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Heard McGinn describe him as captain of the French contingent as well. His English is better than Diaby's, for example. So might be some help to him with off the pitch stuff etc. It all has a role in fostering decent team spirit.
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Most improved, maybe.
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I'd be happy to see him remain for at least another year. LB is a position I don't worry about when I see him there. The wages thing has obv been done to death - and I'm sure Monchi et al will be crunching the numbers to make sure it works - but if it ain't broke. And don't make us broke. We sold him a vision of a project and aiming for CL qualification when we signed him in 2022. And a player who has priors including PSG, Barcelona and Roma will usually be at the premium end of the market. If your biggest wages are going to players who aren't amongst your best players or aren't featuring regularly then it's a problem. But he is, so no problem.
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Solanke needs to be the main man at West Ham or somewhere. Bournemouth, even. If they remain on their current trajectory. Competing for a place in the same side as Ollie Watkins would be a poor decision, even if we did stump up the £ to do that deal. And with F unfair P still most def a thing and bigger priorities elsewhere for us, I can't see that one materialising.
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Redeveloping the Doug Ellis stand makes far more sense if there is any scope to do that at all. Purely with the corporate offering in mind- if nothing else. Boxes and open corporate areas etc are more desirable running the length of the pitch rather than tucked behind the goal. Be nice if it freed up the good seats in the Trinity for people who actually want to watch football n'all. Always a sickener to see the camera pan there, highlighting the vast empty spaces. Even when the rest of the ground is sold out.
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It's fine for what it is. Not a souless legoland bowl, fits in with the surroundings and is an upgrade on Griffin Park (not hard, that part).
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Word is he wants to be closer to home and family, with all that's happened in recent years. Fiorentina were heavily linked a few months back. Bologna is about the same distance from his home town (if that's the priority for him) and as a club they've come on leaps and bounds in recent seasons. Italy head coach Spaletti has said he need to be playing first team football to maintain his place in the national side as well, so there is that. Maybe we're still working on this in the background. If there is any truth to our interest in Giovanni Di Lorenzo at Napoli, part of the thinking there might be help NZ settle off the pitch.
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Unless there's a clause, Palace or the likes of Fulham won't be selling their best players to us. Even with CL football. For the fees we'd have to go to for Anderson, Eze or whatever it would be eyewatering in the extreme and limit what else we could do. I *might* look at someone like Zaha at Gala, if Zaniolo goes back and he's not on crazy wages. Spikey character, but decent end product for most of his time at Palace.
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Still won it with a deflection, mind. That game was the best for 4/5 years. This is better. -
I didn't want this draw, but then I didn't want the draw with Ajax either. And we all know how that went. This will be tough, particularly with our injury list and all the rest of it. There's a good chance whoever wins this wins the comp.
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Roma, Ajax, Eintracht Frankfurt, Dynamo Zagreb and Fenerbache say hi.
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This all day. And twice on Sunday.
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Please Allah.
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I don't think that's right. As well as the goals and performances against Zrinjsk and Sheff Utd, he looked like a raging bull at the start of his stint with us. Burnleh and Chelsea away in quick succession and Luton at home I thought we had a player. If he'd scored in those games we might have had lift off. As it is, the betting scandal back home combined with the challenge of trying to adapt to a new country and new league looks like it's got to him. I wouldn't have been against him going back to Galatasary in Jan. But he's ours for now. His season could still turn with an inspirational key goal or two.
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Pretty much.
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I don't think he's all that. If you somehow manage to rinse Arsenal or whoever for circa £70 million you should def do the deal. Not sure Frank will ultimately benefit from it as I reckon he'll be gone in the summer. Just seems the right time to part ways. Brentford seem to want to play football now (as you did for most of our battles in the Championship) and I'm not sure he's the sort of bloke for that at the top level.
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Aye, the gaslight one was rubbish. Reminded me of the cack made up ones on Pro Evo.
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That's a Villa badge. It's alright by me and welcome to marry my sister any day.
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Food for thought there. The original colour order is still lousy, but we can see with slight variations it *might* not be totally embarrassing.
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That all sounds totally fair. Good on 'em.
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The Lerner badge was complete cack to start with, from the light yellow on light blue issue to the odd mix of fonts and totally bland featureless lion. The second incarnation did at least seem to sharpen the design up; removing the 'prepared' (which ironically looked like an afterthought), removing the spacing and adding more detail to make the lion look more prominent. With an embroidered lion the effect was closer to gold than light yellow and stood out much better. This new effort undoes all that. And (somehow) has worse balance than even the original Lerner botch job.
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There's enough familiar aspects in this dog dirt Heck version, so as not to see a complete overhaul where the Lerner efforts are used throughout Villa Park. at the training ground and in branded media etc. So I get the logic. But it's pissweak original branding in the first place, so it's odd we (or more acccurately Heck) want to hold on to it. Purslow instinctively got the club and its heritage and status in the British game. Heck will show no such sentiment or interest, clearly. His remit seems to be cut costs and drive revenue. Nothing else.
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Even with these constraints do we believe a professional design house really signed off on that? Maybe the cost cutting (agree on that point, BTW) extends to getting a trainee or sons/nephews of Heck to design it. It's actually more jarring than the original Lerner effort, which is some going.
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At the time it was commissioned, a ground with close to 50,000 capacity would have been seen as more than adequate. We nudged 40,000 fairly regularly in the early 80s. From about 1984 to the early>mid 90s 25000 or less was not unusual. We were doing well to get 20k in the latter part of the 80s at times. I don't recall any serious discussions to rebuild that end until Ellis took a wrecking ball to the old Trinity. Hard to believe, but the North Stand seemed gargantuan in its day - not the raw capacity as such, more the overall size of it compared to the rest of the ground and most of the other behind-goal efforts across the country. The Witton was always the obvious focus when expansion was being mentioned. There was also a fair bit of scarring from the original North Stand build going way over budget and fraud allegations against the contractors if memory serves. Events that played a major role in Eli$$ returning to the club and the breakup of the 82 squad.
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Not bad. How about with the lion facing our way (the way it's faced for most of our 150 years)?
