but that's not quite the same, is it.
Pompey will receive the parachute payment when they get relegated from the PL - that is a dead on cert, no if or buts about is as every team gets it when they get relegated. So that have at least £25 Million guaranteed in the next year or so.
Newport County had as asset that they later realised for 2.5 Million, true but he was never guaranteed to be worth that. He might have gone for 1 Million, or broken both legs in a car crash and retired before any of the big boys sniffed around.