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Grinds my gears slightly thay Gabby is being invited to do this kind of things. Half of the radio clips are him 'having a laugh' about unprofessional and disrespectful he was an employee of Aston Villa. 

1 hour ago, Zatman said:

Apparently have sent cease and desist letters from the lawyers to some football YouTubers about mentioning the 115 charges

Intimidating kids to protect from fair reporting. Very cool. 

5 minutes ago, sne said:

£50k/w-£55k/w says it might be tricky to find a new club for him. Unless we pay a large part of his salary.

How do we get ourselves into this position. Surely a half decent championship keeper (so par) would accept half that wage to ride the bench. 

1 hour ago, El-Reacho said:

Lol - Purslow straight under the bus there!!

Some not good contracts in relation to what the club can now get. That's not a surprise. The level of sporting progression dictates what's possible. Remember, when those contracts were negotiated we were a lower mid table team. 

12 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

The aim is to build the brand and bring in more money. That's happening and then some. 

All well and good. He's clearly not attempting to make himself popular, and his achievements are set in the context of a miraculous on field performance. Jury well and truly out - as the visible bits aren't brilliant as a fan. Betting sponsor, crest debacle, anti customer practices, soon to be significant price rises... I doubt he'll be here all that long. 

It's a sharp business practice making customer experience worse. If this is the big way of making money, the new leadership aren't especially imaginative and seem hell bent on extraction rather than creating an attractive proposition for people to spend their money. 

2 minutes ago, Villa_Vids said:

We have just secured the largest sponsorship in our history

For a person who is Mr #onbrand its pretty embarrassing.

Largest sponsorship agreement in history should be expected given our ever improving standing... I believe BK8 were the largest in our history until today. 

1 minute ago, floody555 said:

Chris Heck has tweeted the same but used the old Lerner badge 

Amateur hour here. 

17 minutes ago, sne said:

aligns perfectly with the values we hold dear as a club

A gambling company has values that align perfectly with us apparently... 

2 hours ago, AVTuco said:

If Lucas goes we need to bring in a new LB,, who is better than Moreno. Moreno is not good enough to be our first choice LB. That signing will be costly, and I wouldn't do it. We would also lose a model professional and leader and example to our younger players. Moreno is either the "younger" understudy or he needs to be sold and a young player brought in (makes no sense to me). 

Also, Unai can use them both to nullify players like Saka in close games.

I think he's just not found form this season due to injuries etc. He was a marked improvement in Digne last season. 

3 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Really? That's mad. (Purely because he might not go)

Like when he was one of the faces of M&S England alongside Kane.

He's a good looking lad... 

21 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said:

All 3 have small fanbases and once the novelty factor of the prem wears off teams like that see a big drop off with away support . More money for Villa because they are charging a lot more than 30 quid. 

Yep 50% mark up for seats i picked up

2 hours ago, Talldarkandransome said:

Normally the day before, very last minute 

I regularly checked over past couple of days and managed three seats together yesterday afternoon. Upper Witton Lane

Anyone know when the unsold terrace/lower grounds tickets are released? 

6 minutes ago, will87 said:

Palmer must be getting close to the record for pens scored in a season

Chelsea are heading for a record penalty haul. On 11 with 7 to play - 14 is what they're aiming at... 

3 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

Are you sure about that? I thought they were on lower wages but longer contracts?

The contract length was about amortising the fee over a longer period. Given age profile of players, they'd be stupid to accept a lower salary in exchange for contract length. Losing opportunity to negotiate a contract in their prime

6 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

£160m on Palmer, mudryk and Jackson? 

It's still terrible even with Palmers output 

Sterling as back up too

That's not thinking about the wages. They're all on c £200k p/w

Just now, Genie said:

I think it was for the foul on Palmer. They played on (advantage) then called it back for the first foul.

That one wasn't either

Not a pen there. They were fighting over who took it, i was waiting for the VAR?! 

7 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said:

Just wondering what the reaction would be if say Man Utd became part-owned by a company that was seemingly closely linked to Sky.

Bskyb attempted to buy Utd a couple of decades ago. Was blocked by govt

https://www.theguardian.com/football/1999/apr/09/newsstory.sport8

2 hours ago, DakotaVilla said:

He was in a similar situation last season I think and managed the disciplinary tightrope very well. Just needs to avoid anything silly. 

He was in one earlier this season, stayed on four yellows for eight games earlier this season then Saka dived and the ref pulled a yellow. 

15 minutes ago, dubliner said:

especially if we get to Athens

Only the conference league ... 

But yes, recovery has been far more difficult than expected. I'm not ready to throw accusations about, but do we need to look at our medical set up over the summer? 

1 minute ago, VillaChris said:

Not sure what he did wrong, Doku was the one making ridiculous decisions every time he got around the box.

Man. City are even more boring to watch than usual this season. 

It was completely unnecessary, and confirms the man is an utter cock. There's no way a leader should be doing that in public on pitch in front of fans and cameras. Absolutely inappropriate, if my manager did that in a team meeting, I'd be off. 

Anthony Gordon is a cheating little shit

1 minute ago, PaulC said:

It's not the same at all. Ederson went for the ball but was late 

He stood no chance of getting there. Timing was at least as off on terms of making the ball.