Wycombe just keep going

In reality could they fund even one season in the championship on the gates they get... better players, (much) higher wages etc etc ?

Wheels will come off sooner or later Imo
Why would they need to? The Championship is the new Prem. One season is worth millions. You can come straight back down and pocket a fortune, which you can then invest a bit of to give yourself a chance of bobbing back up until you’re stable enough to try to stay there. West Brom spent a good eight or nine years doing this between the Champ and PL until they stabilised there for years. Worst case scenario you get the one season and set the club up for several years. Stadium improvements, training ground upgrades etc.
 
Why would they need to? The Championship is the new Prem. One season is worth millions. You can come straight back down and pocket a fortune, which you can then invest a bit of to give yourself a chance of bobbing back up until you’re stable enough to try to stay there. West Brom spent a good eight or nine years doing this between the Champ and PL until they stabilised there for years. Worst case scenario you get the one season and set the club up for several years. Stadium improvements, training ground upgrades etc.
Cheers for putting me right ,@RyanioBirdio :sneaky:
 
Weirdly they are still "less likely" for promotion than us based on bookies odds( us being 4th!), despite being 10 points ahead. That tells me they are still seen as not keeping it up.
 
Weirdly they are still "less likely" for promotion than us based on bookies odds( us being 4th!), despite being 10 points ahead. That tells me they are still seen as not keeping it up.

But we are 7th ?
 
Why would they need to? The Championship is the new Prem. One season is worth millions. You can come straight back down and pocket a fortune, which you can then invest a bit of to give yourself a chance of bobbing back up until you’re stable enough to try to stay there. West Brom spent a good eight or nine years doing this between the Champ and PL until they stabilised there for years. Worst case scenario you get the one season and set the club up for several years. Stadium improvements, training ground upgrades etc.

Bit of an exaggeration!
Premier League 'solidarity' payments are higher to Championship clubs. So is the TV money. But the difference between Championship & League One is probably of the order 5-6 million.
Then maybe you add 3,000 to the gate for the whole season - let's be generous, add in some extra programs, and call that another 1.5m

So if you get into the Championship, but continue to run on a League One budget - you'll perhaps make 7 million quid extra from a single season there.

Not peanuts, but not a club-changing fortune either. We'd likely burn through that in about three years even if we didn't invest anything more on infrastructure.

Still more than an order of magnitude less than the jump from the Championship to the PL.
 
Bit of an exaggeration!
Premier League 'solidarity' payments are higher to Championship clubs. So is the TV money. But the difference between Championship & League One is probably of the order 5-6 million.
Then maybe you add 3,000 to the gate for the whole season - let's be generous, add in some extra programs, and call that another 1.5m

So if you get into the Championship, but continue to run on a League One budget - you'll perhaps make 7 million quid extra from a single season there.

Not peanuts, but not a club-changing fortune either. We'd likely burn through that in about three years even if we didn't invest anything more on infrastructure.

Still more than an order of magnitude less than the jump from the Championship to the PL.
Is that the same template for OUFC ?
 
Is that the same template for OUFC ?
Wycombe and Oxford are very different.
Wycombe disbanded their academy years ago whereas Oxfird have grown and grown theirs.
Wycombe have brought in quite a few older players and good loanees, whereas Oxford have spent on younger pkauwrsxwith resale value.
I am not sure how wealthy Wycombes new owner is and how much they could afford, but with think that Oxfordcwoupd Bevin a better place to have a go at the Championship andctryvand stay there if we could do it.
 
I'm not convinced the Championship is a money-spinner. Players' wages go up, there will have been promotion bonuses, transfer fees go up.
 
I'm not convinced the Championship is a money-spinner. Players' wages go up, there will have been promotion bonuses, transfer fees go up.
Isnt the tv money around £11m?
So I guess that a club with a salary cost of £4m in L1 could not heavily compete and hope that with great management and some good loan signings/ free transfers they could have quite a big surplus?
Burton stayed in the Championship for a couple of seasons with apparently a very low budget compared to everybody else.
 
Isnt the tv money around £11m?
So I guess that a club with a salary cost of £4m in L1 could not heavily compete and hope that with great management and some good loan signings/ free transfers they could have quite a big surplus?
Burton stayed in the Championship for a couple of seasons with apparently a very low budget compared to everybody else.

Nah, it's nowhere near that amount.

It was ~600m over 5 years, so 120m a year to cover the whole football league. Championship clubs get more than League 1/2, but it's nowhere near 11m.....even including the PL solidarity payments.
 
Two games in which they failed to beat Tranmere, including losing at home to 10 men tonight, probably shows the more realistic level they're at. Somehow they've been grinding out results in the league, but for how much longer?
 
Two games in which they failed to beat Tranmere, including losing at home to 10 men tonight, probably shows the more realistic level they're at. Somehow they've been grinding out results in the league, but for how much longer?
How very patronising - they are top of L1 and still way ahead of us - you sound like a Sunderland fan.
 
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