Villa were close to 96 percent, before there champions league run, but they have just brought in club record income of £390m
£72m prize money, High-profile home matches against Bayern Munich, Celtic and Paris Saint-Germain - coupled with some controversially high ticket prices helped boost matchday revenues by nearly £25m.
New sponsorship deals with Adidas and Betano also saw commercial income almost double, with Deloitte’s figures showing it standing at more than £70m.
Perhaps most significantly, the surge in income saw Villa’s turnover-to-wages ratio plummet from 96 to 71 per cent.
Next seasons accounts will be interesting, and in the meantime they desperately need to qualify for the champions league, or they could be on a similar path of over expenditure.