HanoiVillan Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Demitri_C said: You been watching the games? Any decent talent you seen? Just looking around online, their two attackers have some of the best output stats in the league but are both the wrong side of 30. Harder to find useful stats for those in midfield or defence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishywashy Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 https://www.vissel-kobe.co.jp/news/article/22259.html Quote Vissel Kobe President Yuki Senbu, Sports Director Hideki Nagai, and Academy Department Director Akihiro Miyamoto paid a visit to Aston Villa FC (UK: hereinafter referred to as "Aston Villa"). Vissel Kobe U-18 players Kaito Yamada and Kento Hamasaki also participated in training at Aston Villa's academy. From October 29 (Sun.) to November 3 (Fri., national holiday), they watched a game at Villa Park, exchanged opinions with Mr. Ramón Rodriguez Verdejo, general manager of Aston Villa's football department, had a meeting with the strengthening department, and received feedback from the academy staff after participating in practice. The visit to the club was a meaningful time for the young players. This visit to the clubs will be the first step in the establishment of a pathway that includes support for young players to move overseas and player development, as well as a program to train leaders, exchange personnel between clubs, and exchange programs in the youth age group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sne Posted November 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2023 Wonder if we could be something Rakuten are interested in sponsoring? They are huge and supposedly looking to expand. Sponsored Barca a couple years ago did they not? Would sure beat having dodgy betting sponsors all over the kit. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 2 minutes ago, sne said: Wonder if we could be something Rakuten are interested in sponsoring? They are huge and supposedly looking to expand. Sponsored Barca a couple years ago did they not? Would sure beat having dodgy betting sponsors all over the kit. DEEP pockets as well. You may be onto something, apparently Rakuten have stake is Vissel Kobe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 2 hours ago, sne said: Wonder if we could be something Rakuten are interested in sponsoring? They are huge and supposedly looking to expand. Sponsored Barca a couple years ago did they not? Would sure beat having dodgy betting sponsors all over the kit. This is another thing it will open for us. New sponsorship opportunities. No more crappy gambling sites 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishywashy Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 https://www.diariovasco.com/deportes/futbol/primera-rfef/emery-mantendran-mayoria-accionarial-tras-acuerdo-aston-20231114215619-nt.html?vca=dgtk-rrss-dv&vso=tw&vmc=social&_tcode=MnZhbWoy Quote The Emery family will continue to have shareholder control of Real Unión after the signing of the collaboration agreement with Aston Villa, which in principle indicates that it will be for the next four years, and which the Txuri Beltz club hopes to sign shortly, once it has terminated his contract with Real Sociedad. These are some details of the operation that the Emery family and Aston Villa have been 'cooking' for weeks and which were revealed this Tuesday on the Kirolak Gaur program. In principle, the agreement, which is close to being signed, would not initially entail the entry into ownership of Real Unión by V Sports , the company that owns the Birmingham club and which a few months ago acquired, for example, 29% of the actions of the Portuguese Vitoria de Guimaraes. It would be a sporting collaboration that would be accompanied by an economic endowment that would not solve the economic problems that the Irundaran entity has been experiencing in recent years as a consequence, fundamentally, of the deficient television contracts that it had to sign with the Spanish Federation, but that would mean an important relief for the club's economy, since it would greatly exceed the contribution made by Real Sociedad. The Real Unión, as this newspaper already reported , communicated its intentions to the Royal Society and the Guipuzcoan Federation and has recently done the same with the Irun City Council. It has also been known that Unai Emery has been in the city a few days ago to be present at some relevant meetings and that he had a talk with the first team coach, Fran Justo. At Real Unión they consider that this new collaboration with Aston Villa, in addition to being a more than interesting economic injection, will provide the club with new tools with which to attempt an assault on professional football. The club's next steps are to terminate the contract with Real, finish closing the agreement with Aston Villa and make its details public and then explain the entire process at the Shareholders' Meeting that will take place next month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 10 hours ago, wishywashy said: https://www.diariovasco.com/deportes/futbol/primera-rfef/emery-mantendran-mayoria-accionarial-tras-acuerdo-aston-20231114215619-nt.html?vca=dgtk-rrss-dv&vso=tw&vmc=social&_tcode=MnZhbWoy I mean Emery owns Real Union so this is a good indicator of long term? I think they are similar to us in technically one of the most successful clubs in Spain but won most of their stuff 100 years ago. Just without the relative success we still have, think they are usually in the 2nd/3rd division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted November 15, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2023 19 hours ago, Demitri_C said: This is another thing it will open for us. New sponsorship opportunities. No more crappy gambling sites Scenes when the new sponsor turns out to be " Japan's Largest Betting site " 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 1 hour ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Scenes when the new sponsor turns out to be " Japan's Largest Betting site " Nintendo please 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 8 hours ago, VillaJ100 said: I mean Emery owns Real Union so this is a good indicator of long term? I think they are similar to us in technically one of the most successful clubs in Spain but won most of their stuff 100 years ago. Just without the relative success we still have, think they are usually in the 2nd/3rd division Use the word successful quite loosely. They only won 3 Spanish cups before the 30s.l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 On 14/11/2023 at 19:25, Demitri_C said: You been watching the games? Any decent talent you seen? Only been watching highlights, but as HanoiVillan said, both Osako and Muto who are the main attacking threats, are both over 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 (edited) Probably better off looking at the Kobe youth teams for players we might sign, they have a few in Japan's U16 national team squad, midfielder Kento Hamasaki seems to have good stats, can't go by anything else as haven't seen him play. Edit: here's some highlights, and now just seen that he's actually been training with us along with Kaito Yamada Edited November 16, 2023 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Seems that Vissel Kobe don't have a U21 team, was looking at their U18s and they're second in their league, one point off top place, which seems to be pretty good going,especially considering their squad has the youngest average age in division at sixteen years old and seven months, seven of them are Japan youth internationals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 1 hour ago, useless said: Seems that Vissel Kobe don't have a U21 team, was looking at their U18s and they're second in their league, one point off top place, which seems to be pretty good going,especially considering their squad has the youngest average age in division at sixteen years old and seven months, seven of them are Japan youth internationals. No real shock we've paired with them then, as that seems to be the plan for our youth teams too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted November 16, 2023 Author Share Posted November 16, 2023 (edited) What clubs are in the portfolio/partnered with Obviously Us, then Vitoria, Real Union, ZED FC, MC Algiers and Vissell Kobe? Could really do with a team in the benelux, the nordic countries and a couple in SA to round out the portfolio. I also think we would be interested in investing in south Korea too. Son is basically the most popular person in history over there so you have to imagine that football among their youths is going to massively spike over the next 5-10 years and they'll start producing talent near the bottom level of France, Spain, England, Germany and Italy. Edited November 16, 2023 by MotoMkali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 We did have a satelite academy in Finland, was originally West Brom's but we took it over when Harrison and Hopcroft left them to join us, not sure if it's still in operation, but the FDSA - our satelite academy in the East Midlands, that were in charge of it, is still being run by us, as they were advertising for a new coach last month with Aston Villa listed as the employer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjsg Posted November 16, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2023 Wasnt there a link to an academy in Senegal too or did I imagine that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 According to the Vitoria president V Sports own the largest training complex in Senegal, he also suggested there's going to be some sort of link up with South America, not sure if he means with another club, or with a standalone academy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 Mo Negm young left-back from Zed has had an extended trial with us instagram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishywashy Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 (edited) Vissel Kobe just need 1 win in their final 2 games to win the J1 League. Promising. Edited November 24, 2023 by wishywashy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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