O.k if you had lost the game then....likely fire sale as I believe administration was being mentioned around that time so someone like Lampard could've been sold.
Aston Villa
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Hoping you turn it around ..... not least because my wife's a Villa fan (from Sheldon) and miserable.
Levy looking to asset strip and take Grealish for £15m.
Typical Levy.
Plays hard ball when selling but like a vulture pleading poverty when buying. No idea how he keeps getting away with it and would love it if clubs started calling his bluff. Stingy git.
Its such a shame when great traditional clubs get screwed over by useless owners. Villa had one in Lerner, who initially seemed OK when he invested in O'Neill, but then he gave up and dragged them to the Championship, only to sell to this guy now who seems even worse. Really hope they sort themsleves out and get back up, but it doesn't look like that's a possibility in the near future.
Because he isn't doing anything wrong and clubs are paying what he is asking! He can set the value for his players at whatever he wants, and can offer whatever he wants to other clubs, its up to them to pay/accept ! Its frustrating if your club is on the receiving end, but he's excellent at that part of his job.
It would be the ideal move for Grealish too. He will probably want to go to a team with a manager known for developing young English players than sign for Leicester that go through managers like an Italian side.
Knowing him it will be 1m upfront and then add ons for Spurs winning major trophies in next two years.
So 1 million.
Haha, I didn't mean it to come across like that...I even edited it because it seemed like I was having a pop at the post! Nobody said he was doing anything wrong, I was just making the point that he was excellent at negotiation!
You need to read the rest of the thread mate, I did and none of what you posted seems to have any bearing on the actual situation.
Is Grealish even good enough for Spurs? I guess he's only 22, could grow into a serviceable player.
I wonder if anyone in the upper echelons of British football ever feels any guilt about what's happened to the game since they allowed literally any rich foreigner (feudal lords, financial criminals, despots, shysters, all are welcome) to buy a club.
You make fun of the FA for not vetting potential owners yet want the Venkys owned Blackburn back in the PL?
I think there's a chance he could kick on and become a very good player. The ability is there, he just has to affect games a bit more. He's probably England's most natural dribbler, he puts a shift in and he is a bit of a cnut. But that is a good thing because he plays with passion.
I watched him a fair bit at the back end of the season and was very impressed. He is supposed to be putting the work in behind the scenes now as well and not partying etc. He has a lot of detractors on here though so I'm sure someone will have the contrary opinion to mine on him.
Obviously not, come on, I mentioned Venky’s to give a reminder of how bad things can go when you give control to ridiculous owners/intentions.
Cheers, I have seen very little of him, was just going off him being a championship player. And didnt know if he was good enough for a club competing for top 4 and CL.
These are some of his better moments from the season
He nearly scored an unbelievable goal in the play-off final too. Fulham resorted to axing him down to stop him in that game and had a player sent off for it.
His career faltered because he was partying a lot. He was photographed out on the town completely wasted a few times. If he's gettable at 15-20 I think we should go for him and loan him but I think he will prefer the idea of working with Poch tbh.
There are some good prospects in the Championship. Neves at Wolves and James Maddison at Norwich are ones to watch too.
Poor old Brucie won't be there much longer then.
Good for Villa, but how long 'til he gets fed up?
For the best, he's done a poor job.
Just realised Agbonlahor has scored one goal in each of the last three seasons.
Dunno if I'm more astonished that he's still there, or that he's only 31.
Dunno if I'm more astonished that he's still there, or that he's only 31.
Based on what?
Based on spending a lot wherever he goes without really achieving a lot, inevitably leaving the club in a worse position.
I thought he had a cobbled together squad last season and nearly got promoted.
Oh hold on, ex-United player, nothing but put downs and insults.
Left now, out of contract. Wouldn't shock me if he retired as he lost interest in playing football about 4 years ago.Just realised Agbonlahor has scored one goal in each of the last three seasons.
Dunno if I'm more astonished that he's still there, or that he's only 31.
Given we were paying tax bills in instalments weeks ago today can only be good news.
Will still have to sell Grealish (could always get him back in future like Zaha and Pogba....) but looks like rest of squad can stay intact with his fresh capital.
Hopefully the new owners have more of a plan than just spending 30-40m on 29 years olds as we've been doing last couple of years.
My main concern is we now have two owners and also saw Xia still lurking in the background like a sulking kid because his expensive toy broke. Reminds me a bit of Hicks and Gillett causing all that chaos at Liverpool when they fell out so hopefully at least in the early days some agreement can be reached on major decisions.
He had quality of Terry and Snodgrass added to a squad that contained Kodjia, Grealish, James Chester, Jedinak etc.
I don't mind Steve Bruce but we should've been capable of second last season yet fell a fair bit short of that.
His brief now is to keep us competitive in the top half and settle things down. Would be surprised if he's still manager end of the season as inevitably new owners want their own guy in.
Weren't there a lot of loan signings that would be going back to their home clubs, or something?
I wonder if many Villa fans still play down O Neill getting them three consecutive sixth place finishes.
Yes they all went back.
Point is our team was more than good enough to get second, the target was automatic promotion when we kicked off last August.
You got very close and look at the teams who ended up being promoted.
I have a soft spot for Bruce, for obvious reasons, my dream was always that he would take a mid table club to the Europa League, win it and take over from SAF.
I guess that ship has sailed now.
He did fine but it was hardly on a shoestring, we spent about 50m just on defenders over two transfer windows which showed an element of scattergun approach to things.
Moyes finished above him with much smaller budget at Everton in two of those seasons btw.
Wolves were clearly the best team in the league so no issue with not being close to them. Fulham were amazing second half of the season and I was dreading meeting them at any point in the play offs.
Issue was not being able to catch up with Cardiff and their free transfers of Mendez-Laing and Holliet. Warnock did the job I was expecting Bruce to do here.
Just as I was forgetting he even existed
Who knows how history would've played out but if he hadn't thrown a hissy fit in 2010 and continue keeping us around 6-7th he'd have probably been as strong a contender for Man. United job when that came up as him and Fergie always got on pretty well.
Instead he had poor spell at Sunderland and now international football is probably his best bet and even then you saw limitations of his football management when Eriksen ran riot in the play offs.
I don't get this "he had a fair bit of money" routine Villa fans always peddle, as if no one before or after ever did with Villa.
Moyes might have done better, I'm sure plenty who spent more finished lower.
We were 2nd or 3rd highest net spenders in either 2008 or 2009.
He did fine. Not amazing. Amazing would've been finishing 3rd or 4th in 2009 or 2010. Harry Redknapp did that with Spurs after all.
List of his key signings btw:
Petrov (6.5m)
Carew (5.5m)
Ashley Young (9.5m)
Reo Coker (7.5m)
Harewood (4m)
Zat Knight (3.5m)
Curtis Davies (8m)
Sidwell (5m)
Friedel (2m)
Nicky Shorey (4m)
Luke Young (5m)
Carlos Cueller (7.8m)
Milner (12m)
Heskey (3.5m)
Downing (12m)
Delph (7m)
Habib Beye (2m)
Stephen Warnock (7m)
James Collins (5m)
Richard Dunne (5m)