This gives the clubs with parachute payments a great advantage. What are the penalties for breaching the rules?
This gives the clubs with parachute payments a great advantage. What are the penalties for breaching the rules?
The usual things points deductions, transfer embargoes etc
This may explain Dael Fry leaving we couldn't offer the wages birmingham could and the stories around selling naming rights to the stadium and looking at free transfers and projects
It does appear to be tipped in favour of parachute payment clubs and ones with large fan bases.
We may also have an issue around the majority of our crowds are season ticket holders and not "tourist fans" who will spend money in the club shop etc.
The following article has some sobering analysis we may be bad but there are some horrific figures in the table
Thanks for this interesting article, Paul. It certainly is sobering. The financial picture for so many Championship clubs is clearly precarious.
Despite Boro being really well managed and supported by Steve Gibson, the article shows that we ourselves still have to bring our income/ staff wages ratio down from 97% to 85% maximum this season to avoid financial penalties. Some other clubs, of course, are in far worse positions. But it also shows why Boro didn’t renew Dael Fry’s contract and why we’ve started shopping in the Oxford United bargain basement. Given the need to replace in several squad areas and to build a stronger and more balanced squad this year, we could well find ourselves struggling to mount a serious promotion challenge. I hope I’m wrong. We’ll have to spend the Hackney money very wisely.
whic reminds me, i will have to get things organised before the start ofcthe season and that is catching up fast. Busy busy for me at the moment, but I will post up the details for the coning season's COTS. Probably next week.@paulinboro I know it is early days, but given our form in the last 15 games or so and the current squad, mid table will be the pick for the COT’s table at best.
My own two-pennies worth on Fael Fry. I am sad but not sorry he has moved on. We need someone more likely to deliver a full season, not 75% or less of a season. I wosh him good luck and hope he is successful at Birmingham, but I suspect it will be similar to hisctime here, good when he is fit, but sporadic