It's a chicken and egg situation. If you're a player (or a player's agent), you're not going to sign a contract with a relegation clause in it when you know that the team you're signing for will get parachute payments. Especially as there's likely to be a number of mid-lower prem teams who'd...
Teams getting relegated have a huge financial burden on them in that they have to honour to 3-4 year contracts given to players on Premier League deals. When was the last time a team bounced back because of parachute payments? West Ham went straight back up 2 seasons ago, but even that was by...