Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[chrisw1]

Aren't our new shareholders stadium construction experts? I'd imagine they developed the solution of maintaining existing facilities whilst expanding the number of seats.

I think it is probably more that the club just went back to the architects and told them to rethink.

Especially with the rumours that Emery wasn't happy losing the fans at one end during a pivotal European season.

I strongly suspect that was more an excuse than the genuine reason we shelved a potentially transformational development for the club.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Aren't our new shareholders stadium construction experts? I'd imagine they developed the solution of maintaining existing facilities whilst expanding the number of seats.

I think it is probably more that the club just went back to the architects and told them to rethink.

Maybe but then you have to wonder why we bothered inviting them to invest in the club.

Regardless,  we have Heck to thank for increasing our corporate offer. Nobody can take that away from him. "A fantastic success!"

[Somniloquism]

Aren't our new shareholders stadium construction experts? I'd imagine they developed the solution of maintaining existing facilities whilst expanding the number of seats.

I think it is probably more that the club just went back to the architects and told them to rethink.

Especially with the rumours that Emery wasn't happy losing the fans at one end during a pivotal European season.

I strongly suspect that was more an excuse than the genuine reason we shelved a potentially transformational development for the club.

I suspect it was one of many reasons to shelve the initial idea but was probably hand-in-hand with the sudden need to ensure we had enough revenue growth in the stand to stop it impacting PSR if we did have to rebuild and lose capacity for a season or two. But I suspect the success of Plop and Citeh on expanding around current seats probably meant we needed to investigate if that was an option which we hadn't previously.

[London Villan]

Probably £50m cheaper too.

[cdbearsfan]

Goodnight, sweet prince. The end of an era.

[Brazilian Villain]

Anyway, Chris Heck. Wonder if they will have a whip round for a carriage clock?

Maybe some Cuban heel boots instead.

[DB]

Wonder if this will impact on the North Stand plans, him coming in did?

I think it was is last hurrah.  They announced that, let the dust settle and let everyone know he's off.

[VillaTim]

Commission the statue .

[Chris Harte]

Champions League income
                                                       RUNNING TOTAL
Participation         €18.6m            18.6
Young Boys (W)     €2.1m             20.7
Bayern (W)              €2.1m             22.8
Bologna (W)           €2.1m             24.9
Club Brugge  (L)     €0.0m             24.9
Juventus (D             €0.7m            25.6
RB Leipzig (            €2.1m             27.7
Monaco (L)             €0.0m             27.7
Celtic  (W)               €2.1m             29.8

Top 8 bonus             €2.0m            31.8
League position       €7.975m       39.775
Last 16                      €11.0             50.775
Quarter finals           €12.5             € 63.275   = £54.25m

6 Home games @£3.75m            £22.5m                             
TOTAL                                            £76.75m

We'd need to on additional merchandise and commercial income and also sponsorship bonuses. Do we get anything from the broadcasters?

You need to add the "Value Pillar" payment to that estimate. I believe it was based on each club's UEFA Coefficient and Villa received £16.6M.

By comparison, I think Liverpool received £40M+.

Edit - I crunched the numbers myself a while back, but based home game receipts on £3M per game (just an estimate, no idea if that's right). Bottom line, I got an earnings total of €104.5M or approx. £87.8M. And it is Unai who made this possible.

[Brazilian Villain]

Commission the statue .

It wouldn't require much bronze.

[AV82EC]

Commission the statue .

It wouldn't require much bronze.

Just buy one of those fake Oscars, it’s about the right size.

[Mister E]

Tifo’s at VP we’re great I thought

Same.  I'm all for a bit of bah humbug and would start swinging if a drum was brought into the Holte, but this anti-tifo stuff seems a bit odd to me.  As much as I like to take the piss out of black clad, bouncy drum & megaphone led 'ultras,' the truth is their fans embarrassed us at Wembley.

Bollocks. They just killed the atmosphere and ruined it with their fucking drum. They broke the law with the pyrotechnic flare shite at the beginning and the bin bag flags they had were shit too.

It was like watching a bunch of kids doing a paramilitary parade to the benefit of nobody but themselves, the wankers. They made it about themselves.

I hate the drums but I thought last Saturday that the CP dominated the atmosphere; regardless of drums or paramilitary appearance. Villa fans struggled to assert themselves all match and it was pretty annoying that we couldn't.

[PeterWithesShin]

[Brend'Watkins]

Thanks for everything Chris. I always said we needed ( checks notes) a Vodka partner.

We don't. But all the teams who make more revenue then us have craploads of these "partnerships" and we need to compete with them.

Did it not occur to you I might have been taking the piss?

[VillaTim]

Commission the statue .

It wouldn't require much bronze.

Just buy one of those fake Oscars, it’s about the right size.

put it on the mantlepiece next to the framed Gerrard portrait  .