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Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25

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candrews said:
Like the only team in the PL without any pace in our forward line.
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You can get away without pace if you have either a natural finisher or skilful creative players but we’re seriously lacking. Son will always be a club legend but he offers very little these days. Richarlison - great if the only requirements was to run around chasing lost causes but as a striker he’s woeful.
 
spids said:
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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Informative certainly, I get keeping some control over wages that is entirely understandable.
But we are too far the other way, certainly don't need to be that low.
 
skywalker68 said:
Informative certainly, I get keeping some control over wages that is entirely understandable.
But we are too far the other way, certainly don't need to be that low.
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Definitely. As I have said many times on here, we could sign 3 or 4 £250k per week players and still only be at 50% ratio of wages to revenue. For comparison, Liverpool operate at 69%. And most clubs higher than that.

But I was questioning someone saying Villa have more ambitious owners than us (and Everton!?). Villa's wages to revenue ratio is 95%, which is not sustainable. Ambitious, maybe, but stupidly so and I'd rather be in our shoes.
 
spids said:
Definitely. As I have said many times on here, we could sign 3 or 4 £250k per week players and still only be at 50% ratio of wages to revenue. For comparison, Liverpool operate at 69%. And most clubs higher than that.

But I was questioning someone saying Villa have more ambitious owners than us (and Everton!?). Villa's wages to revenue ratio is 95%, which is not sustainable. Ambitious, maybe, but stupidly so and I'd rather be in our shoes.
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You have to take greater risks to win. I agree that 90% is unsustainable, but 42 or whatever our wage %to revenue is pathetic.
 
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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Loads of dodgy PSR deals recently and now Duran has helped out.

Oana deal involved "selling" dobbing for £10m. Philogene shenanigans and getting Saudi to buy Diaby for £60m all smell to me
 
Spursidol said:
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
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Club probably think.

Van Der Ven: Injury prone
Romero: Injury prone
Dragusin: Injured

Leaves the below as our CB’s.

Danso
Davies
Gray

And ideally we might want to use Gray to cover other roles as well so I get the thinking but I agree a forward particularly a right winger who is an actual winger would be a huge help.
 
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