DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth

100% - Hopefully in the case of Buendia to us.

Worth bearing in mind a lot of clubs (Arsenal, Spurs etc) don’t like doing their business early. If a player is on £100k the difference between signing him in June and August could be in excess of £1.2mil in wages.

Rumour is Neves is being sold by Wolves for £35m. I know he’s likely off to a Champions League club, but that is a bargain and would be worth every penny just to see their fans reaction.

5 players £135mil

Am looking forward to the obligatory “Ross Barkley has returned to Chelsea. We thank him and wish him well for his future career in League one” social media post.

Dougville does have a ring to it. Agree with the contempt for his tenure though, I have no doubt Doug would have benefitted personally from that land, and could never have seen him have the vision to do what Wes and Nassef are doing with this academy.

Not tall enough for me

Fans love a player that runs their heart out. It’s not difficult to love Ollie. 14 league goals is a great debut season return, especially with our most creative midfielder out for months.

If anything to put that terrible “Mind the gap” rubbish to bed. I have no issue with Wolves, but their obsession with how we are doing is irritating

Mine was predicting that Marlon Harewood could play for “900minutes” after coming on against Liverpool and not score….10 seconds before scoring a bicycle kick against them to help salvage a draw for us.

Football Insider are the Athletic of football rumours. Charlton Athletic.

Nassef and Wes mean business don’t they?

We are all living in Bertrand Traore’s world. Sometimes it’s ridiculous, sometimes it’s genius, sometimes it’s incomprehensible. But it’s always entertaining.

Fair play to the guy. He’s not Messi, but he’s done well for us over the years, and my word he’s got great goals in him

Great bunch of lads.

Top 8 for me if we invest and keep all the players mentioned. Progress is the name of the game.

Generally AoA are just administrative in nature. Voting rights/roles of directors etc. It’s basically the constitution for a business. Generally in a closed shop ownership with the two owners who are directly linked it means nothing. Every Ltd company, or PLC for that matter, has AoA, most of the time people just use the template companies house ones. Generally it takes a week for account filings to show at companies house, however I note Villas are not due until 31st May due to the Covid extensions the govt gave. So it might be the case that Villa are yet to formally submit them, which they are well within their rights to do until end of May,

Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I think Nakamba has really come on this year when I’ve seen him. His passing is far better than his first season. Perhaps he’s not good enough for where we want to go, but I think there are areas I’d like to see upgraded well before Defensive Midfield right now.

Saw a bit of the youth cup game vs Burton, and although Barry took the plaudits Chukwuemeka looked the real deal to me.

Absolute garbage since his injury. Ramsey above him in the pecking order now for me.

Does anyone think we might have a chance at getting Wilf Zaha this summer?

Our being debt free, despite making a £99.2mil loss, demonstrates that current FFP laws and long term financial stability are not extricably linked. Nassef and Wes have put their money where their mouth is. Another amazing thing is to consider that everyone got paid during lockdown, even casual staff, and not a penny of government relief was taken. Essentially, Nassef and Wes have paid to keep a lot of people going during these tough times when they had no benefit to do so - and still gave us a massive transfer budget. I hope these actions are never forgotten.

I sense some incoming astronomical losses. £100mil+ territory. Interestingly on companies house, under a fairly standard update to article of association, you can see the vehicles which Wes and Nassef own the club through. Nassef through his Luxembourg based company, Nns Uk Gp Sàrl. And Wes through his Delaware based company, Aston Villa Investors GP LLC.

I genuinely only saw the last 20mins and thought we were excellent. So I presume the other 70 must have been about the same yea?