Would have been nice to see even a fraction of it ploughed into any Irish club, be it Shels/Cork/Sligo/Limerick or whoever. 10% of what they're spending on Villa, and 10% of the £20m minimum transfer kitty a year would make an insane difference... Hell, 5% would be too!
Assuming Irish Club figures as 5% of the Villa totals.
Take over:
Villa: £64,400,000 (€94,805,521)
Irish: €4,740,176
Minimum Annual Transfer Budget:
Villa: £20,000,000 (€29,437,161)
Irish: €1,471,858
Now, looking at those figures, ploughing even LESS than 5% into an Irish club would make a huge difference, i.e:
1% of the 64.4M Sterling take over would be approx 950,000 EURO.
1% of the 20M Sterling trasfer fund would be nearly 300,000 EURO.
And suffice to say, wages wouldn't be as high either.
ONE PERCENT of the money being ploughed into English clubs would make the world of difference to an irish club. ONE fecking percent!!!

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