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This is the thing. It could be argued that some of the prices are fair. But they’re not independent transactions to a third party. They’re transfers to a connected party. Furthermore, that connected party has no FFP obligations whatsoever so can essentially be used as a vehicle to launder money in and out of their chosen premier league team at will. So the transfer fees are open to exploitation whether one considers them fair on a case by case basis or not. Needless to say, Sky made no comment on this issue in their report.

It’s ridiculous the league are allowing these Saudi transfers to happen. It’s essentially money laundering for FFP purposes. Sales to connected parties should have the transfer fee fixed by an arbitrator to ensure independence. Or just scrap FFP altogether so it’s a free for all but at least everyone has the same opportunity. As it is, different teams are playing by different rules.

So will Heck be Purslow’s replacement as club representative at Premier League meetings, votes, etc. or will that fall under football operations for Monchi? I would assume it’s Heck.

My point was that in those few minutes, he has pretty much contributed the same or close to the amount of points as Bailey and Buendia combined all season in key goals. And that is an actual fact.

Come on now. Marginally more than Traore between them I make it and Traore hardly played 90 minutes altogether all season. Watkins and Ramsey were generally our match winners. We should surely be expecting two of our front three to be contributing at least 15-20 points per season in winning goals. If Bailey is to have any meaningful future with us, he should be spending his summer holidays in Bodymoor Heath with a strength and conditioning coach.

I know he doesn’t care. I’m not disputing his motives. And the very small price he has to pay is that he’s a selfish turncoat. That’s just an indisputable fact. The point I was making is that I find it pathetic for Villa fans to celebrate his success with another club who have cheated to succeed. I think it’s a real loser’s mentality. And I find it bizarre from supporters of a club that won its own European cup in the 80s. And by the way, there are plenty of sports where people don’t just abandon their teams for a better chance of personal success elsewhere. Real team spirit and loyalty does exist elsewhere thankfully.

With a bunch of cheats. Still a selfish turncoat as I said. Whatever floats your boat.

I find the “pleased for grealish” nonsense for a player who turned his back on us to join a bunch of cheats astonishingly pathetic. He’s a turncoat. Wanted to leave to win trophies and play with better players. Well that just makes him a selfish turncoat.

It’s incredible isn’t it. What sort or world are we living in where blatant cheating is celebrated. I hope they get stripped of every rotten trophy they’ve stolen.

It would actually require regression under Unai Emery for us to not qualify for the champions league next season. That’s how good a job he’s done.

I don’t know. I’m glad the sole focus on Sunday was beating brighton. He didn’t need a big goodbye just for the sake of it. Too much pampering of players. They can arrange a testimonial if he needs one. I think the end of the season is the professional time to deal with contracts. I’m still grateful to Young for the player he was for us. Clubs and players will look after themselves when they need to. It’s always been that way. And most fans eventually accept players moving on if they haven’t been disingenuous in the process.

They’re grown adults being handsomely paid. They know what they signed up for. The club isn’t exactly leaving Young homeless. Young left us before when it suited him. McGinn and Mings will know when their time is up. Young was slowing up a lot. It was the right decision in my opinion.

I like this from the club to be honest. Shows some ruthlessness. His legs are going / gone and only heading in one direction. We need to be aiming for better.

I rarely hear people saying things like this about Manchester and Liverpool. I’m not from Birmingham either. I’m not even from England. But I don’t see much difference between Manchester and Birmingham and I definitely think Birmingham is much nicer than Liverpool. I find Liverpool depressing. They’ve had more successful teams than us but the cities haven’t prevented some of the world’s top players playing there. So if our team is good enough, the location shouldn’t be an issue. I know the original post was in comparison to Paris which is fair but I see this a lot about Birmingham.

Maybe. I don’t mean to knock the guy needlessly. He seems like a great guy. But if I was a newly promoted club with the option to spend 11 million on Nakamba now or another random player from the Belgian or French leagues, as Nakamba was to us when we signed him, I’d fancy my chances to find a better player than Nakamba. Although I can see there are other benefits to Luton in signing him as he’s established there, etc.

Take whatever we can get for him, get him off the wage bill and free up a space in the squad. There is no benefit in holding on to him. He would have been totally outclassed in that Brighton game. He even struggled to dominate against Coventry. He just doesn’t have the class. Ultimately a poor signing but we should be able to recover some of the loss.

OK. Just looked like the pre and post match was all from Goodison Park. It was poor. It would be nice to see those post match scenes properly if anyone has a link.

Looks like sky were too tight to send any presenters and pundits to the other games.

Unreal. Well done to all involved. Huge effort and commitment.

That goal was coming. Terrible defending.

Let’s keep it up.

A win gave us a huge chance of top six and europa league in fairness.

Not at all. I watched the last review of our accounts with Kieran Maguire and it didn’t look like a healthy picture overall. Basically that we’ve been making consistent losses which wouldn’t have been sustainable without the Grealish money. There was a sense that we need to grow our revenue significantly to allow player budgets to grow much higher. I am not saying there aren’t ways around it and that we aren’t going to spend big. But I don’t think our finances are as good as some make out. Having billionaire owners doesn’t make the club self sustainable, which is pretty much the basis of FPP.

I think our finances are quite unhealthy. The last set of financial results looked pretty grim.

We paid something like 30 million for him. If you look around the league, you’ll see what could have been done with that sort of money. Six goals in two years and an endless supply of rubbish performances. We’ve made some terrible signings but few have been as costly as this one.