Quote from: PeterWithesShin on May 30, 2018, 01:08:45 PMAnd it doesn't have to be commercially viable if the person sponsoring it is the same person that owns the club and is just using it as a way to pump a few million into the club. It does. FFP includes anti-abuse rules which say that transactions between connected parties (which Recon clearly is to the Villa) need to be at market value or they're removed from the calculation.
And it doesn't have to be commercially viable if the person sponsoring it is the same person that owns the club and is just using it as a way to pump a few million into the club.
We are all aware that we will face severe FFP challenges next season. I am an Aston Villa fan. But I am also a businessman. Under the current circumstances, I think the club needs to rethink not only the past two years but also the past ten years. Villa needs to be a sustainable football club. People join. People leave
So other than pulling up the drawbridge for the elite few, all FFP really does is fuck over any clubs with the slightest bit of ambition.I fucking hate modern football.
If we have to find £40 million in savings essentially this summer....£3 million - Terry leaving£2 million - Gabby leaving£3 million - Gollini leaving£2 million - Gil leaving£2 million - Snodgrass leaving£2 million - Elphick to Reading£6 million - McCormack (4 million fee plus the wages saved)£1 million - Johnstone leaving£2 million - Deleat leaving£1 million - Samba leaving£1 million - Grabban leaving£3 million - Lansbury leaving£1 million - Hutton leavingEven with all of that we are only at around £30 million, would be seriously screwed as we would be a keeper short, have 1 left back and 1 centre half, need 2 wingers and a centre forward. Going to need an incredibly patient fan base and board for whoever has this task. Could easily end up where Sunderland are (they must even more fucked than we are!)
The biggest thing I take from the statement is that Bruce will be off.
Quote from: Ad@m on May 30, 2018, 05:13:05 PMQuote from: PeterWithesShin on May 30, 2018, 01:08:45 PMAnd it doesn't have to be commercially viable if the person sponsoring it is the same person that owns the club and is just using it as a way to pump a few million into the club. It does. FFP includes anti-abuse rules which say that transactions between connected parties (which Recon clearly is to the Villa) need to be at market value or they're removed from the calculation.You miss the point again. Say for arguments sake the experts consider its correct market value is £5m a year to sponsor a stadium like VP, many companies won't bother as they'd consider it poor value for money as everyone will still call it Villa Park, and the only reason they'd want to spend that money is for advertising. If I want to spend £5m a year purely as a way to spend money on the club to help with FFP, I wouldn't care if anyone calls it The PWS Stadium or they all carry on calling it Villa Park as I didn't invest the money for the sponsorship value.