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£73m?

But if any team gave us 90m for Krafth, it’d have to have come from a related party surely, and be investigated under something else. It’s totally unrealistic. 50m for ASM isn’t.

No rules regarding value of transfers at all. Fair market value only corresponds to sponsorship by related parties I think?

Ottmar Hitzfeld

I think they’ve got around 100m room still (maybe more with sales) this year, but after this year they’ll either have keep selling and increase income another way in order to keep going at the rate they are. It’s clear the Grealish sale assisted massively and without it they wouldn’t be spending anywhere like they have done.

Know it’s 4 years ago, and you’ve a good club with respect of selling players to cover costs, but the sale of your stadium meant you didn’t fail ffp and suffer disciplinary consequences (whatever those would be ?)- point being that you rode your luck a little and your ffp success isn’t all down to good judgement and planning.

And yet you’d have failed ffp by a massive amount until you sold Villa Park. https://offthepitch.com/a/aston-villa-under-christian-purslow-continued-heavy-losses-and-extravagant-transfer-spending

They’ve only ever bought one player costing more than £10m- Jota for around £14m. I can’t see them spending the money that Arsenal would want for him, and for the position he plays.

Minteh was £6m too?

Would he want to drop a league to get the same money though? Hopefully, if he wants to play, but who knows? It’s still a decent amount for a championship team to pay, for a player who’s barely played in the last year.

And which is why our wages to income % is so fucked, when the likes of Fraser is on 70k.

He’s on £70k per week? Which team is going to pay that sort of wage? And why would he move for less?

Harwood-Bellis is out of contract next summer. Unless he goes this year, they’ll get nothing from his deal.

Yeah, I didn’t mind him, to be fair. The other two were atrocious though. Yet still ‘good’ enough to be our top scorer…

7 in 39 total, 97/98 season. (6 in 26 in the league). Fucking awful time, with Rush and Pearce too.

Nothings ever simple when it comes to so many variables, but it appears that they’re recruiting well to try and maintain the form they showed previously. They’ll be in the European spots without a doubt, imo.

It’ll be close I think. Their form was better than ours after Emery took over, if I recall? If Gerrard had been booted earlier, who knows?

They spent around £204m last year but recouped around £103m, I think. Plus they have a LOT more wriggle room with wages.

Parachute payments assist in containing the inevitable money drop and allows the clubs to gamble on keeping players rather than requiring them to sell?

Their wages to income is 77%. Ours is 95%.

It’s more urgent to reduce the wage bill by getting rid of Hayden, Ritchie, Hendrick etc imo, than to worry about transfer fees. We’re already massively overstretched and any first team signings will obviously want big money which we can barely afford to give at the present time in relation to incoming regulations.

The source you quoted on the other thread states: “Is Diaby attracted by a move to Aston Villa? He is thinking about it. He knows that the club is going from strength to strength, but the lack of Champions’ League football is in the negatives column as he ways up a possible move.”

Maybe we’ve got wires crossed. You said “Both players had already peaked” when he/they went to Liverpool…I said that he peaked WHEN HE WAS AT Liverpool. You saying that’s both the same thing? If so, yes, I agree. Just didn’t sound like that to me, so apologies if your quote was read incorrectly.