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Moved from apparently wrong forum: surely, respective owners cannot be discussing a ground share arrangement? Plans to redevelop North Stand cancelled/suspended and Blues in the same time period getting new ownership who secures a large land plot rather central in Brum - we all agree that a new super-stadium quite simply does not make any sense for Blues alone. Not saying this will happen at all, and most likely I am just paranoid, but strange and not really explained decision on North Stand coupled with unrealistic new stadium for Blues.... Foreign owners involving US fund structures could be the ones to do such a crazy thing. So, in order to stay within topic: Could that be a new Villa stadium?

1. Man City vs Man Utd 2. Liverpool vs Everton 3. Spurs vs Arsenal 4. Newcastle vs Sunderland 5. Celtic vs Rangers 6. Sheffield United vs Wednesday 7. Forest vs Derby 8. Inter Milan vs AC Milan 9. Galatasaray vs Fenerbahçe 10. Real Madrid vs Barcelona 11. Roma vs Lazio 12. Boca vs River 13. Dundee vs Dundee Utd 14. Sampdoria vs Genoa 15. Southampton vs Portsmouth 16. Cambridge vs Oxford

Norwegian guy spending lots of time sourcing information (good or bad, true or false) about Villa on the internet. His first name is Espen... He might even be a member on here, not sure.

Really good coach and very respected. As mentioned elsewhere, this is what Trøim's money get you as generally reported you will have to pay millions for his release. Dirty money but still money for you east end boys

Agree 100%. That's why we love going to the Stockports, Bradfords, Swindons etc of this world El Zen (already looking forward to September!). My hunch is that within 10 years we will have seen major changes in football globally. I seriously think FIFA will fold and I think UEFA will be forced into major changes - this will be pushed by European politics as the current money laundering and involvement with terrorists and anti human right states and other stakeholders will not be accepted in the long run. The Super League in Europe will be a reality in one shape or the other, also because Saudi and the Arab world will have become a competitor to European leagues and I think we may see European (and English) football lose quite a bit of its current front position, also economically. However, we will still be going to obscure places in the UK, we will still be too drunk when we do and we will still love Aston Villa. So there you go, the future is all laid out.

Not sure if everyone realizes that we could play up to 60-ish games this season, we need a real big and good squad and although not his biggest fan, surely having Traore as a squad player is a pretty good option. Cannot imagine he is on insane money and, as mentioned by others, he has some unbelievable abilities. We need a big squad, folks!

talk about super-bump of a thread! I would think next year's supporter trip to Brum will be fully signed very quickly, as was this year's trip.

I guess it's discussing football in a football forum. I hope Vålerenga do ok, Oslo and Norwegian football needs that.

Hehe guilty as charged. However, to me the Vålerenga story is basically romantics. You may dislike Trøim but fact is he owns and controls the club and even interferes with footballing matters. This is very different from Brann and Rosenborg who are member owned and governed. Lyn as you "hate everything about" has as you know adopted a clear "German" position where the club is member owned and no one person or group can have control. Their fans at no more posh than a large element of your fans. Vålerenga WAS gifted the ground by the municipality and you DO have lots of celeb fans who like to associate themselves with Vålerenga for the exact reason that the storytelling of this east end cameraderi club where everyone is poor and helping each other out still prevails. I have no particular dislike for Vålerenga but I call BS on quite a bit of what I still find to be storytelling. Sorry, my friend. Anyway, UtV.

Stop this nonsense now... Vålerenga is owned by one of the richest guys in Oslo and has a lot of fairweather very well off fans. They also has the worst hooligan element of all clubs in Norway. They were even gifted their Stadium and all this romantic fairytales about being east end and poor is just storytelling. So is West Ham apparently and they are shit throughout. Rename this thread so we do not have to see this w**nkfest. In the meantime you are of course spot on with Molde

Used to be Burnley because of the colors - have grown to dislike them because of the style of play under Dyche. Have been there a few times, last when we beat them on New Years Day, Grealish scored a cracker and Wes basically ended his career. Cambridge U. as I studied there. Leyton Orient - been there once, just found the ground and area....eh, interesting. I find lots of small clubs down the leagues fascinating, last Saturday I was at Stockport - honestly one of the best atmospheres at a English ground I have experienced for a long time.

If you read quotes on the Ings sale it is clear that transfers are Emery's decision - he decides. They may have watched Duran for 6 months, still Emery's decision in the end.

Its completely apples and pears, no? Very, very different players. One does not fit our style of play under Emery, the other is much more likely to. "Sizeable downgrade" and "absolutely zero sense" is just hyperbole, it really is. IF we get him (big if), it will because Emery thinks he fits and is good enough. Transfers are 100% Emery's decision.

Wrexham away would be interesting...

Boring answer my friend, but this is true: What you are experiencing now is 100% normal and to be expected. It fits the "profile" perfectly. It just takes time, but it WILL be fine in the end. Just hang in there and keep turning up for the all day sessions in the pub with your mates ! You are in fact correct; you are an attractive young guy (sort of...) so I predict within the next 12 months your pub sessions will become more "restricted" due to some foxy and intelligent woman (although I would also expect you to never completely disappear again)...

And this is what you get out of our first away win of the season? Yeah, forget about two wins in a row in the league with a new manger. Focus on the negative.... And by the way, no way was that a penalty.

Could also easily be an attempt to sell a small stake to raise funds for a new stadium. Estimated value on 100% basis is USD 5.5 billion....! Compare that to Villa, it is insane.

Yes, unless any new owners move the whole franchise to Washington state or San Diego....

I think he bored the Arsenal players to death with tedious and hourly long "tactic meetings". Does not speak English very well (admittedly SG does not either...). Surely a proven coach but I am not convinced...

This is something the Club can never win, no matter what they do or which crest they come up with. Too many strong views and too many design experts among us Villa fans.

Games against ManCIty, Liverpool and the likes are just very unsual, strange and not comparable to 85% of the games in the PL, and have no bearing on how we will do going forward. I still expect us to struggle big time next weekend against Leceister. It is just a complete different game, almost a different sport. One clear conclusion from today is, though, that McGinn should not start.

I think this may be much more close than what many think. We will likely lose but I think maybe a well fought 0-2 loss with City scoring early and very late. Oh, the joy of being a Villa fan....

I like Rodgers but he is not everyone's favourite cup of tea.... but yeah, much much more pedigree than most Villa managers for the last 25 years. Potter is an exciting prospect and may have a fantastic career as a manager. Not entirely sure though, that we need a prospect now. For me, Poch would be the clear no 1 candidate but no idea whether it would be possible.

I agree with this (Houiller obviously but he was for such a short time). Come to think of it we have rarely had a generally accepted, proven and respected manager for quite some time. Not like a real Tier 1 type of guy.

Forget Bielsa. He really is dinosaur in his approach (man marking all over the pitch, for example) and not someone to (re)build this club.