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little mo
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Wigan late paying wages two months running now. Easier to win the league spending money you don't have i suppose.
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longmover
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I give up with it all now, its a complete farce.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Relegate them and put MK up.
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little mo
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Wages not paid again.
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longmover
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Well worth getting promoted wasn't it, I hope it was all worth it.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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longmover wrote: ↑27 Oct 2022, 11:02 Well worth getting promoted wasn't it, I hope it was all worth it.
Makes you wonder how screwed they would have been without going up and getting the Championship TV money.

Worth remembering that had GJ not got us promoted back from the conference with the squad he assembled then we would have gone bust as well.
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Shade
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Would we? I was under the impression that we gambled by using all of the parachute payment, around £800k, plus a regular seasons budget, but wouldn't have gone bust. Just wouldn't have been close to a big fish in the division and would have been a similar story to other ex-League sides around our size, Yeovil and Torquay for example, scrapping mid-lower table.
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Fuller
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Shade wrote: ↑28 Oct 2022, 14:52 Would we? I was under the impression that we gambled by using all of the parachute payment, around £800k, plus a regular seasons budget, but wouldn't have gone bust. Just wouldn't have been close to a big fish in the division and would have been a similar story to other ex-League sides around our size, Yeovil and Torquay for example, scrapping mid-lower table.
Thought I’d heard most of the players were on one year deals, if we hadn’t gone up we’d have gone part time, and the Academy would have closed down too.
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Shade
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Fuller wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 21:39
Shade wrote: ↑28 Oct 2022, 14:52 Would we? I was under the impression that we gambled by using all of the parachute payment, around £800k, plus a regular seasons budget, but wouldn't have gone bust. Just wouldn't have been close to a big fish in the division and would have been a similar story to other ex-League sides around our size, Yeovil and Torquay for example, scrapping mid-lower table.
Thought I’d heard most of the players were on one year deals, if we hadn’t gone up we’d have gone part time, and the Academy would have closed down too.
Yeah that rings a bell. So not broke, but downsized and made part-time. It was still a big gamble and, thankfully, one that came off.
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little mo
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Once again Wigan not paid wages for Feb.
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Red Duke
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Each month that a club fails to pay the wages, it should forfeit any points gained in that month as they are cheating on other teams that do.
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longmover
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Red Duke wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023, 12:17 Each month that a club fails to pay the wages, it should forfeit any points gained in that month as they are cheating on other teams that do.
ex prem, different rules for those chaps.
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Red Duke
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longmover wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 22:07
Red Duke wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023, 12:17 Each month that a club fails to pay the wages, it should forfeit any points gained in that month as they are cheating on other teams that do.
ex prem, different rules for those chaps.
Of course, I hadn't thought of the big boys rules for "big" clubs applies to clubs like Wigan.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Eye watering.

“A £7.7million loss was recorded this month for the 2021-22 season, a sum marginally less than the club’s overall turnover of £8.3million. A wage bill of £13million was the equivalent of 157 per cent of turnover.“

https://theathletic.com/4309991/2023/03 ... ed_article
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Shade
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They've been docked 3 points. Now 8 points adrift. I look forward to playing their expensively assembled League One title winning squad next season...
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longmover
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Shade wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 18:31 They've been docked 3 points. Now 8 points adrift. I look forward to playing their expensively assembled League One title winning squad next season...
they'll chuck loads of money at it again, get promoted again, with a gushing media again and off we go.....again.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
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