rubberman
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It's only been just over a week since the 4-6wk non-disclosure, exclusivity period started. It's a bit mental to start conspiracy theories because nothings been heard yet.
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Has this been resolved yet?
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But over 2 years he'd also be £5m poorer, which is not insignificant. I suppose the gamble is that he could make that up in signing on fees if he moves on a free, but its a lot of money to risk.
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I'm worried that at the moment it seems to be a mass exodus and we'll be playing 5-a-side with rush goalie come pre-season, but... There will be, as ever, 4-6 sides worse than us. With Tim in charge we'll have wildly fluctuating results - plenty of hammerings, but also more wins. It'll certainly be a roller-coaster season (hopefully not the Smiler variety) - 14th I reckon, with a glimmer more potential. Though I also harbour fears it'll be a car crash and Tim'll be gone by Christmas.
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Please have cash. Please don't saddle us with debt. Please keep Tekkers. Please sign 4-5 other decent players. Please get this done early. Thanks.
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Would have loved to see him come on in the second half of the cup final instead of same old, same old...or against Burnley or Saints - both dead games with a chance to try something new and when we should have been resting Jack (amongst others). I'm still clinging to the tiniest amount of hope that we'll see a new, solid spine for next season that will allow us to play Grealish, Gil and Benteke up front. Really tiny. Miniscule.
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I'd take 32.5m + Bamford. Lets get it done.
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3-2 Villa. 2 from the big man, 92nd minute winner from Jack. Very excited.
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The papers have been saying that Liverpool will be waiting till after the cup final so that's not really much comfort.
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+ Randy didn't re-name Villa Park the Tracksuit Arena so that's a bonus.
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Hopefully FSG will tell Rogers to do one when he goes over to the US for his meeting. Leaving Liverpool without a manager for most of the transfer window and Tim can sit CB down and talk some sense into him / offer him a £100k contract. Van Gaal doesn't seem to be interested, he doesn't fit Wenger's style and City seem to be planning to spunk £200m on Messi so the most natural fit would seem be Chelsea, but I hope wanting to play every week would be enough to hold them off this window. 1 more year please Christian.
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Player of the season & Young Player of the Season
rubberman replied to andykeenan's topic in Villa Talk
Hmmm - no votes for Richardson yet? Benteke - for the goals that have kept us up, though Delph pushes close. Grealish - for the excitement. My youngest pretends to be him when he's playing - praise indeed. -
I liked that ^^. I don't actually like it obv, but it's true.
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Nah - dead rubber. Winning this shouldn't have any bearing on performance in a cup final - that should be enough in itself. The important thing is to avoid injury and give a bit of a rest to the likes of Delph who've run themselves into the ground. This is a great chance to evaluate some of the squad players who've been seen as too much of a risk during the relegation run in (I'm looking at you Carles) and see if they can push for a place on the bench for the cup and/or show enough for next season. Don't see any reason why we can't win as well.
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Really dreadful, but that happened to Spurs while Tim was there as well. With the way his teams set up it seems to be score loads and win or ship a hatful - will always be a rollercoaster under Sherwood - can't see a season of grinding out 1-0 results.
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Teams in the Europa league finish on average 2.3 places lower than the season they qualified. For 'bigger' teams dropping into it, there isn't that effect as the squads are already in place to compete midweek and weekend. For the 'smaller' clubs (which sadly includes us these days) the impact is greater. We need to consolidate a position in the top 1/3 of the league before taking Europe seriously.
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Hopefully they'll buy Ings and that will be the end of it. I really hope we can keep him for another year - his goals are easily worth the drop in his value coming into the last year of contract. Even better to sign an extension, though that would be too much to hope for.
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Would be fantastic to win the cup, and I think we have a pretty good shout for that, but Europa is poison to clubs in our current position. So as Crackpot said - we need to go into it only playing squad and younger players to give them a bit of experience / keep them interested. Then, over the next 2-3 years get established as regular top 6/7 finishers (as is our rightful position), build up the finances, improve the squad and then start taking it more seriously as a route into the CL (if we're not already breaking into the current top 4 hegemony by then). #dreaming
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The way this run in is going I can easily see Hull getting 4 points from Spurs & Utd. And despite our form I can't quite shake the feeling that we'll implode some time (the legacy of the last few seasons I guess). I don't think it's at all likely we'll go down, but there'll be a nagging doubt until it's properly over. A month ago I thought 35 would be enough to be safe, but to see even Sunderland and Newcastle getting points from nowhere keeps the doubt alive. Please make it be over on Saturday.
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It's how the Glazer's bought Utd and spent the next 10 years servicing the debt by increasing prices everywhere. ^^ What HeyAnty said.
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We need to a) get safe in the league and ideally win the cup, then we can get some proper offers coming out.
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Jesus christ no. We really don't need to be bought with debt either.
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Whatever business we do, I hope we do it quickly and early and don't get sucked into the last minute deadline day nonsense.
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I'll be happy with a draw, no injuries, no sendings off.
