VillaChris Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Yeah if anyone's got a spare 5 hours go and list all Real Madrid's midfield options....they've nearly got as many midifelders as Spurs! Wasn't Isco being raved about a while ago? Kid will be lucky if he plays 10 games next season, it's not just young English players that struggle to get games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 di maria was excellent last year too, pushes him out You are talking about a club who binned Robben to accommodate Kaka. Madrid do this kind of stuff all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArteSuave Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 (edited) di maria was excellent last year too, pushes him out You are talking about a club who binned Robben to accommodate Kaka. Madrid do this kind of stuff all the time. I thought they binned Robben to accommodate Ronaldo. IIRC they binned Sneijder to accommodate Kaka. Edit - Either way they're not scarred in the slightest of moving on world class players. Edited July 17, 2014 by ArteSuave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 That was an excellent point made by City's owner. He said basically, "We have no debts, pay all money to other clubs up front, and invest in out local area. Manchester United and Real Madrid have hundreds of millions of pounds of debt and spend nearly as much or more on players. And we're the ones who are punished by financial fair play." So because City are richer than the other clubs they should not be punished for breaking the financial fair play rules... ? Kind of goes against the point of FFP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 i think what he's saying is that under the rules the likes of utd and madrid are allowed to beg steal and borrow but a bloke with a wedge sat in his pocket isnt allowed to spend it the rules are flawed, for one in my mind the rules don't take in to account the increase in revenue that comes from being involved with a football club, using city as the example, they've spunked a billion quid on city, look at all their other investments, look at the growth of etihad as a business, look at the growth of abu dhabi as a region, they've lost money on city but the value of pretty much every other pie they have their finger in has gone through the roof, and they're doing it all over again in yank land and oz next... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 20m pounds. Insane. He only had 12 months to go on his contract and Madrid weren't the only club in for him. I think 20m is pretty much par given those circumstances. Yeah, I know, economics. Just lamenting aloud, that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 i think what he's saying is that under the rules the likes of utd and madrid are allowed to beg steal and borrow but a bloke with a wedge sat in his pocket isnt allowed to spend it the rules are flawed, for one in my mind the rules don't take in to account the increase in revenue that comes from being involved with a football club, using city as the example, they've spunked a billion quid on city, look at all their other investments, look at the growth of etihad as a business, look at the growth of abu dhabi as a region, they've lost money on city but the value of pretty much every other pie they have their finger in has gone through the roof, and they're doing it all over again in yank land and oz next... Indeed. The premier league, UEFA, FIFA, they encouraged businessmen to buy into football. Now they have the audacity to say they're not allowed to run their businesses as they see fit. It's a disgrace. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) Borini Edited July 18, 2014 by Nicho 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Borini Yes but Liverpool paid 10.5 for him. And looks like Liverpool are going to get 7 million for Assaidi. That's more bizarre. The more transfers that happen the more it looks like Villa are being well and truly left behind, like we're in another sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 If you don't spend money, you're buggered. I'd hate to be a club that had no money to spend this summ... oh. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Yep, and Spurs got what, £9m for Livermoore? If you don't spend money, you're buggered. I'd hate to be a club that had no money to spend this summ... oh. It's incredibly despressing, espescially as my brother is a Spurs fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Cain & Abel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Ideye Brown to West Brom for a club record £10m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Borini Yes but Liverpool paid 10.5 for him. And looks like Liverpool are going to get 7 million for Assaidi. That's more bizarre. The more transfers that happen the more it looks like Villa are being well and truly left behind, like we're in another sport. In this day when wages and transfers in general shock me, I will still be shocked by transfers that shock me, shocking hey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 We're absolutely being left behind in terms of transfers. Getting back to mid table status will be a huge effort from where we are. FFP is an absolutely criminal joke. There is nothing "fair" about it. They've made football 100% about money and then told the clubs that weren't already super rich at the arbitrary cut off date that they aren't allowed to spend money. And for what? Because Portsmouth and Leeds flew too close to the sun? What a **** joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I'm not sure all of these clubs are spending within their means. We are but that's because our owner has already admitted that his heart isn't in it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 We're absolutely being left behind in terms of transfers. Getting back to mid table status will be a huge effort from where we are. FFP is an absolutely criminal joke. There is nothing "fair" about it. They've made football 100% about money and then told the clubs that weren't already super rich at the arbitrary cut off date that they aren't allowed to spend money. And for what? Because Portsmouth and Leeds flew too close to the sun? What a **** joke. FFP is not the reason we're being left behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 We're absolutely being left behind in terms of transfers. Getting back to mid table status will be a huge effort from where we are. FFP is an absolutely criminal joke. There is nothing "fair" about it. They've made football 100% about money and then told the clubs that weren't already super rich at the arbitrary cut off date that they aren't allowed to spend money. And for what? Because Portsmouth and Leeds flew too close to the sun? What a **** joke. FFP is not the reason we're being left behind. Sorry, those should have been two different posts. We're being left behind because we have an owner who isn't willing to invest and can't sell us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I think it's way beyond that now. It's almost as if Randy is trying to devalue us. He doesn't seem to understand that you stop getting £75m a year for being in the Premier League when you get relegated. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Oh well, it could be worse, we could be Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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