I'm surprised, I thought they'd come unstuck by now...but they keep getting results.
EFL Wycombe just keep going
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Manorlounger
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
Just wait, December 21st is coming. 
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
Wheels will come off sooner or later Imo
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
Dont they have new American owners?
I am.not sure how wealthy they are?
Maybe? ....I dont take much notice of them tbh
RyanioBirdio
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
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.
Manorlounger
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
New owners, new money, potential for stadium improvements. Those noisy neighbours are becoming a real pest.
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
Good manager, and doing well now they’ve got a bit of money. If they lose him the whole thing will probably fall apart, and he may not be so good elsewhere. He needs to stay and take it as far as he can
Oldham
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
But we are 7th ?
radicalox
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
I meant 4th most likely for promotion based on bookies odds!
Oldham
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
Begging your pudding bud ?
uptheus
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
What? our rivals!
Oldham
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
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.
LondonRoader
Level: Andy Crosby
(122 Apps, 13 Gls)
Is that the same template for OUFC ?
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
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.
They are just pace setters. You get one every season, and they are keeping the top spot warm for us. The cream always comes to the top.
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
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.
We’ll see on Dec 21st
How very patronising - they are top of L1 and still way ahead of us - you sound like a Sunderland fan.
Essexyellows
Level: Cameron Brannagan
(311 Apps, 57 Gls)
We`ve had a fair few seasons starting like an express train then having the wheels fall off after Christmas.
Steady pace wins a marathon...... ?
Steady pace wins a marathon...... ?
Look at their wins, they have beaten the dross.
fair play to Akinfenwa - 37 now i think
- Year of First Game
- 1980
You've not seen Kipchoge run then, it's flat out sprint from the start these days... ?
- Year of First Game
- 1980
Sunderland, Rotherham away, Peterborough as well didn't they?
