Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Jam Tomorrow]

On an unrelated matter. Gotta say, I thought the Villa fans treatment of Grealish yesterday was disgusting. This is one of their own, and actual fan, who could have left them years before he did, and only chose to leave to progress his career and actually win something. Yet they boo, swear and do snake noises to him. Shows how pathetic they are that they could only be bothered doing it at the start and end of the game. Part time haters

That’s the power of the media smear campaign against our club, if he’d signed for the rags or dips he would get applauded. Just like Raz got booed at every club when he signed from the dips.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

He won't be hanging around if he continues feeding off scraps, it's absolutely pathetic how this team has suddenly become devoid of any creativity whatsoever. If this slump continues and he continues his goal drought I can see him being off in the summer

And I wouldn’t blame him.

 

[blue whippet]

Our wage bill is head and shoulders the highest in the country. Missing out on Europe at a time when we need to invest to rebuild the team is a huge problem.

We can’t lose £100m+ of CL tv money and 6 home games and it not have a huge impact on PSR. That’s without whatever lies in story with 115 !

We are tailspinning to mid table and it’s gonna get worse in the next few weeks.

Thank fuck we picked up points at the start of the season cause I can’t see us picking any more up anytime soon.

I agree we really need to get European football next year but I really can't see that being Champions league. The wage bill should go down if the high earners leave. If's but's and maybe's, it was ever thus.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Would that team of won the treble or 4 titles in a row? It would struggle to get top 4. We can't keep players forever

I don’t think anyone is suggesting they start every game, but rather would be solid, young, homegrown players who could do a bang up job in the side, as needed. And, in some
Instances, would have allowed us to free ourselves of some of the older players, rather than hanging on past the sell by date.

And said earlier, some of them flourished after they left, and hindsight being what it is, it’s hard to know, but a few of them might have been useful to keep around.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I agree we really need to get European football next year but I really can't see that being Champions league. The wage bill should go down if the high earners leave. If's but's and maybe's, it was ever thus.

Champions League is quite doable! We aren’t even at the halfway mark, have been on the clubs worst run in donkeys years, and things WILL improve as players get fit and reinforcements come in.

In fact, I’d suggest Top 4, getting into next stage of CL and winning the FA Cup are the primary objectives from here until June!

 

[Blueboy73]

On an unrelated matter. Gotta say, I thought the Villa fans treatment of Grealish yesterday was disgusting. This is one of their own, and actual fan, who could have left them years before he did, and only chose to leave to progress his career and actually win something. Yet they boo, swear and do snake noises to him. Shows how pathetic they are that they could only be bothered doing it at the start and end of the game. Part time haters

Shows what a bunch of small time cunts they are.
Villa offered to match the salary he got with us.
He left them and won trophies just like Barry, Milner and Delph rather than staying at their shit club and winning the square root of fuck all.

 

[hammocity]

Our wage bill is head and shoulders the highest in the country. Missing out on Europe at a time when we need to invest to rebuild the team is a huge problem.

We can’t lose £100m+ of CL tv money and 6 home games and it not have a huge impact on PSR. That’s without whatever lies in story with 115 !

We are tailspinning to mid table and it’s gonna get worse in the next few weeks.

Thank fuck we picked up points at the start of the season cause I can’t see us picking any more up anytime soon.

Incorrect, our wage bill is dwarfed by the Rags, around £60m less and even the Chavs by around £6m. Clubs only get around a £100m if they win the CL, it's a guaranteed amount of about £19m playing in the group stage.

If we don't make next seasons CL we'll have significant income from the Club World Cup to compensate but obviously being out of the CL affects acquisitions.

We also have a profit of around £70m to include in budgets, take that into account plus player amortisations over five years and we can potentially spend around £250m on transfers regardless of any fees we receive from outgoing players.

 

[Eaststander1]

I don't even know where to start picking the bones out of that gutless and disorganised shower, so i'm finishing right now!

( All i will add is that it's just as well for us that Ortega turned up!)

 

[Damocles]

But it was absolutely fine having the likes of Nunes and Phillips hanging around contributing fuck all for 2-3 years?

There’s literally no universe where having those 2 would have been better than keeping Palmer and Lavia.

The only person taking bollocks is you.

Not sure why Nunes keeps getting lumped in with Phillips. Feel thats very harsh on him

 

[Eaststander1]

I still hope we will it this year,

Finish 5th with shit Rags scraping 4th.

They miss out on CL next season.

Oh, we WON'T be winning it this season, you can be sure of that .... top four could be a possibility IF they can somehow find some winning form after Christmas, but even that doesn't look likely right now.