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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26
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Dude, that’s the equivalent of about 350-400k today.
City (and Chelsea?) owners put in more than £1 billion of their own money in the first decade of ownership.
Even if it were allowable, how many EPL owners do you think have that kind of liquidity?
The biggest impact would be 3 key signings in Striker, Winger and Midfielder.
Yeah he had a tuf first period with the chavs injuries HUGE unrealistic expectations for a young player coming into the prem .. but to me he always looked decent and I was always sure goals would follow...I wasn't convinced Ari was a kompany type of no 9.. and wasn't surprised when Jackson was brought in , I thought to replace/challenge him.. Ari hasn't let that happen, hence Jackson on the market again.. I would think his wages and contract would be an issue for us though .
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Where did you get 350/400k from? I'm not talking about outbidding city or the top teams for players. I'm saying very good players that are maybe 130k per week players paying them a bit more than they are worth to come here
Yeah you are right. I'm talking about getting the best players we can and to attract them buy paying over the odds (not 300/400k).
To become a better team we will have to do it in stages imo. First we have to buy players to get us to the next level before we can get better players to get us to the next level
That doesn’t quite buy you a Solanke.
Solanke is not on 130k nowhere near it
And I also said paying more than a £130k a week player is worth
True but there are clubs doing better than our club in the Premier League but pay less on players, I assume without checking that Villa can't be paying much more if any more at all.
Well I just now looked on a website called Spotrac, according to their data Villa pay 7th highest wages and Spurs 6th highest.
It just goes to show it's not all always about the money.
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ATM Trafford is a decent championship keeper.. Burnley dropped him as did city.. at both clubs he hadn't quite developed into a liability.. but with both clubs his spells as no 1 in the prem he was 100% heading that way
What is this lads position? Very impressed and I never am from these comps.
For top tier players, it's not about the money but the money accompanies the quality.
Part of any equation, and very much the unknown as I never tire from writing is the ad valorem of a manager.
Nobody tell me Villa have the 3rd best squad but they have a manager who consistently gets more out of them as a collective.
I've written it before but the best analogy is diving.
Presume a squad has 'X' difficulty factor for those who know the judging rules. The quality of the dive (in essence the manager) is applied and you get a score.
The best squad in this year's PL us that lot. The best manager is Guardiola. It means City might win the PL but that lot should.
Frank ain't adding the ad valorem in a squad thst is not that bad.
Longwinded explanation that says we just need a mamager who adds the optimum value, and not necessarily to have to spend crazy amounts on too many players .
The crèche is full!
Please can we have some established adults this window!
He's one of - if not- the most promising RBs in Europe right now. But he's still got some defensive weaknesses.
Villa spend nearly all their revenue on players, whereas we only spend half of ours. Means we have similar quality of player (as our revenue is significantly higher). Main difference is they have a better manager, and he is in year 3 of his project. If we were more ambitious on the pitch Villa could not compete with us.
Since we are not getting 12-14 new players we might as well give up.