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I do not post anything with "glee". Let's get that straight. I try to post facts in a constructive manner. I may not post what you all want to read but nevertheless, the arguments are constructive. I don't believe that there was any need to dilute Xia's shareholding - He was finished at the club the day NS & WE took over. I also don't believe that Begley was/is correct. The accounts show that VP was sold by the club (Aston Villa Ltd) to NSWE stadium Ltd. Without that transaction taking place, Villa would have fallen foul of FFP and that is the reason the ground was sold.

BCFC are traditionally south Birmingham, AVFC are traditionally north Birmingham - Both traditionally working class.

Never mind Villa Talk - You guys have hit the headlines here: https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=55680.525 Post# 536 onwards

I think you've now answered your own question.

It's not a problem - Prince William told him it was OK.

Is the UEFA rule applicable to the EFL? As you stated previously, £105m has been pumped in by our owners.

It's the hope that kills ya eh Pops? £14m from Hs2 Get in.

VP is classed as an investment property along with BMH and the Holte Hotel (Note 17).

I am seeing "exceptional impairment" at note 3 Relegation perhaps and the financial impact/loss?

Day 1 of the new regime - I accept that Xia gambled recklessly with our club. Clearly, parachute payments give you 2 good seasons but by the third, the figure is a lot lower. It's noteworthy that our deficit is there or thereabouts our shortfall in parachute payments compared to the previous season. Once Xia's 2 seasons ran out, there was no plan B as he had promised. Where are you looking at the impairment? I'll have a look.

Wrong - It was only last May when the penny dropped for YOU about the ground sale. Villa would have been aware of it from day 1. They didn't just stumble across it 3 weeks before disaster. The fact that we remained solvent means that we would never have had to sell Grealish for under fair market value (a term that is thrashed out on here regularly when convenient).

Is it any worse than idiots who say: "The EFL are scared of Villa" "Villa are carrying on with no regard to FFP" "Villa won't be punished because of Prince William" "Villa should sell Grealish if offered £3m" "Villa should be docked points AND lose their parachute money" The only thing missing is "off with their heads".

Beyond reasonable doubt in whose book? Yours or the EFLs?

Jesus what? £30m was a promotion clause owed to Lerner that Xia failed to honour - Nothing to do with wages, transfers, cheating etc. Villa claim that the PL have Ok'd everything. The EFL appear to have not done so yet. No matter what is in those accounts, you will no doubt continue to point the finger. Thankfully, the EFL are not as biased.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2020/02/28/financial-results-villa-2019

I see irony & tongue in cheek are not your strong points. You have campaigned for us to sell assets in order to comply. We have sold assets - Just not the ones that YOU wanted us to sell. Rules are in place to satisfy FFP, not the warped vengence of the Bristol City fans who seem to make the rules up as they go along. Since when has selling an asset been a loophole? Just because you never thought about selling a ground before, does not make it a loophole. Oh and he was wrong - If we go down, we'll come back up with a much weaker squad as Grealish, Mings & McGinn would all likely leave.

For anyone who thinks the HS2 money went towards keeping in line with FFP, here's another myth dispelled: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-hs2-bodymoor-heath-17777373

I think that any rumors of embargos in May 2019 can safely be dismissed. The Birmingham decision came in March 2019 so the EFL wouldn't have had too much time to tweak wording. Whilst it's true that there could be different takes on enforcement, a precedent was set and the odds are that any future panel would follow the decision/precedent set by the original panel. I think you are clutching at straws with a ground adjustment. With Derby's being set at around £49m, it makes ours look cheap at £56m. Furthermore, can you really see the EFL nit picking over a couple of million on a ground sale? If it was 20 or 30 m then yes but not 4 0r 5 million. Nobody is going to be that precise. You are just setting yourself up for disappointment if you think otherwise.

May 2019, we were a PL side (transfer window opens June 1st). May 2018, we were in all sorts of financial difficulty and could not sign anybody. I have no idea whether we were on any sort of embargo but it really didn't make much difference anyway as we couldn't afford to bring anyone in. A registration embargo is what Birmingham were placed on (and subsequently cleared of breaching). This is because they signed Pederston and argued that if the EFL decided not to register him, they would have loaned him out. The panel decided that the EFL had not been clear enough.

Any reference to Villa being on a soft embargo in May 2019 is irrelevant given that they didn't have enough money to pay bills. At the time, the whole squad was up for sale.

Of course I'm aware of this. However, at this moment in time we are under. Hence no action from the EFL/PL. I'm confident that we'll remain under and with a projected overspend of around £25m (your figures), it would have to be a hefty hike on the ground sale to take us over. You are hoping that we'll be dragged into it. I see this as little more than straw clutching. You've speculated all the way through this and being wrong every step of the way. Out of interest, do you know what figure your lease is for AG?

Denial of what exactly? There is nothing to deny. We have broken no rules. Being close to a threshold is a completely different thing to being over it.

Interesting Where have you sourced the wages that we were paying him from? Likewise, where have you sourced the "several million" that we were paying for him from?

Great Who said we had to sell players because of FFP though?

So you can loan Tammy but we can't?