Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
At the end of the season we were relegated from the Premier League, we would still have been in receipt of that seasons TV and rights money which was not finally calculated until the League finished and our position was known. The parachute payments were for the following two seasons, the second one of which has just ended. Therefore it is entirely likely that the parachute payments are made at the end of each year. Also the parachute payments are 55% for the first year and 45% for the second, so actually drop by about £6m, not £35m. TV money to all clubs is mainly paid out at the season end, with possibly interim payments around the New Year.
Broadcasting rights money to EPL clubs is not held back until the end of the season when the final apportionment (based on live TV coverage decisions) is known - is it?

I thought it was paid in instalments? With both parachute and solidarity payments to EFL clubs paid in a similar way. The intention is to cushion the financial impact of relegation and that hits from the start of the season, not the end.

In May last year the EPL clubs were in the middle of a massive argument with Sky and BT about refunding a % of the TV money already paid out by the broadcasters - and my impression was that they didn't send the EPL/clubs a cheque at the end of the season and then ask for some of it back a week later.

Football was suspended in early March 2020, and by then the EPL clubs already had a major part of the broadcasting money! Surely the same applies to knock-on payments further down the football pyramid?