Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
That was the strategy, but to describe the wage bill as massive is inaccurate by Championship standards at the time. The wage bill that year was Ł16.7 million and the operating loss was under a million. The main problem was the club didn't have a rich backer and had no way to service its mounting debts.

Compare those figures to the recent Warnock promotion season, when the wage bill was more than Ł48 million and the operating loss was Ł34 million.
It was still one of the highest wage bills in the division at the time.

The staggering stat for me in this is how much the Championship wage bill has risen in a decade.