pembroke allan wrote:Plus didn't i read they owe around 20m in transfer fees to other clubs?
City Slicker wrote:pembroke allan wrote:Plus didn't i read they owe around 20m in transfer fees to other clubs?
And I was going to offer them Madine. I don't think I'll bother after reading this!
BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
Imho there’s plenty of players who don’t need that amount of money who deffo wouldn’t have waivered that amount
BLUE54 wrote:bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
Imho there’s plenty of players who don’t need that amount of money who deffo wouldn’t have waivered that amount
My mistake. I think my point was what would he need to do? Villa seem to have far more serious financial problems, i.e. Owing money to HMRC, possible/probable transfer fee defaults & their owner wants out. Would he be willing to take them to the cleaners & possibly set off an admin situation? He would likely get 10p in the pound if that. £56,000 wouldn't even be "boot money" to him. Ex England captain bringing down one of England's most famous clubs? I don't think so.
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
Imho there’s plenty of players who don’t need that amount of money who deffo wouldn’t have waivered that amount
My mistake. I think my point was what would he need to do? Villa seem to have far more serious financial problems, i.e. Owing money to HMRC, possible/probable transfer fee defaults & their owner wants out. Would he be willing to take them to the cleaners & possibly set off an admin situation? He would likely get 10p in the pound if that. £56,000 wouldn't even be "boot money" to him. Ex England captain bringing down one of England's most famous clubs? I don't think so.
Fair point
AV3 wrote:bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
Imho there’s plenty of players who don’t need that amount of money who deffo wouldn’t have waivered that amount
My mistake. I think my point was what would he need to do? Villa seem to have far more serious financial problems, i.e. Owing money to HMRC, possible/probable transfer fee defaults & their owner wants out. Would he be willing to take them to the cleaners & possibly set off an admin situation? He would likely get 10p in the pound if that. £56,000 wouldn't even be "boot money" to him. Ex England captain bringing down one of England's most famous clubs? I don't think so.
Fair point
It isn't a fair point. To suggest that a debt of £500,000 would push a club Villa's size into administration is ridiculous. If it's true that Terry waived his final wages, it is a fantastic gesture and very rare. I suppose because it's Terry, people begrudge giving him credit. If it had been someone like Garath Bale, there would have been cries for him to be knoighted.
AV3 wrote:bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:bluebirdoct1962 wrote:BLUE54 wrote:"Hats off to him". What would be the point? Terry doesn't need it.Villa can't afford it. End of story!
Imho there’s plenty of players who don’t need that amount of money who deffo wouldn’t have waivered that amount
My mistake. I think my point was what would he need to do? Villa seem to have far more serious financial problems, i.e. Owing money to HMRC, possible/probable transfer fee defaults & their owner wants out. Would he be willing to take them to the cleaners & possibly set off an admin situation? He would likely get 10p in the pound if that. £56,000 wouldn't even be "boot money" to him. Ex England captain bringing down one of England's most famous clubs? I don't think so.
Fair point
It isn't a fair point. To suggest that a debt of £500,000 would push a club Villa's size into administration is ridiculous. If it's true that Terry waived his final wages, it is a fantastic gesture and very rare. I suppose because it's Terry, people begrudge giving him credit. If it had been someone like Garath Bale, there would have been cries for him to be knoighted.
FloridaBluebird wrote:FFP is going to tear through the Championship this coming season. Lots of teams spent beyond their means and overspeculated. Warnock and co. played a blinder on their relatively small championship budget. I would love us to be looking at your Villa’s, Sunderland, Leeds, Derby and Middlesbrough FOR SURE as shopping grounds for CMs, a Winger and a RB with pace!
tonythomas wrote:The £560,000 figure mentioned relates to wages owed for June and July. Why is it such a "great" gesture by John Terry to be forgoing these payments, not like he's providing anything to Aston Villa is it. My thoughts on it are, how come a " big" club like Aston Villa would even contemplate paying a CB who's best years were behind him £70,000 a week in the first place.
The simple truth is, the powers that be at Aston Villa gambled massively on getting promotion, and it backfired miserably. Now they have to face the inevitable consequences, it ain't going to be pretty.
AV3 wrote:tonythomas wrote:The £560,000 figure mentioned relates to wages owed for June and July. Why is it such a "great" gesture by John Terry to be forgoing these payments, not like he's providing anything to Aston Villa is it. My thoughts on it are, how come a " big" club like Aston Villa would even contemplate paying a CB who's best years were behind him £70,000 a week in the first place.
The simple truth is, the powers that be at Aston Villa gambled massively on getting promotion, and it backfired miserably. Now they have to face the inevitable consequences, it ain't going to be pretty.
You've been reading too many dramatised newspaper articles mate. Villa spent less than £3 million in transfer fees last summer (and nothing in January). How is that gambling massively on getting promotion?
Villa paid Terry significantly less than he earned at Chelsea or what he was offered to stay on at Chelsea and significantly less than Terry was offered from elsewhere. Paying a higher wage was possible because there was no fee involved.
I personally believe that it was a "great" gesture to terminate his contract early. People on here are talking telephone numbers as if it's nothing. In this day and age of TV money, it is almost unheard of for a player to forego wages that he is contractually entitled to. If it's such a nothing gesture, why don't all of the rest of Villa's squad (and management team) forego their June payments to help the club through this difficult period? Bruce is on the same money as Terry was and is more to blame for the situation than anyone. Most of the other players are on £20K a week minimum, most even more.
tonythomas wrote:Just a few "facts" on Villa's transfer policy.
2016/17 season 14 players brought in for an outlay of £80m +.
No wonder they only brought in Whelan and Elmohadamy in 2017/18 for less than £3m.
All they did for 2017/18 was changed tack and instead of buying players they loaned them instead, BUT even so John Terry came on a "free" at £70k a week. Snodgrass's loan fee was £1m and Villa paid £40k of his £60k a week salary.
£80m on 14 players is suicidal for a Championship side and the telling factor is that out of those 14 , only four made the starting 11 for the play off final and four on the bench.
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