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38m for Harvey Barnes was a very good singing. Fin.

They can only do this once and they've played their hand. One day in the next few seasons we might do the same so no point sticking the boot in

We really should be feeling the best about the club we've ever felt, or certainly since the Keegan years. If we are frustrated and annoyed now then we really don't have any chance to enjoy the experience of being a fan. I know the experience of a football fan is basically constant disappointment, wanting more and being annoyed, but it's a bit much sometimes.

Just passing on what I read the other day when looking for info on Villa and PSR, but.... https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-handed-100m-verdict-31948579 It sounds like they've settled on a valuation of closer to 60M, maybe to not ruffle feathers. My quote could still be correct though in that this valuation is based on speculation and not any actual finances of the Aston Villa women's team in 2025. We could of course do this ourselves now two others have done it.

Memories of goldfish on here sadly

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I don't agree but fair enough opinion.

Yeah ridiculously good fit I reckon.

This cunt been hijacked by Chelsea yet?

Be an absolutely perfect signing for them

For me a great signing from a price perspective is one that exceeds the expectations from the price we paid. I think Barnes has been on par overall. Which is decent. But it's kind of rare that people rate their own players or signings as "decent". They go from bad to great in a heartbeat. My post was exclusively replying to a comment on why Chelsea are paying more for Pedro. To me that's pretty clear. Whether it works out or not remains to be seen.

Is juice and a sweetie Scots jargon for crystal meth and ketamine? 😆

We don’t have any other assets to sell, it’s our men’s team, a decent training ground, a leasehold position on the stadium and i guess the fee interest in the stack site. Our women’s team is far off. So please stop mentioning our owners aren’t using any loopholes to use because we don’t have anything to move. And the one time we sold a player to Saudi, we were run thru the mud in the press and made to defend why Maxi was a 25m player despite his age and helping us qualify for CL. Meanwhile Dhuran has one good half season and goes for double. finally - I don’t want to use loopholes. I want to do this the right way.

Surely he would start ahead of Martinelli who is a bit of a one trick pony. A front three of Eze - Sesko/Gyokeres - Saka with the rest of the team could win the league. If Arteta spends this much and fails to win anything (again!) then they would surely have to get rid. He has spent a fortune since he took over!

We're gleefully selling off our most beloved things. Rotten.

Aye, in fkn dog years.

Polite reminder that a players value rarely equates to their sale price. They're not items on a shelf, with more in the back.

Great, 6th goalie nearly signed. To be fair, he looks like a great prospect and will suit our game. Just like to see a bit of movement in areas we really need, but hoping that will all start to move now.

The fact that he has someone very good starting ahead of him doesn't really make the signing better, though. It's like buying an expensive backup for Isak and give the signing a better rating from a business perspective because he has someone world class infront of him. That's like half of the reason someone was disappointed until he hit good form, but then got benched again. I get he was injured in the first season, but we can't just exclude that season entirely from the evaluation. He has helped us getting top 5 this season, but there are probably many different routes we could have taken with the money that also would have gotten us there.

We're gaslighted daily that middle eastern sovereign funds are the issue. Turns out football imitates real life politics.

PSR died as a serious concept with this Hotel/Womans team nonsense. Im not a hater of PSR in general and think things could be quite grim without it but it feels like we’ve crossed the Rubicon of allowing teams to circumvent it. Sticking to the rules gets you nowhere, starting to feel we should try and burn the whole thing to the ground.

Well colour me shocked... I'm not used to hearing such sense spoken on talksport.

Sold to their parent company. Utter joke these loopholes.

Flogging players to Saudi is no issue for them - guaranteed inflated income

Mmmm, more US investment companies. We'll not bemoan all of this in the future at all.