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Decent first team on paper. AWB. Varane maguire Shaw Mctominay Pogba Bruno Sancho. Cav /Greenwood Rashford. Sell Pogba for a proper midfielder who actually turns up most games and they can't be far away. Obviously a major limiting factor will be OGS.

Bruce is good at steadying a ship and keeping heads just above water. Despite having a championship quality squad (except ASM) they will stay in the PL. For me, he can't do anymore with those resources. He did the same with us, when he took over from RDM we were candidates for a double drop. He sorted us out, steadied the ship. Where Bruce falls down is when there's an expectation to go out, win and dominate. Our squad in the championship should have absolutely walked that league. Grealish, Tammy, mcginn, Tuanzebe, hourihane, Chester, Bolasie. But he only knows how to play a certain way, which is only good in select circumstances.

Years and years of underhand tactics, openly tapping up players like Coutinho, Griezmann from clubs and the fans feeling arrogance believing its their right to win the CL. Mortgaging their future, buying players for 120 million then crying at the English clubs for spending money. Presidential elections creating spoilt brat fans. "Elect me and I'll sign <insert name of popular young player>". Then begins a cycle of tapping up players, transfer requests and mortgaging 100s millions of euros to appease the fans. Also, I genuinely believe back in the late 00's there was match fixing involved in some cases (Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, many R Madrid games etc). I can't lie, it's great to see them suffer.

Buendia will occupy players and could find my dad with a pass (haven't seen him in 35 years) Grealish will get doubled up on and still create chances. Pacy winger and 2 full backs bombing on with the space. Watkins must be a very very happy man right now and targeting 20 goals.

8-10th for me. If we sign a class 40m + central midfielder then 6th. Sanson struggling with injury. Luiz played copa America and Olympics. Look a little weak there.

He's not better than Mings depending on how you judge a defender. Commanding, leadership, strength and old school defending - Mings Cultured, good on the ball, reads the game very well, positioning - White

Good idea if the clock is stopped, will stamp out timewasting. After Italy scored against Belgium, the ball was only "in play" for 9 of the 21 minutes left. Only concern is, if Fifa, Uefa etc can "control the clock", expect mid game ads, maybe even the equivent of a 2 minute warning (glorified ad break) etc.

Jim White and Co are just pawns for Agents and clubs trying to disturb a player. Anyone who gets paid off clicks or views in completely untrustworthy. Anyone who is English and not at a "top 6 club" now will be touted for clicks. I saw Declan Rice to Chelsea and Kalvin Phillips to united mentioned in the last 2 days. All of it is utter nonsense.

Caught my OH searching for Jack Grealish on TikTok this afternoon. After agreeing that I'd let him in, tuck him and her in bed should be ever visit, she showed me the comments. Looks like we have a Beckham'eque symbol on our hands. Girls are going mental for him. It's literally page after page and fan video after video of girls drooling over him. Coming back to villa, surely his commercial value now to the club is ridiculous? He sold the most England shirts as well. If he re-signs, we actually now have a superstar which should assist our transition into a "top 6" club.

Regardless of the exact valuations, it just shows what a great job NSWE, Purslow, etc have done. For all the money they've spent, if they were to sell up or do a Lerner tomorrow they would make a profit. Oh, and we also have 5,6 of the best under 18s in the country.

Apologies if mentioned elsewhere. A couple of Independant sources have now stated they believe Grealish is saying. Collymore (cryptically) send a photo of Jack signing a contract after spending the match with Jack's dad and encouraged to "ask the question". Ashley Preece (Birmingham mail) said on the live stream yesterday sources around Jack say he's staying. Southgate being blind has helped us here. If he started every game I genuinely believe he'd be player of the tournament. With his injury and questions over this summer it's highly unlikely anyone will spend 100mill.

They're 1.3 billion in debt. I hope every single one of us is richer than Barca.

Imagine playing with the best player in the world and Lionel Messi at villa

https://www.sportbible.com/news/football-shocking-report-reveals-barcelonas-wages-amid-financial-crisis-20210706 Some leaked salaries. Griezmann 880k a week!!! De Jong 400k!! What an absolute mess of a football club

Wigan away in the championship. Was an awful day, in winter, awful journey, lost 3:0 and completely played off the park. Genuinely thought we would be irrelevant for many seasons after thst game. Was so dejected after,

On the Price of Football podcast, they were saying Messi's new contract will be deferred over 10-15 years!

I managed to get in the portal about 20 mins ago. But it would only let me buy 1 ticket so I didn't bother.

Leicester do the same thing at a higher level. Maguire, chillwell, Kante, drinkwater (which was basically theft) all sold. Younger replacements. If you have the correct recruitment team it's the only way to go unless you can suddenly jump to man u, Liverpool levels of revenue. Or bank rolled endlessly.

In his pomp he made Barca 25-30 percent of their entire revenue. Was a few studies a while back the Barca actually made a profit out of him. As he grows older, less influential and new superstars like mbappe, haaland that is diminishing.

They thought the Superleague was coming. The also make a lot from match day stadium tours etc which has been closed for Covid. Superleague was the get out clause.

Tactics vs Italy will be the same as Germany. Shut down the wide players, force them to go direct which the CBs can handle. Spain will attempt to pass us to death, just depends if can stay switched on. Denmark will be a very tough game imo. They won't be bullied and have good players throughout the team.

Their problem 2 years ago was conceding a ridiculous amount of goals. They was averaging nearly 3 a game at one point. Think the only CB they've signed is Ben Gibson from Burnley. Gillmour is obviously a talent after Scotland pulsating 0:0 victory over England, but he is unproven in a full PL season. They'll go straight back down imo. Raschica put himself in the shop window with a relegation release clause.

I think, without wishing to go down a rabbit hole. Barca are so poorly run they spend 120% of turnover on wages. Therefore by La Liga rules, they are only allowed to reinvest 25 percent of money saved / raised until their finances are brought into line. Therefore to spend 50 on the contracts of Aguero, Depay etc they need to raise / save 200. Or they are 200 over the line, not sure which. No doubt La liga (who need Barca for South American and Asian TV deals) will drop their version of FFP this year allowing them to register the players. It's cliche but Barca is more than a football club. They represent Catalonia against the might of Spain / Madrid. They'll get funding from banks to cover the 1.3 billion in debt. However with an aging squad and their biggest commercial asset will retire shortly I expect it will be a long time until they are competitive in the CL.

Talk online that Barca need to lower their wage bill by 200million to register new players. Explains why pjanic, umtiti have been told the pack their bags. And why Wolves got Trincao for peanuts.