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[Football] Aston Villa receive 'significant investment' from billionaires
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Now that would be a window of opportunity
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Contract players on £2,000 grand a week with a £5,000,000 promotion bonus.
Bolton va va
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- Nov 20, 2012
- 374
Sad news this.
Villa had looked like a deserving candidate to be this season's "Sunderland".
Villa had looked like a deserving candidate to be this season's "Sunderland".
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
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.
Aston Villa are the Barcelona of Birmingham!
ferring seagull
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- Dec 30, 2010
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albeit by driving a coach and horses through the apparently toothless FFP, many recent examples !
Good luck signing anyone decent.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
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
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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
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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.
How close are they to failing FFP ?
Are they going to dock points for late submission of accounts?
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
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?
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
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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.
Clubs ‘at danger’ of breaking FFP have to submit live accounts for the present year.