There’s been quite a bit of news coming from Aston Villa over the last 12 hours, with assistant managers Culverhouse and Karsa suspended till the end of the season. Cowans has been promoted and took over training today with Lambert told by the Villa board to involve himself more in trainings. It appears as though Shay Given has been promoted for motivational purposes.
Still another headline that popped up was that Paul Lambert is safe and will be backed by Lerner this summer. If Aston Villa stay up the club will earn roughly £63 million from the new Premier League TV deal. It was reported that the majority of that cash will be used to sign new players. This money will also go towards Fabian Delph’s and Ron Vlaar’s new contracts. Any additional money made from player sales will also go towards the transfer budget.
This rebuilding will see Lambert change his transfer philosophy, no longer will Aston Villa buy by the bulk and instead look at players with a similar price to Benteke. Lambert’s best transfers have been between the £5-10 million range, those signings include Vlaar, Benteke, Kozak and Okore.
Of course with a rebuild that will mean that players will be shipped out and I addressed potential in this article.
I read it as the £63m is going to pay for Vlaar and Delphs contracts and any remaining money will come from player sales….. As we have bugger all we can sell looks like it may just be a quiet Summer.
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IMHO the jury is still out on Lambert. You can look at it two ways (at least his stint at Villa):
1. He’s complete shite. Get rid of him.
or
2. He’s been shite, but was given nothing to spend, and has unearthed some talents like Benteke and Vlaar. He’s done okay with the mess of a team/contracts left to him by McLeish.
Which is it? Without any serious investment we’ll never know. Half of the big name managers don’t even have to manage because they have a fully loaded team of great players each season. Lambert hasn’t had that in his career yet.
Do any of you actually think we’ll land a big name manager with an owner not spending money? You don’t see Mourinho going to Wigan do you? It’s a complete farce.
Sorry this was held in moderation so long Stella. We quite simply missed it.
Good to see you back mate and I look forward to more of your comments.
Looks like city have fucked it up 1.1 with Sunderland no chance of title now
Fuck me were in trouble 2.1 to Sunderland.
Lerner has backed Lambert in the papers after WATCHING how he has handled himself this week.
Just wandered how that is possible from another continent.
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Seriously Steve?
CCTV over the internet is very basic stuff these days.
And I think even a tight bastard like Lerner would be willing to pay for a decent broadband connection.
He could have cameras anywhere you might be able to think of.
Which would beg the question “why didn’t he see for himself what was going on?”
If indeed he gives a toss.
Just seen this on social media. Shocking mate. Fair play to gabby n delph. The story re the fulham game was: Culverhouse was having a go at robinson, cowans went over to try sort it out n tell Culverhouse to leave him alone, Culverhouse went for cowans, gabby n delph went over to Culverhouse to sort him outx then apparently theyve got ‘niggles and flu’ Before the fulham game. Load of bolox. Needs a big clear out else there wont be no improvement. Lerner out faulkner out lambert out