villa89 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Anthony Martial's new deal will see him earn £65m in wages over the next five years. Eye watering.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 13 minutes ago, villa89 said: Anthony Martial's new deal will see him earn £65m in wages over the next five years. Eye watering.... He has potential to be a top player and if honest I dont begrudge top players getting these salaries Its the average player that become millionaires like Bolasie, Eric Dier, Gabby etc that really annoys me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Zatman said: He has potential to be a top player and if honest I dont begrudge top players getting these salaries Its the average player that become millionaires like Bolasie, Eric Dier, Gabby etc that really annoys me It's the agents being millionaires that really annoys me. Talentless leeches. Edited January 31, 2019 by villa89 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 its the notion that if you run your finances vigilantly you can compete with teams that can pay players £250,000 a week that really annoys me aston villa will never be able to be able to compete with man utd, its the rules 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Nothing strange or dodgy about Qatar running European football, right? Quote He gives his middle finger to anyone who loves football To the right is a waving Xavi and a debating Kim Källström to steal our attention. All at the same time as Qatar in our dead angle to the left, chewing on the football we love continues. For you have not missed that Qatar will soon also be at the top of Europe's (!) Most powerful football organization? While Kim Källström debates with Amnesty about whether the conditions for the slave workers in Qatar have improved significantly or not and the World Cup ambassador Xavi celebrates his tips for the Asian championships, the small oil dictatorship Qatar has, under strange silence, placed his blood-red fists on another power position in the world football. This time within the European (!) Football Association. Issued for bribes and crimes against Uefa's rules Europe's (ECA) big clubs have long put pressure on Uefa to gain greater influence on the organization's work and in March 2017 won a great victory when it was decided that two representatives of the ECA should also be full members of Uefa's highest decision-making body, the Executive Committee. In September of the same year, Juventus Andrea Agnelli and Arsenal's Ivan Gazidis were appointed representatives, but when Gazidis changed club to Milan this season, the ECA was forced to change the decision as both members could not represent clubs in one and the same country. Last week, it was announced that PSG's President Nasser Al-Khelaifi will take Gazidis's chair in Uefa on Thursday. So why is this controversial? Without even embarking on the appropriateness of having a representative of Qatar's regime (Al-Khelaifi's close friend of the Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani emir) in Ufa's highest decision-making body, we may be content to list some purely football-related issues: Asser Nasser Al-Khelaifi is also the head of the TV company BeIn Sport, which regularly purchases TV rights from Uefa. So the 45-year-old will now be in the highest decision-making body in both the buyer and the seller of the rights. A fairly clear conflict of interest. In 2017, Swiss investigators accused Al-Khelaifi of mutating Fifa's Secretary General Jerome Valcke in connection with the purchase of the broadcasting rights to the World Cup 2026 and 2030. The 45-year-old was interrogated, among other things, about the fact that he provided Valke with an Italian luxury villa but has not yet been convicted of some crime. Falke, on the other hand, was suspended from all football activities for ten years in order to break seven different points in Uefa's ethical rules. In 2014, Al-Khelaifi's club PSG was fined over 200 million for breaking Uefa's financial regulations. In 2017, Uefa opened a new investigation against the club and in November 2018, the site presented the Football Leaks document which they claimed showed how the European Football Association helped PSG circumvent the regulations. Asser Nasser Al-Khelaifi is also a member of Qatar's organizing committee for the World Cup in 2022. An organization which, as recently as Tuesday, is again criticized by Amnesty for the slave-like conditions that the workers who build the country's world championships are forced to live under. Yes, that with the World Cup 2022 yes ... We may well remind ourselves of how it actually went from the very beginning. Got the World Cup after meeting the UEFA president In November 2010, French President Nikola Sarkozy organized a lunch with Qatar's Crown Prince Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thanii, Ufa's President Michel Platini and Nasser Al-Khelaifi. After the meeting, Qatar bought the financially bleeding football club PSG (which Sarkozy supports as an event) and, through a new TV deal, also rescued the emerging French league. Platini's son Laurent, in turn, got a place in the management of the government investment fund's Qatar Sports Investment and the UEFA president himself chose to change his vote from the US to Qatar as a World Cup organizer. The latter has admitted Platini, as well as saying that during lunch he was asked to do just that, but that it would depend on the actual meeting he continues to deny. Fifa's choice to give the World Cup to Qatar instead of the USA was the start of the FBI investigation that would fall both Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini. Platini was then replaced by Aleksander Ceferin, who was chosen for promises to increase transparency and clean up the corrupt organization. Now Ceferin gets one of the main characters for the entire football crisis of crisis as the closest employee. A person who thus gets as much voting rights as the 19 other representatives around Uefa's entire work. On Thursday, Nasser Al-Khelaifi will officially take place in Uefa's highest decision-making body. He does it with a big middle finger directed at all of us who love football https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/oRrlEa/han-ger-langfingret-till-alla-som-alskar-fotboll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 forget his nationality the TV links and his club's constant flagrant behaviour towards the rules should be enough to send up the warning flare the interesting thing is why he has been elected, they havent elected him because he will open the back door to his own TV company for the benefit of himself, there has to be something in it for everyone else too, not sure what his powers actually are or who he beat to win it, if he ends FFP to the benefit of PSG who gone on to spend £1bn and win the CL for the next 10 years then to be honest i dont really care anymore, it probably means a good thing as a villa fan with 2 wealthy owners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Barcelona had shirts printed up with their players names in Chinese on the back for tonight's game. Pandering a bit to the Chinese marked during their new year. The Spanish FA stopped them thou so they had to switch before the kick off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 It's worse in the NBA. Some teams have their name written in Chinese characters such as Houston & Golden State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Weird the attitude to the FA cup these days. Watching a mix of West Brom youth and reserve team on prime time BBC1, playing infront of what looks like about 5k at the Hawthorns. Surely something needs to be done about it. If teams dont want to be in it, then why enter? Or is it like a cup for your second xi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, turvontour said: Weird the attitude to the FA cup these days. Watching a mix of West Brom youth and reserve team on prime time BBC1, playing infront of what looks like about 5k at the Hawthorns. Surely something needs to be done about it. If teams dont want to be in it, then why enter? Or is it like a cup for your second xi? And the few fans there merrily singing SOTV as they head out of the cup having been in front late on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 16 minutes ago, Hornso said: It's worse in the NBA. Some teams have their name written in Chinese characters such as Houston & Golden State. That looks photoshopped and don't they play in vests in the NBA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Just now, bannedfromHandV said: That looks photoshopped and don't they play in vests in the NBA? It isn't and not always. They've experimented with sleeves over the past decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 1 hour ago, turvontour said: Weird the attitude to the FA cup these days. Watching a mix of West Brom youth and reserve team on prime time BBC1, playing infront of what looks like about 5k at the Hawthorns. Surely something needs to be done about it. If teams dont want to be in it, then why enter? Or is it like a cup for your second xi? The FA cup should offer a Champions League spot instead of the league but authorities afraid to offer it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 2 hours ago, chappy said: And the few fans there merrily singing SOTV as they head out of the cup having been in front late on also singing one smelly bastard at Gaeten Bong for which Chris Hughton wants an investigation by the FA as in his own words "it is unfair as he (Bong) is an upright, respectable individual" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 13 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: also singing one smelly bastard at Gaeten Bong for which Chris Hughton wants an investigation by the FA as in his own words "it is unfair as he (Bong) is an upright, respectable individual" Wasnt Bong the player Jay Rodriguez racially abused. Baggies the midlands Liverpool Probably bring out t-shirts next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 No, he motioned that his breath smelt after some handbags nonsense. That explains the chant as well. Not sure why it was turned into a race thing at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 11 hours ago, turvontour said: Or is it like a cup for your second xi? Its been that for years. Play your second eleven and see if you can squeeze into a semi final and then play your first team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 The worst thing being a trip to Wembley is on the cards this year, Man City and Chelsea are the only big boys left in it, said in the wolves thread if they sacrifice the FA cup to finish 8th when they are arguably the 3rd best team left in the cup they should be embarrassed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 4 minutes ago, villa4europe said: The worst thing being a trip to Wembley is on the cards this year, Man City and Chelsea are the only big boys left in it, said in the wolves thread if they sacrifice the FA cup to finish 8th when they are arguably the 3rd best team left in the cup they should be embarrassed Still quite fancy Wolves or Palace to win it. They are both capable of beating the big boys on their day and playing Bristol City & Doncaster in the next round should pretty much guarantee they are both in the 1/4 final.I know City have a big squad but they will be playing an awful lot of games in Feb/March/April if they are still in everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 don't they still get a Europa League place for winning the FA Cup? I Imagine that's something Wolves will be interested in. It's another showcase window to display their merchandise, and for a lot of their foreign players at least that cup is not seen as a joke and they actually want to play in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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