I'm surprised, I thought they'd come unstuck by now...but they keep getting results.
Dont they have new American owners?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
Maybe? ....I dont take much notice of them tbhDont they have new American owners?
I am.not sure how wealthy they are?
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.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
Cheers for putting me right ,@RyanioBirdioWhy 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.
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 ?
I meant 4th most likely for promotion based on bookies odds!
Maybe? ....I dont take much notice of them tbh
What? our rivals!
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.
Is that the same template for OUFC ?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.
Wycombe and Oxford are very different.Is that the same template for OUFC ?
Isnt the tv money around £11m?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.
How very patronising - they are top of L1 and still way ahead of us - you sound like a Sunderland fan.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?
You've not seen Kipchoge run then, it's flat out sprint from the start these days... ?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...... ?
Sunderland, Rotherham away, Peterborough as well didn't they?Look at their wins, they have beaten the dross.