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Premier League and EFL: English football is finished without deal, says Peter Ridsdale
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“English football is finished” if Premier League clubs cannot agree a “competitive and sustainable” deal with the English Football League, says Peter Ridsdale.
“There is no offer,” Ridsdale, an executive director at Preston North End, told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“It’s very frustrating for the whole of English football.”
It had been expected the Premier League would emerge from a meeting on Monday with tangible proposals to put forward to the EFL.
The overall sum, which would be partly tied to future TV revenues, is expected to be around £900m over six years.
“There is no disagreement with the EFL clubs – it is with the Premier League clubs as to how much of the money is going to come down and where it is coming from, ie, which of the Premier League clubs are going to give us the money,” added Ridsdale, one of three elected representatives from the Championship on the EFL Board.
“We’ve made it clear to the Premier League that if they put their proposals into a formal offer, we would recommend acceptance. We’re sitting here today and we have not had that offer. Despite the fact we were told it was coming last September.”
One of the key parts of any deal for the EFL would be the removal of parachute payments made to clubs relegated from the Premier League.
“All we want is to make sure we have a sustainable and competitive EFL and obviously you see the cliff-edge between the Premier League and the Championship, with the parachute clubs coming down getting something like £50m in the first year and £40m-odd in the second year, having got relegated,” Ridsdale said.
“We’ve got teams at the top of our division paying five times more in wages than we [Preston North End] are, and that’s showing because they’re at the top end of the Championship – and they’re doing that based on parachute payments that are coming down from the Premier League.
“The top three teams are Leicester City, Leeds United and Ipswich, then Southampton are fourth. Three of those four came down last year and have got parachute payments.
“If we don’t keep it competitive and sustainable, then English football is finished.”
Should Leicester, Leeds and Southampton all be promoted this season, it would be the first time all three relegated clubs have returned to the Premier League at the first opportunity.
Ridsdale spoke a day after Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport committee, accused top-flight clubs of “parking the bus”.
“They’re parking the bus in the sense that they haven’t delivered anything to us yet despite the fact that in September that said they would,” Ridsdale said. “They’d outlined what it would be and we said we would accept it.
“We have to have a sustainable pyramid in this country. We’ve got 92 clubs, 20 of which are in the Premier League, and the vast amount of that money is staying with the top 20 clubs.
“I think it is essential for all communities in this country that all the football clubs are sustainable – and they can’t be on the current split of funds going into English football.”
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US Open women’s final 2024: Aryna Sabalenka holds off Jessica Pegula to win third Grand Slam title
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After losing to Gauff in last year’s final, a tearful Sabalenka admitted she had struggled to deal with the crowd, later saying the noise was so loud it “blocked my ears”.
The atmosphere was no different this time around, with Pegula receiving the majority of the support from the packed 23,000-seater stadium.
There were times when Sabalenka looked like the occasion would again get the better of her as she hit 34 unforced errors and five double faults.
Once the type of player who failed to keep her emotions in check, she has taken active steps to strengthen her mentality, including working with a psychologist, to become one of the most consistent competitors on the WTA Tour.
With injuries disrupting her season – she struggled with a stomach problem at the French Open before a shoulder issue ruled her out of Wimbledon – Sabalenka has got back on track with successive titles after beating Pegula in the final of last month’s Cincinnati Open.
“I wish she would have at least let me get one set. We had a tough match in Cincinnati a few weeks ago and she’s one of the best in the world,” Pegula said.
“She’s super powerful and isn’t going to give you anything, she can take the racquet out of your hand.”
Sabalenka’s victory in New York sees her become the first player to win both hard-court Slams in the same year since Angelique Kerber in 2016.
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Republic of Ireland 0-2 England: What BBC Radio 5 Live saw in Lee Carsley’s first game
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Ian Dennis
Even before we had gone live on air for 5 Live, it was noticeable how involved Lee Carsley was with the warm-up.
The interim head coach even placed the red and white cones out in the England half of the field.
He was waiting on the pitch as a solitary figure before the players came out to warm up.
Carsley was actively involved along with his assistants Ashley Cole and Joleon Lescott. It’s a significant change in approach to that of Gareth Southgate or previous managers.
I even remember Fabio Capello, when he was England head coach, watching intently from the sidelines along with his assistant Franco Baldini – but they would study and monitor the opposition.
Carsley was purely focused on his England players and looked comfortable as a tracksuit manager.
John Murray
If you were looking for a different approach from Lee Carsley, it was there right from the start. There was an initial mis-step when he turned right to the home dugout when he first walked down the tunnel, but it was a tracksuited Carsley who laid out the balls and the cones and oversaw the whole of the warm-up.
It served to underline how he wishes to be seen very much as the head coach. And if England replicate the first-half performance, he will not be interim for too much longer.
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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Finlay Graham, Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw win trio of golds for GB
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Finlay Graham, Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw won gold medals on Saturday morning at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, taking Great Britain’s tally to 45.
Graham, 24, won the men’s C1-3 road race, while Wiggs, 44, was victorious in the women’s VL2 200m Va’a Single final.
Henshaw, 37, continued GB’s Para-canoe success, winning the women’s VL3 Single final, where there was also a silver medal for Hope Gordon. David Phillipson took silver in the men’s KL2 Single final.
Daniel Powell has guaranteed himself at least a silver medal in the men’s -90kg men’s J1 judo.
In Para-equestrian, Sophie Wells won the bronze medal in the Grade V individual freestyle event.
Great Britain now have a total of 106 medals at the Paralympics, including those 45 golds. Only China, with 85 golds and 195 total medals, have more.
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