Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 1 minute ago, Tommo_b said: Ben White is going to be some player and signing Llalana Jayson Molumby has been very good for Millwall too, can see him as an improvement on Dale Stevens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 (edited) Survival also increases our parachute payments from 2 years to 3 if we ever go down (I think?) So this really was a meaningful result for us! Edited July 26, 2020 by ciggiesnbeer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 26, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2020 5 minutes ago, ciggiesnbeer said: Survival also increases our parachute payments from 2 years to 3 if we ever go down (I think?) So this really was a meaningful result for us! Yes, this is correct. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted July 26, 2020 Author Share Posted July 26, 2020 Not sure what that actually offers us as a war chest for the summer though. does that mean we have £50+ sales £20+! Sales £150m+ sales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 36 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said: Villa Park has been full virtually every game this season except maybe a cup game or two. Can't wait for that to be the case again sooner rather than later. August 2021 at the earliest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Rds1983 said: It's also just the Uefa FFP not the Premier League one yep this is going to be a big difference. I would hope that the PL ffp gets relaxed a little, but only the "continental" FFP has been relaxed up to this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hippo Posted July 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2020 Whats that £10m outgoing to Hawkeye plc ? Any ideas ? 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 (edited) In Evans' latest article on the Athletic he states that the wage bill was reduced from 93 million to 65 million last summer. That really is an astounding amount considering we went up a division. Also it really shines a light on how much of a shitshow it was under the Dr. Edited August 23, 2020 by sparrow1988 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, sparrow1988 said: In Evans' latest article on the Athletic he states that the wage bill was reduced from 93 million to 65 million last summer. That really is an astounding amount considering we went up a division. Also it really shines a light on how much of a shitshow it was under the Dr. Do you think he was just too lazy to look at the italics in this picture? He certainly seems to chat a lot of crap to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjvilla Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, Rolta said: Do you think he was just too lazy to look at the italics in this picture? He certainly seems to chat a lot of crap to me. I don't doubt that the figures were probably wrong, but I also don't doubt that we bought the wage bill down. The players signed would've been on less money than the players we let go / released or retired. I think the wage bill will go up this year though. By quite a margin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Mjvilla said: I don't doubt that the figures were probably wrong, but I also don't doubt that we bought the wage bill down. The players signed would've been on less money than the players we let go / released or retired. I think the wage bill will go up this year though. By quite a margin! I’m not sure but we released/lost players like Alan Hutton, Whelan, Snodgrass, Tammy etc. These were senior pros that would have been on very good wages and probably all had big bonuses for getting promoted. A lot of the lads that came in from abroad wouldn’t have been earning anything like PL money and so probably signed for less than if they’d come from even The Championship. They of course may have got bonuses for us staying up, which may not show in these figures. I agree the wages will almost certainly jump up a fair bit next season. Edited August 23, 2020 by DaveAV1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 23, 2020 It will be interesting to see the wages in the accounts which will prove it one way or the other. It did seem to me that we massively overpaid many transfer fees over the Xia years, and also paid wages way way higher than we needed to. I've said it before, if a player was not going to The Premier League, they should have been desperate to play for a club like us. We should have been offering wages a little bit more than the next man and I am sure players would have wanted to come to us, and negotiated better with their clubs on price. I mean, if you were playing for someone like Barnsley and had the chance to play for Villa instead, and get a decent enough pay rise, surely your would be desperate to make that move. We just seemed to throw money around like confetti in a totally unnecessary way. Hopefully the current guys play hard ball when negotiating and have better poker faces than Xia getting all over excited and publicly posting how we are close to something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 We had players like Jedi and Micah on 100k a week between them. Even not entities like Mark Bunn and Gary Gardner were on about 20k. I would dispute the figures but if the wage bill didnt go down I would be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted August 24, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2020 Not sacking a manager for a couple of season will have saved us £10m. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted August 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: Not sacking a manager for a couple of season will have saved us £10m. Not to mention the amount of directors, CEO's and chief exec's we were burning through.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DaveAV1 Posted August 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, TrentVilla said: Not to mention the amount of directors, CEO's and chief exec's we were burning through.... At one point our emoji bill was completely out of control too. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 That reduction in wages can't be right surely? Its like we were having Premier League wages in the Championship, and Championship wages in the Premier League. If that is correct it shows that we are heading in the right direction in being sustainable, and hopefully successful in the longer term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) I’m sure I read somewhere no player signed in the summer is on no more than £40k pw... Edited August 24, 2020 by thabucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 4 hours ago, thabucks said: I’m sure I read somewhere no player signed in the summer is on no more than £40k pw... I don’t think I believe that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 1 hour ago, paul514 said: I don’t think I believe that I do. The only one I can think of is Douglas and probably Mings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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