Cardiff's owners have gambled on getting up this season, and if the gamble does not come off they might bugger off elsewhere, in the same style as many of Pompey's owners.
Tony Bloom is in it for the long term.
Leicester lost £15.2 million in their last accounts, Cardiff £13.6 million, Derby £7.9 million, Leeds lost about £4 million, but their revenue (at £32 million) is higher than that of the Albion. Leeds also sold their season ticket income for 2012/13 AND 2013/14 to another company before the...
There wasn't much of an outcry when he returned back to his parent club though.
8 goals in 29 games for us in League 1 hardly got us excited.
12 goals in 42 games afterwards wasn't much better TBH either.
He has looked better this season, but would our fan base have been prepared to wait for...
The problem is that matchday revenue is not an indicator of budget, because of
1: Benefactors subsidising clubs to a greater operational degree than TB (Cardiff, Leicester).
2: Parachute payments from the Premier League (Blackburn).
Of the clubs above us in this league, only Palace can be said...
Referring back to the Paul McShane on £18,000 a week thread, perhaps Gus is right?
There is no evidence to suggest he is lying, based on the figures in the public domain, we will find out when the next set of accounts are published.
Blackburn have spent £11 million on two new strikers
Cardiff and Leicester both made losses double that of the Albion and have funny foreign money behind them.
Personally I am happy that we have stability under TB.