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I still live in hope that if they redevelop the whole stadium they 'reskin' the Trinity with red brick. I do like the idea of mixing the original design with some super modern stands too.

Pending suspensions only mentioned after the playoffs.

No, but them and Palace do pick up quite a few neutral fans that move to London for work. Never understood it myself, but I know a fair few people with season tickets for one or the other that support a different premier league team.

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Anyone started Ripley? I've been looking forward to it for a while and really hoping it doesn't disappoint.

I might be completely wrong, but ours seems more of a soft partnership. Sharing of data, coaching techniques and the like. I doubt we'll ever be seeing a situation like Savio on loan at Girona with City apparently buying him in the summer.

Balmoral was sold for £34,000. My parents 2 bed terrace in Somerset was sold for 4 times that. Are we saying that house is worth 4 times more than Balmoral?

I'm not sure how well his particular brand sells to Saudi.

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Did Juventus' recent points deduction and mooted (no idea if they happened) prosecution of individuals not arise from a very similar situation in the Cancelo deal with City?

Surely that's not a thing? It would mean having to register every youth player at the start of the season just in case and if we missed the boat in the summer surely we'd be able to do it in January anyway.

You can probably structure it however you want. I seem to rember there being a thing a few years ago when Griezman went back to Atletico where he was always taken off (or maybe it was brought on) on after 60 minutes. Any more and they would count as appearances for the way Barca structured the sale and result in quite a lot of clauses having to be paid.

Personally, I'm grateful for the return of your infallible opinions. I don't agree, but I appreciate your benevolence in making yourself available to tell me that's just because I'm stupid, ignorant or just flat out wrong.

Not quite. If he has had one year of £3m being written off against a purchase price of £15m he still has a book value of £12m, which needs to be offset against the sale price. So it only gives a 'profit' of what has already been written off, in this case £3m.

New-Cassel apparently

I imagine any investment funding a stadium would come much later in the process. Particularly as we have a chance to really build our brand value in the next few years.

I completely agree that individual agreements would be a huge problem, I just don't see why it couldn't be sold on an official Premier League website with revenue being split similarly to now.

Why would it necessarily be different? They could just as easily have implemented individual negotiations on the current TV deals.

That might be the basic commercial reality, but football is still more than that for me.

Agreed. I'm not quite ready to consider myself a consumer of products produced by Aston Villa Football Club Ltd.

It makes perfect sense and I'm on the fence myself. I only take issue with the absolutism and refusal to accept other's opinions as valid from some.

No need to suspect. It's a requirement in Spain.

Some people need to realise their opinions aren't infallible, or they might as well just discuss football with themselves in a mirror. Sure, CL qualification could give us a platform to move on, but there are plenty of examples to suggest it wont. It didn't do anything for Everton. It didn't do anything for Leicester. Their title came before qualifying. It didn't bring success for Tottenham. Their one league cup in my lifetime came before they were regularly qualifying. That's not to say that wanting the CL qualification is ludicrous, stupid or obviously "wrong". It's just someone else's preference, based on a hope (or in some cases assumption) that it gives us sustained success. I can understand why when football has become a spreadsheet game for many, both in terms of FFP and stats. Personally, I think I'd get more enjoyment being at/outside of Wembley for us winning a cup.

I suspect if he was willing to be our back up keeper on sensible wages he would not still be a free agent.

I think it's when the owners are vocal it seems a bit forced as you end up with a cult of personality type vibe. These guys just get on with it queitly, so I have no problem heaping praise on them. I must admit I'm also pretty impressed how Edens seems to be able to step back and let Sawiris do a lot of the day to day. That must be pretty hard to do as such a successful individual.