Accounts Show Reduced Loss

[Damo70]

OCD I agree with you. The executive at VP had two pressing priorities following the wanton profligacy of the MON era. One was to reduce costs the other was to stay on the Premiership gravy train. All the energies appear to have been directed towards economy and far too little to sustained growth. If the board feels like giving themselves a standing ovation they should reflect on why nobody wants to buy us.  The next two or three games with tell us if we are going to be the new Southampton or the new Nottingham Forest.

We could well be the new Southampton. We just need to sell the Lambert signings like Lowton, Bennett, Luna, Sylla, Tonev and Helenius for about fifty million quid. And then buy some really good players with the money.

[simon ward 50]

Away from my office most of the week but will download the accounts and look into them over the weekend! Sad or what?

[silhillvilla]

Where is enda Stevens ? He still appears on the back of the programme squad list

[pauliewalnuts]

They don't learn though do they, after spunking money away on Given,Bent and numerous others they then grant Gabby a lifetime pension over four years, Fox did that.

Exactly . And people diss Faulkner .
Fox is a step down and will see us go down.
Appointing Sherwood is just surreal ! The most unqualified  manager ever of this club since WWI

Who do you think was less qualified from before World War I?

Tony Barton & Ron Saunders at a guess
Sadly we live in a different era

Blimey I must live in a different world as SV I don't understand your response to Dave's comment?

i also don't see how he thinks Fox is a step down from Faulkner?

Because Gabby got a new contract?

I'm of the opinion we should have moved Gabby on, not rewarded him, but if we are talking about acts of madness, Fox has a long way to go before he achieves the low of appointing McLeish.

[Risso]

The contract extension for Lambert pushed that very close in my opinion.

[Clampy]

They don't learn though do they, after spunking money away on Given,Bent and numerous others they then grant Gabby a lifetime pension over four years, Fox did that.

Exactly . And people diss Faulkner .
Fox is a step down and will see us go down.
Appointing Sherwood is just surreal ! The most unqualified  manager ever of this club since WWI

You said only yesterday that you wasn't having a go at Sherwood. Today you're having a go at Sherwood. And what;s all this WW1 piffle?

I'm sure you just make things up sometimes off the top of your head.

[silhillvilla]

They don't learn though do they, after spunking money away on Given,Bent and numerous others they then grant Gabby a lifetime pension over four years, Fox did that.

Exactly . And people diss Faulkner .
Fox is a step down and will see us go down.
Appointing Sherwood is just surreal ! The most unqualified  manager ever of this club since WWI

You said only yesterday that you wasn't having a go at Sherwood. Today you're having a go at Sherwood. And what;s all this WW1 piffle?

I'm sure you just make things up sometimes off the top of your head.

I'm not having a go at Sherwood though. It's not his fault he got the job, in some ways I admire him for taking it on.

[Chico Hamilton III]

The contract extension for Lambert pushed that very close in my opinion.

Same here. Barely a month into his job and Fox costs the club millions by offering a contract extension to the worst manager we've seen at Villa for a generation. It's not as if other clubs were beating a path to Lambert's door to sign him up so why on earth did we do it. I'm still scratching my head over that decision. Maybe it's the false narrative I'm reading

[Pat McMahon]

The contract extension for Lambert pushed that very close in my opinion.

Same here. Barely a month into his job and Fox costs the club millions by offering a contract extension to the worst manager we've seen at Villa for a generation. It's not as if other clubs were beating a path to Lambert's door to sign him up so why on earth did we do it. I'm still scratching my head over that decision. Maybe it's the false narrative I'm reading

Maybe Fox was following your employer's motto? Empowering performance through something or another. It sounded impressive in the pub before QPR

[eamonn]

There were reports that the Lambert contract extension was agreed and all but signed, sealed and delivered last summer but the club were wary of how it would sit with fans so used our good start to announce it.

[Chico Hamilton III]

The contract extension for Lambert pushed that very close in my opinion.

Same here. Barely a month into his job and Fox costs the club millions by offering a contract extension to the worst manager we've seen at Villa for a generation. It's not as if other clubs were beating a path to Lambert's door to sign him up so why on earth did we do it. I'm still scratching my head over that decision. Maybe it's the false narrative I'm reading

Maybe Fox was following your employer's motto? Empowering performance through something or another. It sounded impressive in the pub before QPR

Yeah, empower this, inspire that, something something

[PeterWithesShin]

The contract extension for Lambert pushed that very close in my opinion.

Same here. Barely a month into his job and Fox costs the club millions by offering a contract extension to the worst manager we've seen at Villa for a generation. It's not as if other clubs were beating a path to Lambert's door to sign him up so why on earth did we do it. I'm still scratching my head over that decision. Maybe it's the false narrative I'm reading

We paid up a year of his contract. So it doesn't matter if it was a 10 year new contract or a 12 month one.

[Chico Hamilton III]

The contract extension for Lambert pushed that very close in my opinion.

Same here. Barely a month into his job and Fox costs the club millions by offering a contract extension to the worst manager we've seen at Villa for a generation. It's not as if other clubs were beating a path to Lambert's door to sign him up so why on earth did we do it. I'm still scratching my head over that decision. Maybe it's the false narrative I'm reading

We paid up a year of his contract. So it doesn't matter if it was a 10 year new contract or a 12 month one.

Not renewing his contract (which plenty of people were suggesting) would have been cheaper. Widely reported that we paid him £2m. Jesus, we could have got another Joe Cole for that money. It's a lot of season tickets

[PeterWithesShin]

So we're agreed then, it didn't cost us millions.

[Chico Hamilton III]

So we're agreed then, it didn't cost us millions.

Nope. Unless you know any different from the press reports of a £2m payout?

Either way, as a first major decision by Foxy, offering Lambert a contract extension doesn't do much for his credibility. We're agreed on that, surely?