LONDON: Aston Villa manager David O'Leary could lose up to nine members of his first-team squad at the end of next season as part of a cost-cutting drive by the English Premier League club.
Villa revealed full-year pre-tax losses of £11.6mil (US$18.60mil) on Friday, up from £400,000 the previous year, and finance director Mark Ansell said that nine players whose contracts expire in June 2004 would either not be replaced or replaced cheaply.
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