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To walk around the Playford Road Training Ground in Ipswich Town, you do not think it is a club on the verge of charge. The atmosphere is positive. Keran McKenna is still committed to a refined coaching approach that is praised by top clubs, and the players are largely satisfied.
A clear point is that they have a lot of time to use for their position, cut the adrift in the lower three, but the mood is not really a sense of resignation. The feeling has been a long time that he performed more in earning back-to-back promotion from League One, and attempted to stay in the Premier League.
It is impossible to dispute, but it raises some questions with more uncertain answers, becoming real philosophical issues for English football.
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Keran McKenna’s Ipswich is to be re -prepared – but there is still an understanding that he has done over -performance (Getty image)
How enough would ever be for a club like Ipswich? When will a good time come?
This would be a particularly difficult moment for almost any promoted club. This weekend is almost certain to mark the early moment in a Premier League season that all the allegations would have been confirmed, but it is absolutely sure to set another record in this season. This will mark the second gradual campaign that three promoted clubs are back directly. A clean sweep, again. Worse than this, it is with so many whitewash for Ipswich, Lecester City and Southampton. There have been many sports when they have been barely competitive.
With a collective return of 0.5 points per game, as it stands, it is also the worst drum for three promoted clubs, as well as all three have been resumed.
This condemnation is not important for three, as they are only part of a trend. This year Derby County’s record of 2007-08 could “beat” if Southampton threatened this year, its serious challenge is likely to be more common. It follows 16 points of Sheffield United in the previous season.
The three are part of 10 promoted clubs, which have tolerated a single domed season in the Premier League since 2020, the worst magic over a period of five years. Between 2010 and 2015, on the contrary, only five went straight down.
These are not arbitrary cut-off periods in the half decade, either.
Also how these Tripson coincides with widespread growth in football – decrease in 20 teams and increase in TV money – 2020 was a clear season of game changes. It was when Kovid interrupted football, and when its long -term effects began to distort the broad game. Brakes open a broader partition open.
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Clubs like Brentford and Bornmouth have managed to live and build up, but the Premier League is getting more than a closed shop (Getty image)
The Premier League used its immense broadcasting funds, which was never more important when the stadium was empty, to make a distance from the rest of the game. This also applies to European rivals as well as EFL. It is no coincidence that the discussion about the Premier League “Rescue Package” for the English Pyramid is still going on, feeding in the debate about the need for an independent football regulator.
What Split did was essentially formed a “Premier League 2” in two fast stranded divisions. The way Phulham and Norwich City traded places in the league for four consecutive sessions between 2018 and 2022 – one is going up, one is going down – it seems that it has developed into something wide. The rate of return is accelerating.
Since 2020 allegations, six other clubs have already gone down and have gone up again, three – Bernley, Leeds with United and Sheffield United – have been set to do so at least twice. Chris Wilder’s side can go to the third time in six years if they make it through the play-off of this season.
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After winning promotion from the championship, Bernley is returning directly (Getty image)
There is a obvious reason for this, has been directly associated with debate since 2020, but is actually going back further.
This is a financial difference between EFL and the Premier League, which has increased from £ 11m to £ 3.3bn in 1992 today. The shield is so standing. Premier League broadcast money and parachute payment every year this problem is deteriorating, from both ends.
In the Premier League, even two to three years of money broadcasting makes a lot of difference. This may have created a permanent difference for some clubs in the competition since 2013. This was when the game-changing international broadcasting contract came into force, which fulfilled the revenue up to £ 5.5BN from outside the UK.
The effect has been the most obvious in clubs such as Crystal Palace and West Ham United. They were the first Vintage “Yo-Yo” club, which required a clear price in promotion. These days, they are entangled in the top flight. Older concerns about potentially down that shaped their campaigns, now feel less relevant, as organizations of very low relative resources are coming out.
Or, more relevant, coming up and then going down, without being able to get a consistent run in a way. At the bottom, for one, Southampton has found it more difficult than the previous propaganda, but without being able to explain to really completely. If you manage “Fluk It”, such as Luteon Town, almost no hope.
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Southampton ruined from the beginning after winning the play-off finals (Getty image)
In the championship, then, on the other side there is a similar effect. Clubs are constantly going up and down, which are benefiting from the payment of parachutes, making another tier in turn, which is more estimated as one of the most competitive divisions in the world, as long as the long -term herald.
The Chief Executive of a Championship Organization laughed when the FA recently issued club payment to agents, as Leeds United, only under £ 19M, was almost double the salary bill of the Lower Club.
All this is due to the fact that the Premier League’s aid plan for the pyramid has been central to discuss about independent football regulators, as the future of parachute payment.
EFL wants the controversial measure to be eliminated, smooth even with the financial shield. The Premier League argues that payment of parachutes is necessary to encourage competition, especially in a world where 11 clubs can have qualifying for Europe in a given season. The effect of this season can possibly be seen in this season, with a healthy middle class push for the Champions League locations.
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The forest survived in the previous season and may qualify for the Champions League of this campaign (Getty image)
And yet there may be another direction that this debate is prominent. The competition law has recently been a major football theme, in which sports officials have lost a series of cases. It can now be a legal argument that parachutes restrict competition by preventing clubs from reaching the market for premiere league television rights.
The status of the Premier League about parachutes required to encourage competition can be even more important, as it can be argued in another way. If you want the club to be more competitive, money should be given after promotion instead of money. But it is not very possible that the established Premier League clubs will vote for it.
Many people in the division will maintain it instead, the more serious it looks below, it is still too early to talk about the trends. For part of the Premier League, 2021–22 and Fulham, Bornmouth and Nottingham Forest are an example of installing Brentford, which have been in 2022-23.
There are individual explanations for demonstrations, from the intelligence of Brentford and Bornmouth, from the Forests to the Nottingham Forest.
It is not difficult to feel that there are factors for a trend, though. The mood cannot remain so positive for a long time, even returning to the championship with some regrets such as Ipswich. This is a debate that is ready to go up rather than going down.