Victor Lindelöf

[aj2k77]

He’ll be on a massive wedge. Finances aren’t an excuse with this one.

[Mellin]

They are as we need to be net positive. I'd rather our back up centre half was free so we can spend any money elsewhere personally.

[LeonW]

They are as we need to be net positive. I'd rather our back up centre half was free so we can spend any money elsewhere personally.

Wages are our biggest problem right now not transfer fees.

[garyellis]

They are as we need to be net positive. I'd rather our back up centre half was free so we can spend any money elsewhere personally.

Wages are our biggest problem right now not transfer fees.

Read this and come back when you understand it
Fine:
A £9.5 million fine was issued in July 2025.
Conditional Fine:
A further £12.9 million fine is conditional on the club's compliance with the financial roadmap over the next three years.
Positive Transfer Balance:
For the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons, Villa must generate more income from player sales than they spend on new signings to register players for UEFA competitions.
Squad Cost Ratio:
The club's spending on player wages and transfers must be reduced to below 70% of its revenue for the 2025/26 season and continue on a downward trend.

[aj2k77]

Yep we’re fucked on wages. Lindelof adds to the problem of too many shit Monchi signings on a wedge adding little.

[LeonW]

They are as we need to be net positive. I'd rather our back up centre half was free so we can spend any money elsewhere personally.

Wages are our biggest problem right now not transfer fees.

Read this and come back when you understand it
Fine:
A £9.5 million fine was issued in July 2025.
Conditional Fine:
A further £12.9 million fine is conditional on the club's compliance with the financial roadmap over the next three years.
Positive Transfer Balance:
For the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons, Villa must generate more income from player sales than they spend on new signings to register players for UEFA competitions.
Squad Cost Ratio:
The club's spending on player wages and transfers must be reduced to below 70% of its revenue for the 2025/26 season and continue on a downward trend.

So…I’m interpreting your post that based upon the above, you don’t think wages are the bigger problem for the club to address?

[Demitri_C]

One thing the wages i don't get we were payjng asensio and rashford on loan. That must ahve been 300k a week at least. So they have both left thats a significant  wage amount off our wage structure. Add the players that have already left. Our wage bill must be significantly lower now

[PeterWithesShin]

I doubt that at his age and with how little interest there was in him that he'll be on a wedge, by PL standards anyway.

[Tuscans]

One thing the wages i don't get we were payjng asensio and rashford on loan. That must ahve been 300k a week at least. So they have both left thats a significant  wage amount off our wage structure. Add the players that have already left. Our wage bill must be significantly lower now

Hence Lindelof. Are you not entertained?

[Dante Lavelli]

I think I’d prefer Lindleof over Diasi, seems less risky and less invested.

[PaulWinch again]

I’d rather have someone good, but we are where we are.

[IFWaters]

Thinking positively, he sounds like a high-end chocolatier, so maybe the commercial dept. can come up with something e.g. Lindelof's Trinity Truffles.

I'm sold.

[garyellis]

They are as we need to be net positive. I'd rather our back up centre half was free so we can spend any money elsewhere personally.

Wages are our biggest problem right now not transfer fees.

Read this and come back when you understand it
Fine:
A £9.5 million fine was issued in July 2025.
Conditional Fine:
A further £12.9 million fine is conditional on the club's compliance with the financial roadmap over the next three years.
Positive Transfer Balance:
For the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons, Villa must generate more income from player sales than they spend on new signings to register players for UEFA competitions.
Squad Cost Ratio:
The club's spending on player wages and transfers must be reduced to below 70% of its revenue for the 2025/26 season and continue on a downward trend.

it’s all a problem but as the first post stated it’s net spend not just wages. The main problem is income not wages. If you want to keep players like Kamara and Watkins you have to pay the going rate. Jacob left for higher wages not less.

[LeonW]

They are as we need to be net positive. I'd rather our back up centre half was free so we can spend any money elsewhere personally.

Wages are our biggest problem right now not transfer fees.

Read this and come back when you understand it
Fine:
A £9.5 million fine was issued in July 2025.
Conditional Fine:
A further £12.9 million fine is conditional on the club's compliance with the financial roadmap over the next three years.
Positive Transfer Balance:
For the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons, Villa must generate more income from player sales than they spend on new signings to register players for UEFA competitions.
Squad Cost Ratio:
The club's spending on player wages and transfers must be reduced to below 70% of its revenue for the 2025/26 season and continue on a downward trend.

it’s all a problem but as the first post stated it’s net spend not just wages. The main problem is income not wages. If you want to keep players like Kamara and Watkins you have to pay the going rate. Jacob left for higher wages not less.

Not disagreeing with it all being a problem. Free transfers tend to come with higher salaries for the player because their agent will be arguing that the interested party don’t have to spend a transfer fee. It’s likely that sometimes a lower transfer fee for a player with less wages is better for these rules, because the fee can be amortized over the length of a contract as we all know. So I don’t think it’s necessarily a case of us creating a problem on both elements with buying a player.

Wages is the harder problem to solve because ultimately, a player doesn’t care about how much someone is paying for them but they care about signing on fee and wages they get and keeping our best players means paying more for wages.

Often one player sale can solve the positive transfer balance issue. But getting the wages down to 70% whilst competing is much much harder.

[Rigadon]

Good job we have Victor coming in eh.