HanoiVillan Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 7 minutes ago, AntrimBlack said: I agree about his potential, but it might not be that easy to coach his natural game out of him. I think he should have had a bit more football nous at this stage, he has already been coached by what would be among the best coaches available. If we do get relegated, and I refuse to give up hope, I do not think any of our young players will be leaving, they just have not shown enough for us to tempt another club. Fair point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 49 minutes ago, villa89 said: I wouldn't be surprised if they were all stuck at Villa due to their wages. Nzogbia is out of contract, Gabby will go to the middle east or USA, someone will take Richards, someone will take Traore. Erm, hopefully Lescott retires? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Fingers crossed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 1 hour ago, KHV said: Nzogbia is out of contract, Gabby will go to the middle east or USA, someone will take Richards, someone will take Traore. Erm, hopefully Lescott retires? No he won't. He has shown zero desire to do or go anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Agbonlahor, Lescott and Richards will all see out their contracts. I think we will have virtually the same squad next year as this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 ^^^I don't think so. We won't be keeping players on 60k+ wages for sure, including Adama. We'll have a £50+ million deficit with our current wage bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I hope we will keep much of the squad together. A year in the Championship, whilst a disaster for the club, would personally do some of the players some good, and hopefully they'd start the next season in the Prem with some momentum, assuming we get promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Presumably all of the new signings will have to take a pay cut if we go down (contractually). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Don't most teams keep the main team together? QPR and Hull didn't seem to lose loads and neither did Newcastle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Yeah, I'd be surprised if many go. N'Zogbia is a guaranteed departure, other high earners will be made available. Most will still be here by virtue of our investment in them and their lack of appeal to other clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 We'd be stupid to sell Adama if we go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 18 minutes ago, DCJonah said: We'd be stupid to sell Adama if we go down. We are stupid but hopefully not that stupid. The only way I can see it is if he doesn't have a relegation wage drop clause. Again I wouldn't be at all shocked if he didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I'd still pay him. He'd pretty much get us promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Question is would Adama want to play in championship? Whilst he has undoubted ability with the ball, he has shown in the odd appearance for us that off the ball he can be lazy. Looks like the type who wouldn't be bothered in championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 4 hours ago, KHV said: Nzogbia is out of contract, Gabby will go to the middle east or USA, someone will take Richards, someone will take Traore. Erm, hopefully Lescott retires? Lescott went to China in my Football Manager game and earns 215k a week. Hopefully that could happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 2 hours ago, DCJonah said: Don't most teams keep the main team together? QPR and Hull didn't seem to lose loads and neither did Newcastle. We will probably have a massive clearout. I'm sure there will be a new plan/project that pans out to be a totally shit idea. They are probably working on it now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 17, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2015 Fox addressed the wage rumours in an interview with Tom Ross. The question put to him was whether there was truth in the rumour that we couldn't play Adama because we couldn't afford to (I assume because of some appearance based clause) and I think, although I'm reading between the lines, that Fox answered the question also addressing the rumours that he's on 75k a week or whatever. He said something along the lines of "I don't know where those rumour started." "Nobody has sight of the player's contract apart from those inside the club." "There's no way he can be our most expensive player no matter how many times he starts" "[money] is nothing to do with whether he is or isn't in the team" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 14 hours ago, AntrimBlack said: Agbonlahor, Lescott and Richards will all see out their contracts. I think we will have virtually the same squad next year as this. I think your dreaming mate, i can see most of the squad leaving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 I think Richards, Lescott, possibly Okore, Amavi when fit, Gana, Sanchez, Veretout, Grealish, Gabby, Ayew are all likely to be sold on. What's worrying is if that is a championship team with some Prem quality like we're witnessing, the duffers and cloggers remaining/returning from loan are going to be league 1 standard.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) It's a whole different game from the 70's. I still remember feeling so empty and miserable, and it took a long time to get over it, believe me. Today, the game is pretty much unrecognisable from the grass roots..thr working mans game I grew up with. Am I bothered about the possibility of relegation? Sure. Will it break my heart? Nah, not any more. Edited December 17, 2015 by AValon Ooops wrong thread 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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