villa4europe

1 minute ago, Delphinho123 said:

I agree with a fairer league and I don’t agree with the current PSR set up. It’s a farce. We should be allowed to spend what Man Utd / Liverpool spend. If that’s capped, fine, but no club should be a billion dollars in debt and be allowed to spend 5 times as much as us.

Rules and regulations are fine as long as they are fair for everybody. 

100%

We have rules that link revenue to spending which isn't that daft

But then you then have a competition that gives 4 teams up to £120m more than the other 16 per season, the TV deal means that teams get £2m per appearance and we have sky/bt putting certain teams on TV 15 times more than other teams 

It's rigged as **** 

10 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

I like buying German players because I never lose them to international games >_>

They've removed the old trick of the add on fees £100m after 10 international games though 

5 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

He's been a mainstay since promotion. He was the King of Villa Park in 2023.

Of course many fans are going to have concerns.  It doesn't make them 'negative'.

Selling a guy who is a key player and has been a key player in our journey over the last couple of years, for less than what the majority of us think he is worth, to a club that seemingly can't afford him so are horse dealing with 2 players 1 of which the majority of us don't rate, all so that we can tick a box for the stupid **** rules in football that mean our billionaires can't spend their own money

I'm negative about this...struggling to see what's to like about it

Another ex FM wonder kid kaio Jorge gone from juve to cruziero for €7m

He wasn't just FM, was heavily rumoured to have his picking from any club in Europe, was playing for Santos at a really young age, was starring for brazils world cup winning youth team 

Juves been a disaster for him 

The thing is as well is that you won't be able to judge this kid by his price tag

We're going to pay a number that reflects the FFP game we are playing with juve

5 hours ago, Jareth said:

Only 20 and a huge talent - what's not to like about this deal.

The McKennie part of it

He's the killer in the whole thing isn't he?

Can kind of get behind selling luiz just about but I don't like it, can get behind signing IJ but chucking this guy in to the mix is shit

The way the FFP wrangling stuff works means that we'll no doubt over pay for him too, I reckon £25m for him which is madness 

FM wonder kid Luis guilherme having a medical at west ham in a £25m deal

Would say I'd love villa to make that signing but the Marcos whatever his name is at palace didn't really work out so far, it's a huge risk

It's an interesting one cos the Bernabau has just had a refurb but the nou camp is over due a refurb and inter are due a new stadium so it's probably the last ever chance to play there 

We play Dortmund pre season 

Allianz is a class stadium in a great city but od rather play them at VP, especially as it's the 150th stuff, I'm sure they'll double down on the European cup celebrations 

admittedly don't know much about him but he plays the same kind of role as ramsey, rogers and bunedia doesnt he?

as in signing him puts us in a better position to let ramsey go (booooooooo) but doesn't help fill the gaping hole left by luiz

13 minutes ago, Zatman said:

England beat out Germany to book the camp

Germany have games in stuttgart, frankfurt and munich though with then a round 2 game in either dortmund or berlin

england are gelsenkirchen, frankfurt, koln and then dortmund or gelsenkirchen, even realistically looking at it the QF should be dusseldorf then SF in dortmund

every england game apart from the final will be in the west

11 hours ago, mjmooney said:

Caption competition? 

"if you thought the family photo was bad you should see her photo of stuart downing"

58 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Our owner sawiris has spoken publicly about challenging FFP as he is deeply unhappy at the rules and how we have to sell our best players to stay competitive to stay in line with FFP

Interesting 

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Very interesting as this suggests to me they want to spend big on the team and are not interested in losing money but want to be more competitive 

he's right

long term we cant compete with the likes of Liverpool and man utd, not because of owners but because their established global fan base means they can get Nigerian fruit juice partnership deals that were worth as much to them per year as our main shirt sponsor 

it very much is a financial game where 6 teams have a huge advantage over everyone else

lad in the office was asking about maybe travelling to England's training camp for the day to see what it was all about, its in Weimar at a huge golf resort, the opposite side of the country and a 3 drive away from where the games actually are

not one of the many top class bundesliga training camps in the west of germany, a golf and spa resort in the east

they're back to making me irrationally angry over everything

It's good to see big Jim hasn't sorted the shambles out after all

3 hours ago, Zatman said:

Czechs and Belgians are the best about but Dutch has some good breweries coming up. Germany has very good beer but it has little variation or creativity

its a pain to get a licence to brew certain types of beer outside of the regulars

You mean they don't do apple pie and custard IPAs?

One thing that maybe isn't that well known or spotted by tourists that come here drinking and get a good beer here is that's there's usually very little choice, when I took my father in a law to an English pub it blew his mind that there was 9 beers and ciders on tap and then bottles in the fridge, his village local has 2 types of bottled beer and that's something I've found quite common, there is an absolute **** tonne of beer choice here but you'll go in a bar and never know it, been to places in Dusseldorf and cologne where they literally had one beer on tap, couldn't even get a vodka or wine or anything like that it was one beer or a soft drink, ive had friends over when i lived in bonn and we were on a session mates missus had enough beer and asked for a gin and tonic at maybe 3pm and the bar said no we dont serve that until after 6pm, Germany is good for beer not much else, hard to go clubbing here too from ky experience partly cos the music is so bad but mainly cos they start so late, my wife used to finish work at 5pm on a Friday, go kickboxing go home shower have a pre drink with mates then leave her flat around 1am to go to a club, english people at work cant get their heads round it and cant enjoy german nightlife cos of it

But seriously there are a lot of beers, like most things German they're seasonal too, the Xmas beers tend to be good, winter bocks and Keller biers, then hell in the summer 

Unfortunately I work in Frankfurt which somehow has the worst beer in all of Germany (binding, absolute piss) it's not really rated either so can't be overrated but Frankfurt as a big international business city will genuinely shock people as to how rough the city centre around the train station is, I think it was the inspiration behind Amsterdam in the Wire, prostitutes and drugs it's proper bandit country, I've never seen anything like it anywhere else, seen people smoking crack in the middle of the street at 11am, it's a mad place 

2 hours ago, Chindie said:

I think the Souls-like thing is on 2 fronts. 

You've got the games that take Souls style combat mechanics - animation priority, 'stamina' limited mechanics, deliberate action, punishing difficulty, a lot of large scale boss fights. 

And you've got the games that take the push pull, corpse run, drop your currency on death mechanic.

Very few games do takes on both and the ones that do are your blatant Souls clone style titles. What has increasingly happened is games that take the Souls combat mechanics, and the problem with that is that combat style is so identifiable and so marmite in many ways that it feels like we're seeing even more than we are.

that's what i don't buy in to, i don't feel the reward or buzz i just feel the frustration, i don't want ridiculously hard games

47 minutes ago, andycv said:

And this is what the club are focused on changing, I think.

thats why i think the lower grounds etc could work, villa live would have been massive

spurs smash it, on the rare occurrence we have a Saturday 3pm kick off what if the club created a space where you could watch the early and the late kick off at VP rather than a pub in town? even if it was just a few hundred that did it

2 hours ago, mjmooney said:

Oh yeah, I forgot you lived in that there abroadland. 

probably doesn't help that my wife is a completely emotionless German, she doesn't get it, I make her watch sleepy time, nothing, I make her watch baby race, nothing, I make her watch jean luc say au revior...nothing

12 minutes ago, sne said:

Yup, fully get why they don't feel it's worth it and rather rest their players than travel to the US to face whoever out of the 32 clubs FIFA manage to bring. Stupid bloated nothing of a tournament.

Edit: Also a perfect example of how broken football is when $20m is not worth it to some clubs but would make some other clubs dominant in their leagues for decades.

it is better than the confederations cup though...

22 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

What? It's inescapable. Even our local Morrisons is full of Bluey merch. 

still not that big here, not sure if my mom especially got blindsided by my brothers older kids who are too old for it, i was harping on about it for ages before she realised just how big it is

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Bluey is the best thing on there, by a country mile. 

is bluey still relatively unknown?

feels like it took me ages to get the penny to drop with my parents that my kids love it, the merch still isnt as all over the place as say PP either

its easily the best kids show going, id go as far as to say my kids are growing fed up with it cos its all i want to watch with them, my daughter wants minnie mouse bowtique **** that shit we're watching sleepy time again

21 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Words are great, but unfortunately if a massive club really wanted Martinez he'd almost certainly be off as well.

Then everyone here would be pulling their dick off because he said he wanted to stay here once but ended up leaving

yep, should have just said my city my club...

its mad how people fall for this shite and then get so angry 2 years down the line when it turns out to be shite

the only difference with Martinez is that he is actually having success here, he's winning medals with the argies and getting the global recognition - but if he fancies a PL medal and city sell ederson and come for him he's gone, same as the rest of them

9 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

Newcastle getting James Trafford 

that's a strange one, i get that pope has injury issues and probably wont play 38 games a season but they have FFP constraints, need strengthening across the entire squad, failed to get tosin on a free, they already have dubravka as a perfectly fine nr 2, trafford showed last year he's not ready and needs a fair bit of time to develop so maybe in need of some loans - its £16-20m that they dont really have to spend on him

i'd put us in the same boat, we all know olsen isnt the answer but given all the FFP stories we have and the various needs in defence and midfield trafford would be a mad signing for us, Newcastle are pretty much in the same boat IMO

On 06/06/2024 at 14:08, Mic09 said:

The city might be not to your liking, fair enough, but they know how to make a good beer. Lagers, Ales, IPAs, they have the lot. 

And if you don't like Dutch beers, most places also have a great selection from Belgium. 

It's a country for beer lovers. 

Heineken, grolsch and Amstel suggests otherwise

I'm obviously going to say ze Germans comfortably give the Dutch a run for their money on the beer, Belgium I'd say I've not spent long enough testing it out but the ones I have tried have all been verging on too strong for someone who wants to sit in the sun and drink all day