Project “Big Picture”

kirsikka said:
And when we need to slash next season's wage budget by £20 million to account for the reduced payments and another £15-20m the season after leaving us with one of the smallest budgets in the league, with each season a struggle to stay up?

I don't get this belief that we'll somehow maintain the status quo of being competitive if we don't go up. We'll have the battle we had in the PL, only near the foot of this division.
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Since the formation of the PL 42 clubs have been relegated. I will discount ourselves and Newcastle as they have always gone straight back up and we haven’t had the opportunity to yet but still might.

Of the remaining 40 clubs, 26 have gone down to L1 or lower. Of the clubs that haven’t yet gone into L1 include Stoke, Boro, Birmingham, Huddersfield and Cardiff who wouldn’t be a massive shock to drop out of the trap door.

My point is it’s very difficult for any club to establish themselves in The Championship. Either you get back up or drop further. If it has happened to Leicester, Forest and Wolves it is almost inevitable to happen to us.

And that’s not just me being defeatist. If Palace, Brighton or Burnley got relegated, unless they got back quickly, I believe it’s likely they’d eventually drop to L1 too.
 
If this happens the game dies. No one outside of the top 6 will ever stand a chance of achieving the ‘dream’ of becoming league champions. And why do we love sport and football in particular? Because of one major aspect, hope. When you take away the hope then you have nothing left. It all becomes pointless. Money is evil.
 
Here are those proposals:

• £250 million immediately to the EFL to compensate its clubs for lost matchday revenue, deducted from future television revenue earnings and financed by a loan taken out by the Premier League

• Special status for the nine longest serving clubs – and the vote of only six of those “long-term shareholders” required to make major changes, including amending rules and regulations, agreeing contracts, removal of the chief executive, and a wide-ranging veto including on club ownership

• Premier League to go to 18 clubs from 20

• £100 million one-off gift to the FA to cover its coronavirus losses, the non-league game, the women’s game, the grassroots

• 8.5 per cent of annual net Premier League revenue to go on operating costs and “good causes” including the FA

• From the remainder, 25 per cent of all combined Premier League and Football League revenues to go to the EFL clubs

• Six per cent of Premier League gross revenues to pay for stadium improvements across the top four divisions, calculated at £100 per seat

• New rules for the distribution of Premier League television income, overseas and domestic, including proposals that base one portion on performance over three years in the league

• The abolition of the League Cup and the Community Shield

• 24 clubs each in the Championship, League One and League Two reducing the professional game overall from 92 clubs to 90

• A women's professional league independent of the Premier League or the FA

• Two sides automatically relegated from the Premier League every season and the top two Championship teams promoted. The 16th place Premier League club in a play-off tournament with the Championship’s third, fourth and fifth placed teams.

• Financial fair play regulations in line with Uefa, and full access for Premier League executive to club accounts

• A fan charter including capping of away tickets at £20, away travel subsidised, a focus on a return to safe standing, a minimum away allocation of eight per cent capacity

• Later Premier League start in August to give greater scope for pre-season friendlies, and requirement for all clubs to compete once every five years in a summer Premier League tournament

• Huge changes to loan system allowing clubs to have 15 players out on loan domestically at any one time and up to four at a single club in England
 
Check out the loan stuff in that last bullet point. What a horrible idea. Chelsea already have a mass loan farm, they'd be six of them in operation with 90 players spread across the FL on the back of this. It'd be awful.

Then there's the third bottom PL club going into the play offs rather than straight relegation. The only reason I can see for this is they're hedging their bets in case one of them has a disaster of a season to make sure they get a second chance at staying up.
 
kirsikka said:
Here are those proposals:

• £250 million immediately to the EFL to compensate its clubs for lost matchday revenue, deducted from future television revenue earnings and financed by a loan taken out by the Premier League

• Special status for the nine longest serving clubs – and the vote of only six of those “long-term shareholders” required to make major changes, including amending rules and regulations, agreeing contracts, removal of the chief executive, and a wide-ranging veto including on club ownership

• Premier League to go to 18 clubs from 20

• £100 million one-off gift to the FA to cover its coronavirus losses, the non-league game, the women’s game, the grassroots

• 8.5 per cent of annual net Premier League revenue to go on operating costs and “good causes” including the FA

• From the remainder, 25 per cent of all combined Premier League and Football League revenues to go to the EFL clubs

• Six per cent of Premier League gross revenues to pay for stadium improvements across the top four divisions, calculated at £100 per seat

• New rules for the distribution of Premier League television income, overseas and domestic, including proposals that base one portion on performance over three years in the league

• The abolition of the League Cup and the Community Shield

• 24 clubs each in the Championship, League One and League Two reducing the professional game overall from 92 clubs to 90

• A women's professional league independent of the Premier League or the FA

• Two sides automatically relegated from the Premier League every season and the top two Championship teams promoted. The 16th place Premier League club in a play-off tournament with the Championship’s third, fourth and fifth placed teams.

• Financial fair play regulations in line with Uefa, and full access for Premier League executive to club accounts

• A fan charter including capping of away tickets at £20, away travel subsidised, a focus on a return to safe standing, a minimum away allocation of eight per cent capacity

• Later Premier League start in August to give greater scope for pre-season friendlies, and requirement for all clubs to compete once every five years in a summer Premier League tournament

• Huge changes to loan system allowing clubs to have 15 players out on loan domestically at any one time and up to four at a single club in England
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Who has the final say on all this?
 
The reason why I will always hate Liverpool, Man Utd and the like.
Football positions and your status is on merit.
You are but one team, and hence one vote.
I would love one of these so called elite to screw up and get relegated one year.
Watch the b'stards bleat!
 
From the BBC:

No date has been set for the proposed new-style league to be in operation but sources have suggested 2022-23 is not out of the question.
 
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