DeanoVilla looks at the figures and makes an educated guess on others to see whether the standard line that ‘Aston Villa gambled’ our future this year would actually stand up to any sensible questioning.
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I’ve just been going through the full list of players signed and sold by Dr Tony Xia since he took over to try and put some kind of explanation around why things have gone so wrong.
The line we keep being spun is that Xia ‘invested heavily’ and ‘gambled’…. yet did he really?
He’s a full list of players signed and sold…the fee’s I believe are fairly accurate. The wages, I’ve guessed at a lot of them, but I’d be surprised if most of them were far off the truth.
Incoming
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Transfer Spend
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Estimated Wage
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Tommy Elphick
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£3,000,000
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£30,000
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Pierluigi Gollini
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£4,000,000
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£20,000
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Aaron Tshibola
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£5,000,000
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£20,000
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Ross McCormack
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£12,000,000
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£40,000
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James Chester
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£8,000,000
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£30,000
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Mile Jedinak
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£4,000,000
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£50,000
|
Ritchie De Laet
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£2,000,000
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£25,000
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Jonathan Kodjia
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£15,000,000
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£35,000
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Albert Adomah
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£0
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£30,000
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Henri Lansbury
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£2,750,000
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£40,000
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James Bree
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£3,000,000
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£23,000
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Birkir Bjarnason
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£2,500,000
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£25,000
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Conor Hourihane
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£2,000,000
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£35,000
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Neil Taylor
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£2,000,000
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£35,000
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Scott Hogan
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£11,000,000
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£30,000
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John Terry
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£0
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£60,000
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Ahmed Elmohamady
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£1,000,000
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£30,000
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Chris Samba
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£0
|
£15,000
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Glenn Whelan
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£2,000,000
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£30,000
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Total:
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£79,250,000
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£598,000
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1
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Outgoings
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Transfer Recouped
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Wage Saved
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Kieran Richardson
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£0
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£50,000
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Charles N’Zogbia
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£0
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£65,000
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Jose Angel Crespo
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£1,000,000
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£20,000
|
Brad Guzan
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£0
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£40,000
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Idrissa Gana Gueye
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£7,100,000
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£40,000
|
Ciaran Clark
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£5,000,000
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£25,000
|
Scott Sinclair
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£3,500,000
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£35,000
|
Joe Bennett
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£0
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£20,000
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Jores Okore
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£1,000,000
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£35,000
|
Joleon Lescott
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£0
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£50,000
|
Adama Traore
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£0
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£40,000
|
Rudy Gestede
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£2,000,000
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£30,000
|
Ashley Westwood
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£5,000,000
|
£25,000
|
Jordan Ayew
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£7,000,000
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£35,000
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Libor Kozak
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£0
|
£25,000
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Carlos Sanchez
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£3,000,000
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£30,000
|
Jordan Veretout
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£7,000,000
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£35,000
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Nathan Baker
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£1,000,000
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£25,000
|
Leandro Bacuna
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£1,000,000
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£20,000
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Jordan Amavi
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£6,000,000
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£30,000
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Pierluigi Gollini
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£3,700,000
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£20,000
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Carles Gil
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£2,000,000
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£20,000
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Gabby Agbonlahor
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£0
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£45,000
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John Terry
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£0
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£60,000
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Total:
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£24,700,000
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£820,000
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NB – issues over Amavi/Sanchez fees over to factoring arrangements.
So that’s roughly £80 million spent and £56 million recouped, so a net spend of £23 million or £11.5million per year.
The wages (I’ve not included the loan signings as they’ve now all left) have actually gone DOWN, reducing the wage bill by about £220,000 per week or £11 million per year!!!
Now my figures may be slightly off as like I say I’ve estimated a lot of the wages, but I can’t be off by £11 million surely, so the crux of the matter is wages will have gone down.
Now it’s my understanding that we have so far received approx £70-£75 million in parachute payment (with one further payment of £15 million to come).
So…if the NET spend is £25 million, and the wages have gone DOWN, and we’ve received £70-75 million in parachute money, plus TV deals and all the other income…then how the hell are we losing so much money each month? Has Tony actually put any of his own money in at all?!?
Something just doesn’t add up for me.
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NB – last accounts had wages down to circa £39million per annum – a considerably drop from £69+million in previous years and the obvious caveat is we won’t have recouped all those transfer fees just yet, just as we won’t have paid off all incoming transfer fees.
Wages will again reduce with the players that have left us this summer and an educated guess given our losses and cash flow is that money has been incoming from the owner – but funding monthly expenditure is not ‘bankrolling’ a final stab at promotion back to the Premier League and that’s how it’s being painted.
But as Villa fans are becoming accustomed to this summer, there are more questions than answers with every passing day.
Do The Numbers Stack Up Forum Thread – usual caveats apply.