Villa income from Premier League down by £7m

[Risso]

Good piece here on the Sporting Intelligence website:
 
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Our total income was down £7m on last year, partly because merit money per place was £755,000, so dropping 7 places has cost us about £5m of that.  We also only appeared live 10 times, which is the minimum number of times per the PL contract, 26 being the maximum.  This was down on 15 live appearances last year, and 16 the year before.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, ours was the biggest fall in income in the year.
Just further reinforces what an incredibly foolish and costly mistake it was to appoint the Scottish Manager.  It's disappointing, because we've cut the wage bill and completed apparently decent new commercial deals, then we lose money this way, and also in paying off Alex MacBeth.

[D.boy]

I'm not surprised we only appeared live the minimum amount of times. How to get a nation to turn over to another channel en masse. The football we served up was bloody awful to watch for us let alone the neutrals.

[JUAN PABLO]

BBC Match of the Day would probably about £3.50 a game as we were always on last for 20 seconds.

[Concrete John]

It's a blow, but only a short term one as we can (hopefully!) expect to climb the table again next season.

[Simon Ward]

It's a blow, but only a short term one as we can (hopefully!) expect to climb the table again next season.

An expensive blow

[Risso]

It's obviously not going to help in the quest to rebuild the team.

[ozzjim]

The statement yesterday spelt it out that we are going to be looking for a manager that plays better football. It is not shocking that we were on a minimum amount of times. Hopefully by Christmas we might be picked up by a few more.

[andyh]

The real cost of hiring the Scottish manager.

[Mazrim]

Yes, you get what you pay for. Or lose in this case. Its just something Randy is going to have to take on the chin.
We're not going to be an exciting team again without funding so there it is in black and white. Investment is coming. It has to be.

[Ad@m]

I hadn't appreciated just how big an impact on TV money playing the most boring football I've ever seen has.

What a spectacular cock up his appointment was.

[old man villa fan]

It's a good job the bulk of the TV money is paid equally and that there is a minimum number of games that are shown live for each club.

It is interesting that half of the clubs were shown the minimum number of times and a couple of teams close to the minimum.  It just shows that money gravitates towards they same clubs each season.

[TonyD]

It's obviously not going to help in the quest to rebuild the team.

RL can just lend us some more of his trust money on the never never.

[Trinitymiddle]

When you factor in the lost revenue of the lower attendances it becomes even more costly.

[Percy McCarthy]

Paying off Houllier, GMac, SHA, AM...

[rob_bridge]

Yes, you get what you pay for. Or lose in this case. Its just something Randy is going to have to take on the chin.
We're not going to be an exciting team again without funding so there it is in black and white. Investment is coming. It has to be.

I will argue that we have potentially exciting team - utilise NZogbia, Bent, Ireland correctly and rebuild Albrighton and Bannan's confidence.

What additional 'investment' do you refer? Our collective debt is 100m (in theory). The only way I can see short term investment is stadium naming rights. You fancy that.

We need someone who can eek the best out resources current and future, especially the youngsters. And get rid of the deadwood from O'Neill's era and pick up bargains who will play for a lot less than 40k a wekk