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Was a new engine too much to ask for?

Given that, after scraping the site, there are a few mentions of Fallout 3: Special Edition in the code, I'd say guaranteed. However, Fallout 4 IS being announced and it's out this year

I think he means a contract on a coach's salary, which would be ten times less than his current wage

Oh jesus. We're fuxxored lads

Fixed No I'll stick with my original statement. Your original statement without the amended one would see us much where we are right now, to be fair

Probably thought he could ride out the storm but decided it wasn't going away any time soon. Or something else has just cropped up and he's been tipped off he's going to be arrested

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It's spent on wages We get sky money at the end of every season unless we've got a HUGE sponsorship deal coming, then we do

I'd guess they have to pay it in one go. Because otherwise they could structure it where they pay £1 now and the other installments in five years time for example and we'd be obliged to accept it, which can't be right. My assumption is that if they offer it all in one go, we're obliged to accept. If they offer it in any sort of structured payment plan, we aren't

He didn't mention we were changing kit supplier at all and he didn't mention an American company, at least not to the group as a whole during his presentationy bit. He purely mentioned we needed to make far more money from our kit sponsors than we were currently. He seemed to slip up suggesting we might replace Macron but he also said we might keep them. There contract isn't up for a year either. All he said is we needed more income. Unless someone is suggesting he said something to them directly during his walk around then it's simply not true to say he made some sort of announcement. Why would he do a group of fans?! someone definitely said he said new supplier and new sponsor

Except you're taking things a little wrong. Benteke out for 32.5m saves us say 2.5m in wages a year plus gets us 32.5m If we buy Townsend for 10m on a 4 year deal, and pay him 4m a year, that equates to 6.5m of the 32.5m of the benteke money spent in year one, same year 2, same year 3. if wages were all paid up front, and fees werent amortized, then your line of thinking would be correct, but it works differently to that. Any signings we make this year, we're only really concerned with the cost of the fee divided by length of the contract, plus one year's wage, since the benteke money would (should) be upfront given that it's a release clause, while player acquisitions are handled differently

Doesn't mean it's true. Seems like an educated guess with a high probability to me. Sherwood was a youth coach so will know younger players in the English game. It's a relatively safe thing to guess but it doesn't mean there's truth to it

Foreigners struggle big time with native English speaking accents. Also the guy who made the video can likely look forward to being sued to absolute bits in the near future for impersonating someone and recording a call without permission, plus the damage caused by posting it after doing both the aforementioned

The 10m you postulate we lose could be offset by him having a great season though. Plus the release clause won't reduce just because a year has passed

Specifically for the reason you've just given, we won't be able to find a like for like, so we're better off finding someone who can be useful in a different way We were hardly going to release him now were we

Even with a gajillionaire there's not much we can do. More than a rich owner, we need a great commercial mind running the show off the pitch, and we've pretty much got that in a man who was instrumental in pulling in serious money for Arsenal over a sustained period. Until we get that bit sorted out it doesn't matter if it's Bill Gates or Doug Ellis who owns the club, we've got our hands tied in what we can spend over the next 12 months. Right now we're on the cusp of acceptable losses with owner input, meaning that this summer I don't think we can spend more than a few million quid more than we bring in regardless of how rich the next owner is, unless the takeover is structured in a clever way that sees some of the purchase money allotted, through creative book keeping, for transfers (ie through something like training ground naming rights or something like that before the takeover is complete). Next summer we see the 12/13 season (with losses of 52m) drop off the list, so we can theoretically spend up to that 52m once it's under the limit of 105m losses over the 3 year in play. The following summer we drop another 51.2m of losses from the FFP regulations. Until those seasons are no longer in play, though, we're relying on new sponsorships, commercial activities and player sales to finance spending. That's got nothing to do with Lerner being unwilling to spend (even if he is), but everything to do with the Premier League's FFP regulations that were voted in by a majority of members.

I'd keep Andi above Gabby to be perfectly honest. Same kind of work rate, but a bit more footballing talent. Andi could be a decent player, Gabby will never be more than he is

bent wasn't even on 75k was he? I don't think we will, or even should, be looking for a like-for-like replacement to be honest

I'd agree with that bit. Overall, it is a mid-table standard squad which Lambert just happened to be badly underperforming with. However, it shouldn't be forgotten just how bad a state they had been left in - mentally on the floor after having any attacking capability effectively coached out of them. Sherwood was the right sort of character to generate a boost in that situation and I'll always be appreciative to the man for keeping us up. Of course though, the completion of his short-term mandate doesn't serve as an indicator for whether he can push the club on beyond that. I have absolutely no idea how he'll do next season other than being fairly sure that we won't be relegated at least with the assumption that we're likely to win enough games under him to ensure our heads are kept above water. Although saying that, it could be that he is a momentum manager in which case the above assumption is flawed, who knows. The business done in the summer will probably determine my optimism when next season arrives. If we sign a bunch of lazily scouted, poor value, 'MON signings' then any enthusiasm will be severly curbed. And I do fear that may well be the case, I just hope that Reilly has some authority in the transfer policy so it's not purely at whim of the manager. A lot of people have expressed similar fears but what exactly are they basing this on? Lazy links in newspapers that are either mocked when it or taken as gospel, depending on the posters' viewpoints

That's cost us exactly the same as keeping them for the duration of their contracts, but we'd never be able to use them if we were stuck, so how exactly do you maintain we're better of cancelling their contacts?

And what did the first ten show?

Deal starts in the 2016/17 season, and teams in the premiership for that season won't get the money until summer 2017. And because of FFP we can't spend money we don't have, even if we know (hope) we'll be getting it for sure. So what was his desperation not to go down then with regarding the massive TV deal as we could've got relegated, come straight up and still had the windfall if it dosen't come in for another year? Just people sporting nonsense about stuff they don't understand as usual. We actually could've gone down this year, and once we got up first time of asking we'd have gotten our big slice of the new pie

Time for a break from this part of villa talk for a while me thinks. Too much knicker wetting from the usual suspects making it a chore to read

Deal starts in the 2016/17 season, and teams in the premiership for that season won't get the money until summer 2017. And because of FFP we can't spend money we don't have, even if we know (hope) we'll be getting it for sure.

We were cooked before Sherwood saved us, and make no mistake, that's precisely what he did. Looking back, he managed a pretty much impossible task, and managed it, ultimately, with a couple of games to spare. That was unthinkable the day after the Hull game. Once we were safe, I think the pressure of the season just took its toll on the players. Tim didn't get the management right for the last couple of games and we lost our momentum. I'm sure it's a tough thing to get players giving 100% knowing that a red card or an injury would have them missing the FA Cup final, but hopefully he's learned from that. Beating Arsenal was always going to be difficult. Whatever way you cut it, they're far, far better than us in every single department right now. We needed the game of our lives, and for them not to turn up. That was always a shot in the dark though. There won't be too many people surprised with the result, but we've got every right to be disappointed and angry about the performance. That was the biggest game of most of those players lives and they never showed up. Some of that has got to be down to the manager. But like the players, the manager is new to this, too. I'm certainly not changing my opinion that he's done a ludicrously tough job with more style than we could ever have imagined just because the players took their holidays early and then forgot to come back for the FA Cup. The remit was to keep us up, that was mission accomplished. Beating Liverpool in that semi final might just have pushed us over the line in the league, so the cup run was definitely worth it IMO. The season is over, we stayed up and we lost in a cup final. There's not a single one of us on here that wouldn't have taken that in a second after the Hull game. I've got no time for people throwing their toys out of the pram with Sherwood, and tarnishing his contribution or saying he was "found out" because of the last few games. Let's see how he gets on in the transfer market first. Let's see how he rebuilds the squad. Let's see who he gets rid of. Let's see who he can keep hold of. Let's give him a chance to actually give it a go. He deserves it, because he did the impossible this season. I just find it ironic that some the most negative folks on here, the ones saying we were definitely down and couldn't be saved and this, that and the other, are the ones complaining the loudest at the end of the season when we stayed up. Losing 4-0 in a cup final isn't good enough, nobody is saying it is, but it was s side show to this season. The real stuff starts when the buying and selling kicks off and the players return in July. It doesn't matter who the owner is or isn't, we can only spend what we make - our losses in the past are such that Bill Gates couldn't invest any more than Randy will. If you can't accept that, modern football isn't for you. Unless there are major FFP changes, the only thing a new owner can do is increase club income, or decrease club spending, to give the manager more money. There's no alternative, no workaround, no loophole, no legal challenges. It was voted in by a majority, and it's not changing any time soon. So, shut the **** up, stop moaning about everything, realise that the current football climate is doing its best to keep clubs outside the established big name group down, and support the goddamned team, manager and whoever else. The poisonous shite on here is ludicrous.