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25 Aug 2026 15:21:19.
You read all the players we are interested in or have put loan offers in. Nothing seems to materialise, the best deals are, instead of the click bait crap, done and announced as medical completed.
25 Aug 2026 13:00:42
My boy Jose Flaco Lopez scored a couple at the weekend. Just saying. 🤷🏼♂️
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25 Aug 2026 11:22:49
Despite all the links to Jackson, I can’t see how we get a deal done. If we buy him we suffer from the 45 day rule which impacts our financial position, and even if Chelsea sanctioned a loan, which I very much doubt, we already have 2 players on loan deals, so we can’t use that route to land him.
In reality we are going to have to look at alternatives.
25 Aug 2026 12:19:10
So all the Jackson talk is just click bait?
25 Aug 2026 13:53:17
We've got Garnacho on loan from Chelsea, so can't loan another from them. We can loan 4 players in total. 2 domestic and 2 foreign. If we didn't have the UEFA restriction of not being in a negative transfer balance, we'd have been ok, given that incoming players' cost is spread over their contract and sales count in total.
25 Aug 2026 15:16:29
So... very confused by all this lot, so I’ll do it in questions that I hope someone can answer. 🤷🏼♂️
1. PSR is a Prem thing where you can’t make over X amount of losses over a 3-year period, which restricts spending, so is SCR a UEFA thing?
2. Is SCR (if a UEFA thing) only covering your squad that is picked to play in Europe, not the whole of your squad?
3. Does SCR roll over 3 years like PSR?
4.
If yes to 3, if we’ve bought players before we got into Europe the 1st time, does that mean their value is £0, only their wages count?
I’ve got many more questions that would probably get progressively ridiculous, cos it all sounds a bit backwards to me, qualify for Europe, spend to make a success of it, get fined for trying to aspire to success by improving your squad, clown world if that the case. 🤷🏼♂️
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25 Aug 2026 17:07:12
Clown World doesn't even come close.
25 Aug 2026 17:40:29
Yep, can only spend 70% of annual turnover on wages. That's an annual plan for clubs that have been in Europe in consecutive seasons. The Prem is following suit and getting rid of PSR eventually.
25 Aug 2026 18:06:14
I'm pretty sure PSR is completely gone this season in the Prem.
Prem SCR is 85% this season, with a planned 5% per year reduction until we match UEFA. UEFA SCR is 70%.
We still have the additional restrictions, though, where we can only register new players for Europe to a max value of the players we sell (not spreading the cost).
Buck, the 70% rule is all first team squad costs, which includes the annual amount of purchase price and any other signing fees, not just the wages.
The only real difference to PSR, from my understanding, is that running costs of the club are excluded, and there is no allowance to make any losses.
25 Aug 2026 05:33:44
& Malen scores a hat trick for Roma last night, that guy who left so as not to offer competition for Ollie's place & his chances of going to the World Cup. 🙄
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25 Aug 2026 17:06:54
Made the very same point on this site and on other platforms.
Malen was my preferred option, but I'm not the manager.
24 Aug 2026 22:04:11
Ed's can you clarify something for me, a couple of rumours doing the rounds suggest we are interested in players on loan to buy options, however we already have Garnacho and Wan Bissaka on such arrangements I didn't think you could have more than 2 loans a season and therefore we can't do these type of deals am I right?
{Ed001's Note - that is loans from Prem clubs at a time is limited to 2 and a maximum of 4 in a season. So if they are loan to buy from abroad they would be allowed.}
24 Aug 2026 22:52:39
Cheers Eds
{Ed001's Note - very welcome mate.}
24 Aug 2026 21:21:57
Tomori of AC Milan, Ordenaz of Brugge and Leao of Milan, plus Jackson or Mattea of Eagles.
24 Aug 2026 20:33:15
I wouldn't be surprised if Rogers is on the phone later telling Emi, Chelsea desperately need a goalkeeper, especially after the goal they just conceded from Fulham.
24 Aug 2026 19:58:53
Unfortunately I have been confined to barracks today, so Sky Sports has been permanently on. Switching between the TV, Twitter, news outlets. The overwhelming numbers are concerned for us this season, not one mentions the quality we will have available once the players injured are available. Sky stats regarding minutes we will have lost with our top players being sold versus every other Premier Leagues ins and outs we were the worst in the league by a country mile.
This is obviously a worry, but time will tell if the stats turn into reality. I genuinely feel the overwhelming concerns for us could be somewhere near the mark, we have had a good couple of years, unfortunately you get used to success and I can't imagine not fighting for Champions League, Europa League and the Premier League top table. Time will tell and I suppose the mantra in "Emery We Trust' will keep us all hoping his quality will see our success continue.
24 Aug 2026 21:02:34
Dave, I saw a bit of the transfer showcase, an older bloke on there, didn't catch his name but he was raving about Villa and Emery. He was telling them off in a way, saying you just don't know and realise how good Emery is.
Then he went through the Emery whole CV; if I hadn't been a believer, he would have sold it to me. HaHa. Right, in what you're saying, get these Emery choices in, and injuries sorted, and away we go. UTV
24 Aug 2026 21:54:23
This season was always going to be transitional. We knew we had to get rid of some of those players on big salaries, but I admit I didn’t envisage it to be as huge as it has turned out to be. Once September is here, and Unai Emery knows the players he has to work with, that will be when we get a clearer picture of where we are as a club. Personally, I think we will struggle to qualify for Europe this campaign, and that’s not because I don’t have faith in the manager, but because it’s unrealistic to throw 6-7 new players into a team in the toughest league in the world and expect them to hit the ground running straight away.
We might go deep in the cups, but I think we should look at this season as integrating the new players, so that in the next few years we can push on again and regularly compete for CL football.
24 Aug 2026 11:58:50
Ordonez is injured from World Cup, but we are still chasing him. I don’t understand why we are buying injured players for big money. We need players now, not in 6 weeks time.
24 Aug 2026 13:10:51
Sometimes injured players are well worth the wait.
24 Aug 2026 08:41:11
I’d love for Villa to keep Watkins and suspend him from any official club training. Not pay him until he changes his attitude. I know it won’t happen, it’s cutting your nose off to spite your face, but if money wasn’t an issue it would be applauded by fans all over.
Just remember Emery stuck with Watkins throughout last season and even sold Malen !!!
How’s your loyalty now?
Contracts are literally not worth the paper they’re written on and signed.
24 Aug 2026 09:57:43
He also played Rashford over him in our biggest game ever, no loyalty in football.
24 Aug 2026 19:43:56
That is true, Tom, but nowhere in his contract does it say he has to be picked to start every game. It does, however, say he has to train and make himself available for every match as long as he's not injured. Nobody made him sign that contract; he chose to leave the Championship and come to Villa in the Premier League.
24 Aug 2026 07:33:57
One bad result and the world is on fire. More posts for a heavy defeat than when we won a European trophy. Climb down Villa fans - it must be exhausting always being that angry. And exhausting always being right after the fact.
Firstly, fair play to Brighton yesterday. They were the better team and deserved to win. It's incredibly disrespectful to them to put the thumping down to Villa playing badly or various recruitment issues. No matter how many players Brighton sell, they rebuild and find a way to remain competitive and attractive. Oh, hang on, we do that as well. And we'll do it this season too.
Moaning about Emery is pathetic. He is the best thing to happen to this club in decades, and if the fickle whinging Villa Park (alleged) faithful drive him away, then shame on us. He needs our support, the team need our support.
The outgoings have been frustrating, but that's football. It's a business, everything and everyone has a price. A week of the transfer window remains, where hopefully we keep doing some business and add to what we have. And then accept it will take some time for it all to knit together.
We need 37, 000 positive voices on Monday vs Arsenal. Not groaning after 5 mins. Pull yourselves together.
24 Aug 2026 15:28:00
Hi Syston, agree with everything you say except when you say it is a business. Business owners are usually allowed to invest to improve their business, Villa owners aren't allowed to do that.
23 Aug 2026 20:03:29
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised, if some our super stars, who have fetched a good price, get found out. Tielemans has had a couple of snipes at Emery already, hinting that Man U is like a holiday camp compared to Emery. Now Tielemans has to remember, we got him on a free, because Leicester didn’t want him, and it was only after Emery got hold of him, that he became any good. Rogers is another one, as I said when he left, we had more post on here about him losing the ball than anything else.
Chelsea fans already noticed this little quirk of his, and he’s only played one game. I think people will start to realise, it’s not so much the players, but Emery the Dr Frankenstein, who created them. Now as we’ve seen the evidence today, Dr Emery has to start his creating once again, desperately UTV.
23 Aug 2026 21:30:08
Which again will render Emery more attractive ...
23 Aug 2026 22:15:36
He will stop, as long as the fans don't turn on him. In all his interviews, he talks about the importance of the fans. As long as the fans keep the faith and stick with him, and he doesn't read any of Scottie's posts, I think he will stick with us. UTV
24 Aug 2026 08:56:30
Dave Emery will be ok. His gripe will be with the owners, not the fans. No one is exempt from criticism, especially when it is justified. Emery will put it right, I'm sure. Still, he doesn't hide from yesterday's debacle; if it's just a one-off, time will tell. We will be a different team once the squad gets to full strength, and we can rock. Spurs, Villa and Man U all got off to a terrible start, and the fans and journalists views were identical to ours.
All fans were looking forward to the new season, and to get a kick in the proverbials before even the second half of the game for all of us, to say it's disappointing is an understatement. I'm sure Emery is hurting as much as the fans, and this alone should be the catalyst for a complete reset. Bring on Arsenal, and let's hope it's the same as the last time we played them.
24 Aug 2026 09:55:29
Dave, after a first half to forget, at least Emery sorted it, and even with 10 men, we managed to keep them out in the second half. Those two cockups by Torres knocked them sideways, then all the shape went.
With the sending off, stupid first card, but I think it was frustration because he wasn't fit enough to come back.
As you say, get us backup to full strength, then we will see a difference. UTV.