BlueStar Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Doesn't this mean some Twitter gobshite has to delete his account? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Antec Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Goodbye Baggio. Every cloud and all that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnson293 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Villa will be in for a shock in 5 years when they see N'Zogbia ACTUALLY cost them well over £20 million in fees and wages On a more serious note, how can Villa afford to buy these players and we can't? Bent, Given and N'Zogbia cost pretty much what they received for Young and Downing and I doubt they're finished either. Liverpool and Sunderland are reinvesting their huge transfer fees too. Milner fee paid for Bent, apparently. So the £37m (?) for Young and Downing will be helping with this summers spend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 They're using income from selling players directly for the purchase of replacements? Madness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnson293 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 They're using income from selling players directly for the purchase of replacements? Madness. Maybe their training facilities didn't need any work and a bore hole, and they might already have a tarmac edge to their pitch, too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 They're using income from selling players directly for the purchase of replacements? Madness. Yeah, but their utility bills will be through the roof. Swings and roundabouts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Theyve clearly forgotten about wages Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Villa will be in for a shock in 5 years when they see N'Zogbia ACTUALLY cost them well over £20 million in fees and wages On a more serious note, how can Villa afford to buy these players and we can't? Bent, Given and N'Zogbia cost pretty much what they received for Young and Downing and I doubt they're finished either. Liverpool and Sunderland are reinvesting their huge transfer fees too. Milner fee paid for Bent, apparently. So the £37m (?) for Young and Downing will be helping with this summers spend. That's true. The question still stands though. Can't imagine the wage bill % at those 3 clubs is small either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 They're using income from selling players directly for the purchase of replacements? Madness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Goodbye Baggio. Every cloud and all that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Theyve clearly forgotten about wages The deal will be off when they remember the signing on fee, it's like a transfer fee in itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Utter mugs paying that for him given his contract situation. That will certainly comfort me when he rips us a new arsehole again. I've no doubt it'll cause the Villa fans to lose sleep too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 They're using income from selling players directly for the purchase of replacements? Madness. Yeah, but their utility bills will be through the roof. Swings and roundabouts. We get a new coffee machine in the training ground canteen though, they don't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 this will surely come back to haunt them, what they should've done is sign someone for free who's never played in this league and has a dodgy injury record. sucks for them that they're dead against paying outrageous agent fees Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dazzanufc1892 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 welcome to the little shit. losing two solid pro's in downing and young for this ego.... he and ireland are going to run riot over AM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 This may bring another club out. They know the fee now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 What a great 24 hours - Enrique, Ben Arfa and now this. I still think its unacceptable that we've not gone for him and I'd just like to add that the board are bellends of the highest order! Only consolation is that he's not going to Sunderland - that would've hurt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 He's still yet to agree to this himself though. Can see him not wanting to play for McLeish. Not that it makes any difference to us of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Villa will be in for a shock in 5 years when they see N'Zogbia ACTUALLY cost them well over £20 million in fees and wages On a more serious note, how can Villa afford to buy these players and we can't? Bent, Given and N'Zogbia cost pretty much what they received for Young and Downing and I doubt they're finished either. Liverpool and Sunderland are reinvesting their huge transfer fees too. Bent was bought with the money we got from flogging Milner. I thought Downing was our best player last year and wanted him to stay, but I have to say, Downing out for Given plus N'Zogbia plus 7 million pounds is excellent business. Of the Downing + Young money, that still leaves 23m unspent. We won't be spending anything like that much, though. I'd be surprised if we spent more than another 10. Very surprised. MON left us with a gigantic wage bill and a selection of players doing fuck all, who cost big money (try Heskey, 3.5 year deal for a 32 year old, 65k a week, for instance). We're in a consolidation phase for at least the next season until we get some of this dross off the payroll. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 This may bring another club out. They know the fee now Whelan has been telling everyone the fee for the last 2 weeks in the media. The fact it is 9.5 not 10 as it turns out doesn't really make much of a difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliemort Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 9.5 million Is a good deal.We are a joke,goes to show that 12million bid In January was bullshit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Villa will be in for a shock in 5 years when they see N'Zogbia ACTUALLY cost them well over £20 million in fees and wages On a more serious note, how can Villa afford to buy these players and we can't? Bent, Given and N'Zogbia cost pretty much what they received for Young and Downing and I doubt they're finished either. Liverpool and Sunderland are reinvesting their huge transfer fees too. Milner fee paid for Bent, apparently. So the £37m (?) for Young and Downing will be helping with this summers spend. That's true. The question still stands though. Can't imagine the wage bill % at those 3 clubs is small either. 88 percent last season. See my post above. This summer we've released Reo-Coker, Carew, Pires, Salifou, Osbourne, Friedel and three others (who I can't recall) - ten players in total. And we still have Beye (40k, another year left) and Heskey (65k, another year left) who we can't shift to save our lives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Villa will be in for a shock in 5 years when they see N'Zogbia ACTUALLY cost them well over £20 million in fees and wages On a more serious note, how can Villa afford to buy these players and we can't? Bent, Given and N'Zogbia cost pretty much what they received for Young and Downing and I doubt they're finished either. Liverpool and Sunderland are reinvesting their huge transfer fees too. Bent was bought with the money we got from flogging Milner. I thought Downing was our best player last year and wanted him to stay, but I have to say, Downing out for Given plus N'Zogbia plus 7 million pounds is excellent business. Of the Downing + Young money, that still leaves 23m unspent. We won't be spending anything like that much, though. I'd be surprised if we spent more than another 10. Very surprised. MON left us with a gigantic wage bill and a selection of players doing f*** all, who cost big money (try Heskey, 3.5 year deal for a 32 year old, 65k a week, for instance). We're in a consolidation phase for at least the next season until we get some of this dross off the payroll. wtf Heskey is on more then every player in our squad? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 wtf Heskey is on more then every player in our squad? He is, believe it or not, our top earner. Lerner's right hand man, Krulak, posts on a lot of our forums. His son does, too, and let slip the Heskey nugget. No wonder we can't shift him. See, when outsiders say what a genius O'Neill was, they overlook stuff like the fact he'd never bother scouting players and just throw big transfer fees and stupid wages at UK based players because it was easier. He threw a strop and left because we wouldn't let him throw similar daft money at Robbie Keane (yes, yes) and Aiden McGeady. Ask yourself this. When Heskey rocks up, just about to turn 32, and is given a 3.5 year contract at 65k a week, or when Beye rocks up and gets a three year deal aged 32 on 40k a week, how well was Martin O'Neill managing - key word, "managing" - the club at that point? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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