Its a really difficult one isn;t it. When they talk about parachute payments they
tend to completely gloss over/ignore the fact that the teams that have parachute payments have them because they earnt them through promotion.
Us and Watford have not necessarily bounced back this year just because we have parachute payments. We have done so because we have better players and are a better team than other teams and in some cases (although less so us than Watford) thats because we were a premier league team as well as the fact we built this team over a number of seasons. Ok having parachute payments perhaps enablked us to keep one or two more of those players than we might otherwise but they are not the reason we had them in the first place.
Abolishing parachute payments would basically make it absolutely impossible for a team like us to compete when we get into the premier league. Its incrediblky hard as it is but no player is going to sign for us if they have a 75% wage reduction on relegation as that boffin suggests or if they do then we will have to have release clauses meaning we get no money for them.
Posted By: Jim on May 13th 2021 at 12:23:39
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- Time article on parachute payments (NCFC) - megson, May 13, 11:51:37
- It's strange that (NCFC) - CarrowOnRegardless, May 13, 12:52:33
- I read it in Webber's voice. (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, May 13, 12:38:48
- Its a really difficult one isn;t it. When they talk about parachute payments they (NCFC) - Jim, May 13, 12:23:39
- Agreed, the Para payments are a nonsense, but removing them (NCFC) - megson, May 13, 12:53:05
- If it he's right,it's very easy to look at our short term achievements and put it (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 13, 11:58:16
- Yes. We actually bought pretty much all of our best players when we didn't have parachute (NCFC) - Jim, May 13, 12:25:55
- whilst this has helped Norwich its clear that most of the EFL clubs are running on (NCFC) - pinkney, May 13, 12:06:40
- Vmt - our success has come from a bit of luck and good decision making (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 13, 14:10:09
- I agree, promoted teams need to be able to attract new players, not going to do that (NCFC) - megson, May 13, 12:54:16
- Yep.👍 (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 13, 12:08:09
- Reading on i'm convinced it is Webber. (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, May 13, 11:52:26
- Ticks the box re promotion with and without parachute payments (n/m) (NCFC) - loz, May 13, 11:59:30
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