When folk here were going crazy in Jan about us selling Digne I commented that, from the reverse perspective, if we were signing a 28 year old left back on 6 figures a week and a 29 year old injury prone Barca reject on megabucks, we’d be complaining that no lessons had been learned from our recent problems. And now it seems Villa are potentially carrying on that policy into the summer too.
It’s short-termism and we know the pitfalls of that. Realistically, what is their short-term goal? The top teams with higher revenue are spending as much or more so cracking the top 4 is more remote than ever. Even Europa is unlikely, conference at a push, and would that balance out this enormous burden they are putting on wages for players with little sell-on value?
It’s depressing to have to be realistic about things, for them or us, but we’ve seen ourselves what happens when you pile too much into unlikely short-term goals.
