Borja Baston

[Ian.]

But Brontebilly I think you are missing the point. I would imagine our very rich owners have vast amounts of ambition but as countless people have implied maybe the regulations and restrictions are preventing certain huge outlays being spent.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Welcome. Whoever you are.

I thought you meant me there Leeg

[dave shelley]

The latest from the Sky live transfer blog:

BASTON CLOSE TO VILLA

The paperwork is complete, there's just the medical to go and Borja Baston will complete his move from Swansea to Aston Villa.

The Spanish striker will effectively join the club as a free agent, as his Swansea contract is up at the end of the season.

[Des Little]

Underwhelming doesn’t touch it. Weak as piss.

[Ads]

Is this a loan or a buy?

It's a fucking joke is what it is.

2 points outside the relegation zone and the likes of Drinkwater and Baston are who we end up with.

Perhaps if you could tell us who else we could have signed and would have wanted to join.

Nzonzi and Bowen.

And you know they wanted to sign for us?

With a smidge of ambition we could and should have signed players of that ilk. It wasn't as if our fabled scouting team haven't had all season to realise we were chronically short of quality in midfield and up top. If we go down, the finger of blame will be firmly placed at our recruitment team.

Sure it's only relegation, the club was only a whisker away from folding the last time...was great fun apart from that 

Do you think we can hose cash around unfettered by any regulations? Do you think £140m is unambitious? How much do you think our income is compared to West Ham or in fact any of the other 19 who didn't need 12 new players in the summer to simply have a squad.

Your complaints lack any level of context. Nobody wants to be signing this lad, but we have little choice if we want a 3rd striker.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm assuming Suso is now down to the back pages of his little black  book of Spanish players you've never heard of ..........

Our Spanish players are Reina, Jota and Baston. I'm pretty sure everyone had heard of the first 2, and plenty will have heard of Baston considering he's played in this country and La Liga.

[AV82EC]

But Brontebilly I think you are missing the point. I would imagine our very rich owners have vast amounts of ambition but as countless people have implied maybe the regulations and restrictions are preventing certain huge outlays being spent.

Quite, FFP means you have to grow more organically than just throwing money at it. The only way to quickly do that these days would be to have 1 large sponsor conveniently owned by either Sawiris or Edens that could offer that capability. We are at least £250 million a year behind the biggest clubs in this country in terms of turnover. As Spurs have found that’s taken them nearly 10 years to not even close that gap completely.

[Ian.]

But Brontebilly I think you are missing the point. I would imagine our very rich owners have vast amounts of ambition but as countless people have implied maybe the regulations and restrictions are preventing certain huge outlays being spent.

Quite, FFP means you have to grow more organically than just throwing money at it. The only way to quickly do that these days would be to have 1 large sponsor conveniently owned by either Sawiris or Edens that could offer that capability. We are at least £250 million a year behind the biggest clubs in this country in terms of turnover. As Spurs have found that’s taken them nearly 10 years to not even close that gap completely.

We just need to survive this season so I can understand the frustration. But we surely have to understand how close we were to something I dare not think about last summer before they bankrolled our survival and how close to the wire we probably are with the rules at the moment.

[Ads]

Quite, stadium expansion, additional sponsorship, all needed.

To make the point, our latest accounts showed a turnover of £64m. We're playing a club whose entire stadium you could fit inside the Holte with room to spare. Their turnover was £135m.

West Ham made £175m and turned a profit. Of course they have far more wiggle room with FFP.

[godzvilla]

I imagine Reina , who has just come from La Liga, was consulted
on this  guy's abilities, having seen him play close up.....Godzvilla!

[maidstonevillain]

Is this a loan or a buy?

It's a fucking joke is what it is.

2 points outside the relegation zone and the likes of Drinkwater and Baston are who we end up with.

Perhaps if you could tell us who else we could have signed and would have wanted to join.

Nzonzi and Bowen.

And you know they wanted to sign for us?

And that we were in a position to spend the £25+M needed.

We were desperate for a back up striker. We have one. He could turn out to be a bargain. And if not, he goes in June and all it has cost us is his wages.

[brontebilly]

But Brontebilly I think you are missing the point. I would imagine our very rich owners have vast amounts of ambition but as countless people have implied maybe the regulations and restrictions are preventing certain huge outlays being spent.

That still doesn't excuse bringing in players that are nowhere near good enough to make an impact in a relegation battle. A woefully unfit Drinkwater or this guy who can't make the Swansea team.

I feel sorry for the likes of Grealish and Mings, they are going to have to continue to play out of their skins for us to stay in the division. Any injury to either and that's it for us. Jota can cover Grealish I guess...Do we even have a backup centre back?

[Steve67]

The owners will get quite a lot of their money back if we get relegated.  Mings and Jack will bring in 100mill. SJM may fetch another 25mill. 

[villa `cross the mersey]

I'm assuming Suso is now down to the back pages of his little black  book of Spanish players you've never heard of ..........

Our Spanish players are Reina, Jota and Baston. I'm pretty sure everyone had heard of the first 2, and plenty will have heard of Baston considering he's played in this country and La Liga.

  once again my sarcasm is wasted on you PWS
Suso hardly tears up any trees does he?

[dalians umbrella]

We’ve signed WWE wrestler Bastion Booger

Oooh yeah! Dig it!