thabucks

PSG rumoured to be looking to loan out Xavi Simon’s again next season. A season in the Prem with us would do his career wonders. 

4 hours ago, CVByrne said:

Would people consider Jordan Henderson on Loan next season as cover in CM while Kamara is out?

Hendo can **** off - So no 

4 hours ago, allani said:

Of course another brand that would / could avoid any links or noise would be Comcast.  I'm not sure I could contain my excitement if they were to be announced as our new sleeve sponsor.

Their logo is pretty inoffensive and would compliment nicely. They have no presence in the uk (I know they own Sky) but heck will be looking at the international market and with the million of foreign viewers week in week out make us an attractive proposition giving our rise. 

6 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

“PREPARED” is returning then…

was never a fan tbh… I’d rather achieve than prepare

preparing hasn’t got us very far for a long while and… we failed to do it properly… some terrible decisions and appointments over the years…

 

PREPARED is part of our heritage and should have a place in some of our branding IMO.
 

I think the drop shadow version doesn’t look so bad when viewing as an icon on a phone, it’s full size it looks poor. 

2 minutes ago, Villa_Vids said:

 

That’s pretty special … wonder where it is - any ideas ? 

2 minutes ago, limpid said:

Where would they put the lounge facilities that this would require?

As per the above a few posts up 

Interesting that if you go into the Terrace view page on the website it’s got a render of an either a new area for the Witton along the same lines or a cock up … 

https://www.avfc.co.uk/villa-park/the-terrace-view/match-by-match/

check the last image and you’ll see the view is towards the trinity 

Imagine something like this for our champions league and evening prem games … 

From the interview I’d expect LED ribbon banners be installed on all available space highlighted below increasing advertisement space. Maybe they’ll follow Madrid with a type of 360 halo board. 

14 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

I’m really not trolling. You are all very stupid people if you genuinely believe that.

 

Maybe you’re all delusional, I don’t know. I’m off to bed though so continue to chat shit amongst yourselves.

and sleep tight and sweet dreams 

Regardless of the score tonight we’ve got a team we can truly be proud of … 

The documents refer to this being phase one - be interesting what further phases may include. The initial plans for the warehouse included offices so maybe these will now be housed in the club shop building instead. 

It’s a blatant fake and is photoshopped to **** … 

But it could be based on the actual new shirt but doubt we’re getting the template for our first kit with them and 150th anniversary year. 

4 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

My opinion isn't welcomel on this thread so I will leave it at this.

The interview gives the impression any new seats added in the next two summers would be premium seats only.

 

Absolutely delighted he committed to staying at Villa Park, however.

Your opinion is welcome as much as anyone’s but the rinse repeat nature will be respectfully responded to … We know your position and I personally enjoy debate and will challenge when I feel it’s appropriate. We all what the same at the end of the day 

1 hour ago, nick76 said:

So who are you selling to pay for these? Our fringe players won’t be enough so which key player would you sell?

You’d need to weigh up out of Martinez, Konsa, McGinn, Ramsey & Luiz whose fees would basically be all profit which one is sacrificial… Less key player again we can sell for  guaranteed profit is Ca£h. Then you’ve got Carlos, Digne, Moreno, who we’d need to sell for more than what’s left to amortised… Monchi hasn’t got an easy task balancing finance with squad acquisitions,  sales and strengthening without weakening. Fun times ahead this summer ! 

34 minutes ago, CroVillan said:

Laku Noć

What’s his fbref stats like

31 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

I would happily depart with a lot of money for that shirt. It would be an all time classic. 

Sadly we couldnt do this as a kit but no reason we couldn’t do a apparel collaboration  

Maybe NSWE saw what Liverpool were building in terms of their new Anfield Road End and decided for over a £100million they’d rather not spend that on a stand with a similar exterior and demanded a rethink ? 

Here’s the link to access the full documents list… 

http://eplanning.idox.birmingham.gov.uk/publisher/mvc/listDocuments?identifier=Planning&reference=2022/06776/PA

If you view the drawings  for the corner of the trinity and new north stand you’ll see that by removing the current super riser of the trinity and tweaking the rake of the stand that would add another 6 rows and bring the seating closer to the pitch. Do that the whole length of the trinity, whilst keeping in place areas for disabled fans still you’ve increased capacity rather easily which I’m sure a firm as reputable of Grimshaw would’ve explored and advised the club about. We do not know if it was them that were Instructed  to look at the whole seating bowl and draw up plans.  

25 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

The study wasn't carried out until after the North Stand was cancelled - in fact, the study was carried out after the 2-3k small increase was mentioned - I think we'll see the results of that study in the hospitality developments this summer.

 

The initial plans stated an increase of 2-3 seats to take us to 53’000 so was always on the agenda as part of phase 3. This is set out in the readily available Design & Access Part 1 statement released in 2022… 

http://eplanning.idox.birmingham.gov.uk/publisher/docs/5D5BFCFF32C0E74A6B9A6B10CE6A5BA1/Document-5D5BFCFF32C0E74A6B9A6B10CE6A5BA1.pdf

40 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

That may be the case but It doesn't excuse the amateur way we were communicated to in December about why it was on hold or where the new new badge went. 

Why not say the medium term plan is to get VP to 50k. We would have avoided debates about a new stadium, price hikes on a 42k being the strategy etc etc.

But again what’s wrong with debate and speculation on a bloody forum … Why should they spoon food every single drop of info to appease some ? Why can’t plans change and have to be definitive ? Why can’t the new appointments and investment alter matters medium term ? What Heck said was correct at the time for the club or he wouldn’t have done it, but things change quickly. Why was it amateur ? Why is waiting for an end of season reveal of the new badge such a bad thing - maybe the inept FA are the reason it was delayed. Maybe commercially it’s better for the new badge and kit manufacturer and sponsor be launched to coincide with our 150th year. 
The new north  stand will happen there is no doubt about that whatsoever - just not at some fans preferred timescale. Trust the process they’ve earned that. 

Just now, Captain_Townsend said:

 

'Heck views the redevelopment plan of rebuilding the North Stand as a "bad idea" considering it would mean the stadium's capacity would drop to 36,000 from the start of next season and until 2025/26. "Over the summer months I became more concerned we were adding too many seats too fast," he explained' 

There woild have been better ways to signal that the club still had ambitions of a 50k Villa Park!

At that time he and the club thought it would be best to wait … not sure why that concept is so hard for some to grasp ? Also the article doesn’t give a timeline which I know will be to your annoyance but, the club are working on incremental improvements to the Holte  & Trinity, improving transportation links, starting work this summer on The Warehouse… We now have the expertise at board level to advise and run major redevelopment, the Edens article stating there’s a wider project in the works, we also have another financial partner in Altarios. Maybe just maybe a bit of patience is required and also faith. The club have earned that. 

51 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Why is Heck talking openly about increasing the size of Villa Park to 50,000?

Because that’s the clubs long term plan still but people cannot grasp it may have just been put on hold not completely cancelled …

9 hours ago, nnock1984 said:

I’d take Hermoso and Ndidi on frees to start us off 

Thing is they’re not free’s that’s a myth. what isn’t spent on a transfer fee goes on extortionate wages, large agents fees and massive signing on bonuses… Ndidi wouldn’t be worth the wages he’d command and you basically need to bribe agents with stack loads of cash to get their clients to sign… 

4 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

File under comedy. There are a good eight or nine errors just in that section. It's a fairytale.

Who cares it’s the £££ that matters surely - that’s all I took away from the article. 

Villa go el loco for Brest’s - Locko… 

 linked with 22 yo French LB along with plop & spam …