20.3 Million more than last season - surely that can be pumped into squad building!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't read the full ins and outs of how the payments are made (maybe I should), but how did we end up with more the Everton?

Aside from that, spend that plus th £60m RL has got for us and we've got £100m fo a few players, £4m on Doyle is just a drop in the ocean. Might help the reserves improve next season ;D

That is pretty good going, I think we have earned more than Everton because we play more attractive football than them. They play some nice stuff aswell but we attack every team we play even if its United

Plus 10 million odd for finishing 6th.

The hair-on-fire, attack-from-all-angles strategy may be a little nerve-wracking at times for supporters, but I bet it does look like fun for neutrals.

I always thought that TV money was distributed evenly among all the teams in the PL? Quite surprised at this.

Overall, [b]I don't think this is a good thing for us[/b] though. If all the other teams have more money, it just inflates transfer fees and wages even further as more clubs compete for the same players and selling clubs don't need to sell any more.

Having a rich owner becomes less of a factor, which isn't really good news for us.

brian clough always said tv would ruin football

how right he was

I tell you what, whoever said buying a football club was dead money has got it all wrong. I bet if Randy sold villa to another foreign investor in a few years time he'd have doubled his investment several times over.

The transfer fees already became inflated when these figures were announced at the start of the season. Its not a trend that will stop soon, so we may aswell climb on for the ride!!
I still think MON needs to spend around £80m this season (over the 2 windows if needs be) on strengthening the squad and adding some real class to the team.

spot on kieran.

yes 40million seems a lot, but Derby got near 30 million for the dross that there team server up over the course of the year so it doesn't really help Villa, at least in the domestic market, and only serve to push up the idiotic prices already on British players

Or more into Lerner's pocket!! and we're paying more for season tickets......

Derby got 30mil cos you were guaranteed goals in their games :P on a serious note, id love to see this money pumped into the squad plus the money Lerner already has set aside unless this is it. hmmmm

Don't be naive enough to think that this will suddenly mean we've got £100m to spend on new players, only a certain percentage of the income made will go towards the transfer budget. Running a Premier League club doesn't club cheap these days!

So the season has not been over for a full week, and aready everbody wants the world. Yes we need afew quality signings but do you realy think we will spend any where nere 80million, and to DLS comment improve the reserves do you not know where they finished in the league using mostly young kids

remolds

i think the comment about the reserves was a play on him not necessarily been good enough for the first team - not a dig at the reserves - we're all fully aware of how well they did

but with football starting again in a little over two months and martin o'neill probably bringing them back 2 or 3 weeks before that it's not unfair to expect signings fairly soon - if only because some might like to think that the work began on bringing in hew players a while before the window opened

as for money to be spent - we've lost 5 players and brought in one so far - so to break even you've probably got to fancy £20mn. getting spent and thats at the same level of player that left

martin o'neill is also on record as saying he wants more players for next season - surely people can assume he also wants better ones - so lets say he wants 4 more (although i think 6), if they're all better then it's not unrealistic to think that £80mn. can be spent on some real quality and cover

however, saying that, we're aston villa supporters so most of us dont expect much .. however, the numbers are realistic, it's just a case of are we going to bring in the quality and really try to push on or are we going to just bring in the numbers and not really kick on - despite getting told we're trying to push on

@remolds

I think Damian has covered this off, sarcasm is often lost in blogs/emails.

The figure of £100m might be high, but we know we have around £50m left in the intial pot of £60m, plus say 50% of the TV money and we are at a £70m kitty. I think most will agree that that is the kind of money we need to spend to push on.

This is MoNs last chance in a lot of fans eyes to prove he can work the transfer market. We all know he works wonders on the field, but apart from Ashley Young his transfer dealings are nothing to shout home about.

What will he do with all that money?

I read Vijayd's comment about money in RL's pockets and season ticket prices and thought it was Taglor! But Vijayd has a point, as a businessman RL has to run the club as a business, that means making profit and growth run side-by-side, more tv money makes that more achievable.

i can see the comments at the end of the transfer window now.... "why did we only spend X when there was all this TV money kicking around??? waaaaaahhhhhh!!!"

yeh MON wont spend much of it although weve got enough money 2 bid 4 ronaldo now although i do infact hate him. ;)

Looks like randy wont be speanding any money then cause lets be fair villa wont speand 50 Million in one summer transfer window

Probley speand about 25-30million this season which is still not enough to break into the top four :)

we arent going to spend that amount of money. get used to it!!! the max we'll spend is 30m and we will sign 5 players max. Dont be surpsised if at the end of the summer we have

stearman 2m
bullard 5m
Crouch 10m
Pennant 8m
sidwell 5m

that is the best we can hope for - its depressing but realistic

Just read there's a q a evening at Villa with Merson and it cost £35!!!! I couldn't be bothered with that even if you paid me the money. "So Paul you played at Villa?" "Yes" oh..

Tonebone you forgot to add Carr on a free. I'd be gutted if we got Crouch.

Success both on and off the pitch! The profile of Villa is high, buy in more young english players and it will be even higher, win a trophy and it will rocket. As for Crouch 10m, Pennant 8m I cannot see any L Pool players coming to Villa, not the way MON and Rafa have been going on

Taglor you literally cant help but say negative villa comments!! At least ur getting more creative with them

What I want to know is why O'Neil has a phobia about buying abroad. Are our scouts absolute dogsh!t or something?? We should break the bank to get in someone like Van der Vaart or Jefferson Farfan, 2 skillfull players which are within our grasp definitely

And forget getting Crouch that would be so depressing carew is better

bringhome the bacon...it has to be a great season next year ...as this was a good season for us!!!

diego DEIGO!!! - this guy is the new wonder kid - better than ronaldo WE NEED HIM BIG TIME

Spend the tv money on him and why not get gudjohnsen as well?

As a life long Villa fan who remembers watching the Villa play in the old third division I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this time Villa are about to break into the top 4. I do worry however that in today's football unless Randy is prepared to splash the cash we might just lose another one of our best players....certainly no one could blame Gareth if he finally decided to go elsewhere for medals and cups. So far the vast majority of Villa fans have fully supported MON but is the lack of cash spent down to Randy or Mon being thrifty as he used to be at Leicester? Why did we buy Wayne Routeledge? if he isn't good enough to get into our first team?

If we want to emulate Man U or Chelsea...surely we have to try to buy the quality of players they buy....not a player who can't get into Tottenham Hotspur's first team?

Which brings me to The Blues...perhaps I am the only Villa fan who wished that Birmingham had not gone down again. My reasoning for this is simple...If Villa had some serious Premier competition surely this would spur MON and Randy to make progress quicker, just look at Spurs who's fans want their team to compete with Arsenal and Chelsea where as the Villa have no local team pushing them.

thats alot of tv money, but dont be fooled into thinkin its gonna go on the squad. as dissapointin as it is.