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Wigan
Posted: 05 Jul 2022, 11:40
by little mo
Wigan late paying wages two months running now. Easier to win the league spending money you don't have i suppose.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 05 Jul 2022, 13:13
by longmover
I give up with it all now, its a complete farce.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 05 Jul 2022, 14:09
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
Relegate them and put MK up.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 26 Oct 2022, 14:32
by little mo
Wages not paid again.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 27 Oct 2022, 11:02
by longmover
Well worth getting promoted wasn't it, I hope it was all worth it.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 28 Oct 2022, 14:31
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 28 Oct 2022, 14:52
by Shade
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 31 Oct 2022, 21:39
by Fuller
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 01 Nov 2022, 14:57
by Shade
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 11 Mar 2023, 11:55
by little mo
Once again Wigan not paid wages for Feb.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 11 Mar 2023, 12:17
by Red Duke
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 13 Mar 2023, 22:07
by longmover
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 14 Mar 2023, 16:06
by Red Duke
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.
Re: Wigan
Posted: 15 Mar 2023, 23:38
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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
Re: Wigan
Posted: 20 Mar 2023, 18:31
by Shade
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...
Re: Wigan
Posted: 20 Mar 2023, 18:40
by longmover
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.
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