Premier League clubs have been accused of making an “empty promise” about a new funding deal for the English Football League (EFL).
The two bodies’ representatives had a meeting between clubs earlier this week which ended without an agreement on a New Deal.
Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport committee, accused clubs of what she described as “parking the bus“.
Dinenage said, “The longer this deadlock goes on, the more the stated commitment from Premier League clubs to striking a deal with the rest of the pyramid looks like nothing more than an empty promise.
“With the richest teams in the country continuing to park the bus to block a financial settlement, the Premier League’s number should now be up and the government must urgently introduce its much-trailed legislation to bring an independent regulator into play.”
She further said that “Every day that goes by without an agreement threatens the financial sustainability of clubs in communities up and down the country.”
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Premier League clubs were recently told that failure to reach a funding deal with the EFL would mean one being imposed on them.
It had been expected that the Premier League would emerge from this week’s meeting 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.
While speaking on the development, former Manchester United defender and co-owner of Salford City Gary Neville has described it as “an absolute disgrace“.
“It is about the welfare of the game and the sustainability of the whole league,” he said.
Neville added that “The Premier League at this moment in time are negligent in their dismissive nature, just pushing it down the road, thinking ‘maybe a regulator will sort it, maybe we’ll sort it’ and not doing anything.
“That’s not good governance, it just demonstrates to me that they are not looking after the whole game like they should be.
“It angers me every time I see they have a Premier League meeting and seem to look after themselves but not look after the rest of football.”
