Panic in the Championship

Removal, as a solution. The fever of immediate success marks the decisions in the two major leagues of English football. With many millions at stake and most budgets in the red, the most difficult clubs do not hesitate to change their coach as an immediate remedy for their problems, looking for a desperate change of momentum.

If the dynamic is generalized to Championship (the English second division), in premier league The most controversial in recent years seven of the nine clubs, from the mid-table down, which are in danger of the depths of relegation, have changed coaches. Only Leicester and West Ham They resisted the temptation, because going down a level would require a sharp drop in the income they receive from television rights and a recurring survival drama.

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Rarely has there been a year with so many teams involved in the Premiership fighting hard to save themselves. The nine clubs (Crystal Palace, Wolverhampton, Leeds United, Everton, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, West Ham, Bournemouth and Southampton) are separated by four periods. Now the concern is universal. He Crystal palacewhich marks the line of danger, is also infected with nerves and, fearing to descend, interrupts the work of Patrick Scallop, fired him after a year and a half of good work. The ‘eagles’ are twelfth, with 27 points and 10 games to play.

But West Ham, seventeenth, marking well in relegation, is only three points away, a victory. None of the nine clubs are safe from a drift that would mean the loss of many privileges and the start of a winding path.

This has happened before with traditional Premier League teams, such as middlesbrough, Stoke City, blackburn rovers, Sheffield United, watford, sunderlands or both Burnleywho is now the remaining leader of the Championship, led by the Belgian Vincent company, and fight to get back as soon as possible. But you already know the history like leeds united or the Nottingham Forest which also falls this year to the nine teams in danger, how much will it cost to return to the ‘big’, when you live the test of playing in the second English competition, with 24 clubs, equaled and argued as the most.

The dynamics are paramount in the decisive stretch where clubs play out the season and the future. And the Crystal palace, which started well, did not win for two and a half months. The concern with Selhurst Park was completed in Vieira, to entrust the task to a 75-year-old veteran, Roy Hodgson. At this point, it seems like the worst decision, but the fear of the Championship has many other examples.

History and data suggest that changing coaches was a smart move. There have been 21 clubs in the last decade that have changed managers in the Premier to avoid relegation to Championship and yet they fell. No one notices, not even in the Palace. At the first sign of trouble, and seeing the cliff, they gave up on the merry-go-round, which they had been on before. bournemouth, wolverhampton , Everton and southampton. Impatient to endure bad results and doom Championship drama is even more prevalent. A total of 15 coaches have been sacked this season and five clubs already have their third coach.

Unpaid salaries, outstanding debts and many incidents related to economic problems mark the development of Championship. The competition is very loss-making and it is only profitable for three teams (two directly and one through the playoffs) to achieve the long-awaited promotion to the Premier. This is one of the gaps that the ‘white paper’ on football management wants to correct, a document that establishes the government’s plan to create an independent regulator, which could prevent the participation of clubs with the most debts and which are seeking an agreement between the Premier and the EFL for a greater redistribution (25%) of the 4,200 million euros of annual revenue that premier league making up the television rights, which will help to correct the current dark situation.

And it is that at the bottom of the second English championship, the drama is enormous. Six teams are in danger of relegation to League One, including the bottom team Wigan Athletic, who only lost by three points as punishment for not paying his players. Leaving the second tier costs an immediate drop in revenue of about 8.5 million. There are late payments, urgent sales negotiation teams, such as Town of Huddersfieldand great losses, as in City of Cardiffthose backdrop paradigms of the fight for survival that promise a chaotic end.