Villaphan04

SHA have gone into administration in my save the first season. 12-point deduction time

still don't think he'd come here but it would be one of, if not the biggest non sky 6 transfers in history. He'd immediately be our best player & probably one of the best players we've ever seen wear the shirt. Still, not going to happen though.

He's started 1 of the 2 PL games under Unai so not really sure you can read that. Can't really take the friendly games as what he's going to do for the rest of the year as we don't have a full complement of squad available.

Another thing that I want to keep in mind is -- we need/should get a few out the door in the summer. I keep coming back to McGinn, Sanson & Nakamba. The setup we have means that we don't need to have 7 senior midfielders for 2 spots & it feels like those 3 are going to be the ones who might find themselves with less gametime. Think we should let one or two of them go

Thuram's on an expiring contract iirc, so I'd hope he doesn't And Torres doesn't play for a club as big as Atleti. I'm not arguing with your point, as I would tend to agree with it. Just saying that most players are going to be along the same lines when signing

I mean that is probably the same for most of any of our alleged potential targets, e.g., Pau Torres, Marcus Thuram, they're not coming here because they love the Villa & want to play at VP. It's their job and will be compensated handsomely. I do think we should have more of an interest in transfers like Emi's & Dougie's as they were already at "top" clubs and are coming for the increase in playing time. But on the other hand, we have blokes like Mings & McGinn who actually probably have a great affinity for the club -- and even though they have this, more than likely the main reason they'd stay at Villa is because they just don't have the ability to be a regular starter for a PL winning side.

would love for this to be the case but with how football works these days, we wouldn't have a fighting chance to do much of anything. We need all the financial "help" (FFP help) that we can get and I'm sure that we were financially incentivized to go over there. Plus, speaking as an American Football & real football coach (for high school level), having a group camp with the squad really helps build cohesion. On to Dougie -- I'm really looking forward to see his partnership with Kamara or Dendoncker

I wonder what the extent of the relationship is between Nassef & Mendes?

okay, not exactly sure what happened in the 45 minutes since I posted this, but everything returned to normal. It was quite weird because this was what the site looked like for me for most of the weekend. I was using mobile data on my phone. I wasn't sure it was the same issue as the other thread but everything's now cleared up. Cheers!

My website is completely out of sorts and not the usual view. Not sure what is happening but everything is jumbled and in an almost unviewable format. This on 2 different computers and my phone which is 3 different browsers. I've tried clearing cache & cookies, but it's gotten me nowhere. Not sure what else to try?

Facundo Torres?

the US-England game had a Venezuelan ref i believe. But this one is Wilton Sampaio

Brazilian ref too

that was just outside so VAR can't do anything

that's most of our South American contingent, yes? I wonder if it's a cultural discrepancy?

there hasn't been any recent links for this and I am a little curious about if this is something Nas & Wes are still going to persue. I find it quite odd that only 2 teams/club groups in Red Bull & the City group have established partial-to-full ownership of clubs in South America. I would think that would help immensely with establishing a bigger scouting network in the region.

so, uh, what the **** is going on over there.

looks to be the favorite to get the QPR job now

thought I'd be able to sneak that by with us getting Phillippe but of course I got caught .

We need to get rid of a few midfielders before we should think about signing another one. add to the fact that A Ramsey & Tim are also coming back next year. Without any outgoings, that's 9 senior midfield players for 2 or 3 spots.

yeah, I can see why he makes the comparison as I don't think many thought that he would be coming to us over the summer. Though him on a free is different to signing a guy who was purchased for over 100m euros a few years ago

I wonder if a loan with an obligation to buy would help with financing on both sides