| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense 11:51 - May 5 with 1119 views | ElderGrizzly |
Shows what a mess the Championship is with wages now.
Our wage bill was £19m or so when relegated. Birmingham in 20th - £33m. Top of the table Aston Villa £83m.
Lets hope our owners have very deep pockets
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| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:12 - May 5 with 1005 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Interesting to see those compared to turnover and profit / LOSS.
Car crash of a league. [Post edited 5 May 2021 12:13]
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| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:15 - May 5 with 982 views | MB26 |
The gulf will open between the Championship and L1 like it has to an extent with the Premier League and the Championship. You may get one side of the promoted 3 in both divisions stay up but they are all usually within the bottom 6. Fully expect Norwich, Watford and whoever joins them to come back down again.
Same with the Championship this season, Coventry have only recently saved themselves. I think Hull and Posh may struggle. |  | | |
| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:19 - May 5 with 952 views | hype313 |
| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:15 - May 5 by MB26 |
The gulf will open between the Championship and L1 like it has to an extent with the Premier League and the Championship. You may get one side of the promoted 3 in both divisions stay up but they are all usually within the bottom 6. Fully expect Norwich, Watford and whoever joins them to come back down again.
Same with the Championship this season, Coventry have only recently saved themselves. I think Hull and Posh may struggle. |
I think Covid has changed the game somewhat, I wouldn't be very surprised if the majority of championship clubs try and offload as many high earners as possible.
Think the football finances have changed dramatically, and for once, we might be a beneficiary of the current malaise/fallout. [Post edited 5 May 2021 12:21]
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| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:29 - May 5 with 907 views | TieDyedIn95 |
Also shows that we finished around about the place we were willing to pay for. We spent nothing and got nothing. The Evans masterplan.
The Championship is an expensive league because the prize is so rich. Sky are never going to promote and market that league the same way as the Premiership and thus the money will always be poor in that league, despite the levels of the clubs not being hugely dissimilar at times. Clubs that have been routinely in that league in recent years are some of the biggest in the country in Bolton, Forest, Derby, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Villa, West Ham and so on. The Premier League by comparison has had a rotation of a lot of small clubs filling its ranks in Norwich, Wigan, Swansea, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton and so on. Owners will gamble to reach the league above because the money is silly.
People have been talking about a crash for years, but as COVID has proven, they don't even need the fans anymore. It's TV first, not sport sadly. As long as people watch on TV and the ad revenue continues to pour in, football will remain broken. Do you think they will care if we all end up like Bolton? So long as the top teams are protected they couldn't give a toss. They let Bury die just because. |  |
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| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:32 - May 5 with 874 views | chrismakin |
shows why Evans was on a hiding to nothing, he just couldn't compete for that level.
We don't know how deep our new owners pockets go, but the championship to league 1 drop is soon going to be as big as the prem to the championship.
We've got 2 years max to get out of league 1, or we will have to resign to being at this or even lower levels for the future ahead. [Post edited 5 May 2021 12:34]
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| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:33 - May 5 with 854 views | Ftnfwest |
suspect ours was even only that high because of the panic loans towards the second half of that season, Quaner etc. |  | | |
| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:36 - May 5 with 822 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Championship wage bills reach new heights of nonsense on 12:29 - May 5 by TieDyedIn95 |
Also shows that we finished around about the place we were willing to pay for. We spent nothing and got nothing. The Evans masterplan.
The Championship is an expensive league because the prize is so rich. Sky are never going to promote and market that league the same way as the Premiership and thus the money will always be poor in that league, despite the levels of the clubs not being hugely dissimilar at times. Clubs that have been routinely in that league in recent years are some of the biggest in the country in Bolton, Forest, Derby, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Villa, West Ham and so on. The Premier League by comparison has had a rotation of a lot of small clubs filling its ranks in Norwich, Wigan, Swansea, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton and so on. Owners will gamble to reach the league above because the money is silly.
People have been talking about a crash for years, but as COVID has proven, they don't even need the fans anymore. It's TV first, not sport sadly. As long as people watch on TV and the ad revenue continues to pour in, football will remain broken. Do you think they will care if we all end up like Bolton? So long as the top teams are protected they couldn't give a toss. They let Bury die just because. |
I don't think that's quite true. PL clubs have lost tens of millions during Covid through lost gate receipts/commercial income etc and rebates back to Sky due to no fans in the stadiums.
But overall, fans are certainly less important the higher up you go. | | | |
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