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Would mean spurs not beating them and having one less game to make up the points they need to overtake us. I'd take that.

Why has he got a rugby match or something

Hope he tells Chukwuemeka this

Everton beating liverpool after Palace did so the other week yeah thats gonna make Liverpool not even concede another goal for the rest of the season now

Villa Park isn't actually all that far from the city centre - many of the benefits you'd get from moving nearer could still be achieved on the current site.

We can't benchmark it as there isn't really a club that's done similar. Newcastle would be the closest but their deals are skewed by related party shenanigans. I dont think it would be a hard sell to explan who our owners are, their track record of successes, that Unai Emery has consistently delivered European success at every single club he's managed for consecutive years in different leagues with lower relative budgets. You then use that alongside our current form and explain we are more able to sustain it than a Man United that are quite evidently toxic and struggling, an aging Liverpool about to go through a period of uncertainty, and a Chelsea that will find themselves having points deducted if they continue to fail to qualify. He's had a job to do there, and he's done it, but you can't ignore the helping hand he's been given, or the relativity of our position at the time the contracts he's replacing were signed.

My entire life I didnt think this was ever possible and now im ever so close to seeing this what a moment, now securing champions league will be a dream this will mean 100x more than winning ECL as i have always dreamed of us being part of it, FA cups, Premier League titles, Europa (Uefa) cup those are competitions i have grown up with and seen other clubs gain success and envied for so long and for that matter is is extremely important we qualify for this as there is so much novelty in this. Always wanted to win a FA Cup or Premier League at least once in my lifetime come on Emery work your magic

Thankfully we know that the Premier league's biggest clubs are so concerned about the load on their players that they'd never, ever, agree to an extra game or a lot of long distance travel being added to the season. Why, that would make the decision to do away with replays in the worlds oldest cup competition seem like nothing but the greed of a bunch of one eyed hypocrites. I think we can safely put this one to bed right? Right?

The issue we've got is I'm not sure there's a club we can compare the value of his deals to. Newcastle's are inflated due to related parties. The other teams in the champs league next season will all be clubs that have been in it for most of the last 2 decades. The rest of the scum 6 that dont qualify are living off sustained recent historic form. And then you've got West Ham or Leciester as clubs that recently managed a season of success, but since then haven't pushed on or have gone significantly backwards. Looking Newcastle is about the closest to us, and what Newcastle scammed from their owners businesses, I'd say he's done an ok job with the contacts. Nothing exceptional. It was easy for him to escape the Castore contract after their shambles with this year's kit. It was presumably fairly easy to negotiate a deal with Adidas with Nas' links. The shirt and sleeve sponsorship deals may have been a challenging get out without penalties (assuming they hadn't run their course) so fair play on those, but the value he's got isn't anything more than I'd expect given the exposure they'll get from us next season. Yes, you can say he could never win.. well he could. He could have matched Newcastle's deals, and I'd have been impressed. He could have not launched a review of a badge that was totally fine and seemingly replaced it with a worse version of the crap badge we had before it, or done so and replaced it with something better. He could have communicated the cancellation of the north stand far more clearly and honestly, and had the website updated so it didn't still imply we were going ahead with it. He could have communicated honestly what was going on with the badge. He could have communicated the situation with the GA+ situation impacting holte season ticket holders earlier. There is plenty he could have done to get me on side, but the good things he has done just aren't that impressive to me. Maybe I'm under estimating how difficult it was to sell us to Betano or how key he was to the Atairos deal. The jury of my opinion on him remains out.

Do we know what the new sleeve partner is yet by the way? ( Referencing Hecks video )

If we beat Chelsea we finish officially above Scumchester united for the first time since 89/90.

There is still plenty of room to grow the game globally too. I think it's why they are coming to the States these past two pre seasons. Especially Ohio, because of the local connection to Cleveland, with a former Browns owner in Randy Lerner, and Brad Friedel being the keeper during the rise of the game over here. I would say Ohio, and Maryland seem to be the two places I ever see Villa stuff. Also, if Villa keep investing in young South American players, that's a gold mine that can absolutely turn you into a success in the Americas. It's not just the States, where the most popular team is actually Liga MX teams (Club America is, by far, the most popular team here) but South Americans go crazy for their stars. (See: Emi). Feels like with so many natural connections here, that Villa has a lot of opportunities to grow their international business in the States. It's the one area where I feel like Randy missed a major opportunity back when the Premier League popularity was exploding here. Villa should have been in Spurs spot. But given Randy's obvious lack of business sense, he instead sunk us while other teams rightly attacked the US market big time.

I'm not exactly a fan either, but seen as Liverpool have finished with 90+ points three times in the past five seasons under Klopp, I would be interested to see who is keeping him out of your top 10

And just for balance

That's a game Emery wins tonight. Liverpool played the passion not the game. They simply didn't calm the game down, slow it down and control the tempo and pick and choose their moments to attack. Instead they got bullied. Klopp showed tonight he has had enough of this now.

Mentioned Medina a few years back and he's since played CL for Lens and played very well v Arsenal in a back 3 in the home game. Don't think he's played much for Argentina so could get him for a decent price.

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I'm done now, I need a break I think

Also ///person.villa.count I need to stop now.

Famous last words…but I don’t think it’s going to be as crucial for us to win as I thought it would be.

Obsessed

Rooney being younger than Ashley Young, Ronaldo and even LeBron James boggles the mind.

Barely any of this is true, and reads like you recently found out he shagged your wife

We’re catching Liverpool. Screenshot this.