Actually thats the only statement you've made there that's correct.
Decades? Nope. That's just you're "AMBITION" shouters who know little about what the term actually means and how to go about REALISING AMBITION.
Going out and getting £140 million in loans just for players is not ambitious. Putting in place a stadium at Goodison with which to then fund player purchases and further youth development is ambitious.
Its also SUSTAINABLE long term too.
Decades mate.
Nothing is in place right this second, or going into next season, or the season after that. There's 2-3 years right there of NOTHING.
Youth Developement leads to player sales to keep the wheel spinning and not to actually win anything.
Financially and as business, the club is floating in the middle and is fine.
As a football club, the 5th most successful in English football, not being able to compete just to keep its head above water should be choking for fans. But I guess because the finanical bottom line seems fine, we just have to hope our league 2 strikers and gambles on injury hit transfers take us to the promise land.
As for Villa, they took the same page from the book of Chelsea and Citeh at the lower end of the spectrum to what Deloitte calls the - "A 'trophy asset' model - requiring ongoing investment in losses and delivering returns only in the form of capital growth on changes of ownership - remains prevalent as competitive pressure to win outweighs any desire to limit wage costs"
Do we have a desire to win or just to keep the banks off our back?
Head and heart.