Leicester At It Yet Again! (30 Viewers)

[HadjiChippo]

Apparently they are that fed up the away end barely celebrated their equaliser last night

I was watching the highlights and assumed that Sky had messed the audio up, it was odd.

 

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[Sick Boy]

Prob the worst fanbase in the entire football league.

 

[Chris1987]

Don't they lose parachute payments if relegated

No but they've taken loans against them already

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Consider yourself corrected.

I believe that the only way the payments stop early is if they get promoted back, or go into administration.

There is no action if they get relegated again, receive a points sanction or (rather annoyingly) breach PSR rules.

As much as I want to see Leicester punished as severely as possible, it just wouldn't seem fair to remove a clubs parachute payments after getting relegated again, even if that would likely be down to poor self-management. You'd still likely have some players on very high wages that you'd be trying to shift while they'd have even lower income to service that in an even lower league. Seems a good way to ensure clubs go out of business.

Now, whether parachute payments should even be a thing, and whether we need other, fairer, ways to safeguard teams relegated from the ridiculousness that is the PL, is a completely different question. But if you get parachute payments in the Championship, you should still get them in L1 (or even L2) as well.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

As much as I want to see Leicester punished as severely as possible, it just wouldn't seem fair to remove a clubs parachute payments after getting relegated again, even if that would likely be down to poor self-management. You'd still likely have some players on very high wages that you'd be trying to shift while they'd have even lower income to service that in an even lower league. Seems a good way to ensure clubs go out of business.

Now, whether parachute payments should even be a thing, and whether we need other, fairer, ways to safeguard teams relegated from the ridiculousness that is the PL, is a completely different question. But if you get parachute payments in the Championship, you should still get them in L1 (or even L2) as well.

It looks like the football regulator wants to get his teeth into parachute payments. It would be just our luck to get ourselves into the PL and then get relegated without them, when we've had to compete with so many clubs benefiting from that advantage these last few years.

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

Very strange fans reaction to getting a late equaliser away from home at a team five places higher in the table.
Sure might have wanted a win but a draw away is normally considered OK-ish.