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If you keep a fairly L1 playing budget with Championship revenue share you can only be millions of pounds better off. Wycombe will come straight back down but will make a huge profit - it’s a unique position that only the three teams going into the Championship this season will find themselves in, and none of them are burdened with the financial overheads that your average Championship club has. They’re going in there with L1 overheads and Championship revenue shares.

Any forthcoming ‘bailout’ sums for those in L1 won’t be half the money you get for simply being in the Championship for a season, and it’ll be money that needs paying back (at least partially) rather than it being a form of prize money that’s yours, if you will. They’re incomparable payments.

EDIT: And that’s before you even get to the salary cap benefits, where even if (when) any of the promoted clubs come straight back down to L1 next season, their wage bill is calculated using the divisional average. Meaning they have an advantage over other L1 clubs, as well as more money in their pocket which isn’t any form of loan, if they want to invest in their playing squad.
EFl haven’t agreed a deal yet. There may be more to come for us.
 
If you keep a fairly L1 playing budget with Championship revenue share you can only be millions of pounds better off. Wycombe will come straight back down but will make a huge profit - it’s a unique position that only the three teams going into the Championship this season will find themselves in, and none of them are burdened with the financial overheads that your average Championship club has. They’re going in there with L1 overheads and Championship revenue shares.

Any forthcoming ‘bailout’ sums for those in L1 won’t be half the money you get for simply being in the Championship for a season, and it’ll be money that needs paying back (at least partially) rather than it being a form of prize money that’s yours, if you will. They’re incomparable payments.

EDIT: And that’s before you even get to the salary cap benefits, where even if (when) any of the promoted clubs come straight back down to L1 next season, their wage bill is calculated using the divisional average. Meaning they have an advantage over other L1 clubs, as well as more money in their pocket which isn’t any form of loan, if they want to invest in their playing squad.
What are the payments?
 
Appleton with another decent signing from Leeds. A player we was very much interested in.
 
What are the payments?
Just under £7m for simply being a Championship club for one season. A basic award of around £2.3m plus a solidarity payment of £4.5m. Approximately £6.8million.

League One teams get a basic award of approximately £730,000 and a solidarity payment of around £675,000. Approximately £1.4million.

So a difference of nearly £5.5m in cash, yours to keep, without a ball being kicked.

Championship clubs also get more frequent television fixtures, which are paid at a much higher rate versus L1 fixtures. A Championship game gets a facility fee of between £100,000-£150,000 depending on the day of the week it’s played. L1 is around £30,000. You’re lucky if you get on telly once per season in L1, whereas in the Championship even the smallest clubs will generally appear several times. So you’re probably looking at a quarter of a million quid a year extra there, to go full on ‘fag packet’ with it.

The deal being offered to L1 and L2 clubs which has been rejected was for approximately £1m cash per club, with more than 50% of that being an interest free loan, but still a loan that will need repaying.

Even if there is a fresh offer where the figures are doubled, you’re looking at a maximum of £1m cash as a ‘gift’ for a L1 team, plus another £1m loan that in turn becomes a debt.

You’re still a good few million pounds short of a season in the Championship, with a salary cap and squad restriction in effect for good measure.
 
Just under £7m for simply being a Championship club for one season. A basic award of around £2.3m plus a solidarity payment of £4.5m. Approximately £6.8million.

League One teams get a basic award of approximately £730,000 and a solidarity payment of around £675,000. Approximately £1.4million.

So a difference of nearly £5.5m in cash, yours to keep, without a ball being kicked.

Championship clubs also get more frequent television fixtures, which are paid at a much higher rate versus L1 fixtures. A Championship game gets a facility fee of between £100,000-£150,000 depending on the day of the week it’s played. L1 is around £30,000. You’re lucky if you get on telly once per season in L1, whereas in the Championship even the smallest clubs will generally appear several times. So you’re probably looking at a quarter of a million quid a year extra there, to go full on ‘fag packet’ with it.

The deal being offered to L1 and L2 clubs which has been rejected was for approximately £1m cash per club, with more than 50% of that being an interest free loan, but still a loan that will need repaying.

Even if there is a fresh offer where the figures are doubled, you’re looking at a maximum of £1m cash as a ‘gift’ for a L1 team, plus another £1m loan that in turn becomes a debt.

You’re still a good few million pounds short of a season in the Championship, with a salary cap and squad restriction in effect for good measure.
Really does put into stark focus how much we blew it. And people saying its better we stayed down! In football you play to win and play better teams..else theres just no point.

Looks like Lincoln will benefit from that next season, absolutely outstanding transfer business from a top manager. Well Jel.
 
Great shout. Would need to take a big wage cut though

I think he would, just to get back to playing again, and resurrecting his career. It would be good for both parties. Not sure he’s a winger KR wants, but I’d have in a heartbeat!
 
The player from Leeds is 20 and on loan so under the age rules and probably cheap.
He just seems to have recruited an army, although with age, under 21 he can have as many as he wants within reason, unless there is a limit.
 
It look like we won’t be
In January we were pushing to the wire for Will Grigg, Stephen O'Donnell and a couple of youngsters. They didn't go through but it wasn't through lack of trying.

I suspect a couple of deals will be done tomorrow, but a young rb will not be one of them!
 
Other than (hopefully) Winnall, have we had an upgrade in any position at the club from last season’s team?

Baptiste
Fosu
Browne
Dickie
Holland
Woodburn

vs

McGuane
Cooper
Atkinson
Clare
Osei Yaw
Asonganyi

Hard to make a case that we’ve done anything than go backwards. That maybe the harsh reality of our finances and that of football in general. It’s a good group of players with some real quality sprinkled in, but it’s going to take a very unlikely 26 hours to get near to last season’s level. I think our expectations should be set accordingly.

I think if you compare it to last season's signings, then there is a lack of first team experience, but the potential is there for many of those players to better the players recently departed.

Also, I think some of the comparisons are a bit unfair, including where you've effectively double counted a left winger as Browne was Fosu's replacement as first choice winger. Winnall for Mackie is a clear upgrade and it'll make up for the loss in other areas of the side. Dickie now is a much better player than Atkinson now, but given time he could be as good, even better. And if we get a first choice left winger in then you'll be comparing Cooper with Holland instead of Fosu/Browne, which evens that out a great deal. And with Osei Yaw and Asonganyi (and a resurgant Hall) we have depth in the attack like we didn't see last season. Are we as strong as we were last season? Not yet, but I think it's still too early to judge the incomings, and many have the potential to go very far.
 
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