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07-05-2020 | 21:33 • Football
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Darren Bent: With no parachute payments you might have to offload loads
Former Aston Villa striker Darren Bent believes the removal of the parachute payments would harm the clubs that will relegate to the Championship.
Earlier, it has been reported that the Premier League could remove parachute payments, a 4-year-period payment for the clubs that are relegated from the Premier League in order to support them financially.
Villa, currently in the relegation zone, could be forced to sell many players to keep financial balance. This all could not happen, if PL keeps the parachute payment system. However, with the coronavirus pandemic affecting the whole football world could push them for radical changes.
“The parachute payments, if teams lose that, it’s a tough one to come back from. I can understand why they’d do that, with the pandemic and the amount of money that’s been lost, to be handing out that money might be difficult.” Bent told Football Insider.
“The teams that go down now, like Villa, that could cripple them. That’s where you might start seeing teams that do go down from whatever league having to literally sell their best players to be able to fund it.
“At the end of the day, it’s very rare you get a team that will go down to the Championship that manages to keep hold of all their players but when you’ve got a parachute payment, which helps, you do get to keep hold of some of them.
“With no parachute payments you might have to offload loads and then you’re talking about situations where they go down and it might take five, ten years to come back up.” Bent added.
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