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Agreed. Moreno - £13m - great Pau - £27m - great Diaby - £40m - jury’s out but shown potential to be great Rogers - £8m+ - early days but great so far.

What did they blow up?

It was ok but not great. 6/10. Fantastic world building but the plot just meandered all over the place. Not even in the same league as The Last of Us.

Better than Emi?

That’s not correct is it? The PL do split TV money based on an equal share pot and a prize pot and a ‘shown on TV’ pot. So even if two clubs played in the USA, it would either go into the equal share pot the ‘shown on TV’ pot. The 2 teams to play in NY would only benefit by more commercial exposure in the USA.

I’m thinking he is more CCO - Chief Commercial Officer. But then who is the CEO and COO of Aston Villa? He surely isn’t combining all three roles?

It was in the online media at the time that we had to pay around £2 million to Castore to get out of the deal. That was apparently what triggered the c***suckers rant from Heck.

I think i've mentioned it before in the Commercial Revenue thread. Basically benchmarking. What should a 4th placed team about to go into the Champions League generally get from the sponsorship opportunities available? Then has Heck beaten or done worse than the benchmark? Crowing about doubling the sponsorship, but still being a lot lower than other comparable teams isn't the best. I'm sure Heck will improve, but i would say improve first, then tell people about your actual achievement. At the moment, he's passable on sponsorship deals, terrible on branding, and terrible on communications. Matchday pricing is the next thing he will be judged on. It's like saying “I’ve doubled matchday revenue by doubling the prices. Purslow was so crap he didn't even double matchday revenue”. Whereas anyone worth the big bucks, would say something like “I’ve increased season tickets pricing by 3% but i've increased matchday revenue by 12% whilst also increasing fan satisfaction”. Now that's clever work.

Is it? Emery has got us 4th and talked about in the media. Heck hasn't brought in more money than another 4th place team would command. Again in the above interview, he seems to think he's done amazing. I could have been blindfolded and brought in double sponsorship for a 4th place team compared to a relegation fighting team when the last sponsorship deals were agreed. He has branded us with AU1500 though, credit for that. No idea what that has to do with Villa though.

Well he could have tried earning some trust, not making sure he broke every bit of trust and leeway we gave him at the start.

8th highest income in world football. They'll sell a couple of their loanees which are basically youth products and so 100% profit. Maybe sell another hotel or building. Sell a couple of old cloggers to Saudi (who part-own Clearlake) for inflated values. Add a couple more fake sponsorships like their shirt sponsor. No problemo, nothing to see here.

Ahhh how could I forget about that little gem from my favourite scouse fool.

Yep. And they are both mates and 19 years old.

Why are the percentages different between the tables?

I think it’s because the £ against the $ has weakened and oil is priced in dollars. So it’s more expensive for us to import it in.

The King of Kings Heath. The Prince of Perry Barr. The Emperor of Erdington. The Ruler of Redditch.

The Sultan of Sutton!

Let’s just buy him the whole of Aston as his own personal kingdom. He will be the Don of Emeryville.

Sometimes i change the name to someone else in my group and that sorts it out. Also change the adult ticket to an U14 and then back to adult. If neither of those work, then go back out of that page completely to the home page (don't log out), then go back to your basket and try again. If that doesn't work, then you'll need to drop the tickets out of your basket and try selecting the seats again.

Ah you're not used to the crappy ticketing website are you. I buy tickets on a match by match basis and get that message regularly. Along with all sorts of other error messages that usually don't make sense.

The funny thing is that at this late stage they will have 100% decided on season ticket pricing, so a meeting or consultation now is largely irrelevant. They'll pretend to listen and then do what they were going to do anyway.

Can't wait to be hated by other fans as one of the new "Top 4"

Building will commence just after lifting the CL trophy

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