The Football News Thread 2025/26

[Tony Towner]

We won't be paying players what they were in the Championship, but haven't we also mortgaged the future tv money?

 

[AndyWolves]

I'm far to apathetic to have paid any sort of attention

 

[BillyDee]

Wasn't that only short term? Like less than a year?

 

[Banjo]

We won't be paying players what they were in the Championship, but haven't we also mortgaged the future tv money?

We have been known to, but can only get advances on what we will definitely receive in a given season. Borrowing against a future season's parachute payments sounds dangerously high risk as a strategy and the cost of that borrowing must be huge.