The business that owns Villa, V holdings, is jointly owned by an Egyptian and an American and an American investment firm owns a separate 20% stake, the Egyptian fella is only worth about £6bn by himself (similar to Lewis actually) which is absolute chump change in today's Premier league. Make no mistake most of the investment into the club is being procured from American investment companies.
I have seen the Pool fans complain about FSG not pulling the trigger when they could and perhaps should have in the market, but they usually assuage such accusations with the odd marquee signing, they certainly aren't misers in the transfer market despite what they might lead you to think, it's also convenient for Pool fans to talk up the massive difference in their spending vs City's even though they've actually spent more in terms of net over the last 5 seasons. Could you ever see Levy signing off on deals like Van Dijk, Alisson (£66.8m for a goalkeeper?) or Nunez? They rarely spend less than £30m to sign a player even just for the squad.
Ratcliffe isn't even majority owner of United yet and he's been there 5 minutes, exactly what "sterling" job is he doing?
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