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Premier League and EFL reform [UPDATE 3 Dec 2020: Rescue Package Agreed]

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Fordy117, Oct 11, 2020.

  1. Fordy117

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  2. Tony Wilkinson

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    The PL should just create a behind closed doors league and play to their hearts content and then just F OFF
    What kind of a season will it be for the fans with just 17 home games other than an expensive and over in no time one..... ?
     
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  3. How

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    Rick Parry to me looks to have joined the EFL with prior motives to help his old employers out?
     
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  4. WilsdenBantam

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    What’s been granted special status mean?
     
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  5. Fordy117

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    Here's the full list of changes:

    Rescue Fund
    An immediate rescue fund of £350,000,000 to the English Football League and Football Association for lost revenues of 2019/20 and 2020/21

    For the EFL:

    £50,000,000 to cover 2019/20 EFL matchday losses;

    Up to £200,000,000 available to cover 2020/21 EFL matchday losses;

    Money will be advanced to the EFL from increased future revenues.

    For the FA:
    £100,000,000 in grants, made up of £55,000,000 to cover operational losses, £25,000,000 for clubs below the EFL, £10,000,000 for the Women’s Super League and Championship, £10,000,000 for grassroots

    Funds to be made available by the Premier League through loans guaranteed by the clubs.

    Infrastructure Plan
    Infrastructure funding of 6% of Premier League gross revenues to be distributed annually to the top four divisions.

    Each club will receive £100 per seat annually.

    Infrastructure funding can only be used for stadia and fan experiences.

    Fan Charter
    A cap of £20 on Premier League away ticketing (adjusted every 3 years for inflation)

    Subsidised Premier League away travel

    Safe-standing sections at the discretion of each club, subject to government permission.

    Away sections must provide at least 3,000 or 8% of capacity, whichever is higher.

    Annual Good Causes
    An increase of 66% in annual contributions to good causes in England.

    A total of 5% of Premier League gross income to be contributed annually to good causes and grassroots football, to include focus on combatting racism and discrimination.

    Redistribution of Media & Sponsorship Revenues (three possible options)
    Option A: 50% equal, 25% current-year merit, 25% previous 3-year merit
    A greater emphasis will be placed on merit in both the Premier League and the Championship with half of payments reflecting positions over the past four years.

    Option B: Current Premier League distribution scheme (50% equal, 25% by merit and 25% by facility fees) but newly promoted clubs must holdback £25m of first two years in the Premier League to mitigate risk of relegation.

    Option C: Current Premier League distribution scheme, but newly promoted clubs receive 25% of their allocated Facility Fees for first 3 years in league.

    For all above options:
    Excluding parachute payments and including new infrastructure payments, solidarity from the Premier League to the English Football League would increase from 4% to 25%.

    Premier League and English Football League domestic and international media rights will be collectively sold by the Premier League.

    Compensation payments to The EFL and FA, infrastructure monies and related borrowings are deducted prior to determination of distributable revenues.

    Pyramid structure
    The Premier League, originally formed to house 18 clubs,would be reduced from 20 to 18 clubs.

    This would free up the calendar and, with fewer teams and an end to parachute payments, provide additional resources to the EFL.

    Reduction from 38 to 34 rounds of matches will also aid the national team.

    Championships, League One and League Two to all be made up of 24 clubs

    Promotion and relegation
    Premier League relegation. At least 2 clubs automatically relegated annually

    Championship promotion: 1st and 2nd automatically promoted.

    Club finishing 16th in the Premier League joins four team Championship play-off tournament with teams who finish 3rd, 4th and 5th. Semi-finals would be 16th place PL team vs 5th place Championships team nad 3rd place Championship team against 4th place Championship team.

    Championship relegation – 3 clubs

    Leagues One and Two: promotion of 3 clubs. Relegation of 4 clubs

    Club media
    All Premier League clubs have the exclusive rights to sell eight live matches a season directly to fans via their own digital platforms in all international territories.

    All Premier League and Championship clubs allowed to show limited in-match highlights on their own digital platforms.

    No more than 27 games per club will be shown live in UK per season

    Saturday 3pm broadcast blackouts remain to help protect EFL attendance

    Other competitions
    League Cup and Community Shield discontinued;

    Establishment of a new independent league for the Women’s professional game, not to be owned by the Premier League or The Football Association;

    FA Cup replays retained but there will be no replays in the winter break;

    Premier League begins later in August and pre-season friendlies extended;

    No more than two weeks between the end of the Premier League and the Champions League final;

    Premier League clubs must participate at least once every five years in the Premier League summer tournament.

    Other structural changes
    Elite Player Performance Plan funding is included in the revenue received by EFL clubs;

    Clubs in League One and below are no longer required to have an academy;

    Clubs permitted to have up to 15 players out on loan domestically at any time, including up to four in a single English club. Introduction of one month loans for players under 23, an ability to recall loanees in the event of managerial change, incentivise loanee clubs through payments based on future performance or sale of loaned players;

    Remove the scholarship clause permitting players to terminate at any stage.

    Cost Controls & Related Party Income
    Financial Fair Play rules that align with Uefa to ensure English clubs are not at a disadvantage in Europe;

    A £50 million cap per annum on all related party transactions and a more stringent ‘related party’ definition;

    Premier League executive provided with full access to clubs accounting information to investigate cost control

    A joint Premier League and Championship body will monitor cost controls.

    The English Football League will introduce hard salary caps.

    Governance
    All material matters relating to the business of the Premier League will require shareholder approval, except that the Board will decide whether to approve a new owner;

    All votes will require more than two-thirds majority to be approved;

    All other votes for the operation of the Premier League will be one-club, one-vote except those provided for under ‘Special Voting Rights’

    Special Voting Rights
    Each of the nine clubs who, at any time of determination, have been members of the Premier League continuously for more seasons than other clubs will be considered a ‘Long-Term Shareholder’.

    Two-thirds of the long-term shareholders can cause to be adopted without approval from the other clubs:

    i) the election or removal of the CEO and/or a member of the board;

    ii) amendments to cost control rules and regulations;

    iii) contracts for the sale of league broadcasting and media rights

    Two-thirds of the long-term shareholders can prevent from being adopted resolutions to:
    i) change the distribution rights of the sponsorship, commercial and broadcasting rights sold centrally;

    ii) change the distribution to clubs from other PL centralised rights or assets

    c) alter in a material way the nature of the competition

    Two-thirds of the long-term shareholders can veto the Premier League board’s approval of a proposed new owner.
     
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  6. Bronco

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    Fortunately for the "Big Six" the reduction of Premiership games gives the teams that qualify for Europe a far better chance to keep that gap between the top 6/7 and those below, most accept the Premier is actually three leagues in one, those challenging for a European place the 5/6 clubs under them playing to league position money and the rest playing for their Premier League lives.
     
  7. Bronco

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    It certainly makes you wonder.
     
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  8. Fordy117

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    The EFL wanted 250m from the PL from way back in July mate. The 250m hasn't arrived and isn't going to arrive just on a plate. To get the 250m changes were always going to have to be made.

    Last week it was the B teams starting in div 2 now it's this.

    I said League 1 & 2 acting like mickey mouse clubs in back in April wasn't going to help in the long run and it won't. Expect changes in our league soon.
     
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    I am surprised that the ‘Big Six’ haven’t approached La Liga, Bundesliga, Sire A and tried to form an exclusive continental Super League!

    The plan seems tailored to ensure that they retain their status and that no one else can join the ‘Big Six’. So Leicester’s and Everton’s have no chance.
     
  10. Dennis

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    I believe it's a good outcome for most EFL clubs. Cutting through all of the crap about the £250 mill, what the PL is really proposing is to scrap most if not all of the parachute payments and to use that money for the benefit of all EFL clubs and not just those who have been relegated from the PL. That's a good move in my view but will depend on how the EFL wants to distribute the extra funds to lower league clubs. The slightly worrying aspect is that the PL will have control of all football TV broadcasting including all EFL games. That might well prevent the EFL from entering into TV broadcasting contracts both domestically and around the world.

    Most of the other stuff is really about increasing the voting power of the Big 6 and creating more space in the football calendar which they'll want to fill with more lucrative European games. For somebody who has little interest in PL football, I'm ambivalent but can understand the Big 6's position. It's the PL clubs outside the Big 6 (or now 9) who might feel agrieved.
     
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  11. How

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    This has nothing to do with EFL wanting money but seems Parry is using it as an excuse to push the agenda. This is a total power grab by the big clubs
     
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    Did I read correctly that West Ham and Villa have played in more prem games than Man City and are going to granted "special status"? What actually is the big six though, what are the criteria to become one?
     
  13. Dennis

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    To be a member of the Big 6, the club has to be called Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Man City or Man Utd. No other names are permissible! That's a bit of a problem for the other 86 clubs.

    It's West Ham, Southampton and Everton who are to be given 'special status' (whatever that means) but it suggests that those 9 clubs will be first among equals when it comes to voting. Newcastle and Villa aren't in this 'special 9' although as they've pointed out, both clubs have spent more time in the top flight than Man City. But then Man City is backed by one of the wealthiest families in the world. That must just be a coincidence.

    Whether the PL and the rest of the PL clubs supports what is still a proposal by Liverpool and Man U remains to be seen! We haven't heard the last of these proposals imo.
     
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    Government and the premier league condemning it now. Good on them. Hope this never happens. Using covid as a bargaining chip to get what they want the big 6. Joke.
     
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    Just heard about it on the BBC news. Could be a lifesaver for some of the lower league clubs but I can see why most of the Premier League clubs don't want to relinquish their hold on the flow of cash that at present passes into their hands, and also why they don't want to see an elite group within the Premier League wielding more power - and kudos, than them.
     
  17. Fordy117

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    Do you think that Liverpool & Man Utd have thought about this for the last 3-6 months? Really? Seriously mate.

    Liverpool & Man Utd plus others would have been talking about his for years.

    The Government can go f*ck themselves anyway.
     
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    Something clearly needs to be done as the present model is broken. The elite already run the game and the EFL has no say whatsoever, the replies of the owners of lower league clubs on twitter already suggests they are more than happy with the proposal.
     
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    Depending on the distribution, the winners will be the top 9, most of league 1 and 2. The losers will be the also fans in the PL and those on the fringes in the championship
     
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    The 'big six' always gets an airing but who are the big six these days? Apart from the obvious you can add Leicester, Wolves and possibly now Everton. I think it spells the end for the league cup and long term possibly the FA cup for the top premiership clubs as the champions league and Europa league become more and more lucrative, the two less teams also gives clubs chance to make more money on the lucrative world tours that the big clubs yearn for.
     

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