king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
I doesn't sound like Villa will have the money to offer 7m from everything you read about their money problems at the moment. I read their wage bill is in the region of £40-50m with them losing about 5m a month, them due to pay out 11m in outsanding payments for previously signed players and need to raise funds from player sales and wage bill slashing to the tune of £45m. Apparently their owner is having problems getting money out of China and had to borrow a few million to deal with the operating costs for the next few weeks.
A big problem is a lot of their highest earning players wont be interesting Prem teams while the bigger earners they could do with offloading like Kodja, Richards, Jedinak, Landsbury, McCormack etc all on around 40k a week and no other Championship club is that likely to want to take on those full salaries. Even if they can get a massive fee for Grealish I'm not so sure how much they will get back to spend. I can imagine Bruce will still have a strong squad and have some wiggle room to sign players but looking at their current state of play I think it's going to he difficult to imagine him getting millions to play with. Even if they can eventually raise the funds it will be completely dependent on player sales going through first and at this time of the summer not many big deals will go through so Villa will have to bide their time which gives us a good head start on getting a new contract in place while they are trying to find the required buyers.
If Villa have been scouting Dan I'm certain they'd be keen but i imagine they are hoping because it's only little Wigan they can get him on the cheap like they got Bree and Hourihan from Barnsley. But after getting that large fee for Yanic and seeing how the rest of the market is going in general i can see us looking for a much larger fee than Villa will expect. I think Villas financial reach this window and our valuation will be miles apart. But the sooner we get new contracts sorted the better. I was very impressed with how the club got Cooks deal sorted so quickly to kill off any interest from other clubs, and i'm really hopeful we will do the same with Big Dan asap before Villa even get a chance to raise funds and make an offer.
A big problem is a lot of their highest earning players wont be interesting Prem teams while the bigger earners they could do with offloading like Kodja, Richards, Jedinak, Landsbury, McCormack etc all on around 40k a week and no other Championship club is that likely to want to take on those full salaries. Even if they can get a massive fee for Grealish I'm not so sure how much they will get back to spend. I can imagine Bruce will still have a strong squad and have some wiggle room to sign players but looking at their current state of play I think it's going to he difficult to imagine him getting millions to play with. Even if they can eventually raise the funds it will be completely dependent on player sales going through first and at this time of the summer not many big deals will go through so Villa will have to bide their time which gives us a good head start on getting a new contract in place while they are trying to find the required buyers.
If Villa have been scouting Dan I'm certain they'd be keen but i imagine they are hoping because it's only little Wigan they can get him on the cheap like they got Bree and Hourihan from Barnsley. But after getting that large fee for Yanic and seeing how the rest of the market is going in general i can see us looking for a much larger fee than Villa will expect. I think Villas financial reach this window and our valuation will be miles apart. But the sooner we get new contracts sorted the better. I was very impressed with how the club got Cooks deal sorted so quickly to kill off any interest from other clubs, and i'm really hopeful we will do the same with Big Dan asap before Villa even get a chance to raise funds and make an offer.
