FFP

[brontebilly]

It's true they are top of player sales? That + WCC win is about £300M And Ithey don't even have a shirt sponsor?!

I'm not sure they are all over player sales. Paying Man United a fee not to sign Sancho, letting Sterling and Chilwell run down their contracts etc It's just creative accounting really. Transfermarkt has their squad down for 40 players currently

[Dave]

It's true they are top of player sales? That + WCC win is about £300M And Ithey don't even have a shirt sponsor?!

I'm not sure they are all over player sales. Paying Man United a fee not to sign Sancho, letting Sterling and Chilwell run down their contracts etc It's just creative accounting really. Transfermarkt has their squad down for 40 players currently

They still are though.  Particularly for players who they've never really used.

Humphries, Petrovic, Hall, Maatsen, Hutchison, Angelo and Casadei can't have more than a dozen appearances for Chelsea between them yet that's about £200m in sales in the last two years.

Edit - and none of them to Strasbourg. Add them in and you find another £50m or so.

[Somniloquism]

Chelsea seem to have a knack of loaning out some of the kids to promotion winning teams, and then cashing in the next season. Humphreys was sold for £10 mil. KKH for 3.5mil. We loan out to decent teams here and in Europe and then they are still not winning the plaudits.

[martin o`who??]

Perhaps we could flog the naming rights to VP for nearly £1/2bn like citeh did a few years back. It'd still be Villa Park to me and anyone else who knows anything about football.

[Somniloquism]

Perhaps we could flog the naming rights to VP for nearly £1/2bn like citeh did a few years back. It'd still be Villa Park to me and anyone else who knows anything about football.

As we don't own the ground, would it come under the clubs money if we did?

[IFWaters]

Villa Park naming rights I could live with :

Aston Martin Villa Park
The Rolls Roycerena
The Royal Stadium
The HP Sauce Bowl (one for history fans there)
Hanks Place

[Drummond]

Fortress Villa Park is the only one.

[cdbearsfan]

Villa Park naming rights I could live with :

Aston Martin Villa Park
The Rolls Roycerena
The Royal Stadium
The HP Sauce Bowl (one for history fans there)
Hanks Place

My word, those are dreadful.

[Mister E]

Villa Park naming rights I could live with :

Aston Martin Villa Park
The Rolls Roycerena
The Royal Stadium
The HP Sauce Bowl (one for history fans there)
Hanks Place

My word, those are dreadful.

Yup. Don't give up the day job, Mr Waters (unless you're in the branding business, in which case ... give up the day job and find something else!).

[Crown Hill]

I’d be grateful if some of the experts in here (who I trust more than the pundits as I’ve said before) have a look at this Twitter exchange from Stefan Borson

https://x.com/slbsn/status/1954635896885793238?s=46&t=1A7xfLJNUgdI6215TY6YlA

Above and below are what I’m interested in. If he’s right and I’ve rubbished his 20/20 hindsight before then it paints a much more optimistic picture for us

[paul_e]

Sounds about right. The guy he's replying to is talking nonsense.

[Somniloquism]

The "we need to get wages down to £200mil" is a wrong opinion. We need to get to 80% of turnover which could involve lowering wages and increasing revenue. But I also don't agree with the other guy about SCR being nothing to worry about with UEFA, that surely depends on whether UEFA wants to make an example and also can lead to no competition entry. I also didn't agree with his "what are Newcastle and Villa moaning about, they are now paying more wages then Arsenal did 10 years ago comment, when Arse was almost 200mil and we were on 60m.That just shows clubs spending when they could before the drawbridge was closed behind them.

[Percy McCarthy]

Sounds about right. The guy he's replying to is talking nonsense.

Correct.

[Brazilian Villain]

Villa Park naming rights I could live with :

The Rolls Roycerena

My word, those are dreadful.

And I had just finished adapting the 'Macarena' for the new ground name.