Re-build and Net Spend

handsofstone said:
Best run club in the world but worked hard to get here

The CFG is dominant, its almost scary

And the funny part is apart from Sane, we've never sold someone we didn't want to

We are the only team/group that continually invest and it pays dividends...plus the investment in frastructure is paying itself off

We've sold Harrison £11mil (£+4mil add ons) and Nmecha £11mil and smartly have puy 15% sell on clauses for both incase they reach their potential, they cost us £3mil to bring in

Plus we're looking to get £15mil+ for Herrera and Ilic, again with sell-on clauses (sell-on clauses are my new favourite thing, great idea adding them)

We are selling players that aren't going to start for us for good money and adding clauses that benefit us long term. We may have missed out on Sancho but we'd have made almost £20mil by the end of that deal, brilliant for an 17 year old with 1 year left on his deal

We don't have a Hazard, Coutinho level sale but we have such a good income source

Also the continued investment into players like Kayky, Metinho, Sarimento, Rosa etc. Enable us to maintain and develop talent either for the first team or sell them for a profit
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Not clued up on our dealings but do you think wee would have made a few Bob on Harrison during his loan spell at Leeds.
 
So how Villa get away with their spending with no criticism? Even though they are "just" like City and Chelsea, pumping big cash in, just on a bit smaller scale. They have spent hundreds of millions only to end up 11th as their best result so far.

Every time City buy a player (even today) everyone screams murder.
 
dadnlad said:
Ironically, one person who's got this formula right is our good friend Senõr Tebas. His financial rules in La Liga look at total player spend, imposing a club-specific maximum limit on spending on transfers and wages for the season. Whereas UEFA FFP is backward looking, meaning clubs can get into trouble well before the warning signs are actually

this will still create a divide which big clubs want surely
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It would be great if all the leagues introduced wage caps. I read today that Barcelona will be restricted to €200m - which is astonishing if it's true. That's about half our latest wage bill, with Liverpool not far off double on €376m!

In PL terms, it takes them below Arsenal, and close to Spurs, who are notorious underpayers (compared to their income). If that kind of limit was introduced in the PL, it would do wonders for the competitiveness of the league.
 
MeatHunterrr said:
So how Villa get away with their spending with no criticism? Even though they are "just" like City and Chelsea, pumping big cash in, just on a bit smaller scale. They have spent hundreds of millions only to end up 11th as their best result so far.

Every time City buy a player (even today) everyone screams murder.
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To be fair the OP has cherry picked a period where our spending dropped - according to Transfermarkt in the previous two seasons our net spend was over £300m, and the figures above include £35m of outgoings for this season without any arrivals yet.

Villa are nowhere close, and still have a wage bill not much more than a third of ours.

Still - the Swiss Ramble figures and Prestwich Blue have a more balanced look. We've spent big, but netspend is just one part of the story (e.g. retiring a club legend, and paying £50m for a young, lower waged replacement, hammers the net spend, but can leave the club better off overall).
 
Go back to 2016 and city are the far highest in Europe.
 
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