Parachute payments - Scudamore being a benny - urgh

[Barrel of Fun]

Fucks sake. How much longer do we have to put up with a few pricks trying to f***ing ruin football for everyone?

To rub salt in the wound, the absolute cretins that run the BBC have decided to run with the 'Ancelotti to Plot Chelsea Deominance' story as their headline, whilst the potentially cataclysmic news for the whole Football league is the fourth story. It's this kind of bullshit that means people don't give enough of a f*** about the fact that the sport is getting progressively ruined.

FUCKS SAKE! :US:

The BBC do piss me off. I remember Rotherham were within hours of going out of business over a relatively small sum and their main story was Wes Brown and one other signing new deals, deals that could have settled the outstanding tax bills of half of League Two.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

Scudamore is a TWAT. Self protectionist. Can't keep his own house in order so wants to screw up everyone elses by issuing a take it or leave it approach.

 

[Stat Brother]

Scudamore said...

"Whilst many clubs expressed concerns about the proposals, their acceptance was considered the only viable way forward."

The Premier League reportedly planned to stop solidarity payments if the 72 clubs rejected the proposals and said it was a take-it-or-leave it offer.

60/40 vote in favour, the lower league clubs not happy with the take it or leave offer.

 

[Easy 10]

Exactly. This doesn't just encourage the Prem clubs to spend buckloads they can't afford, but will give a massive incentive for Championship sides to do likewise. Cardiff are flat broke, spent MILES above what they can afford, and have yet again got their winding up order put back because "an investor is just about to come in" .... or more likely, "we could be about to win a couple of games that gets us one year of Premiership gravy train money, followed by 4 years of parachute payments.

Fecking madness. Clubs no longer just need to stay in the Prem for their financial future, but they are gambling as much as they can get away with, getting as far into debt as they can manage in the desperate hope of reaching the Premiership for that magical one season, which will change their finances for 5 years. If they then get tempted to keep spending and trying to stay there, then you have a Pompey.

It's all got a bit disgusting really, hasn't it.

It has really, yes.
In time, you're going to find an increasing number of clubs embarking on a season not just wanting promotion to the Prem. They're going to end up actually NEEDING promotion to the Prem in order to stave off a financial tsunami after overstretching for it. And those that arn't prepared to take the risk, and I include the likes of us in this, will have to be content just to bumble along in the lower reaches.

The Championship is one of the most competitive and unpredictable Leagues in Europe. Well make the most of it, because 3/4/5 years down the line, its going to be JUST like the Prem, with the same handful of teams fighting it out at the top and swapping places with the relegated Premiership clubs, ad-infinitum.

 

[Napper]

I think they had the FL over a barrel though with the threat of forming a Prem lg 2

If we ever get back to the championship it will be near on impossible to compete financially unless Bloom really does start chucking silly money about

 

[Easy 10]

Its happened again to us, hasn't it.

We lost the 1991 Playoff Final, got relegated in 1992 just when all the money came into football, and have spent most of the years since then in the wilderness at the arse-end of the Football League.

Now we're looking like we could finally be back on track with a brilliant young manager at the helm, some funding behind him, and a new stadium to move into next year. Then the drawbridge gets pulled up, as money is showered onto clubs at the upper end, and we're left behind once again.

How the hell can anyone compete with a club that has already had x million just from being in the Prem, and then gets another £48m over 4 years once they fail and drop down.

Pompey must be laughing. They'll have no problems getting a buyer now with that kind of cash coming into the coffers. And the whole debt cycle can start again.

Well done Scudamore. Once again you've played a blinder.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

On the money.

They don't know the meaning of solidarity. How about helping out clubs that are being pillaged and destroyed by owners intent running a local institution into the ground for their own wants and desires? A la Chester City and the rest of them.

 

[Gritt23]

How much better would it have been to say

"We are scrapping the parachute payments altogether, and distributing the money across the whole FL and into the Conference. It's emabarrassing that teams in the Conference such as Chester are going to the wall for debts of less than half a weeks wages of various Liverpool and Man Utd players, who ironically live in Chester. If that means Premiership clubs have to be extra careful with their finances, and have a proper back-up plans in case they get relegated, such as staggered players contracts dependant upon division, then that can only be good for the game as a whole."

 

[Rookie]

Will just encourage lower Premiership teams to spend more than they should be able to afford because they know the money awaits them relegation or not. Joke.
Wasn't it Scudamore who got booed given out the trophy at Chelsea yesterday, vile man

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Where are the Premier League/Scudamore apologists?

I fail to see how this decision can be defended in ANY way.

 

[Easy 10]

Where are the Premier League/Scudamore apologists?

I fail to see how this decision can be defened in ANY way.

I'm waiting for Crodo's take on this

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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