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I don't see any reason to worry about Villa. They are in a complete shambles meltdown. I can honestly see them in a rele scrap next season. Sure as eggs-is-eggs they ain't going to be in the promo places.

I think next season's Championship will be the strongest ever. Norwich have done it twice before, and Newcattle look likely to be able to convince whatshisface to stay on and lead them straight back up with the same team.

Indeed. Fewer than 24 months ago I watched Uloja play a friendly at the Dripping Pan and now he has a Premier League medal.

Yes, clubs now in the Prem (including Boro, Burnley and Hull/Wednesday) will be getting about £1.6 billion between them per year for the next 5 years. Some is dependent on number of games actually on TV but the base amount each club gets is basically doubling, I believe. Starting from now so...

They have it in the NFL. And they have the draft whereby the club which finishes bottom gets first pick of the next intake of college players. Ok, so their's is a system with no promo/rele but if they can level the playing field in the mother of all capitalist and litigious countries why can't...

or just set a firm limit on transfer budgets and wages. At the moment, if I am correct, the amount a club can spend is some ratio of their income. Which makes it MASSIVELY tilted in favour of clubs with large grounds and good marketing teams. Just make it a firm ££ limit on spending.

fair point. still a nice pay day at womberly though

But has worked very well for Leicester and Wednesday.... not all foreign owners are idiots

Generous of heart, certainly but he still ends up owning a terrificlly attractive asset. A club with prem-ready facilities. I wouldn't be surprised if some Chinaman or Arab has contacted him on the off chance. The setup now is very good so it is not as if the money is wasted, far from it. Rich...

Wow. Ok, I bow to your knowledge...crazy numbers. No wonder he looked downcast on the tele.

Football finance is really just old fashioned business finance ;) There is nothing magical about football finance. It is just income versus expenditure same as any old business. But I am genuinely amazed if he really has sunk net £250 million into the club. That is insane.

Wow. Ok. Astonishing numbers. But there is no reason the wage bill needs to go to £70m. Bournemouth are nowhere near that. Or at least, they weren't this season, maybe they will be in a position to pay more now they have consolidated.

Really? You are kidding me. On what? The ground was £90 million. The training centre will be a bit more, but not £140 million. Are you sure of those figures? £250 million is a lot of money and no one, but no one, puts that sort of money into anything just for the love of it. And Bloom is a...

Newcattle will be easy favourites to bounce straight back. Norwich will be right up there too. What we can surely all agree on is that Villa will be nowhere near the promo spots. In fact, they will probably be in a rele-scrap next season. By all accounts things are really, really bad at Villa...

yeah, true. Ironic though that just when the TV money goes uber-critical-stupid, Leicester remind us all that it ain't all about the money... Still, would Bloom take £8-10m for Knockeart?

What do you reckon is a fair price for Knockheart and Dunk?

promotion would mean he gets every penny he has invested into the club back, and then some. Not surprising he looked a tad down in the dumps. They say the wembley game is worth £180 million minimum. Could build two Amexes with that.