Czarnikjak

There has been a lot of disappointment on this thread that our youngsters go to League 2 and National League teams, and not to championship or League 1 for example. Looks like National League and League 2 is the right level for them (at the moment).

For me to asses progress I would look at things like points tally, goal difference, possession stats (shows how well we control games) and xG. league position alone can sometimes be a bit misleading. Ie historically 55 points is normally enough for 8-9th place.

I think you are over complicating it. Anything more than 55 points is progress. Get more then 55 points and the league position will take care of itself. You can’t control what other teams do, only your point tally.

I don’t give a damn where Arsenal finish. if they finish 5th and we finish 6th I will be over the moon. if we finish 11th and above them, not so much.

How come? Why is our season defined by finishing above or below Arsenal?

We would need to get about £12m for him this summer to break even. Nobody in their right mind will pay that much. Probably the best option for all parties involved is to loan him to Belgium, Turkey or similar place. He will get to play and rebuild his confidence and we will benefit from his value hopefully increasing again. We could keep him around, but how much game time is he gonna get?

He stylistically reminds me of Carles Gil. Clever movement, great eye for the pass but lacks pace and gets easily outmuscled and dispossessed when on the ball. Main difference is that Buendia is feisty and puts a shift in defensively. Early days for him, he will need more overlapping runs from cash to get the best of him when he cuts in.

Don't worry, big Wes on the bench. He will sort them out.

Yes, most clubs do it. Not to help with FFP though, payment terms don't affect FFP calculations. It's done to soften cash flow impact. According to last published accounts Arsenal had the highest transfer debt in Premier League. It might have changed someway since then.

I don't think this game is televised at all. Let me know if you find any stream. I think avtv only is only streaming our home youth games from bodymoor heath

Is this game available live or as a rerun on avtv?

Exactly not what we looking for. We looking for someone for this season. It's only a good deal if he develops as they expect him to. Still a gamble.

There are hundreds of 18 year olds with potential out there (we have few of them ourselves). If we need a midfielder, we need one who can step in and do the job right now. Spurs can allow him to learn on the job giving him some minutes in the Europa conference league probably. Good luck to him.

The rules around related party sponsorship deals have been tightened over last few years, in reaction to what Man City and PSG were doing. Every sponsorship deal like that is scrutinised for market value and any excess is excluded from FFP and P&S calculations. It would be waste of money for NSWE. They might as well let others pay the market value sponsorship and top up with equity injections, as they have been doing for last 3 years.

I don't think people outside of Arsenal realise what effect he had on them. Since joining them on loan at the end of January they had 4th best record in the Premier league in last 17 match days, behind only man city, Chelsea and United.

Excellent deal that for the reported £30m ( odeegard not ramsdale that is )

But UEFA won't reverse this trend without regulatory pressure. It was UEFA who agreed to the coefficient based payments. More so, they even implemented now coefficient based qualification to CL, coming into effect as of 22/23 season. So for example, if Liverpool were to finish 6th in the league, they would still get into CL based on coefficientt.

The same people who moan about this on Facebook want the club to keep signing £30m players...clueless, typical have your cake and eat it at the same time.

Most of them will never play for Villa's first team. They will be loaned out. From club's perspective it's a numbers game. Each individual young player has very small chances of making it big in the game. Hence we need large numbers of them for few to make it big for us. Majority will be loaned and sold to lower league clubs for small fees to offset costs of their development.

I think you have a typo there, it's 70%, not 30%. Couple points: 1. We don't know the details of this proposal yet. All we know is the headline figure of 70% of the revenue. There might be some provisions in there like the one you suggesting. 2. This is UEFA proposal, it doesn't apply to all Premier League teams, only to the ones that qualify for Europe. Premier league would also need to adopt this rules for them to apply. 3. Your last paragraph summarise our situation very well. 10 years of criminal negligence and mismanagement came at the worst possible time for us. We missed the departing train complety and are stuck on the platform with no obvious way to catch it.

It's 19/20 season,the one where most teams deferred some income. Burnley, Palace, Newcastle, Norwich and Sheffield United didn't. Numbers for 20/21 season are not published yet

Not so fast. Rwanda just extended their sleeve sponsorship with arsenal for £10m per season.

Correct, although that would be offset by improved wages of mings, mcginn,konsa and target. Plus all the new signings. I would still expect us to be in "top" 3 unfortunately

@villa4europe @blandy Latest published wages to revenue ratios courtesy to Swiss ramble below. We are not looking good and would be one of the first teams punished if salary cap was to be introduced. Bear in mind that revenue values are affected by covid, so the ratios are likely to drop now for everyone once stadiums are fully open again.

They're doing great business selling their academy cast offs. One of the reasons why they don't have to cheat FFP anymore to be able to sign grealish AND kane.