[Football] Aston Villa receive 'significant investment' from billionaires

[LamieRobertson]

For now this looks like a 'get out of jail' card for them. But we have all seen this type of thing go horribly wrong. Will be entertaining to watch it unfold, that's for

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[LamieRobertson]

They could be bought by Bill Gates, but it does not aid their immediate need under FFP to, in effect, sell players to and hugely reduce their payroll costs.

Now that would be a window of opportunity

 

[clapham_gull]

Not sure how much scope they have to spend shit loads. It's done a 3-year rolling basis now, is it not? They "went for it" last season and came unstuck - can't see they have much headroom to do the same again this season.

Contract players on £2,000 grand a week with a £5,000,000 promotion bonus.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I am going to laugh until my anus prolapses if they spunk more millions up the wall and miss out on promotion again.

*cough* rectum *cough*

Which is appropriate, on several different levels.

 

[Bolton va va]

Sad news this.

Villa had looked like a deserving candidate to be this season's "Sunderland".

 

[AmexRuislip]

Bye-bye Steve Bruce. Hello Gianfranco Zola. Goodbye Gianfranco Zola. Hello Sam Allardyce. Goodbye Sam Allardyce. Hello Sven-Goran Eriksson. Goodbye Sven . . . . It’s now December 2018.

* Awaits John Terry to state he never wanted to leave Villa at the end of the season and would very much like a new contract thank you very much *

Aston Villa are the Barcelona of Birmingham!

 

[ferring seagull]

It really does get more difficult season by season to get out of The Championship. That's why it's such a great league. There will hopefully always be one team who make it out by sheer hard graft & great football.


That won't be Villa.

albeit by driving a coach and horses through the apparently toothless FFP, many recent examples !

 

[Triggaaar]

Contract players on £2,000 grand a week with a £5,000,000 promotion bonus.

Good luck signing anyone decent.

 

[Blackadder]

Predicting who gets promoted from the Championship these days is like predicting the winning number on a roulette wheel. There are always the usual suspects - the teams who have just been relegated from the PL, the “BIG” clubs who seem to be in the eternal Hades of the Championship, the cash splashers with foreign owners who implode within weeks.

Just take your pick, place your bets, and good luck!

Hear what you are saying El Pu, and as mentioned it's just my opinion. I just think these two will get their act together. Not so much Swansea.

Just pleased we are not down there in the Championship (which sounds weird as for most of my Albion supporting life I used to dream about playing at the second level).

 

[el punal]

Hear what you are saying El Pu, and as mentioned it's just my opinion. I just think these two will get their act together. Not so much Swansea.

Just pleased we are not down there in the Championship (which sounds weird as for most of my Albion supporting life I used to dream about playing at the second level).

Never more apt is the expression ‘Onwards and Upwards’ to describe our progression. It truly is a dream come true when you consider where we were twenty years ago, and even ten years ago we were fighting relegation to League 2.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Not sure how much scope they have to spend shit loads. It's done a 3-year rolling basis now, is it not? They "went for it" last season and came unstuck - can't see they have much headroom to do the same again this season.

With billionaires in charge do you seriously think they give a two bob bit? So long as clubs are not relegated by default or docked points for FFP but get a few mill fine, do you think any of them will care?

 

[El Presidente]

With billionaires in charge do you seriously think they give a two bob bit? So long as clubs are not relegated by default or docked points for FFP but get a few mill fine, do you think any of them will care?

Which is why EFL have changed the FFP submission date to 31 March. This allows them to assess the accounts before the season ends, and allocate sanctions, including points deductions before the season ends.

 

[spence]

Which is why EFL have changed the FFP submission date to 31 March. This allows them to assess the accounts before the season ends, and allocate sanctions, including points deductions before the season ends.

How close are they to failing FFP ?

 

[Triggaaar]

Which is why EFL have changed the FFP submission date to 31 March. This allows them to assess the accounts before the season ends, and allocate sanctions, including points deductions before the season ends.

Are they going to dock points for late submission of accounts?

 

[El Presidente]

How close are they to failing FFP ?

According to a DULLARD in tonight’s Birmingham Mail they need £40m of cost savings and income from player sales.

Terry and Agbonlahor going takes about £7m off the wage bill. Sell Grealish and farm out McCormack on loan should bring them pretty close.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-aston-villas-takeover-means-14935263

 

[spence]

According to a DULLARD in tonight’s Birmingham Mail they need £40m of cost savings and income from player sales.

Terry and Agbonlahor going takes about £7m off the wage bill. Sell Grealish and farm out McCormack on loan should bring them pretty close.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-aston-villas-takeover-means-14935263

I'm starting to see more and more of your name in various outlets. Must be satisfying

 

[Triggaaar]

According to a DULLARD in tonight’s Birmingham Mail they need £40m of cost savings and income from player sales.

But since it's losses over 3 years, they don't need to be meeting a requirement in the coming season do they?

And although FFP have brought forward the deadline for accounts to March, that will obviously be March the year after they've broken them. So I'd guess they can blow FFP for the next couple of years in a gamble to get promoted, and it won't affect them until after that. If not, why?

 

[Diablo]

Contract players on £2,000 grand a week with a £5,000,000 promotion bonus.

you`d need to be Bill Gates to pay your players £2m a week.....£100m year each !!! makes the £5m promotion bonus almost mean !!

 

[mikeyjh]

Predicting who gets promoted from the Championship these days is like predicting the winning number on a roulette wheel. There are always the usual suspects - the teams who have just been relegated from the PL, the “BIG” clubs who seem to be in the eternal Hades of the Championship, the cash splashers with foreign owners who implode within weeks.

Just take your pick, place your bets, and good luck!

Yep - No bad thing to have an unpredictable league though. The sad thing is how much time we spend talking about football finance these days. I do hanker for a time when we didn't give a shite about the finances aside from when one's particular club either a) went on a spending spree or b) nearly went bust. All that said, it would be great to see a club becoming successful while living within their means, can't see it unfortunately.

 

[El Presidente]

But since it's losses over 3 years, they don't need to be meeting a requirement in the coming season do they?

And although FFP have brought forward the deadline for accounts to March, that will obviously be March the year after they've broken them. So I'd guess they can blow FFP for the next couple of years in a gamble to get promoted, and it won't affect them until after that. If not, why?

Clubs ‘at danger’ of breaking FFP have to submit live accounts for the present year.