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This week, on VT, Lucas Digne was called one of our worst signings ever.
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Mad that Ollie gets a hat-trick and the MOTM was our left back.
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I’m not at home and it’s not on Peacock for 24 hours. Feck sake. What sites are good for little rivers these days?
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Charles N’Zogbia says hello. If we want to talk about pound for pound, we also need to adjust for our increased revenue. Zog was our highest earner on £60,000 at the time I believe.
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Sunk cost. Need to make do with what we have, not make bad decisions based on the past.
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He’s a good player but this is another Ings situation. Sell him now and get decent money (say £10m), or wait a year when he’s lost a yard of pace and we end up subsidizing part of his wages while he goes on loan to Stoke. Good player, always put in a shift, very professional. Good business by the club too. Best of luck if you’re off, Lucas.
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I don’t think the 2m cancellation fee makes much sense in the combo with an option to buy. People are saying it’s a £6m loan, with £2m cancellation fee if we don’t buy, and the buy price is set at £23m or whatever. Thats the same thing as a £6m+£2m=£8m loan fee and a £23m-£2m=£21m buy option, i.e. the extra two million was already covered by the available options.
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Thanks, it means a lot.
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Reel
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And you believed the unconfirmed rumour?!?!
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If you really push it and pretend Wolves/West Brom/etc simply don’t exist, there are three or four million people in the AVFC Academy catchment area. So at a real push the academy should catch about 5% of the population of Britain. 5% is 1-in-20. So only looking at Britain as the talent pool, you’d expect something like one squad player to be from our catchment area. Thats before including Europe (Pau, Kamara), South America (Luiz, Emi) and so on. So it would be very unusual if our academy had produced more than a handful of our first team squad. If we want to compete for the top 4, we need a top 4 squad. We can’t have a squad who are bottom-half PL standard, even if that includes some very very good players. We should get used to selling 90-95% of our academy.
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Roughly two years’ ticket sales. That’s a lot.
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Just to put £15m in perspective, according to our last financial accounts the total revenue from ticket sales (including season holders) is about £16m.
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Going further back, I hope this nourishes the West Ham fans romantically.
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There’s no way West Ham could replicate Declan’s output with one signing. Instead they have taken the approach of replicating Declan’s output by spreading the transfer fee over three mediocre footballers.
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What distance would that be, about 500 miles? Would you walk the 500 miles and then would walk 500 more?
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Martinez Cash Konsa Mings Digne Kamara Tielemans McGinn Luiz Buendia Watkins for me at least. Switch sides as you like, but I think that’s the most likely to keep a clean sheet and score. Bringing Diaby on after 60 mins to terrorize tired legs, and Pau and Chambers on for the final few minutes to see the game out.
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Buendia to start over Diaby, anyone? He’s been more impressive pre-season. Diaby as a super-sub for the first few weeks?
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But only this year. It would facilitate that purchase today but “paying for it” tomorrow would be a problem. We’d need to sell another AJ next year for £12m. Anyway, this young man has zero minutes in the league and we’re getting £12m for him. With a buyback clause. It’s a complicated loan with little risk for us. We get the upside risk if his development blossoms, which is more likely with Burnley than being fourth choice with us. Great business.
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I’m going to buy that training top, and another thing or two on clearance. Anyone got a coupon code for the online store? Edit: I got 10% off the training gear by clicking a link from an Irish supporters club. Just find their Facebook, click the post about FAQ, and the link is there.
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Yeah agreed, but nothing from The Guardian or whoever either.
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Username checks out. Edit: beaten to the punch by Adam.
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No, I don’t think so. I think so far it is all Twitter and low level newspapers. It could be true. But zero from the likes of John Percy.
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Not Villa related but what were your favourite monument/museums?
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I’ve seen Martinez have bad games, you’re allowed two or three a season. The problem with Olsen is that’s it’s more like 50% of matches he has a howler moment, like against Newcastle where he passed it to their unmarked player at the edge of the box. Over the course of a season (say if Emi breaks a bone or tears a ligament) that’s not two or three bad matches.
