The frightening increase in losses in lower league football continues

No you don’t do it that way . The appropriate way would be a two year deal , year one would be consummate with the league in question eg CC and if relegation were to follow then year 1 minus X% . Thats what the Prem should do then there would be zero need to have parachute payments intended and excused because clubs have over reached salaries..

If all clubs did it ie enforced, what would be the pitfall?

 

It doesn’t have to be overt though. Rupp could have increased the budget by 5%/10% in Jan, but this funded by players leaving, increased gates and commercial revenue, rather than his pocket.

the ambition would have been more spent with him funding it.

We don’t know anything for sure, but considering the ins and outs, I’d be suprised if the 5/10% isn’t about right

 

The galant play off final defeat at Wembley scenario…..

 

Cardiff lost £285 million last year. Staggering.

 

Sorry my bad. Was working at the same time and dealing with a total **** head. £35 mill still crazy.

 

As I've said before I'd be happy to be a midtable Championship side, but looking at some of those figures from Premiership and Championship losses I'm not too sure, the owner has to have very deep pockets to survive.

 

And only one brain cell mate

 

Every single one chasing the golden egg of the soon to be franchise ? Just like Rugby union is about to become .

 

and most of those have tasted the nectar of the Prem League and the parachute payments

 

Yes absolutely . Masks the real picture indeed.

 

The problem is clubs will still offer full wages even in the event of relegation. They'll take the risk to get player A, if it improves their chances of staying at the top table. Unfortunately I doubt the EFL can dictate what clubs pay their players and with very clever lawyers and accountants, there'll be ways to get around any rules to restrict salaries. For City to have any chance they'll probably end up shopping in the Scandinavian market along with probably half the teams in the championship already.

 

You wont it from the bandwagon jumpers who dont really care how much trouble the club get in so long as they push for promotion worse case being that they fook it off once it goes wrong (
Think this clubs fans get the meaning of how bad it can go bearing in what happened during the early 2000s
Still how the powers that be aint all over this shit is shocking

 

Reluctantly I have to agree .

 

Plymouth are having some money troubles with a redundancy process ongoing. Goes to show what the drop from the Championship to League 1. Awful news for their staff who'll now be worrying about losing their job, these will be the office staff on not much more than minimum wage.
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2026-03-09/jobs-at-risk-for-plymouth-argyle-in-club-restructure

 

Its losses accumulated whilst in the CC , nothing to do with their L1 status ( If you know what I mean) .

 

The players could all take a 15% wage cut and reduce the number of fellow employees losing their jobs
Now that would really endear them to the fan base