they have receive £50m and we havent even received £8m without looking at the fact that the clubs just relegated also received more in TV rights. I think teams coming down should get more money as they got to the top league in the first place but the gap is too big at the moment when they come back down.
Football league can look all they like but they will be told the score and whats was by those who run the show. City voted in favour of parachute payments along with backing the EPP. The big boys will offer crumbs off the plate or nothing at all from TV money and that is the way it will go unless clubs lower down the scale grow some including BCFC.
There should be no such thing as Parachute payments. Why give them money for failing? All that money should be spread out evenly and everyone gets the same.
Why would Exeter get the same amount as Chelsea? The lions share of TV money goes to the EPL not football in general. Why give them money for failing? Its their money to start with. Premier league sets up its own TV deals. Its naive to think they will share it or there will be caps on spending. EPL and its big clubs,TV and foreign owners run the show.
Its not that I don't agree with it, but it is like capping the amount of foreigners in England. Foreign owned clubs [most of the top division] are hardly going to give one about it. Football is not ran as a sport its ran for clubs at the top and that is the way it will stay.
Football as it used to be....when it was a "sport"....is long gone now. It's a multi million pound business nowadays and as such will atract multi million pound deals in all thier various colours. The bigger and more successfull the club, the Man Utds and Chelski's ect, the bigger the deals they work in. Us?.......living beyond our means for sure, but still afloat thanks to SL.
Oh how we all dream of the days when all we had was Match of the Day The Big Match Saint and Greavsies midweek sport And Sportsnight When we dreamed of seeing football live on a regular basis, along with other sports. So basically we only got what we wanted
I was never part of that we. Dont have sky etc and a sport [boxing] I used to be interested in again as a paying fan I have lost total interest in due to tv.
One of the issues that English football has to sort out is the massive financial gap between the PL and the Championship. This leads to: 1. Existing PL clubs desperate to stay in the PL will overspend on players. 2. PL clubs in trouble will sack their manager, even if they have over-achieved by getting them there in the first place (see Adkins and McDermott) 3. Championship clubs will spend money they don't have trying to get there
The Premier League does not give a toss about the rest of us. Soon there will be an official PL 2 and the rest of us will be consigned to part time football in regions. Just like every other European countries league system. A top league where the elite never get relegated with half of the league made up of cannon fodder (Wigan etc) for this elite. The second division will be the rest of the cannon fodder and probably some sort of complicated relegation play off system to ensure they never go down. And to ensure the third tier never come up, a set of costly criteria such as all seater 30,000 stadia, under soil heating, roof over pitch, 2,000 space car park and so on. We will all soon realise where BCFC will be; Third Division Regional West with endless matches with Torquay, Plymouth, B'mouth, Swindon Cheltenham and the Unmentionables!
