tomav84

Think this is massively unfair (particularly implying racism with the skeptics among us) I have seen only valid questions being raised: "No experience", "Need stability" etc...not everyone will agree with those questions, but they're perfectly valid arguments. I've seen no "I just dont want/like him" posts from anyone. We have just faced a real possibility of administration and seem to be out of the woods on that front, but still do seem like we're going to have to sell the best young talent we've had in years, so i think the "Henry haters" can be forgiven for not being 100% jazzed about another upheaval less than 2 weeks before the start of the season.

because he's younger than 50? played as a striker? i cannot think of any other logic people are using aside from pure guesswork

if he's not good enough unless there's a DOF on board then he's not good enough full stop...

I just cant see these Henry rumours being anything but a bad thing. the club needs stability now more than ever. and i just cant believe we're fortunate enough for henry to be the next wagner.

100% in

**** it...call the ground abu dhabi park for 300m sponsorship...FFP solved and we'll win the prem in 2020 while we're at it

that was fake news according to Xia's letter...

normally i would say that folks would want the player sooner than later...not just risk of losing out, also so that they can use him in friendlies, integrate him with the team, and condition him the way they want ready for the start of the season. but this isnt a normal scenario and i unfortunately think that deadline day is going to be quite a busy one for us, for all the wrong reasons

and maybe publicly naming them could be an attempt to start a bidding war? do people really think he would have given such a candid interview without consulting the owners first? but of course, as others have said, people will find any old stick to beat him with

for many, there is literally nothing that he could have said that they would have liked

was this purely correcting facts for correcting facts' sake or actual support for getting that clown in as our manager? definite step down from bruce for me

in this day and age, a player refusing a move for financially more than a typical lottery win (bearing in mind he'll pocket a nice % of the transfer fee) because he wants to stay at his boyhood club would be unprecedented and frankly, just wouldnt happen. if they accept a bid, he's off unfortunately. the plus for us is that considering we are apparently his boyhood club is that he's unlikely to throw his toys out the pram if he doesn't get a prem move. he's unlikely to get into the england squad in the near future in any case...#itscominghome

i would imagine this situation is different...i guess the only line that he might be spun that he could be stitched up on is "if we sell jack for £30m then you'll have £10m of that to spend"

backroom staff generally refers to the coaching team hence my confusion

who else except round and some medical fella have left? did i miss something?

it's because of teams like bournemouth (and i think wolves and leicester) that they have now changed the rules to include points deduction as well as fine

if that's all he said then yes 100% i agree. if he elaborated and said "Give me four years and I can make us a solid, viable Championship club that can aim at the play offs from a firm footing OR we can go for promotion straight away but failure would result in crippling the club financially to the point that administration would be a very real possibility" then i doubt there would have been much stringing from lampposts going on

i will always get it every year, but inevitably get bored...i've got villa to the most reputable club in the world, beat real madrid's record (5) of most consecutive champ league wins, and it just becomes dull. it's almost more fun when you're struggling. bring on FM2019 though...

i dont care where jack goes...as long as it's not spurs...i really cannot stand that club and would devastate me to see him in that shirt and £15m is a piss take. that gets you hogan with a relatively small amount of change in today's market. i cant believe people are saying 15m + onomah would be a good deal

and bruce don't foget

A few weeks earlier, Wyness, along with director of football Steve Round, had delivered a presentation to Xia at Bodymoor Heath, outlining the two courses of action that would be taken once Villa had qualified for the end-of-season lottery English football calls the play-offs. Xia received the news. Didn't blink. Didn't move a muscle. Did not utter one single word. The three-minute silence was eventually broken by Rongtien He, Xia's eyes and ears at Villa Park. assuming wyness, round, TX and RH were the only ones in the room, this was written by either round or wyness...or it's BS...either is possible considering the source

different circumstances unfortunately (well, actually fortunately, could you imagine another tragedy like that) and they quite rightly had a fair amount of help to get them through things a better comparison would be Southampton, but FFP wasnt so much of an issue back then

exactly...if villa were to make a statement saying "Bruce will be our manager next season" it would certainly be the first time i've seen such a statement from any club...you assume they will be unless you see the skysports yellow bar saying they've been sacked

yes because a) that rag has history of totally inventing stories and b) because said rag has a history of disliking villa (and all other midlands clubs)

well davis did well when he came in...o'hare and green too in their limited games. as for the others the jury's out cause we havent seen them at this level