so your Billionaire owner who is a yank and a billionaire and a yank and a billionaire and a yank..is really a local lad from Birmingham who got the club for free and has spent no money at all .
Hypocrisy of the highest order !!
Bart said:Real was basically saved by the goverment though, so it kinda showed it wasn't sustainable.
Chelsea is a tricky one. But they set it off so they would obviously be given the chance. No doubt you as well will be given a go as well, but everyone knows its just a matter of time before more clubs are bought by filthy rich people. And the English game will suffer. Football clubs throughout the nation with loads of history wont be capable of competing, and its happening right now. French, Italian and German clubs will find it even harder. And looking at Barcelona they are in the shit themselves atm. Do you really think UEFA will let this system go on for the next 20 years? I just cant see it at all. The French will do everything they can to limit the pulling power of the English league, and Im kinda glad for it.
What made football so great was watching academy kids coming through. Lads from your own area. Not watching world 11 fighting world 11. And this is where I could point out why the English national side is so shit, and why the Spanish, German and French are far better, but thats another debate.
flb said:Giles said:Third top assists last season, just behind Fabregas.
If he was called Milninho or Van Milner or even Millotelli he would be accepted
;-)
Bart said:so your Billionaire owner who is a yank and a billionaire and a yank and a billionaire and a yank..is really a local lad from Birmingham who got the club for free and has spent no money at all .
Hypocrisy of the highest order !!
See your point, and I don't like the way we throw money around either. It's not the amount you're spending that's my issue, it's the concept that people can spend what they want. Obviously the wealthiest sides will outspend others, but it's this system that has to be changed. If caps was introduced, and clubs had to focus more on homegrown talent it would be for the better IMO.
thing about it is though mate we can spend what we want!!!! but to be honest we dont go flashing the cash to show off its the media that make our finances a circus!!!! if we want a player dont forget its the selling club that makes the prices obscene these days!! every player we have bought we have paid over the odds for besides aj so to counter your arguement havent we helped other clubs??Bart said:so your Billionaire owner who is a yank and a billionaire and a yank and a billionaire and a yank..is really a local lad from Birmingham who got the club for free and has spent no money at all .
Hypocrisy of the highest order !!
See your point, and I don't like the way we throw money around either. It's not the amount you're spending that's my issue, it's the concept that people can spend what they want. Obviously the wealthiest sides will outspend others, but it's this system that has to be changed. If caps was introduced, and clubs had to focus more on homegrown talent it would be for the better IMO.
richards30 said:every player we have bought we have paid over the odds for besides aj so to counter your arguement havent we helped other clubs??
Am I the only one who thinks it looks quite nice? Never been to Villa Park, but now I long to visit. That picture seems to commandeer my every thought.
On the subject of 'We're ruining football' (again) -
Bart, surely you can see how hard it is to break the top four? It's only been achieved twice in recent seasons, and the reason for that is the financial Catch 22 - you can't buy the best players and make top four without the CL money, and you can't have the CL money until you make top four.
Sad to say, a rich benefactor was the only way that the top four was going to be broken up, and it will be a better league for it.
Incidentally, Bart, if you're still here, where would you like the Milner money spent? I'm not sure Villa fans would be super-chuffed with Parker, but there's certainly a need for another central midfielder (if, indeed, Milner eventually goes).
thing about it is though mate we can spend what we want!!!! but to be honest we dont go flashing the cash to show off its the media that make our finances a circus!!!! if we want a player dont forget its the selling club that makes the prices obscene these days!! every player we have bought we have paid over the odds for besides aj so to counter your arguement havent we helped other clubs??