Apropo penger, det KOSTET for Wolves å rykke opp:
Meanwhile, Wolves promotion last season also has implications; their accounts show they made a pre-tax loss of '£57.16m for the year ending 2017-18, more than double the £23.18m they lost in the previous 12 months ... the pre-tax loss was attributed to increased expenditure on players, wages, and promotion bonuses.'
The price of promotion, then, has been set at £80m over two seasons, and you can perhaps understand why Andrea Radrizzani was hyperventilating last season about how Wolves were going about going up. All of which reminds me of this article I wrote at the end of November 2017, about how I was content that Radrizzani wasn’t chucking piles of personal millions at our football club, because all through the Bates / GFH / Cellino years, I never wanted them to either. I wanted the club to be run as far as possible from its own income; and while the impact of parachute payments has altered the effectiveness of that idea, it remains the most effective way of avoiding becoming Bolton.
(utdrag fra dagens Moscowhite)