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Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25

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A Tuba said:
This would be more true if Villa and Newcastle hadn't ended up with better more ambitious owners than ENIC, as have Everton.
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Villa are sitting on a real precipice financially from a PSR perspective. Their wages are 90% of revenue, they have been making losses of £80M-120M, and effectively have to sell to buy. They really lucked in with the Saudi's dropping £70M for Dhuran this window.

Everton just re-hired Moyes and are totally hamstrung by their dire financial position.

The Everton manager (Moyes) admits the PSR challenges have increased his admiration for the business conducted by his predecessor, Sean Dyche, and director of football, Kevin Thelwell, to keep the club afloat in the Premier League in recent seasons. “I’ve been really surprised at the way it’s restricting the football club,” Moyes added. “Everton’s a huge football club and should be competing with many of the big clubs in the country and hopefully spending in a way where it’s right and challenging for the big players who are available. There’s not that many in January, to be honest, but the PSR is hindering us. I think I can see now why the last few years at Everton have been so difficult. The people who’ve had to work under the restrictions have done a remarkable job.”
 
spids said:
Villa are sitting on a real precipice financially from a PSR perspective. Their wages are 90% of revenue, they have been making losses of £80M-120M, and effectively have to sell to buy. They really lucked in with the Saudi's dropping £70M for Dhuran this window.

Everton just re-hired Moyes and are totally hamstrung by their dire financial position.

The Everton manager (Moyes) admits the PSR challenges have increased his admiration for the business conducted by his predecessor, Sean Dyche, and director of football, Kevin Thelwell, to keep the club afloat in the Premier League in recent seasons. “I’ve been really surprised at the way it’s restricting the football club,” Moyes added. “Everton’s a huge football club and should be competing with many of the big clubs in the country and hopefully spending in a way where it’s right and challenging for the big players who are available. There’s not that many in January, to be honest, but the PSR is hindering us. I think I can see now why the last few years at Everton have been so difficult. The people who’ve had to work under the restrictions have done a remarkable job.”
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When we secure another year in the PL, then we can celebrate our theoretical PSR wins.
 
Maureen said:
Doing his very best on the pitch is a low bar ffs. I’m mean for £60M you’d want a bit more. On Thursday his performance v Swedish farmers was pathetic. Never showed any movement or coming deep to receive the ball. Try to move their static back 3 out of position. Never got involved in any sort of build up play and never looked threatening. The only hope he really has is if we cross the ball in which we seem reluctant to do. V Brentford no point trying to play through them as we don’t have the talent. Just get Porro wide and put balls into the box.
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That's the type of player he is. It's not his fault he doesn't fit the system, nor that we paid 60 mil for him.

At the moment, I'd rather sack Ange and get a new manager that actually has a little versatility. Then players like Richarlison might actually work.
 
Tomo said:

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Doesn't really make much sense to me unless for example we think Romero out for a long time. Would make more sense to try to highjack Chilwell or Kelly's deals to get a LCB/LB type of player rather than another right sided CB

But I'd really prefer to get another forward in who is better than Werner, and even Richarlison, preferably versatile to cover several positions and a goalscorer : we are short on quality forwards now and short of quantity until Solanke, Johnson, Odobert and even Werner are all back later this month
 
spids said:
Villa are sitting on a real precipice financially from a PSR perspective. Their wages are 90% of revenue, they have been making losses of £80M-120M, and effectively have to sell to buy. They really lucked in with the Saudi's dropping £70M for Dhuran this window.

Everton just re-hired Moyes and are totally hamstrung by their dire financial position.

The Everton manager (Moyes) admits the PSR challenges have increased his admiration for the business conducted by his predecessor, Sean Dyche, and director of football, Kevin Thelwell, to keep the club afloat in the Premier League in recent seasons. “I’ve been really surprised at the way it’s restricting the football club,” Moyes added. “Everton’s a huge football club and should be competing with many of the big clubs in the country and hopefully spending in a way where it’s right and challenging for the big players who are available. There’s not that many in January, to be honest, but the PSR is hindering us. I think I can see now why the last few years at Everton have been so difficult. The people who’ve had to work under the restrictions have done a remarkable job.”
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How are villa getting away with it then, I think our turnover is twice theirs.
Still hasn't really stopped them for going after signings though.
Admittedly they sold Duran, but at that price they couldn't refuse.
 
skywalker68 said:
How are villa getting away with it then, I think our turnover is twice theirs.
Still hasn't really stopped them for going after signings though.
Admittedly they sold Duran, but at that price they couldn't refuse.
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Well, they did not want to sell Douglas Luiz last summer but needed the cash to meet PSR limit to avoid getting a points deduction. Then did some dodgy deals with Everton and Chelsea when they found a bit of a PSR loophole with selling home grown players (pure profit) for inflated fees...

It started with Tim Iroegbunam, a 20-year-old midfielder with just a handful of senior Villa appearances under his belt, being snapped up by the Toffees for a reported fee of around £9 million. The following day, young Everton striker Lewis Dobbin went in the opposite direction for almost exactly the same price.

Villa then agreed to sell teenager Omari Kellyman to Chelsea for £19m ($24m) - a pretty remarkable amount for a player with just 148 minutes of first-team football under his belt. Soon after, it was reported that Ian Maatsen would be doing the reverse, albeit for around £37.5m ($47m) instead.

This is a good article on the problems Villa face....

Aston Villa are facing an “enormous” problem from an operating perspective following a dramatic rise in their wage bill last season.

That is the view of finance expert Stefan Borson, who exclusively told Football Insider the West Midlands giants’ salary expenditure now takes up almost all of their revenue.

Deloitte’s 2025 Money League revealed Villa’s revenue surged from £218million in 2022-23 to a new club-record figure of £265million last season.

But their wage bill also increased from £194million to £252million after qualifying for the Champions League in 2023-24.

Unai Emery’s side were believed to be close to the profit and sustainability (PSR) limit last season, with top-flight clubs only permitted to lose £105million over a rolling three-year period.

Douglas Luiz, Tim Iroegbunam and Omari Kellyman were all sold ahead of the 30 June accounting deadline to ensure the club didn’t break the spending rules.
 
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