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47 minutes ago, limpid said:

We don't own Villa Park. Why would we own a new stadium?

Yeah but it’s within the Villa related companies. If NSWE ever sold Villa in the future that would include Villa Park or the new stadium and related debts.  The transaction for Villa Park was to use a company loophole to get us compliant.

1 hour ago, TRO said:

Villa Park, has changed dramatically over the years, so the nostalgia, is just the site.....The stands are recent, not much history there, sure its traditional looking, but that can be replicated elsewhere.

We are all faced with extending our properties, with changing circumstances, and quite often the decision is better to move.....I have no hard and fast opinion on it, other than what ever the most practical solution is, for the majority.

The area where Villa Park is, has changed so much demographically over the years, and it's debatable if it is still a practical site....is it an asset for the local community? or a hinderance?,.....there is so much to consider.

For me the only thing to consider is that it would cost ~£1 billion give or take to build a new stadium somewhere with all the things to make it worthwhile.

I honestly don’t want our club to go into that much debt at the moment.  

My reasoning is nothing to do with any financial PSR/FFP rules that it may affect or not affect, it’s purely down to having a debt on the club for that amount.  We are losing millions currently in our P&L and throwing more debt and interest payments onto it means we are living totally outside of our means.

I’d rather focus on the pitch for the next few years and try and consistently attain CL football, continuing building commercial revenue off field like we have been doing with new sponsors and kit manufacturers and revisit the idea of a new stadium in the future.

Last year their revenue was £17.5m but now they are going to spend two to three billion on this stadium/sports quarter.  

Something very dodgy going on surely?

There must be oil or diamonds deep under St Andrews that they are trying to get at.

This is just burning cash away.  

Just now, Tom13 said:

Only one country gets it? And Italy are on the brink of securing it?

No, two get a spot

3 hours ago, Adbo9 said:

Id take Werner if Spurs didnt complete a deal for him - be a good option

Have you seen him play for Spurs? It’s back to his Chelsea days, no thank you.  He doesn’t seem to be suited to PL football.

13 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Fair enough.

Watch mainly on TNT Sport and Sky Sports.

Where do they film? Hear the occasional Allez Allez and Villa Villa Villa, but otherwise it sounds very quiet from the TV

Don’t know where they film but really chants include players chants/songs about McGinn, Bailey, Diaby, Martinez, Luiz, Ramsey, along with general chants about Villa so there is definitely some wrong about the mics.  Of course the atmosphere could be improved and several groups are trying to improve that but being a season ticket holder I can hear the significant difference between being there compared to the few games I’ve missed and listened on tv.

4 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

Not a chance but I think all games after that are winnable, even Liverpool at home. We need to suffer the inevitable Arsenal defeat, keep our cool (fans and players alike) then finish the job. Two wins out of the remaining should see us out of Uniteds grasp even if they go on a run.

While I think there is a high chance of Arsenal winning I don’t think it’s ‘no chance’.  Arsenal will drop points before the end of the season and probably in unlikely places and I wouldn’t put it past Emery to tactically out think Arteta.  Our propensity to concede goals goes against that probability but if we perform as we know we can then anything is possible.

1 minute ago, ben1505 said:

I’m aware of that.. they’ve probably got the squad to compete on both fronts anyway…

It’s probably more the effort they are going to have to expend in this second half might take it out of them although they’ll have two more days rest than us.

1 minute ago, PieFacE said:

Some people really put too much emotion into things completely out of their control. What will be will be. Enjoy the ride. 

That’s what she said

10 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

I'd spend 5m on him, max. His wages wouldn't be above 40k a week. And even that is a stretch. 

All the salary sites suggest he’s on a base of around £60k per week.

25 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

Interesting video.  He looks quite comfortable doing the sprints to the player makers and arguably fully fit, then seems to hobble back to the central position looking like he has no confidence in his legs. 

Great sign that he's progressing though,  far more intensity in those little bursts than the last video I saw of. The way he plays you just know he'll be desperate to get out there and working towards a bench appearance this season. That would be quite some achievement for him! And hopefully our physios do a better job than they have done with other players of late and don't let him do that before he's ready!

Yeah with so few weeks left of the season, I’d rather they just get 100% fit and ready for next season rather than any thoughts this season.

9 hours ago, Pinebro said:

Maybe it's just a tv problem but the atmosphere genuinely felt so much better when we were playing in the championship. 

Especially during the Dean Smith era

Definitely a tv problem imo.  To me it feels about the same, we had that period, then it notched down a bit under Gerrard but it’s definitely back now since Emery came in.

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

There's clearly posters in here relishing the prospect of getting 6th so they can say they told us so. it's pathetic

This is part I don’t get, why only post the majority posts when we have a negative result or a rival has a positive result.  We are in a very commanding 5th spot which looks like it will get CL placing.  Emery has done incredibly well given we keep getting key injuries at key times so to be looking at 4th/5th and later stages of Europe is incredible. Eighteen months ago with almost the same team Gerrard had us defeated and looking at fighting relegation.  

Do I want more? Of course but complaining and saying they are being realistic given where we are and have come from over the last few years is anything but being realistic.  We want more but it’s going to take time, if we end up 5th then it will have been an incredible season, I mean we are already on 60 points after 32 games, when was the last time that happened?

20 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

7 hours ago, ben1505 said:

Where did you have them gaining points from any of Newcastle, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City or Liverpool?

They're not just going to lose all 5 of these matches.

It’s a tough group of games.  It would be glorious if they get five or less points but they’ll deserve fourth place if they manage to get twelve points.

You look at those fixtures and you just can’t even get a range because they are a bit Jekyll and Hyde from game to game and even within games.

Pessimist in me says they should beat Newcastle and Chelsea, could snatch a draw in the derby against Arsenal, they have a very strong record at home against City so could win and assume away loss at Liverpool so that would be 10 points.

Optimist in me says, Newcastle at home will win, derby against Chelsea draw, Arsenal draw, City win with KDB and their usual end of season run, and Liverpool draw so 3 points.

edit: I realised afterwards the pessimist and optimist on the Liverpool game conflict but I was trying to be reasonable on the total points

10 hours ago, T-Dog said:

If Arsenal (as rumoured) came in for him in the summer, what would be the minimum price you'd accept?

I wouldn’t answer the phone, he’s not for sale.  We should only sell if Emery wants to sell him as he has another player that can replace him.  

We shouldn’t be on the back foot in selling players.  

We have a squad full of players that have various high prices and if Emery wants to sell one to buy a number of others then focus on selling them and rule out all others for sale.

 I think there are a group of our players that aren’t for sale including Ollie, Luiz, Torres, Martinez as well as a few others.  It still leaves a number of players that can command very good fees.

4 minutes ago, S-Platt said:

Klaxon horns very 80s what happened to them much better than a drum  

Damn you

15 minutes ago, El Zen said:

I do

8 minutes ago, grobs said:

Let’s wait and see I hope not 

We are literally the equivalent of 4 wins ahead of them and they have only seven games left

33 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

It's inevitable. You'll see. We'll be 6th

They’re 11 points behind us with only 21 points left available to them and a poor GD.

Essentially they need to get 12 more points than us in 7 games as we will get in 6 games

Just now, thejoker said:

We threw away a two goal lead at Luton too. Luckily Digne rescued us. It’s not the norm, but it’s definitely not a one off. 

It’s also the reason we are fourth and not title challengers because just like Man Utd threw a winning lead away against Chelsea and Spurs conceding late goal to Everton, we can do that.

I’m highly disappointed with the 9 minutes of insanity yesterday but I’m generally quite calm about it.  

IMO we’ll comfortably get fourth or fifth, England will get the extra CL spot and so we’ll have CL next year.  

Yeah there is a small probability we don’t get CL but the overwhelming percentage is that we will.  

People may disagree agree with me but at this stage I’m not worried.  

Hopefully my feelings on the matter will be the same in a few weeks time.  

Just feels like people are trying to conjure up heartache for themselves as they have done since the turn of the new year.  Yes we haven’t played as well as the first half the season but neither has Spurs or Man Utd or the teams below them and nothing is indicating anything will change plus we have a massive points cushion.

11 minutes ago, MarkLillis said:

It’s is an anomaly….i can’t remember anything like that recently.

Our Man Utd game away but I agree with your point generally

3 minutes ago, Tayls said:

Correct! I’m against calling people ‘delusional’ for thinking it CAN happen though. 

But it is delusional…mathematically we can still win the league but it’s probably 0.01% or less. Thinking that or putting argument or comment around it is delusional as is Man Utd.

1 minute ago, 479Villan said:

Teams are largely their record at this point. You can expect a wrinkle or two, but United aren't putting it together over the next 6 weeks. If it ain't together now, it won't get together.

They are conceding over 20 chances per game, have the highest shots against since the new year.  They now have most of their defence out.  Their target is more to keep hold of sixth place because Newcastle and West Ham are very close to them.  They are more likely to be eighth than a close sixth behind us.

3 minutes ago, Tayls said:

Whilst the likelihood of them finishing above us is low, when you say “anyone that thinks Man U CAN finish above us…” there is a little thing called ‘Maths’ which tells us that actually, they CAN indeed do it… 

We can also still win the league then! Mathematically it’s possible but it’s also very very unlikely as well.