villa4europe Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 the cynic in me says that rather than them having several kids floating around the 1st team that ultimately don't make it (which PSG have the luxury of doing, they usually have 4/5 youngsters per season in the squad) and being sold for 5m they can send them to the inflated world of English football so when they don't make the cut at PSG they are still sellable but at a higher rate, use the championship to put them in a more lucrative shop window, whilst at the same time the standard is higher If PSG's owners had bought us last summer and sent us adli, weah, nkunku instead of us getting Abraham, carroll and tuanzebe then I doubt we would have moaned too much, if we'd have got lo celso... zagadou went to Dortmund on a free with a fee of 125k having to be paid, send him to the championship for a year and you can pretty much guarantee that doesn't happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 the FA have announced that they will be providing non alcoholic champagne at the FA cup final for religious and cultural reasons cant believe they are so naive to blow their trumpet in this manner they dont have to announce it they could have just done it and no one watching would have noticed they could have said it was because the players drinking no longer reflects the modern game and the players didnt want it they sold the naming rights to the FA cup to a alcohol company 2 years back i think? Last month they announced bud as the womens national teams official beer partner, a deal they already have with the mens team its not bullshit because of the PC world gone mad right wing nonsense that is following the news, its bullshit because of the FA and how they've done it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 12 minutes ago, villa4europe said: the FA have announced that they will be providing non alcoholic champagne at the FA cup final for religious and cultural reasons cant believe they are so naive to blow their trumpet in this manner they dont have to announce it they could have just done it and no one watching would have noticed they could have said it was because the players drinking no longer reflects the modern game and the players didnt want it they sold the naming rights to the FA cup to a alcohol company 2 years back i think? Last month they announced bud as the womens national teams official beer partner, a deal they already have with the mens team its not bullshit because of the PC world gone mad right wing nonsense that is following the news, its bullshit because of the FA and how they've done it Ross McCormack will never be motivated to win a trophy now...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted April 26, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2019 I don't think this is bad at all - in fact, I think it's genius - but I didn't know where else to put it and didn't want to start a new thread: 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 The Tim Sherwood press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Juve's owner Agnelli has officially proposed his tiered European competition with promotion / relegation it begins... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Let them, give it 3 years before games played in empty sradiums. I wouldnt want Villa to be apart of it For all Champions League flaws some big games are rare. United vs Barcelona didmt play in nearly a decade. Liverpool vs Bayerm even longer. People will get bored of it soon enough especially if a big team like United or Milan is whipping boys 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I'd rather just **** the "Big Six" off altogether. Let them have their European Super League and the teams they "leave behind" can fight it out for a proper English Championship. The disparity is so great now I don't think they'd be missed and the league would be so much more competitive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 26, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Don_Simon said: I'd rather just **** the "Big Six" off altogether. Let them have their European Super League and the teams they "leave behind" can fight it out for a proper English Championship. The disparity is so great now I don't think they'd be missed and the league would be so much more competitive. Thing is, if the money in the English game remained the same, another big 6 would just emerge and we'd have the same situation. I guess the advantage would be someone else could be part of it. But then again I guess the danger is the money in the English game disappears because the focus is on the European league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I love the assumption from them that the big 6 would all be invited to join... a league with 6 English clubs, 2 la liga, 4 serie a and so on, wont happen, the "what are you bringing to the table" conversation will be interesting because I think spurs shiny new stadium is one thing but their global fanbase and revenue they generate (without the PL cash) is another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 City dont really have the major fanbase either yet. Spurs being in London would be lucrative for a Super League Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 3 London teams? city would buy their place in it via their ability to sponsor themselves and inflate market value along with PSG Liverpool have the fanbase but not won the league in how long? what are arsenal doing right now? utd and Chelsea have also gone a bit shit, spurs are riding the wave but stil not actually done anything yet like I said it would be interesting! I don't think all 6 would get in, especially if it meant the exclusion of other countries teams, there is definitely an imbalance, you could argue that juve, inter, milan, Napoli, roma and Lazio are all "big" clubs too, what do you do with sevilla and Valencia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Its interesting if it is 16 teams how they would choose them. Rough draft for me would be below. Probably missing somebody but think 1st 14 be near guaranteed with another French team thrown in for a "derby". Last spot could be anybody Benfica, Porto, Ajax, Roma is no huge team but I just put RB in as have the money to buy a spot Real Madrid Barcelona Atletico Bayern Dortmund Juventus Inter Milan Man Utd Liverpool Chelsea Spurs City Arsenal Lyon RB Leipzig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I think Monaco would be in over Lyon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 you missed off PSG! lyon have a lot more good recent history than they are given credit for and the shame is they have some good young talent at the moment that they will be stripped of, Marseille would probably have a winge about not being the 2nd French team though i tried 20 teams and had ajax, Napoli, Benfica and Porto in there, the 3rd German team is hard because there's no consistency, schalke / Leverkusen / RB but 16 teams and 6 of them are English? 40% of the competition comes from England? that wont happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 3 minutes ago, villa4europe said: you missed off PSG! lyon have a lot more good recent history than they are given credit for and the shame is they have some good young talent at the moment that they will be stripped of, Marseille would probably have a winge about not being the 2nd French team though i tried 20 teams and had ajax, Napoli, Benfica and Porto in there, the 3rd German team is hard because there's no consistency, schalke / Leverkusen / RB but 16 teams and 6 of them are English? 40% of the competition comes from England? that wont happen! I had PSG I must have deleted them ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 So at age 24, in his 7th season as a pro Raheem Sterling is awarded "Young player of the season" in the PL. Really should change the rules for that one. Not that Sterling doesn't deserve an award, he's been great. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 To be fair plenty of players break through at 23 or thereabouts, I think it's more about the fact that he's an established player now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 james milner will be gutted needs to be closer to the rookie of the year award, maybe change it to "breakthrough" or something like that and then you're talking the palace RB, Maddison maybe Harvey barnes etc as it is its just a 2nd place in the main vote safety net, sterling should have beat VVD but its ok cos he can still get young player 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 11 minutes ago, sne said: So at age 24, in his 7th season as a pro Raheem Sterling is awarded "Young player of the season" in the PL. Really should change the rules for that one. Not that Sterling doesn't deserve an award, he's been great. Yes hes been around too long to be classed as a young player. I except also he has had a great season but the football writers naming him as their player of the year is a nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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