Conor McKeown

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2,061 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Indo Sport · Bits & Bobs | All-Ireland weekends, World Cup withdrawals, Klopp claps back, Golf major wrap · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And Villa have outperformed that, which is great.

But to have Unai Emery, as soon as he goes, then it's trouble.

So Villa were like 7th, 8th in the wage bill last year.

Yeah, 7th and they finished 4th, which is great.

You wouldn't often see a fluctuation like that.

It's usually pretty bang on.

So they're obviously trying to think, how can we attract big players and how can we get up the tables by paying them big money?

But then that gets them in trouble with...

PSR which means the last time they qualified for the Champions League they had to sell Diaby who was amazing he was only there for one year and they had to sell Douglas Luiz who was their best player that year now this year they've qualified for the Champions League Morgan Rogers is their best player and he's gone Chelsea finished 10th and they're buying him look at Spurs finished 17th twice in a row throwing money all around them Villa have to operate close to zero the whole time in terms of their outgoings and

And the argument that I would always put forward is like Villa have no chance of increasing their revenue like Spurs have a big revenue now because of their big stadium Chelsea have a big revenue Man City have a big revenue to have that because they were able to invest heavily over a period of time.

And then that drawbridge got pulled up and other clubs aren't allowed to invest like that anymore because you have to operate close to zero.

So it feels impossible now unless a miracle happens, unless Unai Emery sticks around for 20 years, although I don't know why you would under these conditions if you're having to sell players.

Like, Phil have qualified for the Champions League two times over three years, so we think they'd be able to...

push on like in an ideal world they should be taking Cole Palmer off Chelsea yeah do you know like if in an ideal if performance in the league was anything to go by and in European football yeah but it's not like that and it's it's all to do with revenue but how do you build your revenue now unless you're able to spend because Man City weren't a thing 20 years ago like Villa were a bigger club Chelsea weren't as big as Villa 30 years ago yeah

But now they are bigger and they were able to spend to get there.

But now Villa and Newcastle, the richest club in the world.

And maybe there are also like, you know, there's obviously benefits to that.

We don't want Newcastle just running away with state-owned funding.

And the idea of PSR, if we got into that, is to help protect clubs as well.

But I feel like the sort of...

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