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[London Villan]

No one likes us, no one likes us...

[Drummond]

What's Multiball then? Apart from fucking expensive

Where there are spare balls on cones by the pitch to speed things up.

So now with the increased price for Newcastle, we get to see even less football for our money.

[Pat Mustard]

Apologies if this has already been posted up on the thread.

These are the rules explained for dummies. If I get it now then so will you all.

Here's what this UEFA settlement means for #AVFC  in simple terms:

We broke their spending rules and now face a 3-year punishment period that will severely limit our transfer activity.

The basics: Villa spent too much relative to our income in 2023/24. UEFA particularly scrutinized our player swap deals (think Douglas Luiz-Iling Junior exchange - Dobbin-Tim / Maatsen - Kellyman ) and made specific adjustments to our finances.

The targets we must hit:
•2025/26: Maximum €5m loss
•2026/27: Break even (€0 loss)
•2027/28: Full compliance with spending rules

Miss these targets by more than €20m and we're banned from European competition for three seasons. That's the nuclear option.

The transfer restrictions hurt most: We can only register new players for European competition if we sell players worth more than we spend. So if we sell for €40m, we can only spend €40m on replacements.

This applies unconditionally next season, then conditionally based on whether we hit our financial targets.

The fines: €5m guaranteed, plus up to €15m more if we miss targets. Could reach €20m total if we mess up badly.

What this means practically: Villa must become a selling club short-term. No more £50m Onana signings without major sales first.

The good news: If we comply early (hit targets by 2026), we can exit the settlement regime ahead of schedule. Miss by small amounts and penalties scale proportionally.

Bottom line: Villa's transfer strategy is in handcuffs for three years. Every signing must be balanced by sales, every target must be hit, or we face European exile.

I'm confused by this - does it not factor in overall revenue growth?  Last season we will have made in excess of £100 million more than the previous season, and that is without factoring in major sales like Duran and now Ramsey.  Accepting we have to break even, surely that still gives us room for manoeuvre as long as the wage bill is under control?

[PeterWithe]

Right, it doesn't appear to be too troublesome to comply with having 8 balls dotted around the edge of the pitch?

[London Villan]

Probably not because we broke the rules... It's like the footballing world is currently against us!

[Clampy]

Aston Villa have been fined £125k after accepting we breached the Premier League's multiball rules in five matches last season. https://x.com/johntownley11/status/1956297389989335373

Meanwhile, over at the Etihad....

Not wishing to stick up for the Etihad lot, I'm sure I read they were fined for taking too long to come out for the second half of games or summat.

[PeterWithesShin]

Meanwhile at Man City

Man City fined £1m for repeatedly delaying kick-off

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c628d92wnr9o

[PeterWithesShin]

The rules, and how we broke them

[PeterWithesShin]

The sanction agreement

[andyh]

What an absolute load of wank.

Are we becoming footballs bad boys with all these fines. Surely someone will be going to clink soon ?

Mind you, it’s good to see us shifting the blame onto the fall guys…….sorry, ball boys.

[PeterWithe]

I don't get the thinking behind banning us from using it for 3 games?

[London Villan]

How about sanctions for referees that get crucial decisions wrong, costing the clubs tens of millions of pounds...

[PaulWinch again]

How about sanctions for referees that get crucial decisions wrong, costing the clubs tens of millions of pounds...

They do get sanctioned.

[London Villan]

I must have missed that.

[OCD]

We get fined £125k because a ball-boy [assistant] gave the ball back to a player on several occasions? [checks today's date].