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    Doesn't make sense to pay that much unless we are getting a sure thing. Unless they will go straight into the first 11, we need to develop our own youngster and find value in the market.
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    All a ploy to get WBA to quickly agree to the sale of Pereira
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    There are a lot of casual Arsenal fans who know very little about football. My office manager is one of them. Struts around in his Arsenal kit as though he is a hardcore football fan but his football sphere is limited to Arsenal, Messi, Ronaldo, Beckham and the World Cup.
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    There is a fantastic player in Douglas Luiz as we saw during Project Restart. To use an American sports analogy he kind of had a "sophomore slump" this season. Hopefully a proper preseason and he will be back to his best in the upcoming season.
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    Did not see him in the Brazil squad today against Ecuador.
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    Yes - we have a philosophy to sign younger players, but we cannot be rigid and ignore pieces that could compliment our squad and help us get into Europe. For example, if you look at Lille, they complimented a young side with a couple of 30+ players who were key to them winning the French League over PSG.
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    My guess is that there were some thresholds, like maybe appearances or goals, in the agreement with Fenerbahce where they could opt-out of purchasing him.
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    I get where you are coming from, but to the wider football audience this really has been Jack's breakout season. He only made the England team September 2020. His launch into superstardom really begins with the EUROS.
  9. nepal_villan
    If he plays for England like he does for Villa, the kid is going to be a global superstar. Has all the other necessary attributes. As a result could single handedly transform the Villa brand globally as well.
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    The NSWE Board

    nepal_villan replied to a topic in Villa Talk

    More than the playing gap, I keep wondering how we will bridge the revenue gap with the six highest revenue producing team. Until that happens we will always need to punch above our weight to compete for Europe and trophies.
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    Anyone know if the boxes and suites were also sold out last go around? That's where the big revenues for clubs usually are.
  12. nepal_villan
    Could go either way. New manager could get their talented side to click or the loss of Carlo will create upheaval.
  13. nepal_villan
    But if you read the article he hedges a bit by saying it's in Grealish's hands and whether he demands European football...
  14. nepal_villan
    We should sign the player that Brentford plan to recruit for when Toney leaves them.
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    Been listening to a lot of the Alice Cooper hits (Eighteen, Schools Out, Nice Guy, Poison) with my 9 year old who totally digs it.
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    A very dependable player. I thought there was an outside chance he would be given a 1 year extension to essentially be an emergency back-up for the RB/CB positions in case we had an injury crisis. Guess Smith sees enough alternative options.
  17. nepal_villan
    But Smith seems to want to play McGinn every single minute. Not sure how Smith will manage the #8 position with McGinn, Luiz, Sanson and Ramsey all pretty much fighting for that one spot
  18. nepal_villan
    If you compare 1 v 1 yes. But Leicester had multiple top quality players out at the same time. They probably would have accumulated another 6-10 points if they were injury free.
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    I dont get this line of thinking. West Ham and Leicester don't have Jack Grealish and are in Europe. Wolves the last two seasons. What prevents us assembling a squad similar to them?
  20. nepal_villan
    Leicester had far more injury issues than us. Need to look at this both ways.
  21. nepal_villan
    The problem with the transfer market is that there are only around 15 or so clubs globally that can spend really big, so you'll get massive transfer fees for elite talent, but for that next group of players (high level talent, but not quite elite) there is a market cap right now of around £35-40M. Thus there really wont be much of an appreciation of Buendia's market value unless he becomes a truly elite player. So essentially when you buy a player like Buendia at the quoted rate - you are buying him for the here and now.
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    FYI - our player's player of the year on the Womens team is British-Asian. Asmita Ale's family come from Nepal (believe her dad was a Gurkha)
  23. nepal_villan
    Generally agree, but normally with youth teams there are 1 or 2 standouts, while this squad has like 5-6 of them. Maybe, just maybe, we are looking at a golden generation scenario.
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    The NSWE Board

    nepal_villan replied to a topic in Villa Talk

    NBA is a totally different financial model.
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    There is a massive premium on British based players. If you want to pay normal prices have to shop in Europe.
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