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    Because the debt and fees will in the short term be charged to us indirectly through higher monthly fees or some other financial instrument. There are only two groups that will be paying for a new stadium, either NSWE paying for it themselves personally or for part of it, or through Villa finances in some form. The owners are brilliant but realistically while they may invest some of their own funds into building a new stadium, you would assume the vast majority of the cost will paid for by Villa. Using various financial and legal vehicles to set up the Villa is to best utilise our finances, comply with any rules and to satisfy accounting treatment. Again though to a layman, a new stadium will need to be paid for and the only two parties that will be paying for it are our two owners personally or Villa. The accounting treatment is just what us finance dudes do.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    No, two get a spot
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    That’s what she said
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    All the salary sites suggest he’s on a base of around £60k per week.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    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
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    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.
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    Damn you
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    We are literally the equivalent of 4 wins ahead of them and they have only seven games left
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    Our Man Utd game away but I agree with your point generally
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    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.
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    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.
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