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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The solidarity payments are £48m spread over four years if we go straight down.

So the £90m is actually the money over a five year period, not a single season.

Fair enough, but would still like to see a hefty chunk of that going towards loan repayments rather than wait and see how the land lies in 2023.

Nice position to be in aye?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It's not £90m straight away.

Each PL club gets £14.6million automatically as TV money, plus a further sum for every game that is live on Sky/ESPN.

In addition they receive £800k for each place in the league, so Chelsea get £16m for winning and Pompey £800k for finishing bottom.

The solidarity payments are £48m spread over four years if we go straight down.

So the £90m is actually the money over a five year period, not a single season.

So ... all that a newcomer to the Premier League can actually budget to spend in their first season is enough to pay a small squad half the average PL wage. With nothing spare for transfer fees.

Or, alternatively, enough to pay for a few transfer fees, but nothing extra to spend on wages.

 

[El Presidente]

Fair enough, but would still like to see a hefty chunk of that going towards loan repayments rather than wait and see how the land lies in 2023.

Nice position to be in aye?

In theory yes, but do you know the last time the Albion made a profit? According to my figures it was 1978