True and agree that the transfer business has not helped provide the depth and talent to compete.
For perspective it’s worth reminding that Villas net spend over the last 2 years has been something like £44m, which is minuscule compared to what the teams around us have been able to invest (£250-500m etc).
It also hasn’t helped that on top of the injuries to players key to Emery’s set up, opposition coaches have cottoned on to boxing the space around Rogers and that’s pretty much neutered a lot of Villa’s threat…
This - the club have pushed wages to an unsustainable level to be competitive and painted themselves into a complete corner as a result with no room for manoeuvre.
Unless you can magically double or triple your revenue overnight (as in, you’re not) then teams have to cut cloth accordingly. This is football now.
I could fix football overnight. Put a maximum price on tickets and then have player wages and transfer fees directly linked to what a club sells in tickets. They could come up with some ratio for this. This would restore some sort of meritocracy which the historically big clubs would be happy with. For example Liverpool, Man Utd Arsenal have spend decades being successful so that has enabled them to build larger stadiums and larger attendances. Villa , Leeds would be able to spend more than teams like Bournemouth. This would work right through football. Argyle historically are a bigger club than Exeter so would be able to pay more.
The big clubs would be happy with this as what they make on merchandise they’d get to keep and not have to spunk out on some
18 year old millionaire and his fucking agent.
There ,
Football sorted. Next Middle East.
Let the owners keep it or spend on developing / up keep of stadiums. It’s Tv money that’s distorted all this and the gap between the leagues too great causing teams to gamble trying to get to the promised land. The losses in the championship are staggering.
