Aye, the reality is if they’d have abided by the rules but pumped in the maximum they could have within the rules, they’d have probably still well outspent us and had a better side than us most of the time for that period.

And the money they paid out is great point, the Grealish dough in particular was transformational for Villa wasn’t it.

The complete lack of interest in the PL’s own corruption, eg the 50 million quid exceptional Covid allowance to prevent Utd breaching PSR getting barely a mention, really irks me. Surely the actual league behaving corruptly should be more of a story than one of its clubs doing so.