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12 hours ago, ender4 said:

£164m PL prize money for Villa for this season. 

£14m more than Chelsea. 

Plus circa £50m for CL. 

17 minutes ago, Pez1974 said:

Really?

We aren't paying the Barca asking price, but if there are reasons why we can buy a high calibre of player for a reduced fee, because of a specific set of circumstances. This feels exactly how Monchi and Unai have operated for years. It hasn't always been low price signings - just very good value.

I’ve got no more information than anyone else, I just think it feels too high price tag to be Monchi’s style … I hope I’m wrong though! 

4 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Please stop hause-ing around. Lets get serious

Nay.

3 hours ago, Jareth said:

Can say that about Pau

And Emi, and Ollie to be honest.

12 minutes ago, oishiiniku_uk said:

He was also good in the 3-2 defeat against Burnley after his injury. He and Grealish were linking up really well and terrorizing their defenders in the first half as I recall. It was downhill after that though, I wonder if he had long covid or something because he just couldn't run in the second half of that season.

And his winning goal against Leicester that season. We need a squad, he isn’t that exciting as a signing but if we have a fit and happy Barkley to come on off the bench then that’s better than where we are now. 

9 minutes ago, Jareth said:

More chance of signing ronald macdonald

(someone had to come in with this cliche).

I thought about it but then I thought you’d relish the idea

It would be very exciting and a huge statement of where we are now… but it doesn’t really feel like a Monchi signing. We’ve invested hugely in scouting and development, and got him in to spearhead it all and we go for a £100m CB from Barca… sounds unlikely I think 

3 hours ago, Kingman said:

Think we may see a few paid off over the next week or two. 

Would be surprised if we take up the option to buy on loans either. 

Lenglet? Did we have an option on his loan?

18 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

sorry, I dunno how I was a million pages off

No worries! Totally agree it isn’t a coup now, and it’s kind of an anticlimax… but a good player if Emery thinks we can get performances out of him on a small outlay

On 24/09/2020 at 07:17, alreadyexists said:

Would be quite a coup to get him to be honest.

4 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

How? 

Just check the date of the quote! In September 2020 it was a bit of coup to loan him from Chelsea.

6 minutes ago, Nigel said:

Does anyone not remember we actually had barkley here....is it only me?

He was kind of not good enough when he was younger and we had less aspirations. 

No mate, just you. Are you thinking of Leandro Bacuna? Easy mistake to make.

1 minute ago, Stevo985 said:

They hadn't done any rebranding with the round badge. The only place you see it is on the shirts. Everything else has the old badge on it. Stadium, press, website, letters etc etc

A rebrand is replacing all of that with the new badge.

My gut tells me it was cheaper to do that with this new badge than with the round one. I expect they'll leave the old Lerner badge in a lot of places where they can get away with it.

Cheap activation

Ahh, yeah, a very good point. I suppose a sheild can slot in to a shield shaped void easier than a round one. It must be that  

3 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Yep, not perfect but this is completely fine.

They've managed to find the worst combination of our colours to apply to make it look worse. 

Although I'm still sure there's some element of cost saving that explains why keeping it as similar to the Lerner badge as possible was the way to go

It’s weird because surely the cheapest and easiest option would be to just have kept the round badge? 

1 hour ago, Callum said:

Very Similar. 

 

Looks like an AS Roma kit with the Claret and Orange… not complaining just saying  

2 minutes ago, _AA_786 said:

Is the guy getting sent to the gallows after this?  **** me crack a smile you miserable git 

Johan McUbermenzenshaft

It’s absolutely fine in mono… shame that we probably won’t see that too often. Maybe the away kits will have it though?

1 minute ago, Stevo985 said:

This article proves that it's the yellow on blue that is the problem.

Because in mono the badge actually looks fine. not amazing, but a massive improvement

 

That claret on white version is lovely.

 

But the pale yellow on pale blue with a **** shadow looks so shit

Totally agree, these all look fine. 

5 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

God it's so bad. It's so so bad  

 

The drop shadow, the typeface, the jaggedy lines on the curves of the shield… what were they thinking!? 

23 hours ago, hawkinsk11 said:

Hi all, 

Long time member occasional lurker...

Looking at the released addidas kits and the leaked image of the home kit it looks like the home will be the same as the Germany home. Where the German flag is will be claret, the rest of the sleeve will be blue. Claret body, but not sure if the side will be blue like the arsenal kit has white. Also means the long sleeve version will have claret phasing back in like the Germany kit does

Yeah I think it’ll be that, I hadn’t seen the Germany kit so I posted the Scotland kit, but it’s the same template just different colours I think. If it looks like that I’ll be happy!! 

3 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Ive just selected a random mockup i found online. Its not for th kit but more of the new badge. I think when its in other colours it actually looks quite nice like this

 

 

Yeah maybe the monochrome versions will be good, and there’s nothing to stop them using the lion on its own hopefully  

55 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Im sorry but the original lerner one was the absolute worst for me. Hated it with  a passion

Oh I hated it, I just think this is even worse  

I just can’t believe I’ve asked for a round badge since 2006, we finally got on 17 years later, and it’s lasted 9 months and we’ve got a new shite one for god knows how long. 

21 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

Our worst ever badge.

Am I allowed say that?

Yeah, it’s the worst, even worse than the original Lerner one, and that was shite

17 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said:

He played for the Baggies against us in the semi final and was probably their best player

Oh god yeah of course, that’s probably what prompted us to sign him.