Missed this at the time - what a mess.

[the other bob wilson]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...s-bad-12822121

[Lawnmower]

Yet he’s identified ‘Robert Huth’ as a new signing.

A guy who’s at the end of his career looking for one last big pay deal.

Looks like he hasn’t learnt.

All this whilst Villa have (apparently) a superb academy producing loads of very promising youngsters

[jamieccfc]

Good their fans deserve a good few years down in the championship

[Louth]

A club spends one season out of the premiership and they are broke.

I'm delighted for them, horrible bunch.

We seem to be doing things properly.

[Des Parrot]

I understand that they have been defering / partially paying wages since January and had in excess of £20M in bonuses lined up if they had been promoted. Seems that they were gambling the present on the future & it's backfired.

They've paid McCormack & Agbonlahor around £3.5M each in the last 18 months & they've barely kicked a ball for the club

[bobh]

Good their fans deserve a good few years down in the championship

Or have one of the best grounds in League One.

[jamieccfc]

Or have one of the best grounds in League One.

[Steve the Tea]

It's difficult to have any sympathy for Villa as they brought it on themselves. I can understand, in the first season after relegation from the PL, to have a go to get back up but financial cutbabacks have to be made thereafter due to FFP. They didn't. To spend some £88m ( I read in the last 2 yrs) and pay Terry £100,000/wk (last season) was ridiculous. The chicks always come home to roost.

StT.
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[AfricanBluebird]

It's difficult to have any sympathy for Villa as they brought it on themselves. I can understand, in the first season after relegation from the PL, to have a go to get back up but financial cutbabacks have to be made thereafter due to FFP. They didn't. To spend some £88m ( I read in the last 2 yrs) and pay Terry £100,000/wk (last season) was ridiculous. The chicks always come home to roost.

StT.
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Villa - Quietest ground I've ever been to. WBA best supporters in the midlands.

Hard to sympathise. We made mistakes the the EPL with Malky but for a few seasons we have been realistic and pragmatic, financially.

But what villa have done is just crazy. John Terry 100k ... Shocking.

[Llanedeyrnblue]

A club spends one season out of the premiership and they are broke.

I'm delighted for them, horrible bunch.

We seem to be doing things properly.

Two seasons out of the Premier League