2023-05-30 00:03:03
With the end of the season comes the time to collect the grades. Joy in the clubs that have achieved their objectives and dismay in those that have not given the expected minimum. And among all of them, three teams that will lose the category, a real drama for the fans and the entities, which will have to readapt to a new reality, that of being a soldier in a lower division and live in an economically smaller and different scenario.
With ten days to go before the League ended, the relegation of the Elche. This past Sunday it was Espanyol who became a Second Division team after their insufficient draw at Mestalla and this coming weekend Cádiz, Getafe, Valencia, Almería, Celta and Valladolid They will compete for the remaining place. The economic impact of being downgraded is decisive for the clubs’ accounts and for their entire operation. To begin with, television rights are drastically reduced, as is sponsorship income, as it directly affects their visibility. To all this, we must add the reduction in revenue from the box office and subscriptions. In the sports field, the leaders have to find the balance between preventing the Flight of talent (the great soccer players do not want to play second) and that the salary mass of some ‘First’ contracts do not drown them. To help the transition not be so abrupt, LaLiga created several seasons ago the ‘sure by relegation’also called ‘compensation fund’, an economic aid that the teams receive in their first season in the new category, with the aim of adapting their capital to reality.
In this sense, it must be pointed out that not all clubs receive the same amount, but that this is determined by three factors (it is included in Book 8 of the LaLiga General Regulations): the total revenue volume in the last five years, the income received in the distribution of money from televisions and years of permanence first. The program is designed to benefit the teams with more income and history. The example is staged by Espanyol, which when relegated in the 2019-20 season perceived €30 million from the employers, the highest aid in the history of Spanish football, after the blue and white team had been in the First Division for 23 consecutive years. In the previous campaign Málaga entered 20.1 million.
This season, the patronal destined 40 million to that compensation fund and the distribution will be defined when the team that closes the list of descendants is known. In Elche they calculate that they will receive between 10 and 15 million. Your budget will be completed with the television rights (it will go from 45 million to 7 or 8) and the subscription campaign, which would report between two and three million more. In total, the club from Elche assumes that it will have to present a budget of around 20 million euros.
salary cap
Another aspect to take into account refers to the salary caps that LaLiga must approve. In the Second Division, the first ten squads are above 10 million euros (Granada, Leganés and Eibar exceed 12 million). From eleven to twenty-two, the average number of budgets is 6.5 million. A factor that should not go unnoticed in Cornellá after Espanyol is preparing a revolution in its squad and in the sports area at a structural level (it would have occurred even maintaining the category). Only Luis Garcia its continuity is assured. Aleix Vidal and Pedrosa will not continue, as their contract ends. Neither did any of the loanees (Denis Suárez, Vini Souza, Álvaro Fernández, Pierre-Gabriel and Dani Gómez), while it is difficult to keep players like Joselu, Cabrera, César Montes and Braithwaite. «We have a too big shield that in many moments we have not represented. We’ll be back,” he warned. Sergi Daderwhich has also earned the right to decide its continuity.
The immediate future of the club is in the hands of Chen Yansheng: «For our part there can only be a single commitment: to work from this very moment to recover the lost category by dedicating all the resources at our disposal». He Espanyol in the previous five declines, it rose the following year. It is the goal because history says that the teams that have not achieved it have suffered a lot to return and some have even been on the brink of extinction.
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