Cardiff City have financial advantage over the rest of the Championship

By Tony Williams

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‘ TRANSFERS IN ‘

Guido Burgstaller (Rapid Wien)

Javi Guerra (Real Valladolid)

Adam Le Fondre (Reading)

Federico Macheda (Manchester United)

Kagisho Dikgacoi (Crystal Palace)

Charlie Horton (Peterborough)

Tom Adeyemi (Birmingham)

Danny Johnson (Guisborough)

Anthony Pilkington (Norwich City)

Sean Morisson (Reading)

 

‘ WAGES ‘

Cardiff City are paying the highest wages outside the Premier League with the average player on over £25,000 a week.

‘ CARDIFF CITY HAVE A FINANCIAL ADVANTAGE OVER THE REST OF THEIR FELLOW CHAMPIONSHIP RIVALS ‘

In pure monetary terms, Cardiff start with an advantage over most Championship clubs.
In addition to the £20m Solskjaer’s transfers have generated this summer, there is the substantial parachute payment given to relegated Premier League clubs.

In previous years that figure was £48m, but this year for Cardiff, Fulham and Norwich it is £60m.

And the Bluebirds collected over £60m in revenue just for finishing bottom of the table last season, more than Manchester United banked in 2012/13 for winning the title.

Some may argue this makes the playing uneven, but those are the rules, and it makes good reading for the club. Should they need new recruits in January or fund an emergency loan mid season, then the money is there.
‘ OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER ‘

He may have spent most of his playing career in the Premier League, but manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is under no illusions about the challenge that awaits him.
“This league is tough and I’ve actually listened to radio and read the papers and there’s five or six of us who can say we’re candidates to go up,” he said.