Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City post match thread

[Toronto Villa]

What’s a bit shit about this season is that almost every football pundit said we would struggle to combine a CL and PL campaign. Between the club not being able to properly invest due to FFP, form and injuries. And it’s proving to be the case. We didn’t suddenly become shit. We are stretched to breaking point again.

Exactly that. We have grown two quick. Champions League is a different sort of big cat to Conference. You have play your best team and we do not yet have the experience  and strength to deal with that at a trot. But hey we are in the mix despite the heavy duty.

Unfairly handicapped b y a stupid rule that protects certain teams whilst negatively affect anyone genuinely trying to crash the party

Any ideas on how to crash a party where Saudi & Abu Dhabi can spend what they like?

I think we were a bit fortunate that Newcastle last season couldn't spend what they liked. Had they done so they'd be quite a bit ahead of us now.

[AV82EC]

What’s a bit shit about this season is that almost every football pundit said we would struggle to combine a CL and PL campaign. Between the club not being able to properly invest due to FFP, form and injuries. And it’s proving to be the case. We didn’t suddenly become shit. We are stretched to breaking point again.

Exactly that. We have grown two quick. Champions League is a different sort of big cat to Conference. You have play your best team and we do not yet have the experience  and strength to deal with that at a trot. But hey we are in the mix despite the heavy duty.

Unfairly handicapped b y a stupid rule that protects certain teams whilst negatively affect anyone genuinely trying to crash the party

Any ideas on how to crash a party where Saudi & Abu Dhabi can spend what they like?

I think we were a bit fortunate that Newcastle last season couldn't spend what they liked. Had they done so they'd be quite a bit ahead of us now.

They still can’t spend what they like. Their 2024 turnover will have gone up last season as they had CL but they only stayed in it for 6 games so will not have made as much from it as they’d have liked but I’d still expect that turnover to be about £325m maybe more if they’ve been allowed to do various fair value sponsorship deals with Saudi offshoots.

As for where we’ll be for the 2024 numbers, I’d go with Percy Mc’s numbers of approx £275m from earlier in the thread. The PSR squeeze on us only gets better after this year where that £275m estimate for last season could be up to £100m higher with further progress in the CL, better sponsorship deals coming through and maintaining a top 6 spot in the PL. All of a sudden Heck’s £400m wouldn’t seem so far away.

[Dave]

One thing I noticed, their goalkeeper who started on Saturday is miles behind Zych in the Polish international setup.

We should maybe have popped a couple more shots in at him.