Villa Make 37 mill Loss

[Prestwich_Blue]

Who we buying off them next season to keep them solvent?

It's Everton's turn to sell us some completely over-priced tat this summer.

 

[M18CTID]

Thing is Villa fans keep going on about what happened to us is a disgrace but in reality Lerner is doing the same with them as Sheikh Mansour, just on a smaller scale.

Either you are against rich benefactors or you are not. It doesn't operate on a sliding scale basis.

According to some fans of other clubs, it does. Which is a completely laughable opinion for me.

Lerner is indeed a smaller-scale Sheikh Mansour. I think both are excellent owners who care genuinely for the clubs they bought - it seems that some (not all) Villa fans conveniently forget that the cash Randy injected into their club has been hugely beneficial to them and enabled them, under O'Neill, to get close to a top-4 finish. The fact that somebody else has come along in the meantime that is far richer doesn't give them the right to get upset about it. Ever since football became a professional sport over 100 years ago it's been littered with people that have come in and raised the bar in terms of finance, etc.

 

[kinkysdribble]

Villa are sh#t since our transfer assault on them, maybe we should aim our sights on spurs next and go for bale and van see vaart who by footballing standards are on paperboys wages, crouch would be handy cos those floodlight bulbs don't last forever!

 

[southern muppet]

The midlands club saw wages increase to almost £80million last season - an increase of £9million and they now account for 88% of the club's £90million turnover.


By contrast, Tottenham Hotspur's wage bill was £59.1 million on a turnover of £113 million, which represents 52.3% of our turnover...

http://www.myfootballfacts.com/PremierLeagueFinances.html

...no doubt Spurs' wages will increase for the year ending 31st December 2010, but we do have an estimated extra £40 million income generated from our UEFA Champions League exploits.

+ an extra 35 mil or so next season when Bale is sold in the summer :D

I'd be laughing all the way home after hearing that news if I was a Spurs fan though. Bale is an overrated flash in the pan, this year's Ireland of 08/09 IMO.

 

[Villan10]

This is the sort of mess that meant O'Neill leaving was only a good thing, his demands was crippling the club and when Lerner wanted it to be stopped, O'Neill walked.

Sidwell - £50k, Carew £60k, Heskey £65k, Beye £40k, Ireland £70k. At 31, he gave Petrov a new 3 year deal on £50k ....

Our wages since the summer (which the accounts was before then) we've took around £100k a week off the wage bill, which is around £5 million.

Friedel, Beye, L.Young, Warnock, Collins/Dunne, Salifou, Osbourne, Petrov, Ireland, A.Young, Carew, Heskey ...look all likely to leave in the summer. Which will take off around £550k ish a week off the wage bill (£27 million over a season)

Replacements for ...Friedel, L.Young, Warnock, Collins/Dunne, A.Young only really needed to be honest. Possibly another attacking midfielder/winger on top of that.

Basically, by the summer, since those accounts, we'll have cut down around £15-20 million a season.