Jacob Ramsey - Gone

[Demitri_C]

Well yeah but the point only has any relevance if Newcastle rocked up and said, “Villa are you prepared to sell Buendia or Ramsey? We don’t care which”.

My intial point was that the teams weaker now because we will have to probably  use buendia who is not as good as ramsey.

We are certainly  at this moment looking weaker not just than last season but even before that when we had diaby and luiz. That team 2 years ago was stronger than this one.

We desperately  need players if we have any hope of the challenging the top 5.

[PaulWinch again]

You’re right, Asensio is better than both.

[VillaTim]

John McGinn:

Always humble, respectful and willing to learn. It’s been a privilege to share the dressing room with you and enjoy some special moments together on the pitch. A sad day losing a top player and person and one of our own but it seems to be the way football is set up these days! 💜

Summed up well , it seems to be the way , the corrupt way .

[Rory]

Well yeah but the point only has any relevance if Newcastle rocked up and said, “Villa are you prepared to sell Buendia or Ramsey? We don’t care which”.

My intial point was that the teams weaker now because we will have to probably  use buendia who is not as good as ramsey.

We are certainly  at this moment looking weaker not just than last season but even before that when we had diaby and luiz. That team 2 years ago was stronger than this one.

We desperately  need players if we have any hope of the challenging the top 5.

I don't know much about finances, but is the core of the issue not that, under the current/new/whatever regulations, we couldn't now afford to have the team that we had two years ago?

[Legion]

Hands up if anyone fully understands PSR etc etc and can explain it all simply as I don't have a clue.

[Rory]

Hands up if anyone fully understands PSR etc etc and can explain it all simply as I don't have a clue.

Jewish conspiracy *taps nose*.

[eamonn]

Some lovely comments on JJ's Insta from Villa players, Ty and Ginny especially. Football fucks me off more than ever, currently.

I think this one stings more than Grealish as after the nation fell for him at Euro 2021, we were clearly going to struggle to keep him and Citeh were light years ahead of us.

In 2025 Villa and Newcastle are neck and neck though. I wonder if we'd manage to get rid of Bailey and Dendoncker earlier in the summer, could we have done a deal for Ramsey.

[kippaxvilla2]

In very simple terms.

Psr - domestic league.  You cannot lose more than £105m per season on a rolling three year period.  We did. Well we would’ve done had we not added to our revenue by selling the women’s team.

SCR - Europe.  No team is allowed to have a greater than 70 percent spent on wages against total turnover.  Ours at one stage was over 90 percent.

Hence why this year we have had to focus on bringing the wage bill down to comply with SCR.  But the Ramsey sale gives us more opportunity albeit limited to bring a couple in.

Does that help?

[Ads]

It's not wages alone, it's also agent fees and amortised transfer costs.

[kippaxvilla2]

I know mate I was putting it in very simple terms. 

[Tuscans]

In very simple terms.

Psr - domestic league.  You cannot lose more than £105m per season on a rolling three year period.  We did. Well we would’ve done had we not added to our revenue by selling the women’s team.

SCR - Europe.  No team is allowed to have a greater than 70 percent spent on wages against total turnover.  Ours at one stage was over 90 percent.

Hence why this year we have had to focus on bringing the wage bill down to comply with SCR.  But the Ramsey sale gives us more opportunity albeit limited to bring a couple in.

Does that help?

SCR - loses up to 60 million euros. PSR ends next season, Premier League using SCR all round.

[Pat McMahon]

In very simple terms.

Psr - domestic league.  You cannot lose more than £105m per season on a rolling three year period.  We did. Well we would’ve done had we not added to our revenue by selling the women’s team.

SCR - Europe.  No team is allowed to have a greater than 70 percent spent on wages against total turnover.  Ours at one stage was over 90 percent.

Hence why this year we have had to focus on bringing the wage bill down to comply with SCR.  But the Ramsey sale gives us more opportunity albeit limited to bring a couple in.

Does that help?

It does. Cheers kippax

[Legion]

Thank you.

[Legion]

It's not wages alone, it's also agent fees and amortised transfer costs.

How does that impact what KV has explained?

[Ads]

It's not wages alone, it's also agent fees and amortised transfer costs.

How does that impact what KV has explained?

With Guessand for example, assuming he cost £23m, he's on £60k per week and we paid his agent half a million it would be something like:

5 year contract amortised at £4.6m per annum
Wages annualised to £3.1m
Agent fees of £500k

That's all worth £8.2m against our overall ceiling of £192m permitted spend for this year (next it will be a lot higher as we probably pulled in way over £300m with CL prize money and ticketing).

With JJ and Donk going, transfer fees are irrelevant, but we do immediately scrub £8.3m in their annualised wages from the books, so we've reduced costs by £100k based on those 3 deals.