suttonpaul

Is our team really that bad?

Yes! If you want a guaranteed top half finish.

Would anyone take Sandro and Lennon from Spurs?

Err yes.

Will we get them? No!

I haven't seen much of him but judging by his clubs he can't be awful

Sponsorship, naming rights, partnerships.......

A decent CEO will make little difference. What impact could they possibly have when such limitations are in place?

One word money they control how much we make

Yea completely OT at this point I think affordable for us is about 40k with a star on 50/60k

Just did a quick search it says. 31k but the one I saw might be the average in the ever presents

I saw a article about it about a month from a reputable place

Please do. There's nothing wrong with mentioning a 'cheeky' bid, loan or transfer. If you don't ask, you don't get.

You don't get anyway. In a market where Borini is worth £14m and Rodwell is going for £10m, nobody is going to be giving players away for **** all.

I saw earlier that Derby have got a Real Madrid player on loan. Now, I don't have a clue whether he's the next big flop to come from Spain, or whether he is a promising player that could have maybe made an impression at a Lower Prem team, but Derby wouldn't have got that loan if they didn't ask.

A Madrid youth player, not established internationals on £60k-£80k a week like mentioned before.

Just because he plays for RM doesn't mean he is anything special either, so I see no big deal in Derby signing him.

The players mentioned here were Milner, Moses etc... ,they will not be coming here, we will not pay those wages and City and Chelsea are not going to loan them to us for nothing, no matter how cheeky the bid is.

People need to get into the real **** world.

Average PL wage is just over 60k a week

FFP has long been coming in what is it now about 4 or 5 years since the votes? So no I don't think he was looking to sell at that time.

If it was a stab at......filthy rich owners are put off by the FFP rules or interested parties but cannot raise enough money to turn villa around.

I would suspect the latter.

I think the former is just wishful thinking.

I think we would already be sold without those rules

Anyway we digress we get what we are given and we don't know what Randy is allowing for wages either........... 7 weeks till the window closes then we can just get on with supporting the team.

Well looking at the team you are looking at two full backs, one midfielder and a wide forward.

If you try and buy all four you are going to get crap so I would go with the midfielder and wide forward as it we do have semi competent to competent full backs they just aren't good.

Well if true at least the money could buy us a good player.

I like Luna going forward at defensive duties not so much but at the same time the midfield last year weren't backing him up so it was 2vs1 often and you aren't going to look good in that situation.

Good riddance. Without doubt the worst defender I've ever had the misfortune of watching turn out for us and his display at Norwich was quite simply one of the worst I've seen from any full-back, ever.

Alan Hutton

I think Kozak played enough games to be judged. 4 goals in 15 games, some of those off the bench? And his performances were decent, I can't remember him having a stinker, unlike many of our other players. All in all not bad and compared to our other non Benteke strikers its good.

He's a crap player who knows how to score. In other words he is Darren bent when he could score

Let's enjoy being a historic club like Preston and Nottingham Forrest.

Because we aren't going to catch up clubs earning more than us without taking steps like this.

Of course with FFP you can spend more the more you bring in income wise ..so just how much have we lost in Revenue from poor performances on the pitch ?

Macros we have until 2016 but the dafabet deal runs out end of this season.Good luck attracting sponsors to a team as poorly performing as us , of course not having a CEO currently won't help matters either.

We have issues with FFP as we overspent on rubbish players transfers fee's and wages along with paying off managers.FFP may be an issue but Everton and Newcastle don't seem to be doing too badly as example of clubs of similar size to us.

I think the best thing for this owner or the next is to sell naming rights.

Jesus goes to show the mess we were/are still in

Yea but how long before he is up to speed after such a long injury and Benteke will be worse as he will be out for even longer, an even more serious injury ad a much more important player.

I'm more worried about this season rather than last we are going to struggle without kozak and Benteke for a long period and our defence is suspect still. I think the confidence of the players may be low by the time they will come back and that's why we will struggle.

Look at the form last season when they got injured.

Ouch that much Pete? I didn't expect that at all. Do the rules count amortisation too?

I wasn't saying it was the only reason I just think someone should look up those losses to check (I know some of the accounts people love doing this )

I think it is all about the sale now in relation to not taking anymore liabilities in the business sense of the wages and keeping the three year total loss to a minimum to make it more attractive to a new owner so he can spend more money when he comes in

We have a good chance of staying up but we will certainly not be better than last year.

We are going to have issues upfront

I'm suggesting it could be part of the reason depending on the total losses of the last three years