Snowflake RoyalRoyalwasterSnowflake Royal It's win:win.
They lose on TV on their big night out.
Or
They go up and get humiliated most weeks for a year.
I thought that Oxford now have pretty rich owners themselves - who can afford to build a new stadium for them!?
Maybe, but they can't build it, replace almost their entire squad and double their average attendance in 3 months.
If they do scrape past Bolton, then their attendance will likely rise markedly - didn't realise they haven't been in the top 2 tiers this century.
Agreed on the others, stadium has to be ready by 2026 else they will have nowhere to play given they get kicked out of the Kassam then. Even then the new plan is only for a 16k stadium, which means if they sell out every week based on this year, their average attendance would rank 23rd. Only Blackburn and Rotherham averaged less than 16k.
So to be able to pay the kind of wages needed to even compete, they are going to have to swallow a relatively big loss, which could see them hit FFP troubles.