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arent they talking about a "salary tax" if they go above it, so they could, but it costs more in "taxes" the more they go above it? or was that something different.

so are you projecting that if the remaining fixtures go like for like compared to last season, Spurs do finish ahead?

he deserves it, but he wont get it.

yeah, but the intertoto literally isnt/wasnt a genuine competition, people can not like the Conference League, but its a genuine European competition, intertoto was a just a set of qualifying rounds where the "winner" qualified for the competition proper. This is also shown by the fact that intertoto was started pre-season and finished very early in the season, to allow the qualifiers to enter the UEFA Cup proper.

Intertoto? That wasnt really a competition, it was a knockout competition to qualify for the actual competition teams wanted to play in (to qualify for UEFA Cup). I wouldnt count that as a genuine cup win (in the sense of we can say proudly we have "won a European trophy").

cool, exactly like the 5th CL spot being 90%+ sure to go the the PL, which defo happene...... oh wait.

got the specifics? ie: the number of consecutive wins, the number of most wins in a season etc etc.

Hey, i didnt want this to get lost in the usual Unai Emery thread, Emery is racking up a big list of "first time since X, most ever Y etc" at Villa, so i wanted to dedicate a thread to list his Villa specific achievements. I will add a bullet pointed list of records broken or events since X date here, so please post his records in this thread and i will transfer it to this post, so we can keep a track of his amazing amount of record breaking..... Start posting them VT'ers.... Unai Emery records and key achievements at Villa: Most Home Points in the PL era (39), 2023/24 season. First time Villa have finished above Man Utd in the PL era, 23/24 season. First win over Man Utd at Villa Park in 27 years (achieved Nov 2022, last time achieved 1995). Most consecutive home wins (15), spread over the 22/23 and 23/24 season. 20 PL wins in a single season (23/24), for the first time since 1992/93. First time Villa have finished in the top 5 (23/24) of the PL since 1996/97. Highest Points per game average of any Manager in Aston Villa history (1.91), second in the list is John Gregory (1.55), as of 28.04.24. (not sure if Gregory is right.....i would imagine that would be Ramsay second if the points were factored correctly?) Highest win % of any Aston Villa Manager (59.3%), second in the list is George Ramsay (49.6% - 1884 to 1926), as of 28.04 24. First Manager since 1982 to take Villa to a European competition semi-final (23/24 - Europa Conference League) Most wins recorded after first 50 games (30) in Aston Villa's history, next best was 25 wins after first 50 games. Longest consecutive scoring run as a manager at a new club in the Premier League (20 games - 22/23 season), previous record was 18 games by Norwich in 1992. Most wins in a calendar year in Aston Villa's history (26 wins - 2023 - Premier League). Most wins in all competitions in a calendar year (32 wins - 2023) Most points in a Premier League season over a 38 game season (67 - currently), previous record was 64 in 2009/10. Most points in a Premier League season (23/24 - 67 points), averaged for a 38 game season (previous record was 92/93, 74 points in 42 games, averaged to 66.95 points over 38 games) ??? note: blimey, as im filling this in i have realised just how many Villa related records he has beaten, i knew it was a lot, but its even more than i thought

Seriously, someone needs to make a list of all the records Emery has broken at Villa, i think i have lost count, but that aside, it would be nice to keep track for posterity.

Although tonight feels like 2 dropped points, if you had offered me 7 points from Arsenal, Bournemouth and Chelsea before the 3 games, i would have bitten your hand off tbh. Right now, we just need to keep ticking the points over, be that 3, or 1, just keep adding them up. I guess we wont know if it was good points & enough, until the end of the season.

i agree the clearance was nuts, should have hoofed it left or right out of play, or anywhere safe. But i totally see why he didnt head it to olsen in the moment.

i dunno, the keeper is out of the box, any header to the keeper would prob reach him before he could get back in the box, and Olsen isnt exactly agile. I can see why Carlos didnt head it back to him.

this is 100% true, i have said this recently.

What a low, at Old Trafford, a draw with Burnley, but also to have less possession over 90 mins than the team 19th in the league and basically relegated.

yep, 5th guaranteed bar a miracle of such proportions that it would probably cause the annihilation of the known universe. ...so then it wouldnt matter anyways.

Why is this in Villa and not other football?

i guess thats one take on it. to be honest, and i have thought about this a lot, and im not saying i am right or wrong, but do you know what it feels like to me? I will give an example of the field of work that i work in. In my field of work, its very rules based, and if something happens, or an event/scenario happens, where you have to make quick and under pressure decisions, people "usually" get it right, but we are human and mistakes happen, people make the wrong decision under pressure sometimes (aka dont apply the rules correctly). Now, when you investigate the "why" of this, "why" did the person not make the rules based decision under stress or a quick event/scenario, and sometimes its "the event was so quick, and the pressure so high that a human sometimes makes mistakes, or misapplies the rules". However, bringing this back to football, imagine a scenario where you could freeze this scenario, halt the pressure, freeze frame the event and say to the person..."what rule do you apply here, what is your decision?", then the person says...."i would do this!"........but.....thats the wrong rule/the wrong action... why? Because the ability to freeze the event/scenario and then ask what the rules based decision is, has now actually highlighted that the individual doesnt know the rules properly in the first place, and before when a mistake happened, they could hide behind "it all happened so fast, the pressure was on, i was under pressure and i made the decision that looked right for the event".......this can then be explained away as "it was in the moment and maybe that just how they saw it under pressure and stress, and speed of the event". However, one you come in and freeze frame it, and ask them what they must do, and they still get it wrong, its just proving that they actually didnt know what they were doing in the first place, they were making it up as they went along and hiding behind excuses that you couldnt prove werent true.....but VAR/freezing the event has now exposed a level of incompetence/low level of competence, and the mistakes are still happening. Now, maybe this isnt corruption, maybe its just incompetence that was always there, and it was excused due to mitigating circumstances, but now the event can be frozen, they actually still dont know, and it now exposes the true reason, which is incompetence and lack of competency. ie: Hanlon's Razor states: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. After all that, im not saying there isnt some bias, and maybe even some corruption at times, but i would honestly propose that 80-90% of it is what i say above, just incompetence that was always there, that is now exposed to a higher degree, and the excuses for making the mistakes removed, but they still happen. ie: incompetence, not actually knowing all the rules, and applying them wrong because they didnt actually know how to in the first place, in many cases.

Lo Celso is a superbly gifted player, technically exactly the type of player Emery seems to love. Im not really saying we should or shouldnt be in for him as a squad player, but he is technically superb and i have personally thought he has looked very good whenever i have seen him play for spurs. maybe he is inconsistent and not overly good at times, dunno, but when i have seen him, he is very easy on the eye.

so Leeds can only max out at 93 points now. Ipswich on 89 points, with 3 to play for them. Ipswich's to throw away i guess?

seems we are just after midgets this summer.

VAR isnt the problem, it works just fine in other sports and could work great in football. The problem is the astronomic levels of incompetence of the bodies and people implementing it. You can have the best system in the world, but if its implemented by incompetent idiots, its going to be terrible.

just wait for the VT'ers saying he is clearly good enough to challenge Watkins and should stay in the squad to be able to prove himself and be the main striker backup, cus "he's good enough".

no way. good player, but for 100m, nope. We need to be finding these players before they are a 100m player, we arent really in a position to be spunking 100m on players i dont think.

they didnt have Palmer versus Arsenal, i assume he will be back for us?

i would love Olise, he is quality, but i would guess he would spunk most of our budget, so probably not a good signing with that in mind. However, we need to be finding these players before they command 60m+, ie: like Palace did with Eze and Olise for a combined 20m ish, or Spam did with Bowen (18m ish), or Leicester did with Maddison, Mahrez, Kante etc etc. also ie:, hopefully like we have with Rogers. I can see us getting some leftfield signings this summer, mixed in with some "normal" ones.