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[paul_e]

I think the assumptions on wages and other expenses are questionable at best.

[PeterWithe]

I see we are building a 40 room hotel at Bodymoor Heath for players and staff as well as new academy and woman’s team facilities. I hope that we sell the new hotel to two mysterious businessmen; Wesley Sawiris and Nas Edens for £10 billion.

I was wondering about this and the reasoning behind it. Will they sell rooms to non-staff for revenue? Or will it just reduce our costs?

I can imagine being so close to the Belfry they may be able to rent rooms out at high prices during events?

The days of The Belfry hosting major events are long gone.

Lot of building going on there at the moment.

[VillaTim]

I see we are building a 40 room hotel at Bodymoor Heath for players and staff as well as new academy and woman’s team facilities. I hope that we sell the new hotel to two mysterious businessmen; Wesley Sawiris and Nas Edens for £10 billion.

I was wondering about this and the reasoning behind it. Will they sell rooms to non-staff for revenue? Or will it just reduce our costs?

I can imagine being so close to the Belfry they may be able to rent rooms out at high prices during events?

The days of The Belfry hosting major events are long gone.

The British Masters is there at the end of August.

yeah thats about as good as it gets for them .

[Drummond]

I see we are building a 40 room hotel at Bodymoor Heath for players and staff as well as new academy and woman’s team facilities. I hope that we sell the new hotel to two mysterious businessmen; Wesley Sawiris and Nas Edens for £10 billion.

I was wondering about this and the reasoning behind it. Will they sell rooms to non-staff for revenue? Or will it just reduce our costs?

I can imagine being so close to the Belfry they may be able to rent rooms out at high prices during events?

The days of The Belfry hosting major events are long gone.

The British Masters is there at the end of August.

yeah thats about as good as it gets for them .

The first major event in the British golfing season. So not long gone at all.

[VillaTim]

I see we are building a 40 room hotel at Bodymoor Heath for players and staff as well as new academy and woman’s team facilities. I hope that we sell the new hotel to two mysterious businessmen; Wesley Sawiris and Nas Edens for £10 billion.

I was wondering about this and the reasoning behind it. Will they sell rooms to non-staff for revenue? Or will it just reduce our costs?

I can imagine being so close to the Belfry they may be able to rent rooms out at high prices during events?

The days of The Belfry hosting major events are long gone.

The British Masters is there at the end of August.

yeah thats about as good as it gets for them .

The first major event in the British golfing season. So not long gone at all.

Compared to where it was (4 Ryder Cups) its long gone .

[Percy McCarthy]

Suppose this is a little bit relevant, in the absence of a more appropriate thread. New lager and cider partner:

Edited to the official announcement:

https://x.com/avfcofficial/status/1802717997179498505?s=46&t=GdM6cpVxe5IloByNCRheWA

[garyellis]

Well it appears things are not quite as tight as we are led to believe.
I am sure we will wheel and deal but I do not believe we are desperate and cornered.
I think Vinnie's take on things seem more plausible regarding Luiz.

[tomd2103]

I see we are building a 40 room hotel at Bodymoor Heath for players and staff as well as new academy and woman’s team facilities. I hope that we sell the new hotel to two mysterious businessmen; Wesley Sawiris and Nas Edens for £10 billion.

I was wondering about this and the reasoning behind it. Will they sell rooms to non-staff for revenue? Or will it just reduce our costs?

I can imagine being so close to the Belfry they may be able to rent rooms out at high prices during events?

The days of The Belfry hosting major events are long gone.

Lot of building going on there at the moment.

Is the Bel Air re-opening?

[PeterWithesShin]

Why, are some guys up to no good in your neighbourhood?

[algy]

He just got in one little fight and his mother got scared

[Villa Lew]

I see we are building a 40 room hotel at Bodymoor Heath for players and staff as well as new academy and woman’s team facilities. I hope that we sell the new hotel to two mysterious businessmen; Wesley Sawiris and Nas Edens for £10 billion.

I was wondering about this and the reasoning behind it. Will they sell rooms to non-staff for revenue? Or will it just reduce our costs?

I can imagine being so close to the Belfry they may be able to rent rooms out at high prices during events?

The days of The Belfry hosting major events are long gone.

The British Masters is there at the end of August.

yeah thats about as good as it gets for them .

I was there in 1985, when we beat USA in the Ryder Cup for the first time in 28 years, brilliant day.

[purpletrousers]

From the Tim thread

Romano

🟣🔵 Aston Villa are advancing in talks to sign Lewis Dobbin from Everton, as expected.

Meanwhile, Everton have signed Aston Villa midfielder Tim Iroegbunam for fee around £9m as reported - all set to be sealed.

So beyond

•the player plus cash deal,

and trying not to strengthen a rival by selling your best abroad, we now have the strategic

•buying each other’s players

to bring income in now, spread the spending over the next years.

Along with the profitability of

•selling ‘one of our own’ (hopefully avoiding that this window),
•selling the ground to yourself (us and others, or hotels which I think have kept Chelsea in the black of late)

As much as it risked sounding like it supported a bullying Man City playing the victim, this criticism by Nassef Sawiris of the utter nonsense of competitive bookkeeping as a sport is starting to make sense.

I do have a sense we know what we are doing at least, so more credit to the owners/structure/staff.

[PeterWithe]

I worked at the one in 1993. It was celebtastic.

The Bel-Air was knocked down this year as part of the building works currently going on.

[Ads]

Tim - £9m (£49m required)
Dougie - £60m accumulative (£11m up)
Duran - £40m (£43m up)

Gives us quite a bit more wiggle room come 1st July onwards.

[Dogtanian]

And we can wiggle with the best of ‘em.