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5 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

Just looking and it does look correct 8 conceded in 14 home games, but 4 of those 8 goals have been in the last 3 games… and they’ve conceded 25 in the whole season home and away. 

How many would we concede in the french league?  None I recon UTV

Robbed another point

Haha

                                 Martinez

                Konsa.     Pau.     Langley

Cash.                                                 Moreno

                      Luiz.          Tielemans

Bailey.                                              Diaby

                             Watkins

I don't think Tim is going to be able to give us 3 x 90 top performances in a row so maybe have an option to have an extra CB.  Also Wet Spam play on the counter so we wouldn't be playing them at their game

6 hours ago, Taxahunter said:

No he wasn't, I'm pretty sure that your opinion has been made based on the other games that he has played, but to point him out on this game is ridiculous

Yes surprisingly my opinion has been formed by watching him play. 

He was bad yesterday, as was pretty much everyone else.  I just can't live with bad and not arsed when you're 3-0 down.  Won't miss him at all when he goes

3 hours ago, lapal_fan said:

If you watch the extended highlights, you'll see Zaniolo run from about 25 yards, after starting pressure Romero at CB.  Also, LB's/RB's should be following the runs and midfield "pass" the runner on. 

Moreno steps up to tackle Porro instead of letting Zani go for Porro and him go for Kulseski or whatever he's called. 

By the time Zani "stops trying", the ball is 5 yards ahead of him.  He shouldn't throw his arms, but he did his job, Moreno didn't do his. 

We play that way on the right too, the RB goes with the runners, the helping midfielder goes to the ball. 

This is just men wanting to tack blame on something to fix a problem that isn't there.  

No, he was terrible and more than once was out of position and making no effort to get back into shape to help out.

I've supported him until now but he's checked out and so have I

2 minutes ago, thunderball said:

It’s not working out for him, but today he turned out one of our better performances. No lacking in effort or determination, if anything he was channelling what seemingly only McGinn had in the game. 

Don’t know why it hasn’t clicked, I don’t get the impression he wants to be here though. But I cannot accept anything negative against him today.

We were watching different games. 

If you put to one side the fact he made virtually no impact on the game, he was out of position flapping his arms about and walking back to "help" his team who were a man down and getting overrun. His press is ineffective, he puts in about 70% at best and he delivers very little offensive output either.  

If only we could go back and leave Zaniolo at Galatasaray and keep Philogene...

Don't want to see him in a villa shirt again.  Watching it live you can see the majority of the time he doesn't even pretend to give a shit

Ideally we win the conference and finish 4th, and all other English teams go out asap

They're going to get mauled by city this weekend which will end their top 4 hopes.  They're conceding 20 odd chances per game, city might beat them by a record score 8-0+ imo.  

World class at moment.  Scares the **** out of everyone he plays 

28 minutes ago, tinker said:

Great game going forward, Watkins,  Bailey, Ramsey and Doug are really unstoppable at times, Superb.

Corners, still a worry, we look vulnerable to high balls we get nowhere near them...free headers

One concern is we still seem to be chasing games even when we are ahead, we don't seem to be able to slow games down and end up pushing forward to try and score more, this leads to us losing the ball and offering the opposition possession and a chance to counter. It might be the opposition but it seems more likely that we are nervous about giving games away (after previous experiences) so we try and score a hat full.

It's a small thing when we win games but it's hell to watch as a fan and this adds to the tension and pressure on the team, to me its a clear weakness in our character. Hopefully more experience will give us that strength.

Great game though,  UTV.

I have to disagree.  We used to bottle it regularly, and although we don't control every minute and teams do score against us, we show so much mental strength under Emery.  We lose that game today under most managers I can remember given where we are in the table / season imo

On 19/02/2024 at 11:44, cheltenham_villa said:

These recently released accounts are not a huge surprise for me but they really highlight the problem with the recent fixation on FFP.

Its important that we remember that FFP is about allowable LOSSES and that they are in fact that, Losses.

No other business in the world carries on running in this instance. Everytime we scrap out compliance with FFP, our owners are digging deeper into their pockets. In my experience this only happens for so long before they decide to cash in and pass the baton on. 

 

They're growing their asset.  How much did they buy the club for + how much cash they've invested is probably much smaller than what the club is now worth.  While this continues, they'll put money in imo

Is he injured yet?

Going to get spanked

Thought we started well.  Start well again, get a goal and then see what happens

1 minute ago, Jas10 said:

Bring back 2023…

Agreed

8 minutes ago, Digavilla said:

Yes agreed it's vital we get CL this season, as traditional big 6 like Chelsea/ Man U or even Spurs are in transition this season. Will be even harder next season when they find their feet, with their higher income 

It's also great to keep as many of the "big 6" out of the CL for as long as possible to damage their income and reputation globally.  It's a double whammy competitively going forward

80 point deduction incoming to Man City for cheating, and an 80 point deduction for everyone else for letting them get away with it.  Sorted.

31 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

need to sell more hotdogs and beers, clearly....

 

 

Every time I go I try but despite having 20 people serving they only sell 6 beers at half time

What's the age limit for youth academy signings as aren't the costs associated with running the academy exempt from FFP calculations?

If they are then we should fill our boots

8 minutes ago, S-Platt said:

Everytime a new TV deal is agreed that money goes straight to players and agents it rarely services debt.

I just think it could be looked at. 

Maybe it's fine as is but if teams are struggling apart from the cheating ones it's telling me something needs a slight change. 

I've always thought that if the owners guarantee the debt the club is taking on, then let them get on with it.  The problem arises when owners gamble the club's fortunes, fail, then walk away without feeling the pain.  So FFP should only apply to "non-guaranteed" debt and could then be squeezed down to a smaller figure 

I understand the delay in dealing with City.  They lied and covered up their cheating, and it will take time to prove it (although there must be proof to bring the charges in the first place). Why's Chelsea taking so long?  They've found they cheated and have admitted it to the PL, so 10 points per season + extra for the cover up and move on...

7 hours ago, ender4 said:

Partly because the punishment is because of the same year of overspend.

Extreme example:

If you make zero loss in year 1 and 2 and £130m loss in year 3, then the 3-year rolling figure for FFP is a £130m loss. This is over the £105m allowed, so a 10 point penalty.

Then Y4 you make zero loss again. The 3 year rolling period Y2-4 shows a £130m loss again, so again a 10 point penalty.  

So whilst that should technically apply, they are being penalised twice for the same bit of overspend.

Then when you look at Y3-5, same issue again! Which would then be a 30 point deduction for breaking the rules once in one year.

I'm ok with them being hit 3 times.  Otherwise a team could overspend £300 mill in one season, but a new team, win the league then get the equivalent of 3.3 points per season knocked off them (10 point deduction) as a penalty.  The rules are there, if they didn't understand them that's their problem.

12 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

£14.75m with up to £3.3m add ons

Was one of them +£3 million once he hits 20 yellow cards?