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Originally Posted by Damien
Yup.
The sports press is being quite hypocritical in the way they are going after Learner for not spending enough to match O'Neill's ambitions. He can't afford to bankroll a club to the level required to match that ambition and he wants to the club to live within it's means.
How many chairman do they blast for letting wages and transfer fees ruin the club? Here someone is being sensible and because of the populaity of the manager they blame Learner!
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The thing is though he's put in £120m in transfer money alone. Not including money to clear debts and other investments. And the wage bill for Villa is quite high (85%) so he's done as much as he can.
Andy Gray bucked the trend when he was on TV earlier. Everyone seems to criticise Lerner for cutting MO'N off, but as AG said, where has all this £120m gone?