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    The NSWE Board

    VBM replied to a topic in Villa Talk

    Article in the FT this morning about Nassef Sawiris. Mainly about his plans for OCI where the majority of his wealth is if anyone is interested. We are mentioned in passing.: From London and Abu Dhabi, Sawiris is building NNS into a holding company that can manage his various investments — including Aston Villa. He and US billionaire Wes Edens, co-founder of Fortress Investment Group, acquired a 55 per cent stake in the club for £30mn in 2018, rescuing it from financial crisis. A year later it was promoted to the lucrative Premier League and Sawiris has since expanded his stable of sports assets under his and Edens’ V Sports, including a stake in Portuguese club Vitória. The group announced in December that US investor Atairos had become a minority partner in V Sports, with people familiar with the matter saying the roughly 20 per cent stake valued Aston Villa at more than £500mn. While Sawiris’ bet appears to be paying off, he insisted he was not in Aston Villa for the money. “Anybody who does football and says this is a pure investment, in 95 per cent of the case he’s a liar,” Sawiris said. “It’s a passion. It’s addictive. And it can ruin your weekend and go into the following week.” Recommended ESG investing Why investors failed to embrace Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital He said owning the club had helped change his perspective on what it takes to be successful in business and in sport. “You really come to the conclusion that attitude and work ethic beats talent any day.” His interest in sports extends beyond club ownership. He is a top shareholder in Adidas and a member of its supervisory board. Egypt’s richest man Nassef Sawiris considers breaking up his empire (ft.com)
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    Keilan Quinn

    VBM replied to MaVilla's topic in Villa Talk

    Just taking all their good youth players is delicious and makes these signing all the better.
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    Lino Sousa

    VBM replied to wishywashy's topic in Villa Talk

    I'm going to assume a few years ago West Brom's academy was something akin to Brazil 1970 given all the highly rated players who came out from there.
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    Guy Whittingham was in the Army.
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    Sunderland decorating their Home end to make the Newcastle fans feel at home is hilarious.
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    I'm 46 and all week I have been like a 10 year old waiting for this game. I'm actually excited. Villa potentially going top, at home, under the lights on a record winning streak, to the team bottom of the league shipping goals left and right. In other times I would have been concerned that this was all going too well and it would come crashing down around us. But no, we are now "New Villa", Villa 2.0 and that shit doesn't happen to us anymore. UTV* * I take no responsibility if we lose tonight
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    The stinger for me is the rationale being given. "Too many seat too quickly" is obvious bullshit, it doesn't even give us a top 10 stadium in terms of capacity. It is not like we have a great stadium and we were talking about adding another tier somewhere, it is a horrible little stand that ruins the aesthetics of the whole ground.
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    Leon Bailey

    VBM replied to PaulMcGrath_5's topic in Villa Talk

    Hold up, this scans perfectly. You start this off and I'll most certainly join in.
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    wat
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    For the first time in ages, I am not worried they are going to smash us to bits, I am actually looking forward to the game with a touch of light optimism. How far we have come, that we can play the best team on the planet currently and think we could be in with a shout.
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    Yep
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    Álex Moreno

    VBM replied to Delphinho123's topic in Villa Talk

    These two along with Pau's passing range from the back transform that left hand side.
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    As a resident of Brighton, whose best mates are all die hard BHA fans, who works with a number of Brighton season ticket holders, I would like to say thank you Villa.
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    This is the kind of optimism I can get behind.
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    Inexplicably shit.
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    I can't imagine Everton will take this will take this seriously given they are a very poor team at risk of relegation, even if they do want to maintain momentum from the weekend. We should win this at home even with a weakened team.
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    Not sure what is worse, the defending or the sound quality on TNT sports.
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    Yeah me too. The Ghanaian Pele right? How could we not be sucked in? His wiki is a bit of a wild ride.
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    Some proper high scrabble scores in pot 4
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    Very true. The kid is a silky baller always looks composed.
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    Mind blown
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    There is at least 4 Haikus in this post.
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    Top 7. The thing is though we are obviously going to win the Conference League so we will class that as a great season.
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    Some of these puns are really bad now. I've just let out a loud sign of displeasure, a king tut if you will.
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