Swansea's accounts

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

The amount of really decent youth I’ve played against who hailed from the areas you mention sludge is frightening, they just drift away from football in their late teens, no one comes in and develops them.

Somali lad from Butetown moved up to Manchester by United several years back , don't know what happened to him . Surely Cardiff City scouts should be working with local school PE teachers to say hey we have a lad , 14 , great talent , come and have a look 👍

[WJ99mobile]

If wages, fees and football in general was priced correctly parachute payments wouldn't be needed

Just serves to keep the big clubs big

Swansea are crap but manage to get results.

[Rjk]

If wages, fees and football in general was priced correctly parachute payments wouldn't be needed

Just serves to keep the big clubs big

Swansea are crap but manage to get results.

Yeah parachute payments are a terrible idea, designed to make it much more likely that the premier league clubs come back up.

The last 2 seasons 4 out of the final top 6 had parachute payments. It'll probably be a similar story next season.

The clubs coming down will get something like £42m the first season, 35 million the second and 15 the third (if they've been in the premier league more than one season).


Compare that with a club like Brentford, who's entire income is about 15m, other clubs are getting multiple times that, just from parachute payments.


They say that it's to make sure that clubs don't go bust having to maintain player salaries after relegation - instead they could make it compulsory for all players to have 50% relegation salary reductions or something lke that - then distribute the money fairly