For the record: Summer 2016 window - players bought £61.7m, players sold £27.1m, net spend £34.6m, manager Roberto di Matteo Winter 2016 window - players bought £22.9m, players sold £18.8m, net spend £4.1m, manager Steve Bruce Summer 2017 window - players bought £2.8m, players sold £17.8m, net spend minus £15.0m, manager Steve Bruce Winter 2016 window - players bought £0.0m, players sold £0.0m, net spend £0.0m, manager Steve Bruce Steve Bruce has made bricks from straw for the last year and a half. The cost of his loans has been compensated by the £11m surplus he has made on transfer fees.
It doesn't really matter. Net spends are misleading at best, there's a lot more to the cost of a player than the transfer fee. Steve Bruce isn't the chairman, he's the manager of the football team. If he is given a budget he will use it, it's the chairmans responsibility to ensure that budget is sensible and sustainable. No matter whom they were signed under, Steve Bruce had a squad of players that was easily good enough for a mid table premier league side, and ****ed it up. And now they're in the **** because he is ****.
And as has been been said above, he is likely to be made a victim for the owner’s crass mismanagement of the club. That’s twice in two years for the poor fella - he deserves a break.
My apologies, Spring Banks your best bet for any tit bits all things Grosiski, although I heard his next tweet will be in a white t-shirt
They never liked Bruce much, he was appointed there on the back of getting us back up. But we only just made if by the playoffs, and this time round they had a rather tougher opposition in the final than we had with Sheffield Wednesday. There were advantages being with Villa, they get most refereeing decision for instance (I'm still not sure if they eventually got a penalty against them all season).
You can't detract from the fact Bruce this season had a wealth of talent at his disposal which would have dwarfed any wage bill in the championship, rightly or wrongly he will be made a scapegoat for Doctor Tony allowing him to spend that wage budget with the guarantee of playing premiership football. The gamble which Bruce was part of clearly will be Villas downfall if the rumours surrounding the depth of their financial state are to believed
Transfer budget diminishing window by window to nothing? ****storm long coming. Let's see what SB does now.
It has indeed. And Bruce is the man to manage such a ****storm, he’s coped with the ****tiest of them all in the past!
I can see this running and running. Grealish will have to go, possibly Chester. (Just remind me again, I forget, who is the more bankable asset. Junior or Chester?) The loan signings have gone, Terry and Snodgrass to name but two. Not only does he not have a transfer budget, but the **** he is in right now will make the Allams seem like spendthrift owners. He is a manager who likes to "freshen" up his squad every window, by spending money. Either on transfer fees or loan wages. We are tearing our hair out at what is happening here, but right now we look in a damn sight better financial state than Villa. Lets see how good a manger Bruce is working with what he foresaw here and walked. Kids and cheap loans.
Yeah we fluked that win at Derby 3-0, and we were totally lucky that Sheffield were rubbish. Alternatively, we beat the teams put in front of us fair and square, despite all the off field issues we had to contend with, and we won without difficulty at Wembley.
It's Peter B Freund, he's involved in lots of different sports, though his money comes from the family plastic packaging business.
