New chairman and Lerner ramblings

[dave.woodhall]

You mean all the various clauses that may or may not happen?

No, the basic fee agreed regardless of whether it was in instalments or not.

[Villain1874]

He didn't say that last night or in the pre meeting, erm, meeting. I might have missed something on the afternoon press call but was at work then!

no probs mate, it was on the sky sport page (link on page 32) yesterday, im still trying to work out where the 60 million came from!

Apparently we spent £23m net in the summer, which will make interesting reading in next years accounts in that case because I simply can't believe the fee's would have been that high for what we signed. Hollis' words. Then again he also said Randy told him they'd tried a footballing man and now they needed a business man running the show. Which is bullshit too, we've never had a ''football man'' running anything. Probably more Randy blather though the goon.

I seriously doubt we spent £23 million net....
I read in a report where after all the out goings and in comings of players last summer had been accounted for our net spend was roughly £15 million net....
Which in the grand scheme of things is nothing in the EPL...

[aj2k77]

He didn't say that last night or in the pre meeting, erm, meeting. I might have missed something on the afternoon press call but was at work then!

no probs mate, it was on the sky sport page (link on page 32) yesterday, im still trying to work out where the 60 million came from!

Apparently we spent £23m net in the summer, which will make interesting reading in next years accounts in that case because I simply can't believe the fee's would have been that high for what we signed. Hollis' words. Then again he also said Randy told him they'd tried a footballing man and now they needed a business man running the show. Which is bullshit too, we've never had a ''football man'' running anything. Probably more Randy blather though the goon.

I seriously doubt we spent £23 million net....
I read in a report where after all the out goings and in comings of players last summer had been accounted for our net spend was roughly £15 million net....
Which in the grand scheme of things is nothing in the EPL...

I'd also be surprised if it was £15m net. We almost definitely got in £43m from sales in the summer. How on earth can the 11 players that we spent money on have cost £58m, one was Crespo who cost a pack of crisps. One was Lescott, we know that was £2m. One was a kid that cost nothing and Bunn cost nothing. Richards was out of contract too.

So that would mean Gestede, Amavi, Traore, Gueye, Veretout and Ayew cost a combined £56m or around £9.5m each. Not gonna happen. If it did, whoever agreed to the fee's would need firing tomorrow.

[Villain1874]

He didn't say that last night or in the pre meeting, erm, meeting. I might have missed something on the afternoon press call but was at work then!

no probs mate, it was on the sky sport page (link on page 32) yesterday, im still trying to work out where the 60 million came from!

Apparently we spent £23m net in the summer, which will make interesting reading in next years accounts in that case because I simply can't believe the fee's would have been that high for what we signed. Hollis' words. Then again he also said Randy told him they'd tried a footballing man and now they needed a business man running the show. Which is bullshit too, we've never had a ''football man'' running anything. Probably more Randy blather though the goon.

I seriously doubt we spent £23 million net....
I read in a report where after all the out goings and in comings of players last summer had been accounted for our net spend was roughly £15 million net....
Which in the grand scheme of things is nothing in the EPL...

I'd also be surprised if it was £15m net. We almost definitely got in £43m from sales in the summer. How on earth can the 11 players that we spent money on have cost £58m, one was Crespo who cost a pack of crisps. One was Lescott, we know that was £2m. One was a kid that cost nothing and Bunn cost nothing. Richards was out of contract too.

So that would mean Gestede, Amavi, Traore, Gueye, Veretout and Ayew cost a combined £56m or around £9.5m each. Not gonna happen. If it did, whoever agreed to the fee's would need firing tomorrow.

Problem is mate, our club is so poorly run it wouldn't surprise me if a large amount of money has been frittered away by people who don't know what their doing reguarding Transfers...
Too much bureaucracy and levels of management at Villa Park interfering with Football matters and we have just installed another level of management which will complicate matters even more..
All these people are a shield for Lerner, the only way this is only going to get better is for Lerner to sell...
Lerner just doesn't want to invest or bother with the club anymore, every decision he has made in the last five years has been a disaster, he sells our best players and replaces them with cheap lower league or inexperienced unproven foreign players, we should have been signing proven premier league players in their prime for the spine of our team, but instead we will be going down this season...
Ruined the Cleveland Browns and Aston Villa that's not a coincidence...

[SoccerHQ]

He didn't say that last night or in the pre meeting, erm, meeting. I might have missed something on the afternoon press call but was at work then!

no probs mate, it was on the sky sport page (link on page 32) yesterday, im still trying to work out where the 60 million came from!

Apparently we spent £23m net in the summer, which will make interesting reading in next years accounts in that case because I simply can't believe the fee's would have been that high for what we signed. Hollis' words. Then again he also said Randy told him they'd tried a footballing man and now they needed a business man running the show. Which is bullshit too, we've never had a ''football man'' running anything. Probably more Randy blather though the goon.

I seriously doubt we spent £23 million net....
I read in a report where after all the out goings and in comings of players last summer had been accounted for our net spend was roughly £15 million net....
Which in the grand scheme of things is nothing in the EPL...

I'd also be surprised if it was £15m net. We almost definitely got in £43m from sales in the summer. How on earth can the 11 players that we spent money on have cost £58m, one was Crespo who cost a pack of crisps. One was Lescott, we know that was £2m. One was a kid that cost nothing and Bunn cost nothing. Richards was out of contract too.

So that would mean Gestede, Amavi, Traore, Gueye, Veretout and Ayew cost a combined £56m or around £9.5m each. Not gonna happen. If it did, whoever agreed to the fee's would need firing tomorrow.

Gana and Amavi were both 9m each, our remember those fees clearly. Ayew was about 10m wasn't he, I'm under the impression Adama was 12m but seems it was less than that. Gestede was 6m, can't remember how much Veretout was, maybe 7m.

So yeah when you add them all up it probably does come to over 50m. However I'm working on the basis we surely haven't paid all those clubs that money in one lump sum as we really would be amateurs....Barcelona are hardly desperate for cash are they?

It's not like we sold Benteke and then recieved a cheque for 32.5m through the post the next morning so I'd like to think that applied to our incomings aswel. Just like when we signed Bent for apparently 24m but it never came close to reaching that.

[kippaxvilla2]

No Dave doesn't make it any easier though.  Just seems like the whole club fans included are at war with each other.

[itbrvilla]

Let's see if t hey have already given up this season...

[ChicagoLion]

Spent does not mean we have handed the cash over.

[old man villa fan]

With the reorganisation, who is actually on the Villa Board now.

[Nastylee]

Reports surfacing that Lerner is going to appoint his 18 year old son to the board. Sounds a great plan, our board is crying out for a teenage yank with no experience of anything.

[saunders_heroes]

Reports surfacing that Lerner is going to appoint his 18 year old son to the board. Sounds a great plan, our board is crying out for a teenage yank with no experience of anything.

I'm assuming you're joking, right?

[Nastylee]

No

[Toronto Villa]

if it's true in what capacity would he join? To me it's such a non story and if we were doing what we all hoped we were doing, that is buying a few players, playing well, scoring goals, getting points and getting out of this mess this wouldn't matter. I don't think his son would be coming in to oversee the business so let's not make it into that.

[Steve67]

Work experience. Make the tea Max. Cheers.

[ChicagoLion]

if it's true in what capacity would he join? To me it's such a non story and if we were doing what we all hoped we were doing, that is buying a few players, playing well, scoring goals, getting points and getting out of this mess this wouldn't matter. I don't think his son would be coming in to oversee the business so let's not make it into that.

If it is true, it stinks of crass nepotism. No serious organisation puts an 18 year old on the Board.