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Based on how the clubs starting to turn round this might be the best way to steady the ship, at least in the short term. Personally, I'm starting to think the deal is all but done, and any announcement is being held off until Tim can get his first targets in for as cheap as possible. As soon as the takeover is announced we'll be paying hefty fees all over the shop

So this was half done in Photoshop.... With the writing done in MS paint? Have we run out of money already? D:

It's tomorrow... Where's our news Nixon?

Especially when you have the baggies being taken over by Dalian wanda of all people Right kick in the balls Thought it was revealed that it wasn't actually Dalian Wanda. And I might be wrong on this as well but they only went to WBA because Lerner went ahead with someone else

I would much rather that we spend the £32.5m on a striker or two now while this saga is still going on. At least then when/if tekkers goes we won't be expected to pay over the odds by other clubs because we have money to burn. Also if someone does come in on deadline day we'll already have cover. From Tims point of view I can see why he might be reluctant to get the ball rolling on a new set of strikers, we want to make Christian feel like an irreplaceable team member to convince him to say. We still need at least one or two newbies up front whether he stays or goes tho

Maybe prince wills have him some inspiration to keep on while they were getting all friendly at Wembley

When he meets with Tim I am 100% confident he'll be given the straight facts. 1) go to Man city and he'll be warming the bench 2) he's an England international with the euros coming up, he needs to be playing weekly for a top flight team 3) he is the captain of a top flight team 4) villa is rebuilding and has vast potential this summer, for the first time in a long time 5) the club have stood by him and kept faith through the hard times in his career. Tim isn't one to pull punches and will give him these facts to convince fabs that villa is the right choice for him. At least for this season. If after the meeting fabs still wants out, good luck to him but he'll have lost respect from a lot of the fans and people who stood behind him here for years. I've full faith in Tim to sort him out if he has any doubts about staying. In Tim we trust.

Unless it's a case of the new owners only buying in to take ownership. They might believe that Fox and the rest of his have all the ambition and skills they need going forward and the meeting will be a confirmation of new ownership, and business as usual. Lerner would effectively be the only major change with him being replaced. I'm probably way off the mark. An all staff meeting would hint at something more than just an end of season review imo

Completely agree. #FoxIn

Has he left yet? Or are we expecting him to turn up on Monday for training? Haven't heard anything regarding us letting him leave

Between Tim pulling off young Belgians and getting inside players it's no wonder so many are interested in signing this summer

Any takers for a takeover leading to a large sponsorship deal of the north stand? Obviously depends who if anyone is lined up to finalise the takeover.... But could see a healthy investment for us

glad google translate was able to clarify this. Was struggling there for a bit

Judging our transfer activity already - Richards and Gueye seem to be like for like replacements for Vlaar and Delph (if he leaves). Tims no mug and I'm sure he's already trying to source a new striker to replace Benteke... But so far all we've been linked to is Austin and that seems to have died down. I'm clutching at very tiny straws but to me the lack of links for us with attackers gives me the impression we've no intention of letting him leave any time soon

Just looked at our top scorers from last season.... Am I missing something or are we a bit screwed atm if tekkers leaves? He was always going to be our top scorer but I didn't realise just HOW reliant we were on him. Weimann was our third highest scorer after gabby (.... Albeit only on 4 goals)

This is the problem for me. It's EA so obviously this will happen within a month or so of release. £3.99 for a double map pack or something at the very least. That plus the fact that it's EA... Who 9/10, will botch a release with game breaking bugs which are patched to a point until the game is a year or so old. I'm on the fence on whether to get battlefront. I so badly want it to be great and everything I'd want it to be.... But it's EA I know it'll probably be unplayable until at least the new year. I hope I'm wrong, but I'll probably avoid until the first wave of updates

Glass half full or glass half empty. Being pedantic. It's either half full or half empty. It's 50/50

Yeah as I said he didn't want to leave on a free so maybe this is his way of giving us something back. There's nothing to suggest he will accept any contract offers that come his way this summer. He's not a stupid lad, he's not in the game for a huge pay day I don't think. I'm sure he doesn't want to warm benches in the top 6 for the next few seasons, he'll want to play. Next few weeks, as we've said COUNTLESS times already.... are massive, MASSIVE, for Aston Villa FC.

When he renewed his deal in January I remember him saying he was here for the long haul, that he was happy and loved the club. Altho he did say he didn't want to leave on a free at the end of season.... I don't know how to take this

I had the same view before I first played fm12. If you enjoyed lma manager and the like id say it's a no brainer to get into FM. 15 is on Amazon for £17 atm which is probably worth a punt. There's usually a few bugs in the month or so after release so I wouldn't pick up 16 on release day.

Football manager has his date of birth as 24th June 1988..... Happy 27th birthday Micah

Difficulty settings on single player has always been Fifas undoing. There's no half steps between difficulty levels, you either score 5 against Chelsea or concede 5 against port vale. The last few versions I've opted for longer matches (10/20 minute halves) and the difficulty just doesn't scale up at all. I've settled on playing pro difficulty for matches which can generate great games.... But then the occasional 8-0 drubbing by hull happens out of nowhere.

The whole situation has even handled brilliantly by the club IMO. Lambert, fox and sherwood have done amazingly well in the last 12 months, renewing him last year when he wanted to leave, adding the high release clause and then revealing it before the summer. As it's been said, we're in a great position as a result. Does anyone know for definite that the clause is 32.5? I know it's the reported fee, but I would laugh so hard if it ended up being so much less and the big clubs being put off by it

Sorry, but it's a no from me. The only way we should even be considering a sale to anybody is if they meet the reported 32.5m clause. Granted we might lose him next season for less money but I can't see us getting a replacement of his standard alongside the rest of the spending we need to be doing. Selling for 25 would not be good business by any stretch

I don't get it Is it not pronounced Hil? So maybe hopefully he'll get his chance? I don't know I'm tired