A lot of presumptions here for a club you guys dont know much. About. Yes we have a big wage bill (well. Soon to be much reduced) yes we have a lot of debt.
But whoever said 'ask your average villa fan' i assure you you will be hard pressed to find a Villa fan who doesnt like randy. There is no extortiante interest rates on his loans. He gave too much control to o'neil and weve suffered because of that.
On the 10 players. Reo-Coker wasnt released to trim the wage bill. He was on a fair amount for a player of his abilities and was offered a 10k payrise (40k). He said no to this as he was being offered CL and Europa football abroad. (god knows how). To stay at us he wanted a massive pay rise and basically priced himself out of a new contract. Word is most of this is his agents fault. So a lot of clubs talking about NRC simply wont get him unless he reduces his ridiculous wage demands.
Carew has not been good enough for a long while and was a complete bell end before January towards the club. Again. If a player is not good enough they will leave.
Pires and Salifou were never good enough for the first team but we will miss Salifou.

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The others were kids. So nothing to do with wages etc. Just deemed not good enough. Except maybe Harry Forrester. Who isnt good enough but supposedly has had an offee from Ajax.
Young has been nailed on to leave for a long time. Downing is likely been swayed by his agent. He changed his mind literally 2 days after young decided to go to utd. Downing has same agent as gerrard and carragher. But probably wont leave this year and is lilely edging for a new contract.
Friedel has been good and will also be going to Spurs. I understand that. Id have liked us to keep him but hes getting on a bit and we need a younger keeper to come in and shape the new defence.
It would be nice. If eveey time villa is brought up on this forum to not have Damon think he is Randys personal accountant as it geta a bit tiring. We have debt. Randy will want it some day. The interest rates are not extortianate. We will still have money to spend but we have had to reduce the wage bill. Randy made a big mistake givingMoN everything he wanted.
Fully believe we would a) have got into the CL and b) be in much less debt if we had got a better manager in before MON. For instance. Moyes would have had us there by now in a much healthier financial state.
Should be signjng around 10 players over the summer. 7 first team and 3 kids.
Houllier is leaving tomorrow along with GMac.