… This comes after EFL chairman Rick Parry called the payments “evil” despite it being present to help soften the financial impact of a club getting relegated back to the Championship.
British lawmakers called for a reset of English football finances following the coronavirus pandemic, proposing an end to parachute payments and salary caps for the lower leagues.The Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) warned of the dire financial situation facing many English Football League (EFL) clubs and called on the Premier League to do more to spread its wealth throughout the game.Parachute payments are paid to clubs for up to three seasons after they are relegated from the top-flight to avoid the financial shock of missing out on huge television income.Yet instead of protecting those clubs who fall out of the Premier League, they have had a destabilising impact as other clubs in the Championship overspend to try and keep up.EFL chairman Rick Parry described parachute payments as "an evil that must be eradicated” when he appeared before the MPs on the committee in May.This season six clubs in the Championship are in receipt of parachute payments, giving them an average of £40 million ($51 million) a club.
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