DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth

Kings amongst mere mortals.

I suspect it’ll be picked up by the stadium company as you say. I think they’re relative small fry though. The main advantage was definitely the immediate £50M+ relief on FFP. I have serious doubts the Premier League will ever punish a club under FFP though. It will open the floodgates and ultimately affect the product.

Fair shout. Just a very bizarre signing wasn’t he? Pursued for over a year, and never really fancied by management. Probably an overlap of the Suso regime.

Surely has to go down as one of the worst signings in the history of the club

A great player, but an even greater man.

Source has less followers than the boy who cried wolf (post exposure).

Forgive me if this has already happened, but could fans start a gofundme page for a few of these guys to come visit once Covid is done?

Usually hedge funds charge a fee to all their investors. A management of funds fee or sometimes this can be a percentage of revenues Pension funds etc are happy to pay it because their investments usually yield long term returns beyond what any bank interest would. And it’s easy for them. Hedges are basically the collective funds of investors, the companies effectively make investment decisions for them. Anyone can set one up, but good hedge funds/holding companies are rare. Wes Edens is an exceptionally clever man. Since Fortress was taken over, it is likely Edens is probably working under some contractual arrangement where he is salarised/bonused to the hilt for performance, but he is likely still at the sharp end of deciding where to invest etc. That said, Wes probably also has some money in the Fortress hedge still.

On reflection you are right. They probably would love to play a comparatively massive team like us for the ticket revenues that said. On a serious note, was the Rangers friendly as bad as the reports said, it sounds unbelievable!

Sounds as though the pre-season will mainly be local axed from the FCG notes. would be good to play smaller local midland sides such as Leamington, Walsall, Notts County and Birmingham City…

Back to Exeter on loan would be a good move.

Sounds more like Gary Neuville

Would not be surprised, but it would be a shame. He looked a giant in a couple of games at the end of the season

What day is it?

Throw ins are bit lax. Rory Delap?

It’s easy to get caught up in ecstasy after buying a great player for a club record fee, but these guys really aren’t satisfied as being also rans are they? Genuinely never been as excited to be a Villa fan, not even in Lerners first couple of seasons. Nassef and Wes have saved this club.

Saint-Maximin would probably make us the most exciting attacking line up outside the current top 4. Knowing Mike Ashley’s penchant for cash we could probably get him for £40m.

What is FFP? Asking for Norwich and Wolverhampton friends.

The Nassef Sawiris stand….

Unbelievable amounts of salt in North London, East Anglia and parts of Wolverhampton. Perhaps Nassef could open a mine and next year we can spend even more on players…

Beating Arsenal to one of their prime targets would be quite a statement.

Earned it with some stunning performances in the championship to be fair. Wouldn’t be where we are now without them, and for that reason I would like him to be backup to Emi and not bother with a different keeper.

Did a good job for us in his time with us. Probably one of the more productive transfers from that first batch of players we signed in the championship. Certainly we had a better deal than Swansea did with Ayew.

Yep. The idea that Arsenal will spend £35-40mil on Buendia is a bit unrealistic. That’ll be well over 50% of their budget. Financially they can’t compete with Villa (but you are right there are other factors). Feels good to say established teams can’t compete with us for a change.

I often wonder how Joe Bryan feels now. The idiot.