villanmac

Global reaction lol. The only thing everyone unanimously agrees on is the old badge is sh*t.

Looks like this years theme is a celebration of Burnley's return to top flight football. How can you f**k up a villa shirt, its not hard.

Good first game to sharpen the minds in pre-season.

We barely conceded a goal in the last 10 games yet i can recall him being at fault for two of them. He did have a great season, having him stepping at left back when we only had Digne and at right back for Cash was massive for us. But now we need a new right back, we already have two left backs. In the cold light of day its the right decision.

We're keeping the Christian Purslow went to Spain song though yeah?

Well that's took the light coating of gloss off that trophy.

ffs get on with it villa

It's only getting coverage because of the VAR policy of having the linesman keeping his flag down. Under the old rules no one would pick it up on it and it'd be villa nullified spurs who were absolutely shite.

It would have obviously been a board decision that Gerrard was gone if we lost to Fulham. The Sawiris losing his head thing was him just wanting it announced there and then rather than in the morning because he couldn't take another hour of him being in charge. He probably sends a text to Wes at the 70 min mark saying "**** tomorrow morning, we are sacking the useless scouse basterd now" and Wes replys "yeah, ok Nas".

Look at Brighton... We weren't beating them anyway if they had something to play for! If Spurs mess up next week then it might all work in our favour as Brighton should be home and hosed for Europa with a win v southampton and might take the foot off the pedal on the last day.

At least Brighton won't have anything to play for when we play em last game

Conf league prize money Qualified to Group Stage: €2,940,000 Match won in Group Stage: €500,000 Match drawn in Group Stage: €166,000 1st in Group Stage: €650,000 2nd in Group Stage: €325,000 Round of 16: €600,000 Quarter-final: €1,000,000 Semi-final: €2,000,000 Runner-up: €3,000,000 Champion: €5,000,000 So winning it, assuming you topped your group with 4 wins, two draws in the group gets you about EUR 15mill add additional gate receipts for 6 home games, say a EUR 1.5 million a game could be worth about about EUR 24 mill? EDIT : it actually pays quite well compared to the Europa league: Europa League prize money A victory in the group pays €630,000 and a draw €210,000. Qualified to group stage: €3,630,000 Match won in group stage: €630,000 Match drawn in group stage: €210,000 1st in group stage: €1,100,000 2nd in group stage: €550,000 Round of 16: €1,200,000 Quarter-final: €1,800,000 Semi-final: €2,800,000 Runner-up: €4,600,000 Champion: €8,600,000 Rough math but I'd say winning the Europa league with a group win 3 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss in the group ( a lot harder to achieve) would get you maybe about EUR 23 mill so + same gate receipts = 32 mill + obviously champions league next season. When you consider only getting to the semis (which is a hell of an achievement) brings that down to 26.2mill you can see why from the clubs point of view the conf league is attractive.

double post.

I hate the conference league. It's been introduced as a chance to give clubs from smaller countries the chance to enjoy longer European campaigns, which is fine..but when they are putting finals in 20k stadiums like Albania last yr and Prague this year that alone makes it clear big clubs have no business being in it. I have no problem with the concept of a Europa league for weaker nations but then when you have Roma v Feyenoord playing a final in a shed probably getting 7k fans each at best it's not fit for purpose. Ofc I know they want these big teams to prop things up and bring interest for tv etc.

The roids have absolutely torched his bonce in the last 6 months. Poor bastard. Looking forward to seeing that long diagonal to Moreno on a regular basis. Wonderful stuff.

3 mins?

We are not convincing enough physically, time and time again away from home teams are able to get a way with multiple cynical fouls in the midfield without getting booked.

Hate when they book both players in that scenario likes its fair when it obviously penalises the defender more having to play on a yellow. Should be no yellow for both.

Should be a piece of piss to pass out from the back around Costa and beat the press, just ignore the noise and keep playing

Its there cup final ain't it, words removed

Too slow on and off the ball. Kills us against a good pressing team.

Emery looks like Stevie G

This is pathetic

Clown

Well we had a good run.