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£110m, that's nothing. Villa managed £140m in debt after 25 years in the Premier League.

If you just buy assets badly, deliver poor output nobody will want to buy those assets.

Pickford got £30m for them because he was all that stopped them being relegated in Feb.

They paid £25m for Didier N'Dong and Djobodji last summer along with £12m on Oviedo, Gibson and McNair.

Khazri, Lens, Borini and Alvarez bought for £40m the season before - Lens played half a season, Alvarez 5 games and the other two played most games but bought at top of market value.

13/14 - Altidore, Scocco, Bridcutt, Mavrias and Giaccherini signed for combind £25m and were all unmitigated flops

That's £100m of utter shit which they may have recouped £15-20m on.

If you keep churning through managers, who are only worried about surviving the drop this is the mess you get in.