MessiWillSignForVilla

8 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

I don’t know for certain, but is this the first time since Benteke since we’ve had a player reach double figures two seasons in a row? 

It is, or at least it's what they claimed on 5Live.

1 minute ago, Zatman said:

Nearly all of the available under 23 starting players are out on loan. If was a trophy we were aiming to win then why loan out the players 

In a week when the club have already hurt the fans its another dagger between fans and off pitch management

Every U23 manager has to deal with that. It's not aiming to win a trophy, just not doing worse every season for 5 straight.

JFC, he's hired a player liaison, just give it a **** rest, it isn't healthy at this point.

Didn't even give them the 3 minutes 

27 minutes ago, a m ole said:

Had a good career, but worth £28m…

the wealth of footballers and wealth disparity in general, and his heyday was 15 years ago. 
 

pay your taxes you prick.

Last few seasons of his career he would've been earning a few £million per year tbf. His wiki has a Norwegian paper that claims he demanded 600,000kr per match from Valerenga after he left England, which would indicate he was likely on around £60k p/w (I think that would be the conversion for the time) at us and West Ham.

Then 10 years of inflation, investment and not paying his tax, he could easily have a net worth of £28m.

4 hours ago, fightoffyour said:

Are you saying Dave just to avoid writing Azpililplepa 4 times? If so, I approve.

It's his nickname at Chelsea because the fans couldn't pronounce his name properly when he first joined.

2 hours ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

I can take them existing at League 2 level or below.

League 1 or League 2 would be perfect, just only if our U23s get them in the Papa Johns Trophy every season

5 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

I’m not sure that being found guilty, being a proven liar, or just generally being incompetent are good enough reasons to resign anymore.

 

At least let me hope, the prick's been here for 12 years and had no sign of being beaten.

I hope this means the word removed resigns!

5 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Twelve minutes into Sky's coverage of today's games and I still have no idea which of the 14:00 games they're showing.

I feel like I might soon know the shoe sizes of Klopp and Pep though.

I imagine they're absolutely furious that they have to show Norwich v Burnley in the middle of their wankfest

38 minutes ago, og1874 said:

Not sure how or why it took that long TBH, it's clearly offside and should've been obvious quite quickly. I genuinely think they actually forgot the rules that it has to be 2 members of the defending team between the goal line and attacker, and were just looking at the last man

 

I think the issue was that even though it's clearly offside, they have to prove it with the lines to overrule the decision, and Cucurella's positioning makes it hard to get a good angle to draw the lines on the last defender.

1 hour ago, Cizzler said:

Who does a false flag op benefit?

They are already performing atrocities on Ukrainian civilians, they don’t need to conjure up a ‘justification’.

And they already feed their own citizens whatever information they want - so it’s not like they need to ‘sell’ Ukrainian aggression. I find it hard to believe they’d deliberately blow up their own fuel supplies when they already control what their citizens believe.

Because reports of what's happening in Ukraine are probably trickling their way back to the Russian people regardless of Putin's efforts to stop it, so an attack on Russian soil helps keep the general populace supporting the war. Or perhaps it could be further propaganda just to keep soldier morale high. We've seen lots of reports that Russian soldiers have no idea what's actually going on or being confused when they aren't greeted as liberators, maybe they'll be more motivated to keep fighting if they see it as a defensive war against Ukrainian attacks?

Plus it could be used as a justification for continuation to countries like China and India in the hope that they might see attacks like that as enough wiggle room to outright support Russia and help prop up their economy.

This is a guy that blew up an apartment building in his own capital just to justify restarting a war with an openly rebellious region of the country, so I don't think blowing up a fuel depot to continue this war as a false flag is much of a stretch, especially when they've been making very loud statements about withdrawing from Kyiv. I wouldn't be surprised to see Russian troops advancing back to Kyiv next week.

Whether it is or not, I'm not sure, but with Ukraine denying it was them and Russia referencing it in a way that would suggest they might use it as an excuse to walk away from peace talks, it makes me suspicious of it's veracity.

4 hours ago, bickster said:

 

Russia's response definitely makes me suspicious it could've been a false flag to undermine peace talks

50 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

All of those articles are from when farve was the manager and zorc was the sporting director 

And the one article lists the "wonderkid factory" and says auba, gundogan, kagawa, dembele, that's 5 years ago! And chuk is not where they were in his career 

Just look at them this season, all this smoke up their ass from the UK media its not there anymore, they have 2 world class youngsters who could play for anyone in the world and the media think they give all this talent a chance and bleed in youngsters... They've not under Marco Rose it's that simple 

The notion that he should go to Dortmund because he will get more of a chance isn't true

And of those, only Dembele was a teenager when they signed him, and one with a full season of Ligue 1 football at that. Aubameyang was 24!

Dortmund's transfer policiy really is overhyped, the only players that really fit the mold of it are Sancho and Bellingham(even he's a stretch with it, he also had a full season under his belt), all the rest are typical big club signings, just plucking the best players from smaller teams.

I'm convinced Dortmund aren't actually interested in Chukwuemeka, it's just an easy and lazy link for the media, I believed the Leipzig one last summer much more because it wasn't as obvious.

4 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Italy losing at home to Macedonia  

Winning a Six Nations game had to come at a price

5 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Hopefully it's just further along in development than cyberpunk and they aren't under as much pressure to release it

If they're announcing this and it's still 3 years + away then they're **** idiots who've learned nothing 

And get witcher 3 on next gen first! The cynic in me thinks this announcement and those games are linked and it will generate buzz but its a bad idea

It's going to be on Unreal Engine 5 this time and not their own engine, so that should ease some pressure on them as they won't have to develop the engine alongside it as they did with Cyberpunk.

CD Projekt Red obviously took a hit reputation-wise with Cyberpunk (I actually enjoyed it and had very few issues, though I played it on PC) but I am so excited by this news! Witcher 3 is probably my favourite game ever and the first RPG I played properly all the way through without getting bored, can't wait to see what this new game is like.

*Probably won't be Witcher 4 per se, but a new standalone series by the looks of it.

Lovely moment from Adams

Capuozzo looks a great talent, I reckon there's a lot to come from this Italy team over the next few years.

Holy shit they're gonna do it!!!