CVByrne

We need to just get focussed and put everything into the Brighton game. They're not in great form and have nothing to play for. We need to want it more and go out and win it.

Chelsea have been relatively decent at home since November and they absolutely hate Spurs so should be really up for that game and needing to qualify for Europa League of they can.

Burnley aren't relegated yet either so their game against Spurs will be tough 

5 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

Our most impressive midfielder of our little mini run went off injured in the first half. Our goalkeeper,  the world no. 1 in his position, went off at half time. We have guaranteed, mathematically with three games to go, 5th place for the first time since 1997.

Maybe have some perspective?

We don't make excuses. We'd have taken 4 from the last two games. We'll just go beat Brighton now. 

We choked tonight lads. But we're in a race about who chokes less. With Spurs

Spurs 

Drawn konds keeps us about the same odds for top 4. A lot rides on tomorrow. I think it goes to final day. They've got Sheffield United so not even goal difference can keep us ahead with a game to play.

Was a bad performance tonight. Was a typical Villa have an important game night where we bottle it. We still have managed to recover each time.

Brighton next. Let's win that 

9 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I think if we beat Brighton or Liverpool it will be wrapped up before palace yes. And I think there’s a good chance we win one of those games. 
 

I’ve expressed this opinion many, many times. 
 

As usual you are settling on the absolute worst case scenario. Just like you did when you assured us all that finishing 6th was a certainty. 
 

How did that go?

I think you must don't bother reading the wider forum. You're just a sheep poster. Background noise, nothing worthwhile to say. Just kind of like .....

2 minutes ago, romavillan said:

Is that true?

It actually is

United, Brentford and Chelsea. 7 points still a very strong record though 

18 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Literally not true, but wouldn’t expect anything less from you

Ok, so you believe it'd all wrapped up with a game to spare? 

Could you express an opinion once please quote master? You're like a kind of toy with a string, always sounds like the same...

It's just frustrating when we always show moments of weakness when we really need moments of strength 

We'll still get 4th but we need to beat Palace now unfortunately it goes to last game of the season. 

1 minute ago, Panto_Villan said:

Classic 2-0 performance 

Only scoreline we've dropped points from 

This game makes it go to the last day. 

We know only Villa could do this. Complete capitulation. 

Insanely lucky to get out of a home win with a draw. 

12 minutes ago, david-avfc said:

https://www.teamtalk.com/aston-villa/unai-emery-rocked-ac-milan-prepare-brutal-signing-star-pocketed-arsenal

 

Not sure if already posted but there are a few rumours AC Milan want to sign Diego Carlos, Teamtalk (who I wouldn't regard as reliable) are claiming two independent links regarding Carlos to AC. 

If we could break even on FFP terms (€15m I think) would probably make sense to sell, arguably too expensive on amortisation and presumably wages for a back up centre half with fitness issues

We'd have to sign a replacement if we let Carlos go. We'd only have one right footed CB in Konsa left. He also plays RB often

2 hours ago, Xela said:

No right back? I know we have the Serbian kid, but I was thinking more of an immediate starter. Maybe with Cash moving on to bring in some revenue. 

a RB if we sold Cash. The players I was listing were in addition to the key players from this season. Exception would be Digne he'd leave.

We only need one attacking player and that's a right footed winger. We need another Central Midfielder (I think possibly a player on loan or we could try for Ndidi on a free as Emery will return him to his best). We also need another LCB who can play LB who has similar skillset to Pau in ball progression. 

So Nico Williams, Ndidi and Hermoso would be perfect. Two in on a free transfer. 

If we can qualify for the Champions League I think we can get Nico Williams. He'd be a huge asset for us and I think Emery wants us to be less predictable and more flexible in terms of which side is the attacking FB and winger combination. So not always going LB and RW we could go RB and LW. Williams is great with both feet but generally considered right footed and we've got just 2 left footed wingers in the squad. 

Summerville would be a good alternative. We need that right footed winger who loves dribbling and has high sucessful take ons

22 minutes ago, blandy said:

I suspect not. Selling clubs tend to release a price that says “look at all this money we got” and buying clubs tend towards “look at how little we paid”. One will include the add ons and one won’t. If the clauses are never triggered, no payment is made and the audited accounts eventually reveal the picture.

This was more a unique one though. I doubt we would have any add ons if there was a mandatory buyback for us in the deal. So I suspect this was a simple they paid us x and we buy back for his remaining book value if they're relegated. So it's basically a kind of Loan which helps us with FFP 

17 minutes ago, blandy said:

Alternatively: They signed him for 9 million plus add ons which never materialised, on a (say) 3 year deal. They sell him back to us for the same 9 million and so make a 3 million profit on his (now) amortised 6 million value. They incur the 3 million amortisation cost, plus whatever in wages.

We booked 9 million in income from his sale, last year and incur 9 million in costs when we buy him back.

isn’t that the theory?

I think we sold him for £18m so my calculations are based on that, if we resign him on a 4 year deal for £12m then it costs us £3m per year and we banked 18m for the sale in this years accounts. It was a good deal instead of a loan that's for sure. 

2 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

W5ill end up being sold for 3/4m with a 20% sell on clause or a buyback at a certain price I imagine. Either that or a loan to the championship. 

zero % chance of that happening. 3/4m is stupidly cheap for a player as good as Archer. Plus we would just be locking in a loss of up to 10m which we would never be doing to our accounts with PSR to comply with

2 hours ago, useless said:

The Archer buyback is £9m according to recent reports in Sheffield, and their CEO has more or less confirmed those reports and that it's a done deal that he's returning. They paid £9m for him in the first place, with another £9m owed if they survive, but that's obviously not going to happen, so we have to reimburse them for the initilal fee and it essentially been like a loan deal.

Very unlikely it's that low, it would result in a book loss for Sheffield United. He'll have £13.5m left on his book value so I would imagine our buyback is around that price

12 minutes ago, useless said:

Archer, if we want to sell him, we should make a decent profit on, when you look closely at it his stats for Sheffield United they aren't actually that bad, and also bearing in mind the team he's playing for, most Sheffield United fans seem to rate and like him too, so I don't think he's done any serious damage to his reputation, a Championship team with money I think would pay a good price for him, as guarantees goals, and could be the difference between promotion or not, he could even attract interest from one of the newly promoted teams, as again put him in a better team than Sheffield United have been, and you will see a better return from him

Maybe we won't get the £18m we would have got in total had Sheffield United surived, but I think we could get £10m plus with add-ons, maybe closer to £15m with add-ons, and that will essentially be all profit, being as though in buying him back, we're only giving Sheffield United back the money they paid for him in the first place, so his move to them was basically a loan deal.

Of course we may want to keep him I don't know

Yeah he's got 0.39 xG+xAG per 90 in a team who are by far the worst side in the League. He's done well I think for his first season in Prem. He'll learn from it and improve. I wonder what our buy back obligation is, £12m or £14m or something like that possibly. I'm sure there will be PL teams interest in him this summer at those prices. Alternatively we could loan him out

On 15/04/2024 at 23:19, Alakagom said:

In fact I wonder if NSWE was waiting for the Premier League to pass the 70% revenue/wages rules before comitting, there's no other way to keep up with top 6 now then to rapidly increase revenues and new stadium is a must in that case. 

The Premier Leage rule changes are irrelevant for the top clubs as the UEFA ones are more stringent and we all have to comply with them already.

2 minutes ago, Czarnikjak said:

Hopefully! No idea how they gonna do that though

I don't think anyone does tbh. Heck said it though. 

3 minutes ago, Czarnikjak said:

These premium seats will come from converted GA seats. They can't magically create 1500 new seats.

He's on record more than once saying the capacity will be increased by 1500 to 2700 additional seats. 

16 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

 

So improving the overall experience and keeping prices where they are now while adding in 1000 to 1500 additional Premium seating and Premium Spaces. Sounds good