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1 minute ago, magnkarl said:

Egypt are still refusing to open their border to Gaza to let civilians out.

If you thought Israel is the only country to mistreat Palestinians, you're wrong. Palestine is used by all its Arab neighbours as a permanent thorn in their enemy's side, but when Palestine needs help these same actors often go eerily silent. 

Egypt has enough problems with terrorists / terrorism. It's already half destroyed their tourism industry. Last thing they want is to import a few million people who were daft enough to vote for Hamas + however many Hamas insurgents are left.

No one on earth would care if Hamas annilhated some military checkpoints, buildings, killed a few hundred soldiers, destroyed all Israels barracks etc. It wouldn't even be news. War is war.

However they went and slaughtered hundreds of "innocent" women and children. They took tourists from a rave, tortured murdered and paraded them around naked. There's videos of children being executed "isis" style in front of their families.

The plight of Palestinian is terrible, I agree - but Hamas is a terrorist organisation and is definitely not the answer. They are absolutely no better than Isis.

27 minutes ago, Rds1983 said:

Not defending the guy as what he did was messed up.

But referencing this statute is worrying for me as it's very loosely worded and you could arguably arrest a very large number of fans at any game in the country.

I've personally sat in a Villa away end in small heath where at least 1,000 people were singing the Tracey Andrews song (serial killer) + something awful about CIsse's family (drowned in a boat accident).

The guys deserve to lose their jobs and the "social justice" that's come to them. However i'm a little uneasy about criminal convictions and feel it's a slightly worrying path. If this is deemed criminal then where does the line draw? Criticising the government? Anti vaccine? Anti war? 

50 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

After a promising debut has done very little since

Gosh after yesterday's hammering god knows where they go from here

They prob wont see best of archee until next season when they go down

Don't we have to buy Archer back if/when they're relegated (I could be making that up).

1 hour ago, PussEKatt said:

IMHO,Putin should have been assinated long ago.

The only reason he is still alive is because they are worried about what could come after him.

Went to Sutton United last night to watch the youth team in the EFL cup.

The EFL cup has a rule where if it's a draw then it's 1 point each, with a penalty shootout for 1 extra point.

9 hours ago, tomav84 said:

the thing is, that with the terrace view not being the success they'd hoped it would be (in that it's far from sold out), why do they think there's a demand for MORE hospitality?

Thank you @OutByEaster? for taking the time to write this up.

On the Price of Football podcast a few months, Keiran Maguire was detailing how much Liverpool make from those fans who only go to 1 or 2 games a season - and its massive. Ideally, they want to reduce the number of Season Ticket holders to accommodate more of the 1/2 games a season tourist fans as they spend a lot more per game. 

Average season ticket holder (me): I haven't ordered this years kit, haven't eaten at the ground yet, and only had 1 drink in the 3 games at home this season.

Tourist 1/2 game a season fan: Spends £150+ in the club shop, buys food or hospitality package, plenty of food and drink. Take's a photo holding his scarf in front of the Holte.

Now the ground is almost guaranteed to be full it's only natural that Heck and co's mentality will switch to extracting as much money per seas as possible. 

Champions League qualification or success would bring in a whole new level of prawn sandwich brigade and it's clear they want to already be a in position to extract every single penny.

On 16/09/2023 at 14:28, Zatman said:

Absolute clearing in the woods, he must think he is the only manager who has players travelling around the world

Probably can't control his players "asthma" medication correctly when they're on international duty. Takes a few days for them to get medicated and up to speed. 

17 hours ago, VillaJ100 said:

Real Madrid are seen as some cultural representation of Spain on the world stage so the government are let's say sympathetic to them. Maybe Wrexham are the same with the Welsh government?

As sad as this sounds - some councillor would happily sanction the 20million of the publics money, so long as him and his daughter can get a selfie with Deadpool. 

1 hour ago, theboyangel said:

Either them or Everton (if not both) would be lovely.

However, the three newly promoted teams look absolutely diabolical so they’ll both probably circle the pan for another year

This is the season to have a reset. 

Sheff + Luton guaranteed to go down. You just need to be better than Burnley or Everton and you'll be safe. They'll be fine.

10 minutes ago, Don_Simon said:

He's completely hopeless, in a completely shit team, and so were he to leave is a big loss to that completely shit team? Righto.

Mcginn was hopeless under Gerrard. I'd have been really upset if he left, because we all know how good he can be in the right circumstances. 

The Premier League is a multi billion pound business. Businesses want to make money, that's the point.

The Premier League makes a lot more money from abroad when Man U, Liverpool etc are towards the top of the league.

Taking "worldwide brands" and replacing them with the like of Newcastle, Villa, Brighton, Wolves is extremely bad for business.

Expect a HELL of a lot more of these decisions and apologies.

29 minutes ago, villan95 said:

3 touches in half an hour?! Have they stopped him dropping into midfield or something

Managed to catch the end of the game. He stayed squarely in between the 2 centre backs and didn't drop at all. He's not an "on the shoulder" striker, so will be interesting to see how they use him.

1 minute ago, VillaChris said:

I thought this endless contract thing was banned, Caciedo is signing 8 year deal with 12 month option on top!

I think you can give the player a long contract but can only amortise (spread the financial cost) over 4/5 years on the books.

2 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Chelsea have paid 223m to brighton in transfers in one year.

Unbelievable 

Indeed, and quite a few of them will be misses rather than hits. 

Not because they are bad players, but because Brighton scout specifically for players whose attributed fit their system.

15 hours ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said:

They are going to be a lot stronger this season, especially when they spend the Kane money. Postecoglu is an excellent manager and scoring goals won't be a problem.

Watching Maddison and his set piece deliveries yesterday, its a good job for us Kane left. He'd score an absolute hatful if he stayed.

Their league position, will comes down to the same thing - players mentality. Clearly they are good enough to be in the top 5/6 again on paper. 

However, Wednesday night at St James Park: Newcastle Vs Real Madrid would be insane, massive atmosphere - big energy.

The players who are born winners will be able to follow that up by beating a Crystal Palace, Brentford the following Saturday. You can't be 5/10 percent off in the premier league.

16 hours ago, avfc1982am said:

Might not be delivering anymore in which case it's a result for Ukraine. The more panic they cause Russian ships the better. 

It's more than that. Ukraine have decreed that any ships leaving these specific Russian ports are targets of war (which is completely legal and what Russian have done to the grain ships). Therefore now, Insurance companies won't touch any cargo or oil ships.

This will massively cripple Russian exports.

5 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

If he leaves on a free he will 100% go united

If he stays, next summer will look like this.

Haaland > Madrid

Kane > Man City

1 hour ago, oishiiniku_uk said:

They're finally paying the price for an over-reliance on Jorge Mendes. I'd not appreciated until now the full extent of how many players have come via him directly or indirectly: Over two thirds of their signings since Fosun took over are either Gestifute clients or Mendes helped facilitate the deals. The quality of those offerings from Jorge have lessened over the years (Fabio Silva, Matheus Nunes and Guedes look particularly poor investments) and now that there's a new cash cow in the form of the Saudi Pro League I don't think Wolves will be getting preferred treatment from Mendes/Gestifute. 
Also, the fact that the owners of Wolves are saying there's no money to spend until next season must mean that their 22-23 accounts will show a big loss (60 million plus I would guess). They wouldn't be so afraid of FFP otherwise. Either that or they're looking to sell despite what they're saying publicly.

Fabio Silva was the huge warning sign for me (ironically he's finally turning into a decent player).

Porto (to which Mendes has close ties) were struggling financially and had a 30 million hole in their finances, then Wolves buy a completely average, untried 18 year old who'd only made 12 senior appearances for 32 million.

There's an unnamed club who made a 70million bid for Caceido. Really wouldn't be surprised if it was Liverpool as they really need a strong DM. 

56 minutes ago, StewieGriffin said:

Nunes linked with PSG and Sarkic moving to Millwall.

May as well stick a Car Boot Sale 2day sign outside the training ground

Their number 1 target Alex Scott from Bristol is going to Bournemouth by the look of it. Ouch!

Wonder if they are selling up or doing a Randy Lerner? 

Sell him with a buy back clause (Man City love to do this).

Win win for us.  If he's good in the PL and we pay the fee he will always come back to Villa.