lexicon Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Moses and Aspas? Dear god no. Would be expensive and have almost no technical ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Aspas has no technical ability? I think to may want to recant that statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Aspas has no technical ability? I think to may want to recant that statement He's been awful for Liverpool thus far though. I was pushing the 'almost no technical ability' more at Moses though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 The club doesn't earn enough money to buy/pay the players the fans want. Basically there is either not enough fans or we don't spend enough. Have fun arguing over that fact. We bring in more money than the majority of clubs in the prem. The fact we're allowing other clubs to catch up and over take us in this area is down to the owner who for some reason you believe is the only man in world football who cares about FFP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suttonpaul Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 We don't earn more than most in the league at all and most teams outside those top 7 or eight clubs earn the same as we all get the same tv money your talking a couple of million in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 We don't earn more than most in the league at all and most teams outside those top 7 or eight clubs earn the same as we all get the same tv money your talking a couple of million in it. In the 11/12 year we were 9th in the revenue table. That's more than the majority of teams. And the fact we're falling behind others is down to the owner you continue to support and the way he's run the club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Stéphane Mbia anyone? on loan at Seville from QPR 28 years old, massive defensive midfielder He is on a free transfer in summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Stéphane Mbia anyone? on loan at Seville from QPR 28 years old, massive defensive midfielder He is on a free transfer in summer Think he'd be great but can't see it with our wage constraints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I hate the phrase, but in the summer we do need a 'marquee signing'. Someone who will give the place a boost and get bums on seats for next season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I hate the phrase, but in the summer we do need a 'marquee signing'. Someone who will give the place a boost and get bums on seats for next season. If we could get good players for the positions we need, as well as a high quality marquee player, we will be just fine. We won't though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Stéphane Mbia anyone? on loan at Seville from QPR 28 years old, massive defensive midfielder He is on a free transfer in summer Think he'd be great but can't see it with our wage constraints. Agree, would be a great signing and I believe he is a top player, but he will want too much money 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Would love to see James Morrison and Shane Long down the villa, affordable and good players. I'd also look at Jordan Rhodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanpabloangel18 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Gather Joe Cole will be unattached in the summer. Could be worth a one year deal, doubt he's going to get many offers from PL teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Stéphane Mbia anyone? on loan at Seville from QPR 28 years old, massive defensive midfielder He is on a free transfer in summer Think he'd be great but can't see it with our wage constraints. Was great at Marseille but awful for QPR, blatantly only there for the money. We've had enough of players like that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suttonpaul Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Anyone who bothers to look up the figures you quoted from two years ago will come across newer figures (more detailed too) that show the difference between us and the teams around us is literally a couple of million. Your point is pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Anyone who bothers to look up the figures you quoted from two years ago will come across newer figures (more detailed too) that show the difference between us and the teams around us is literally a couple of million. Your point is pointless. Yes and why is that gap getting smaller? Are you capable of thinking about why teams are catching and overtaking us? Or does that go against the pro Lerner argument you live by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suttonpaul Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 They aren't over taking but the gap gets smaller for two reasons. 1. TV revenue is given out equally so Wigan last year got the same as us. 2. we have finished lower in the league the past few years The VAST majority of the reason is point 1 hence how Southampton can spend so much money last summer, their cost base was so low before being a championship club they could splash the cash that much. Now it's your turn to argue against those irrefutable facts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Would love to see James Morrison and Shane Long down the villa, affordable and good players. I'd also look at Jordan Rhodes Long only went to hull in January so he won't be available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 They aren't over taking but the gap gets smaller for two reasons. 1. TV revenue is given out equally so Wigan last year got the same as us. 2. we have finished lower in the league the past few years The VAST majority of the reason is point 1 hence how Southampton can spend so much money last summer, their cost base was so low before being a championship club they could splash the cash that much. Now it's your turn to argue against those irrefutable facts. Er.. You might want to have a think about why point 2 has happened. And while TV money was equal, there was prize money for where you finished not to mention commercial deals and money through having villa park. Yet we've allowed teams to catch us in these areas because of the way Lerner has run the club. Yet you continue to cheer survival in line with FFP but don't care why a club like us is struggling to survive in line with FFP. You're the only villa fan who cares more about defending Lerner than the state of the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Joe Cole, Joe Cole Wouldn't touch him With a ten foot proverbial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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