snootyfenooty
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The problem there is the parachute payments..which need never exist. Enforce relegation clauses lowering wages for every Premier league player if the club is relegated, and then we'd have a more equitable Championship as well as a more competitive Premier League ( the players definitely wouldn't want to go down in that scenario). FFP would then empower the clubs who have the best self generating revenue streams, and have an owner willing to invest to whatever limit the authorities set (currently 39million every three years in the Championship).
If you stopped parachute payments then the money allocated for this (which is considerable) would simply be divvied up between the premiership clubs. Yes, the championship would be more competitive but the premiership clubs would then become even richer and the gap between the rest would widen, it would make things worse, not better. Parachute payments are part and parcel of the premiership - no one has the authority to tell them they can't do it anymore and they would be told to mind their own business.