10-05-2024, 12:12 PM (This post was last modified: 10-05-2024, 12:13 PM by Marked Ox.) in response to #45692
SimonC Wrote: It would be extremely tough, it takes about £15M a season just to stand still in the Championship. The financial side is crazy, just about every club is unsustainable and losing money hand over fist. You've also got FFP to contend with and having a 3 sided ground won't help with income in that respect. Plymouth are the ones to try and emulate, came up with a very good, tight and comparatively cheap squad but only survived by the skin of their teeth, as did Luton first season. The football side is relentless and it's very difficult to put any type of run together.
Good luck to Oxford though, from a selfish Bristol City perspective, I think Oxford would be weaker than Bolton and I'm already nervous about who we can finish above next season. The worst case scenario if handled prudently, should be to do a Rotherham and yo-yo between L1 and Championship.
Yes, it would probably have to be like Plymouth if we stay up.
Although, the owners have already written off debt via equity so they could do that as I think that is allowed (but could be very wrong as haven't looked at the Championship rules). It will help with more lucrative sponsorship deals from Asian firms (that is where our main sponsors are coming from ie. Bangkok Glass and Chaokoh). Tbf, we are already doing the losing money bit!
Whether they try to talk to Kassam over a temporary 4th stand I don't know. We've tried in the past but not got anywhere.
Also we had some fantastic news on the stadium as the club has signed a legally binding option on the lease for the Triangle site with Oxon County Council:
https://www.oufc.co.uk/news/2024/may/oxf...dium-land/
Planning needed though obviously. Hopefully we get a positive decision in the summer.