Going back to the original purpose of the Premier league. 18 teams and all power to the big six (plus Man City now).
With no parachute payment most teams promoted from the championship would not be able to risk buying top quality players because they wouldn't be able to afford them if they got relegated. That would mean most promoted teams would be relegated again the next season leading to a closed shop premier league.
There would be big clubs stuck in the championship which would mean clubs going up from league 1 & 2 would not be able to compete for long either which in turn creates a closed shop championship too.
Hey! We are Crawley Town. What we may want matters very little in the eyes of the power brokers at the top of the game.
Not the clearest riddle of restructure but it appears the reason the EFL are giving it support, I guess, is because some EFL clubs are at risk of survival so any money filtering down is desperately required. I'd like to see the exact distribution and how it compare at league 2 in particular to now and past seasons. As mentioned the removal of the parchute payments may send clubs tumbling out of the PL with little hope of climbing back up. I would like to know what league 1 and league 2 clubs need to operate and see that need met as a minimum if that's possible to do somehow. Im pleased I dont support a PL team, all that money and driven by greed and ego, no thanks. Im proud to support Crawley Town FC.
Scrap the current league 1 and 2 and replace then with regional league 1 North and South.
Then you’d have to do the same with the National League Premier as well. I do agree with regionalisation though, but it wouldn’t be as simple as just applying to leagues 1 and 2.
One issue with regionalisation would be the promotion from the regional leagues to the national ones. Dont forget the reason the Conference was created was to expedite the promotion from the lower level of the pyramid. One of the reasons given to prevent promotion was the clubs could not cope with a league on a national level.
With no parachute payment most teams promoted from the championship would not be able to risk buying top quality players because they wouldn't be able to afford them if they got relegated. That would mean most promoted teams would be relegated again the next season leading to a closed shop premier league.
I've always been a bit ambivalent about parachute payments, strikes me as a clear example of encouraging recklessness & rewarding failure.
It can be argued that they have resulted in a few 'yoyo' clubs - WBA being the obvious example - but more striking is the amount of clubs who have struggled in spite of their financial benefit, some quite spectacularly.
My view is that clubs - particularly promoted clubs - need to have a more realistic tier-related contractual basis with players, that provides bonuses for success & automatically adjusts salaries upon relegation.
Ps. Surely, given his connections to the club who are the principal sponsors of the proposals, the impartiality of the EFL chief should be queried...?
I completely agree with your post sciptum Thad. Definitely needs an investigation into his actions.
In another development the CEO of Lincoln has called the CEO of Burton a liar after the later told reporters that there was unanimous support from the league 1 clubs.
In another development the CEO of Lincoln has called the CEO of Burton a liar after the later told reporters that there was unanimous support from the league 1 clubs.
'Unanimous' support - or not - of League 1 Clubs, turns out to be of only academic interest now, as it transpires that the whole half-baked vanity scheme never even had enough support from fellow Premier clubs...
Noteworthy comments from Ralph H of Southampton, that it would (paraphrased summary): "make the Premier league 'boring' by removing the possibility of another club 'doing a Leicester' "...!
EFL rejects £50m bail out for League 1 and 2 clubs. Reading the article, I get the impression it was turned down because it did not support all 72 EFL clubs i.e. not helpful to the Championship. I hope this isn't the EFL shooting themselves in the foot and that the Premier League won't now turn round and say "tough, you won't accept our help then we won't".
A solution needs to be found for EFEL clubs some, maybe many that will go to the wall if things continue the way they are. The solution for me has to come from all PL AND EFL members and not be driven just by the 2 bigheads in the PL!
The solution for me has to come from all PL AND EFL members and not be driven just by the 2 bigheads in the PL!
In fairness to those 2 bigheads, at least they actually put some serious thought into the matter & got it to the table, which no-one else, including the football authorities & government had managed.
And naturally the deal included a little something in the detail that suited their own agenda... Very likely the most contentious point for their Premier League peers is the "Special voting rights on certain matters, for a select few"... which is essentially the formalisation of a cartel for the bigheads & their bighead chums.
However, those 'chosen few' could still leverage their clout as potential members of a breakaway European Super League - which is a very attractive alternative broadcast proposition - to help persuade the others along...(?)
