Avflife Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Just seen a tweet from Sun journalist Charlie Wyett claiming we have only spent 14m on transfer fees, not the 22m most of us have been lead to believe. He is currently being tormented on Twitter by the majority of Villa fans. "One of the season's myths is Aston Villa spent £22m. Was actually £14m including Benteke £6.5m, Vlaar £2.5m, Westwood £900k and Lowton £900k." Comical as he has half the figures wrong e.g Benteke 7.5m and Lowton 3.5m and hasn't even bothered to consider how much we spent on Bennett (4m) and KEA (2m) "Getting quite a lot of stick from Aston Villa fans but standing by fact club has spent £14m and not £22m on players. Big difference." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 sounds to me like they are barking up the wrong tree 14 mill -22 mill... so what (Pedantics) why can't we pick up points... should be the debate imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Most of these figures are speculative anyway. Clubs rarely publish definitive figures and there are often hidden extras (e.g. the infamous Bent 50 match supplement) that might or might not be included. However much we spent, it didn't really do the trick, did it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 What briny said really, unless the club came out and said this is what we spent in the summer then we can all speculate as much as we like. Only benteke has turned out to be a half decent signing so only 1/7 there mr lambert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avflife Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 What briny said really, unless the club came out and said this is what we spent in the summer then we can all speculate as much as we like. Only benteke has turned out to be a half decent signing so only 1/7 there mr lambert 2 with Westwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Westwoods been ok, nobody apart from benteke has been anything to shout about though imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizme Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I believe him, always thought £3,5m for Lowton seemed just wrong. Something about £1m sounds more right IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Hasn't Lambert already said sylla cosr a lot less that the £1.7million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 If those prices are correct (and I doubt they are) then credit has to go to either Lambert for finding some real bargains or to Faulkner for negotiating good deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 dindt bennett cost 2.5 million. didnt see a fee for Westwood at the time but I guess was less than 2 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Westwoods been ok, nobody apart from benteke has been anything to shout about though imo. I think Lowton was a good signing, but people rarely shout about a right back. Vlaar too has been decent, but his time out injured and a few errors that have cost us points have taken away from his performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 (edited) I thought Lowton was only £2m? I don't know how these figures becomes so artificially inflated. It's like Chinese whispers. A prime example is '£6m for Jean Makoun' when Gerard Houllier said himself that it was "€5m", which at the time was £4.2m Edited February 8, 2013 by Spoony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switters Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 The figures are rarely confirmed. One just gets picked up on by the most papers and everyone repeats it until it becomes 'fact'. Maybe Wyett knows some more accurate, maybe he's just guessing or fishing for attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 well the 23million is being bandied about all over the media as a stick to beat Lambert, kept being mentioned on Sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Compared to other PL clubs we are spending peanuts. If you spend peanuts you buy monkeys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father_Abraham Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 A favoured called in to help protect manager's reputation. Doesn't mean it's accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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