Grumpy Old Man
Striker
I agree it's not a problem this year. But it still needs planning for the worst. Even if we do go up, any revenue rise is likely to be swallowed up by promotion related wage increases, so it still makes sense to keep the overall bill controllable now.But the £2.5m will be treated as a one-off cost for this year, and this year's parachute payment also technically counts as income towards FFP, so there is still plenty of headroom.
What they have to do is get the club to break-even next year (as no parachute payment). I thought they said the gap was only £2-3m at the end of last year, so getting Catts/Oviedo and Love's wages off the profit and loss for next season gets us more or less where we need to be.
That is all perfectly sensible, as we can't guarantee going up...
What would be interesting is to know how much of the parachute payment (if any) is left allocated.
It might be sensible to keep whatever is left as an emergency fund anyway but it would nice to know numbers..