I was just reading through some of Chris Phillips tweets tonight, and one got me thinking if Division One is the toughest to maintain, what with budgets, and being the only league where 3 teams are going up and yet 4 going down.. surely to an extent, the margins of success and failure are tighter than the other leagues in the EFL.
The tweet in question, that got me thinking about this, was this one:
"Sunderland are a shambles but so are the Premier League’s parachute payments. They will be crash landing in League One with £34m hitting their bank account this summer. Accrington and Wycombe’s playing budgets touch £1m a season".
My point being, that having a £34 million head start on a wage bill or money to spend in the transfer market over other established league one sides (not to mention teams coming up from Division 2) does put us all at a massive disadvantage, and almost turn it into a "free for all" for the other teams in the division, in the hope we might get lucky and bag the last play off place.
Then i looked at our current league table and realised that is is completely possible that all the three teams (Wigan, Blackburn & Rotherham) that were relegated last season from the Championship will go straight back up again this season. (Wigan & Blackburn definitely will)!!.
Here's a screen shot for comparison...
For example, Just one player (Jack Rodwell) gets payed £3 million and 640 thousand pounds a year from Sunderland!....
Not that i'm jealous, but £70K a week isn't a bad wage considering he has only made 84 minutes of Championship football this season. :smile:
Yet the whole entire years wage bill for all the players in Acrrington's squad is just £780,000.
I guess my question is, has the gulf between the Championship and League One been any wider in your opinion??
The tweet in question, that got me thinking about this, was this one:
"Sunderland are a shambles but so are the Premier League’s parachute payments. They will be crash landing in League One with £34m hitting their bank account this summer. Accrington and Wycombe’s playing budgets touch £1m a season".
My point being, that having a £34 million head start on a wage bill or money to spend in the transfer market over other established league one sides (not to mention teams coming up from Division 2) does put us all at a massive disadvantage, and almost turn it into a "free for all" for the other teams in the division, in the hope we might get lucky and bag the last play off place.
Then i looked at our current league table and realised that is is completely possible that all the three teams (Wigan, Blackburn & Rotherham) that were relegated last season from the Championship will go straight back up again this season. (Wigan & Blackburn definitely will)!!.
Here's a screen shot for comparison...
For example, Just one player (Jack Rodwell) gets payed £3 million and 640 thousand pounds a year from Sunderland!....
Not that i'm jealous, but £70K a week isn't a bad wage considering he has only made 84 minutes of Championship football this season. :smile:
Yet the whole entire years wage bill for all the players in Acrrington's squad is just £780,000.
I guess my question is, has the gulf between the Championship and League One been any wider in your opinion??
Last edited: