VillaChris

What will be the takeover asking price when we get relegated?

Beautiful cross from Bale that.

Danilo is awful....this is supposed to be another great Brazilian player there.

Not quite yet....lovely equaliser from Bruma. FSW moaning about a foul....he probably had a point but after the decisions in the first half that's justice.

The second penalty was even worse than the first....Sociedad had a better shout earlier in the game. It's so bad I'm going to watch Levante-Malaga second half instead.

Remy has hardly been used by Chelsea even with Costa struggling, how many games has he actually started this season in the league? Falcao's probably played more. I can see him leaving sometime in January, just not to us.

Just reading the article I posted about Neville/Valencia on the La Liga thread and it mentioned Valencia's first choice keeper and captain Diego Alves is training seriously again. Maybe a loan bid for Matt Ryan until end of the season?

You'll do well to find a football fan anywhere who has a bad word to say about Villareal. Got relegated a few years back aswell didn't they?

Their defence looks very mediocre...conceding 2 at home to Getafe isn't a good sign at all, those lot never score when I have the misfortune to watch them. They also lost at home to Lyon who are having a shocking season in France. I was a big fan of Abdenoour at Monaco last season but he looks very dodgy playing in a defensive highline...not sure where Gaya the left back and Matt Ryan aren't starting either. Fegouhli has disappeared aswell. Edit: Really good article here by Graham Hunter, up Barca's backside a bit too much but one of the best british writers on the Spanish game. http://www.espnfc.co.uk/spanish-primera-division/15/blog/post/2772697/gary-neville-must-adapt-quickly-in-order-to-fix-valencia

Nabil Fekir did his ACL at Lyon didn't he so he won't make the euros either, Benzema is currently suspended, don't know when that court case will be concluded. This is what Deschamps called up for England and Germany games: 7 FW Antoine Griezmann 21 March 1991 (age 24) 24 6 Atlético Madrid 8 FW Hatem Ben Arfa 7 March 1987 (age 28) 15 2 Nice 9 FW Olivier Giroud 30 September 1986 (age 29) 45 13 Arsenal 10 FW André-Pierre Gignac 5 December 1985 (age 30) 23 6 UANL 11 FW Anthony Martial 5 December 1995 (age 20) 6 0 Manchester United 20 FW Kingsley Coman 13 June 1996 (age 19) 2 0 Bayern Munich Gignac ffs. It does seem Remy is out of the picture though, not sure when he was last called up by France but he is experienced and played in a few tournaments for them.

Not complaining, will watch a few although one I was most looking forward to Villareal-Valencia is tomorrow at 3pm and I'm out then. Wonder how long Neville will last, he's messed up a few easy early games already and they've got Villareal away and then Real Madrid at home on Sunday.

Maybe City will actually sign him, they like taking our players every couple of years.

Don't think Benzema will get picked for the euros now, too much trouble there. I did agree with you he is a bit down the pecking order but for the England game they had Gignac who is playing in the mexican league now and also Ben Arfa so there's still hope if he plays every week and scores some goals.

Should he not get his own thread now? Been rumoured for weeks and now our manager has confirmed he's on our list of targets. I don't think he'll keep us up...he couldn't keep QPR up when he joined mid season in 2012-13 despite them being in a better position. He's a good striker but not that good. That said he was what we needed at the start of the season, lots of pace and and can score in 6 yard box. Him and Ayew would be a good combination imo and fun to watch, we might actually win a game before the end of the season. Would still class it as a long shot, I doubt Chelsea will even loan him out just because Bamford has come back as he made little impact at Palace. He'll probably end up here instead. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35198358

Norwich had a Scottish manager and a couple of Internationals in Russell Martin and Whittaker so would imagine that would swing it much like us trying to get Remy however much of a long shot that is.

How many teams can we realistically catch though? A team limited like West Brom is a full 15 points clear of us. If we'd beaten Norwich they'd only have been 6 clear of us and they'd have been a realistic option, instead they're 12 clear and going off to the distance. Good luck trying to catch Chelsea and Swansea as both are stringing together unbeaten runs. Our only target I think now is at least to not finish bottom for club pride.

If Amavi still has his pace when he comes back he'll rip up the championship imo so think we'd get most back for him and make a profit on Ayew. Veretout's playing alright but not sure any French club would pay what we did. Only Gana looks like someone we'd make a massive loss on.

Man. United away the week before, fitting opposition given our dismal record v them.

What happened to their winter break btw, round of La Liga matches over the next two days, thought they had a full two weeks off.

Yes but he's not going to keep us up and no chance would we get anything near 8m back for a player hitting 30 so he'd be another player we'd sign who we'd then make a massive loss on. We've signed too many of those players in last 6 years.

Were Leicester ever as far adrift as us though, they had about 12 points by end of September I think last year and we only had 22 points in February so doubt the gulf was 10 points to 17th although could be wrong of course. With West Ham I don't really see enough a Tevez in our squad tbh. Fair enough on Sunderland, that's a good example. We've never been this far behind though with the outlook so bleak. Never in any of the Lambert seasons or indeed last season. When Sherwood took over think we were 2 or 3 points off 17th. And of course we had Benteke in our squad. We are down.

Plenty of midweek games home and away even if it's not on TV, you have to cram in 46 games somehow.

Who has survived from a worse position out of interest?

Like him as a player but wouldn't pay 8m, isn't he nearly 30?