The Long Awaited Accounts....

[Rudy65]

Regarding the wages - this was up to year ended May 2015 so the dealings last summer would not have been included in respect of wage costs.  This is the squad recorded as of the end of the May 2015 financial year.  In addition, it was announced that Lambert and Gabby had both been rewarded with four and five year contracts respectively as early as September 2014.  If you assume that Fox is on £25k per week as someone said and Gabby got say an extra £30k per week - there is the thick end of £60k per week.  I don't suppose it is hard to imagine that Senderos and Cole came in for decent money.  Then you have Sanchez coming in as well as Cissokho.  We may still have been part paying loan wages who knows.

Squad No.   Name   Nationality   Position   Date of birth (age)   Apps.   Goals   Notes
Goalkeepers
1   Brad Guzan   United States   GK   September 9, 1984 (age 31)   140   0   
13   Jed Steer   England   GK   September 23, 1992 (age 23)   4   0   
31   Shay Given   Republic of Ireland   GK   April 20, 1976 (age 39)   52   0   
Defenders
2   Nathan Baker   England   CB / LB   April 23, 1991 (age 24)   86   0   
3   Joe Bennett   England   LB   March 28, 1990 (age 25)   37   0   
4   Ron Vlaar   Netherlands   CB   February 16, 1985 (age 31)   87   2   
5   Jores Okore   Denmark   CB   August 11, 1992 (age 23)   31   1   
6   Ciaran Clark   Republic of Ireland   CB / LB   September 26, 1989 (age 26)   136   8   
14   Phillipe Senderos   Switzerland   CB   February 14, 1985 (age 31)   10   0   
21   Alan Hutton   Scotland   RB   November 30, 1984 (age 31)   68   1   
23   Aly Cissokho   France   LB   September 15, 1987 (age 28)   27   0   
32   Janoi Donacien   Saint Lucia   CB / RB   November 3, 1993 (age 22)   0   0   
34   Matthew Lowton   England   RB   June 9, 1989 (age 26)   82   2   
35   Enda Stevens   Republic of Ireland   LB   July 9, 1990 (age 25)   9   0   
–   Antonio Luna   Spain   LB   March 17, 1991 (age 24)   18   1   On loan at Spezia Calcio.
Midfielders
7   Leandro Bacuna   Netherlands   CM / RB / RWB   August 21, 1991 (age 24)   63   6   
8   Tom Cleverley   England   CM / AM   August 12, 1989 (age 26)   36   3   On loan from Manchester United.
9   Scott Sinclair   England   LW / RW   March 25, 1989 (age 26)   12   3   
12   Joe Cole   England   AM   November 8, 1981 (age 34)   15   1   
15   Ashley Westwood   England   CM   April 1, 1990 (age 25)   101   3   
16   Fabian Delph (captain)   England   CM   November 21, 1989 (age 26)   133   8   
17   Chris Herd   Australia   CM / CB / RB   April 4, 1989 (age 26)   42   2   
18   Kieran Richardson   England   LW / LB   October 21, 1984 (age 31)   25   0   
22   Gary Gardner   England   CM   June 29, 1992 (age 23)   18   0   
24   Carlos Sánchez   Colombia   DM   February 6, 1986 (age 30)   32   1   
25   Carles Gil   Spain   AM / RW   November 22, 1992 (age 23)   7   1   
28   Charles N'Zogbia   France   LW / AM   May 28, 1986 (age 29)   90   5   
39   Riccardo Clader   England   LW   January 26, 1996 (age 20)   0   0   
40   Jack Grealish   Republic of Ireland   LW / AM   September 10, 1995 (age 20)   24   0   
–   Yacouba Sylla   Mali   DM   November 29, 1990 (age 25)   24   0   On loan at Kayseri Erciyesspor.
–   Aleksandar Tonev   Bulgaria   LW / RW   February 3, 1990 (age 26)   20   0   On loan at Celtic.
Forwards
10   Andreas Weimann   Austria   ST / LW / RW   August 5, 1991 (age 24)   129   24   
11   Gabriel Agbonlahor   England   ST / LW / RW   October 13, 1986 (age 29)   352   83   
19   Darren Bent   England   ST   February 6, 1984 (age 32)   72   25   
20   Christian Benteke   Belgium   ST   December 3, 1990 (age 25)   100   49   
27   Libor Kozák   Czech Republic   ST   May 30, 1989 (age 26)   15   4   
29   Rushian Hepburn-Murphy   England   ST   September 19, 1998 (age 17)   1   0   
37   Callum Robinson   England   ST   February 2, 1995 (age 21)   5   0   
38   Graham Burke   Republic of Ireland   ST   September 21, 1993 (age 22)   2   0   
–   Nicklas Helenius   Denmark   ST / RW   May 8, 1991 (age 24)   6   1

What a list of total shite that is, only made worse by the current squad

I could cry

[kippaxvilla2]

Who knows whether Christian and Snake received increases either - we were always trying to hold onto them.

[Rudy65]

Thanks Risso et al

Opened a beer before I sat to read this thread. Having finished reading I need a couple more beers!

Are we totally shafted?

What frightens me is the current wage bill. It must be huge

[aj2k77]

Benteke must have been on £50m a year because the rest of those are bobbins. Mugs and fools running the show. Throwing money around to hide the fact they haven't a clue. Current wage bill must be close to £90m......

[Rudy65]

Benteke must have been on £50m a year because the rest of those are bobbins. Mugs and fools running the show. Throwing money around to hide the fact they haven't a clue. Current wage bill must be close to £90m......

And £12m for Traore and supposedly £45k per week. He is pants

[ciggiesnbeer]

Thanks Risso et al

Opened a beer before I sat to read this thread. Having finished reading I need a couple more beers!

Are we totally shafted?

What frightens me is the current wage bill. It must be huge

I am so fucking tired that this is STILL the number 1 problem with the club even after years of what appears to be a series of cutbacks in terms of quality players.

I just want to see an end to it and be able to look forward to happier times.

But instead it appears we have yet more years of this same cycle to churn through.

[DaveD]

Losing £20 odd million a year, about to have a massive drop in revenue and we've installed an accountant as Chairman. If I was dealing with Villa, I'd be demanding cash up front.

[Bottom Right 89]

Did we not take any money through the tills during last seasons cup run? I hope Merv goes to town on Fox and co with a pair of pliers and a blow torch, they should be ashamed of themselves. Its going to take years to come back from this mess.

[myf]

Well this has cheered me up.

what kind of a notice period will Fox be on - 6 months?  1m to sack him?

Hollis and king will be on decent money as well I bet.

[rob_bridge]

Unfucking  believable.

It should be but it isn't.

Wages increased by 25%.

Faulkner was rubbish but was seemingly paid the going rate. Fox is paid anything between 5 and 10 times more for talking a better game and beimg just as shit.

Thanks for the Elucidation Risso. My part qualified accountants stuff is a longtime ago.

[The Edge]

And all this with a back drop of the club refusing to pay match day staff the minimum wage. Absolute fucking disgrace. These people have ripped the heart and soul out of my beloved football club.......a pox on all their houses.

[Meanwood Villa]

So, we're not shit because of austerity. Who exactly do we blame then?

[kippaxvilla2]

All the same with the prospect of this hamster wheel going round again in respect of the 2016 accounts you can see why Lerner has finally appointed a henchman to get a grip on what is going on in relation to the chronic misuse of the resources previously made available to the club. 

He's definitely at fault for a) not doing it much sooner and b) taking his eye off it totally in the last four years.

[Hillbilly]

The scary thing is we ditched 2 decent players at say 150k per week and replaced them with 8 or 9 mediocre ones at around 30k each so the wage bill will go up.

[DaveD]

I'm still concerned that they're conducting a full review without an experienced football executive on board. Who's going to provide expert opinion that the new plan is any better than the old one ?