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[London Villan]

Its not the regular punters that generate the big cash though, although it would help. Its the premium seats paying £100 £200 £500 a match. Chelseas dugout seats for example cost £2k per match…

[pablo_picasso]

That SHA forum is fucking terrible. Not the people, so much, although they are a bunch of absolute beauts, but the way it works is just fucking terrible.

Amusing little convo on there where one of them complains that Southampton had their losses broadcast on Sky & we hadn't, at that point. Another poster mentions its on the BBC & many other outlets. But apparently, thats due to AI, lol.

Fucking simpletons...

[Sexual Ealing]

Again from the networking, but there is a massive turnover of untrained staff each match. Rarely the same staff each match…

Understandably so, given that in a bad season it’s potentially only 19 days a year. Even getting them in at 9am, they only have a few hours to practice before there’s a group of frustrated, sighing, eye rolling, swearing, middle aged baldies, passive aggressively tapping cards on counters, and complaining about the plastic pint glasses.

Anyone who does that job and comes back for the second game, should seriously look into refereeing. 

That was my experience when I did it once at Carrow Road as a student. We were told to report an hour before kick-off, had the experience you describe with the angry old baldies, and I didn't go back. That was more than two decades ago but, apart from the prices, going to a match is largely the same now as it was then.

[brontebilly]

This may have been answered multiple times already....but why did we buy Rogers in January if we are as tight to the mat on FFP as it is being reported? 50m on Diaby last summer, did we really need to??

The thought of having to sell Luiz or Ramsey after qualifying for the CL is beyond depressing. We won't get better by selling our best players. There was me hoping we could get Grealish or a player of his quality in this summer!

And whilst I wouldn't want to lose Luiz (Ramsey will depend if he takes his glass feet off), we have seen teams bigger then us sell really good players and bring in as good, if not better for the overall team. If we don't replace them because of funding issues, then it becomes a problem.

Recent memory at Villa Park would suggest the contrary. We were lost without Grealish until Emery came. Replacing Milner with Stevie Ireland, Downing with Nzogbia, Benteke with Justhead? This isn't like Real Madrid replacing Casemiro with a couple of French hotshots. It would be very difficult to replace Luiz for example as he is critical to how we play. Same for Watkins, Konsa, Ramsey, McGinn. We don't seem to have any/many academy prospects capable of stepping up to that level either.

I'm trying to think of some successful examples where we moved on key players without impacting the team much, MON did a good job replacing Barry with Milner but Milner was already with us so it was more of a positional change. Gregory was it replaced likes of Bosnich, Southgate and Ugo with James, Mellberg and Alpay but the team was starting to decline from memory. Yorke with Dublin another one but again we were further away from competing.

[London Villan]

Andy Gray/John Gidman
David Platt

[curiousorange]

The precedents for us being able to replace good with better aren't many, but then it all depends on who has the credit card, doesn't it?

[pauliewalnuts]

Matchday revenue - £16.1m

That's pretty pathetic by comparison to other clubs.

GA+ seats, expensive food offerings and more expensive season tickets all round are not going to boost that enough.

I tells you, this whole situation, plus Comcast, stinks of new stadium.

[curiousorange]

It might be time to start making our peace with that possibility.

[pauliewalnuts]

It might be time to start making our peace with that possibility.

Can you imagine, if we did announce a new stadium, how fucking irritating the "ooh, this is my design for a new shirt, what do you think?" bunch would be, given a whole stadium to work on, plus the empowerment of AI graphics?

[pauliewalnuts]

That SHA forum is fucking terrible.

They are terrible people, deserving a terrible forum.

[IFWaters]

Matchday revenue - £16.1m

That's pretty pathetic by comparison to other clubs.

GA+ seats, expensive food offerings and more expensive season tickets all round are not going to boost that enough.

I tells you, this whole situation, plus Comcast, stinks of new stadium.

I agree. Also the noises about transport difficulties etc just feel like getting the excuses in early. I wonder if Comcast will develop a stadium, somewhere easier to get to and from, get to use it for Taylor Swift gigs etc in the off season.

Set aside the terribleness that would be moving away from Villa Park but there is possibly something even worse in the wings ....

2 sets of owners in the city, both looking at how to develop their grounds....it can't be can it?  Ground share with the scum ? 😯

[danno]

We’d end up evicting them after they missed the rent payments.

[curiousorange]

It might be time to start making our peace with that possibility.

Can you imagine, if we did announce a new stadium, how fucking irritating the "ooh, this is my design for a new shirt, what do you think?" bunch would be, given a whole stadium to work on, plus the empowerment of AI graphics?

The design that would get the most votes would be the one which is Villa Park, but it holds 80,000 and it's next to the Bullring.

[VillaTim]

It might be time to start making our peace with that possibility.

At least I will then be able to combine a run to the tip (Bickenhill*) with a home game thus killing two birds with one proverbial stone.

* By the NEC.

[SoccerHQ]

Pretty certain we sell Jacob Ramsey sooner or later.

He stays fit for a whole season with CL behind him and also probably 5-6 England caps and with his usual prem goals and assists you're talking 60-70m bracket no problem if not more.

Would be disappointing but it's hard to see how we come the other side of these losses as it's a big ask to keep on qualifying for CL.

People ask how Spurs do it but they were in CL every single season from 2016 up to 2020 and now have the Kane money + stadium starting to generate great profit so they're in a very strong position if Levy dosen't make any rash decisions.