Compare and contrast
Wolves Projected turnover 2016/2017 £16m
Villas Projected turnover 2016/2017 £75m
WBA Projected turnover 2016/2017 £125m
We are making money the other two are losing money and will continue to lose it while they are in the Championship.
Is it easier to keep a team in the Premier League or get one promoted from the Championship? I honestly don't know. Villa have a real advantage over the rest of the league but that only lasts 3 seasons, Wolves are back in the pack and the experience of Notts Forrest shows just how difficult even with substantial investment getting out from there can be.
Stoxman did an excellent post a while back on the valuation of the club you could equally apply that methodology to the Wolves and Villa sales. If I had the time I would but for the time being there you go that is why we are worth a lot more than either Villa or Wolves. History is all well and good but it doesn't pay today's bills.
Turnover is a good indicator, profit is better, but businesses are largely valued based on their assets, & the largest contribution to assets in a football club are the players.
As I understand it, player values are based on the residual value of the contract added to an estimate of what the player would cost to replace. For example, an average EPL player would have a 3 year contract with an average wage of circa £50k per week, so worth £7.5 million, if the club then estimate that the cost to replace that player was another £7.7 million he would sit on the books at £15million.
A Championship player on the other hand would probably have a 3 year contract with an average wage of circa £25k per week, so worth £3.75 million, an estimated cost to replace that player might be £3 million, so he would sit on the books at £6.75 million. Less than half the value of an EPL player.
In the case of Villa, their players will have EPL value, but in some cases they might have flex down clauses, so the value decreases following relegation, & I suspect that is why the club is valued higher than Wolves, but lower than us.