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.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

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.

It’s utter madness if you have players on PL wages and there’s a chance you’ll end up paying those salaries in L1. I’m sure they thought they’d be challenging for a return to the PL, which again is utter madness when you’ve got Skipp and Winks in midfield.

 

[prawnking]

It's mad the amount of money PL clubs get and yet most clubs in there or those recently relegated still survive by the skin of their teeth like gambling addicts

 

[BillyDee]

Parachute payments are good in principle, to ease the financial burden of being outside the PL.
Unfortunately clubs instead use it as a war chest to get back up.