With so many clubs having to tighten their belts because of the pandemic, this may be an ideal time to go up. It could be quite a leveller.
I think this is absolutely true.
At the moment, there is a massive gulf in revenues in the Championship.
Looking at the figures from 2018 (the most recent I can get my hands on), the smallest clubs (your Burtons and Brentfords) had revenues in the 12-15m range.
The bulk of this was made up of TV revenue - which was 8m per year then, but I believe has since gone up by about a third with the new TV deal.
But the biggest established Championship clubs had revenues up to 40m.
Leeds, for example, were earning 17m in match day revenue, and another 17m in commercial revenue.
So basically Leeds are making 3-4x as much as some of their peers (and are thus able to spend accordingly).
If we have a 2020-21 season where no fans, or limited numbers of fans, are allowed into grounds - then those 'big' Championship clubs are going to be hit disproportionately hard. Their revenues, particularly match day but also commercial to an extent, are going to take a big hit, and they're going to have to cut costs accordingly.
The massive gap that currently exists is going to be reduced, and therefore I think that's going to give us or Wycombe a better chance than we would otherwise have had to compete. Despite Covid, Monday's winners revenues for next year are going to go up in a big way at the same time that a lot of Championship clubs' revenues are going to be seeing a big dip.
Of course, this doesn't mean that I think we would actually be able to fight for promotion.
What I didn't factor into the above equation is parachute payments, and those are going to tip the scales even more next season than they usually do.
Anyone who's been in the Premier League in the last three years is going to have a massive financial advantage over anyone else in next season's Championship, particularly whoever comes down this year who's going to be handed 40m+ out the gate.