DaveAV1

I’m not sure I understand what that means Sid? Sorry.

Whilst I don’t disagree and my heart wants us to stay at Villa Park in B6 I can see the arguments for a move too. Since moving, with my family, 450 miles away, I’ve sadly given up my season ticket which I had for thousands of years and so I don’t see as many live games as I used to but still miss the creaky old place every matchday but into every life and all that, I put the love of family before my first love on this occasion, so perhaps the move from Villa Park wouldn’t be such a big thing for me. Perhaps if we’re thinking in practicable terms , I’d consider the NEC to have plenty of merits, I thought they should have built the new Wembley there, but expecting the FA to do anything remotely sensible was always a long shot, what do others think?

When Unai followed Wenger to Arsenal he was on a hiding to nothing, Liverpool after Klopp would be similar, I’d imagine they’ll be keen on Alonso given his past status and the fact he’s doing well now as a manager. Step forward Stevie G would be hilarious though!

Spot on I hope you’ll be feeling 16 by the end of the season!!! Stay happy, be lucky and most of all be healthy mate!!

Glad to see you’re still bravely clinging to you youth mate. I’ll be only 61 on my next birthday in March which whilst that makes me slightly older than your good self I’m pretty sure I’m still much, much younger than @TRO

All this jibber jabber about Arsenal’s new stadium in the Wenger era was pre these days of ffp and the club were working around a way to actually pay for the new stadium, now with the ffp nonsense actual costs of building infrastructure aren’t a problem because NSWE are slowed to speed what they want except of course they’re shrewd businessmen and so will always look at value in that sense too but the big variables that we need to fix is the overall income and whilst that is affected by matchdsy revenue it is affected more by the fans and sponsors thst don’t regularly attend games. More seats is always ultimately more money but there are other ways to increase income and that’s where we need to be clever. We may relocate but we’re not ever going to relocate to inside the M25 so it’s important that we think outside the box and I think that’s where Heck comes in at the moment. Do while I think it’s important to thst the club don’t lose its identity or forget it’s history, if we want to get around the ffp bullet we need to be smart on and off the pitch. The on the pitch part is well looked after now with the leadership of Unai and Monchi, now it’s time for Chris Heck to show what he can do. I thought that one of Cp’s strengths was supposed to be his knowledge of FFP, but I’m not convinced that he managed to do that, especially since we were losing lots of money during his tenure and in ffp terms or any metric you want to use, that’s rarely a good thing I’m afraid. I know he’s held in great esteem on VT but those are the undeniable facts. His high profile Stevie G project was s stick used to beat him with but I don’t think that was the reason he was eased to one side by NSWE, he undeniably did some great work when he arrived with the new owners, who had little knowlege or experience of running a major PL football club. The big leap forward in the very important matter of being good at playing football arrived with Unai and the rapidy following Monchi, and Heck has correctly identified those two as making his job easier, because no matter how you want to frame it success on the pitch is the big thing all football clubs and particularly the fans of the club at all levels want, whether they sitting in the cheapest, seat, the director’s box or watching on the tele thousands of miles away in their new, Adidas, hopefully, Villa shirt. The game on and off the pitch has evolved again and will continue to evolve, often for reasons we don’t like or understand but we can’t do much about either. Ultimately with the two men that are our current owners, we’ve been in worse places and should be facing the future with an optimistic glowing feeling. UTV!!!!!

I agree but the timing of many of those bad decisions made them worse as did the timing of the convequences of those decisions too. In particular our falling out of the PL when we did. As I’m sure you agree we’re finally heading in the though we’re heading in the right direction now, at last and showing signs of building for a successful and sustainable future. UTV!

I’m not sure Emi could be regarded as top five, there’s plenty of evidence he’s in the top 1 though!

He probably got written off a few times too!!

Thanks JV now there’s a couple of proper Villa men, no matter which continent they were in. Would have been great to listen in to their chat! UTV!!!

Buckinghamshire where we’ll known Villa fan Christian Purslow is from.

A very valid point. We’ll have to finish 4th just to shut that lot up. I’d love them to finish 5th and just miss out having lot to us!

The good news is that Wes in particular knows a thing or two about building new sports stadia and Nas’s family about construction and development, so once again we’re in good hands. Building a new stadium thst will Last well beyond their lifetime is an understandable ambition for ambitious owners building a legacy but The NAWE Villa Park would be hard to begrudge them, given what they’ve done for our club. They can afford to build it and the sponsorship deals would be huge!! So I wouldn’t rule it out no matter how hard my heart strings are pulled. You can’t take sentiment to the bank, or we’d all be loaded!! UTV!! at the end of the day I’d prefer memories on the pitch that I can keep forever, so whatever that takes in the modern football world today, we should go with it and trust the current custodians to get us there. I don’t think we’ve been closer in my lifetime, let alone since Sky invented football in 1992. I think NSWE believe that Heck is the man to get us there business wise and Unai, with Monchi the guys to build the team, which since we’re a football club isn’t insignificant either!! UTV!!! Football and money are intrinsically linked, wether we like it or not, look where we’ve come from, a few years ago we nearly ceased to exist, which is unthinkable and almost unbelievable now! We’re on our way and as supporters that may take some getting used to. So let’s all be brave and enjoy the ride! UTV!!!

My head agrees but my heart objects, I guess I’m not alone in wanting a lovely big cake and eating every crumb? UTV!

That’s interesting JV, how do you know this? I’m not questioning your knowledge or asking you to reveal a source, I’m just curious mate.

My wife says I’m the least observant man on the planet so it’s no real surprise that I haven’t noticed anything about Unai’s eye, I guess he doesn’t worry too much about looking Tyrone in the eye so it’s not a problem for him.

Both singing off the same page too!

And Liverpool still have to come to Villa Park for their thumping like City and Arsenal did. A trip to the Emptyad to remind Jack what a big club looks like and we’re sailing in calm waters.

A mere technicality!

Top 3 at the moment perhaps that doesn’t count?

I hope you’re not suggesting that Big Emi has to tell his little pal that the deal i off now? Rather you than me!!!

And not on huge money at Forest apparently. Matty Cash would put a good word in for us as a former Forest player who’s made the move across the midlands. Sounds like a doable proposition to me, I’m sure Monchi and Unai will have cast their expert eyes in his direction so let’s see what happens.

If he came to us he’d be at a top team already before the summer.

Not before we endured Slippy G almost getting us relegated back to the championship. It was hardly a smooth transition from one to Villa man to another!

Although if they lose the their semi final that could make their home support really toxic and knock their player’s confidence which I’d imagine isn’t very high right now anyway. So regardless we get an early goal and cruise to a 3-0 away win then move on to the Arabian Shites who aren’t really trail blazing either.