Post by axegas on May 23, 2018 21:10:49 GMT
Just thought I'd share an interesting article on the BBC about how much clubs receive in the Championship compared to league one. Promotion is worth an awful lot going by this.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44173248
Winning promotion in the League One play-off final at Wembley on Sunday would mean a huge increase in Shrewsbury Town's annual turnover.
Shrewsbury chief executive Brian Caldwell says they would do that just with extra money received from the English Football League.
"The central money from the EFL in the Championship is around the £7m mark," Caldwell told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"Currently we get £1.4m. There is also a TV fee we don't get in League One."
Shrewsbury, favourites for relegation at the start of the season, are now just one victory away from a place in the Championship.
And if they can break their hoodoo of never having won at Wembley in four previous visits, the most recent against Lincoln City only last month, the rewards for beating Rotherham United would be a lot greater than they were when Graham Turner first took Town to the second tier in 1979.
'A different ball game'
"Financially, it's a totally different ball game," said Caldwell.
"We have a solid financial footing. We have a healthy bank balance.
"I know what Northampton's budget is and Bury's. They're two teams who have gone down with higher budgets than us.
"We've proved this season you don't necessarily have to have the biggest budget in the league, if you look at what Paul Hurst and Chris Doig have done this season and how hard the players have worked to achieve it.
"But to go from £1.4m to £7m would change a lot of things.
"We've spent quite a bit on fees this season, on the likes of Omar Beckles and Stefan Payne. But it's still a stab in the dark as to what you'd need. You've just got to try to put as much as you can into the wage structure."
'Some of the figures are frightening'
However, teams teams dropping down from the Premier League into the Championship for next season will bring £35m worth of parachute payments with them and almost every club in the division have crowds that dwarf the 10,000 capacity at at the Meadow.
"Some of the figures I've heard are quite frightening," said Caldwell. "I heard that Derby's wage bill was £35m.
"Some teams are really gambling to get in the Premier League. From £7m in the Championship to £180m in the Premier League, League One and League Two really are the paupers of the EFL.
"In League One next season, Sunderland will have a massive advantage with their huge parachute payment from two seasons ago."
But the Scotsman, who came to Shropshire from St Mirren in 2016, points out that the riches in England's second tier still outweigh what is on offer north of the border.
"Celtic will get £3m for winning the Scottish Premier League," he said. "In the Championship that goes to £7m. Even us, at £1.4 m, you have to look at finishing fifth or sixth in Scotland to get that sort of money."
Shrewsbury chief executive Brian Caldwell says they would do that just with extra money received from the English Football League.
"The central money from the EFL in the Championship is around the £7m mark," Caldwell told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"Currently we get £1.4m. There is also a TV fee we don't get in League One."
Shrewsbury, favourites for relegation at the start of the season, are now just one victory away from a place in the Championship.
And if they can break their hoodoo of never having won at Wembley in four previous visits, the most recent against Lincoln City only last month, the rewards for beating Rotherham United would be a lot greater than they were when Graham Turner first took Town to the second tier in 1979.
'A different ball game'
"Financially, it's a totally different ball game," said Caldwell.
"We have a solid financial footing. We have a healthy bank balance.
"I know what Northampton's budget is and Bury's. They're two teams who have gone down with higher budgets than us.
"We've proved this season you don't necessarily have to have the biggest budget in the league, if you look at what Paul Hurst and Chris Doig have done this season and how hard the players have worked to achieve it.
"But to go from £1.4m to £7m would change a lot of things.
"We've spent quite a bit on fees this season, on the likes of Omar Beckles and Stefan Payne. But it's still a stab in the dark as to what you'd need. You've just got to try to put as much as you can into the wage structure."
'Some of the figures are frightening'
However, teams teams dropping down from the Premier League into the Championship for next season will bring £35m worth of parachute payments with them and almost every club in the division have crowds that dwarf the 10,000 capacity at at the Meadow.
"Some of the figures I've heard are quite frightening," said Caldwell. "I heard that Derby's wage bill was £35m.
"Some teams are really gambling to get in the Premier League. From £7m in the Championship to £180m in the Premier League, League One and League Two really are the paupers of the EFL.
"In League One next season, Sunderland will have a massive advantage with their huge parachute payment from two seasons ago."
But the Scotsman, who came to Shropshire from St Mirren in 2016, points out that the riches in England's second tier still outweigh what is on offer north of the border.
"Celtic will get £3m for winning the Scottish Premier League," he said. "In the Championship that goes to £7m. Even us, at £1.4 m, you have to look at finishing fifth or sixth in Scotland to get that sort of money."
