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  1. You don't think it could be problematic for a shareholder and board member of Company A to be involved in conversations about that organisation paying money to another company, which he happens to part-own? Unless Sawiris was kept at arm's length from all of these conversations, it looks like textbook conflict to me. His duty as an Adidas board member is to act in the interests of Adidas. Not to further the interests of Aston Villa.
  2. Excellent report. Really enjoy reading these. Thanks for putting in the effort.
  3. The fact that Mellberg is leaving and it looks like Cahill is also joining him says nothing whatsoever about whether - or how hard - O'Neill tried to keep them. I think you're conflating "effort" and "achievement". It's an easy trap to fall into.
  4. And what evidence do you have to support that opinion? I have no evidence, what evidence do you have to support he has? There isn't any. That's kind of my point. The nearest you ever get are articles like the one Oliver Holt wrote about O'Neill during the pre-season tour, when he talked about how the manager wasn't taking days off - or time off for sight-seeing - and was instead dedicating himself to getting players in for the new season. But there hasn't been anything like that during Jan, so we have absolutely no insight into O'Neill's activities. It might be sensible to assume that since O'Neill has spoken about the need to add to the squad - and since his job and reputation are on the line - then he might be putting in a fair amount of work. But that's just an assumption. Of course, I'd argue that it's a more sensible assumption than your claim that O'Neill hasn't been working very hard. How do you know that he made no attempt to keep Cahill and Mellberg?
  5. And what evidence do you have to support that opinion?
  6. What are these marks based on Nick? Just the transfer window? Yep! Two questions, then - first, what achievement grade would you give Moyes, Hughes, Benitez, Eriksson, and Curbishley? And how do you know that O'Neill deserves an "E" for effort?
  7. Kin ell Tricella , Lighten up for once will you, you're like a grumpy old woman!! Too right. Did anyone really think we were going to go there and win comfortably? The only thing that mattered in this game was the result. The fact that the performance was also (for the most part) very good is a bonus. That's seven points from our games against Bolton, Derby and Blues - I think that's a very good haul.
  8. It's not a question of arithmetic. Bar McCann, the players that have left wouldn't even have been on the bench next season, so we don't need to replace them. What we do need are some more players of real quality, to compete with (or provide cover for) the first XI.
  9. It seems that way because we don't follow other team's transfer stories with the same attention that we follow Villa's. It's also wrong to assume that as soon as a player's name appears in the press we are "trying" to sign them. There may have been some interest - a phone call to an agent, for example - but almost without exception, the first stories will be placed in the news by those same agents. In the case of Young - and now, apparently, Reo-Coker - there was some haggling between the clubs over the price of the deal, but I don't see a way to avoid that.
  10. Of the players that have gone, only McCann was a first-team regular last season. Also (as you noted), we need to add quality to the squad - not quantity - so your "we need to buy ten players" line makes no sense at all. At the very most, I think O'Neill is looking for six players this summer - a keeper, two defenders, two midfielders and a striker - and if we get that many in, we'll have good cover for the season.
  11. What makes you think that Howell "stole" the story from this site?
  12. Yeah - I read that post on H&V as well. Bren_d will be delighted to know that he's not "some div who likes to blag".
  13. Third place in Germany is a Champions League qualifying spot.
  14. Good idea. You should phone up the club and suggest it.
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