Demitri_C Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Great news and exciting. Can send some of our crappy players there if need be. Also i assume we can use them to loan out players that need work permits. The othwr goid thing is we could send our younger players out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post useless Posted February 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2023 First season when we started investing in academy we were able to bring in the likes of Bogarde, Swinkels, and Zych in, brexit rules put a stop to that as can no longer sign players from the EU under the age of eighteen, but now with something like this we still can't technically sign sixteen or seventeen year olds from EU, but a way around it might be to have them go Vitoria's academy first and then come to us when they turn eighteen, and that could work both ways. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishVilla10 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 https://twitter.com/preeceobserver/status/1625620525815930883?s=46&t=In4e7X7XDvtJGz5rdeNv8g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted February 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2023 11 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Within the context of 2023 professional football, this is a good move for the V Sports Corporation family. It's **** disgusting that this is allowed though. I'm not sure what the "confused" reactions are about. I guess the question is whether you view the City Football Group and other global football brands to be an abomination to football, or a blueprint to aspire to. Our owners clearly feel the latter, and I **** hate it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Interesting that villas social media have announced it suggesting they'll definitley be actively linking the 2 clubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) cool, does that mean we can enjoy being a feeder club for a club who is top 5 in their league? I look forward to all the 17 year old Portuguese loanees coming our way. I for one, welcome our new Portuguese Overlords. Edited February 14, 2023 by MaVilla 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 11 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said: https://twitter.com/preeceobserver/status/1625620525815930883?s=46&t=In4e7X7XDvtJGz5rdeNv8g Shit players cost more than 5.5 million Euros... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 8 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I'm not sure what the "confused" reactions are about. I guess the question is whether you view the City Football Group and other global football brands to be an abomination to football, or a blueprint to aspire to. Our owners clearly feel the latter, and I **** hate it. If we've done it so that we can sign youngsters and ship them over there before getting them in to the UK it is a bit ropey isn't it? City to me did go a bit worse and seemed to buy football clubs splashed with etihad in regions that then also announced new flight destinations like one big walking advert, I'm convin Ed it's why they bought the Indian team, now they've got so many it's almost because they've got nothing better to do, same with red bull, both can be more on the nose associated with branding 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 9 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I'm not sure what the "confused" reactions are about. I guess the question is whether you view the City Football Group and other global football brands to be an abomination to football, or a blueprint to aspire to. Our owners clearly feel the latter, and I **** hate it. I fully agree, its great as a football club but it stinks for the sport especially when a lot on here are happy to criticise City sports group etc We have just took a club with a great history and pretty made much them our bitch and ruined any chance of them being successful. There fans should be rightfully livid Football is a disgrace 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, Zatman said: I fully agree, its great as a football club but it stinks for the sport especially when a lot on here are happy to criticise City sports group etc We have just took a club with a great history and pretty made much them our bitch and ruined any chance of them being successful. There fans should be rightfully livid Football is a disgrace They’ll probably be in Europe next season, we won’t. Maybe we’re their feeder club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Zatman said: We have just took a club with a great history and pretty made much them our bitch and ruined any chance of them being successful. These are massive leaps based on nothing. How do you know any of this to be true? If people can't stomach the business side of football, and doing what it takes to grow our club as a brand and make it more competitive on the world stage etc. Then they also need to stop moaning about things like signing players, aspiring for Europe and all the other fancy things they want. Maybe some people should just start supporting the Sunday League club in their town. ( Preferably one which uses eco friendly materials throughout the whole structure and pay UNICEF to sponsor them ) For all you know, they could be giving that club a new lease of life with a mutually beneficial partnership. It seems many want all the perks of being a brilliant, modern football club but don't want any of the capitalism involved. Which is unrealistic. Edited February 14, 2023 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted February 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2023 5 minutes ago, Zatman said: I fully agree, its great as a football club but it stinks for the sport especially when a lot on here are happy to criticise City sports group etc We have just took a club with a great history and pretty made much them our bitch and ruined any chance of them being successful. There fans should be rightfully livid Football is a disgrace I'd argue Porto, benfica and sporting pretty much ruin any chance of them being successful 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Good. We've needed this for a long while given the stage of our development. Rumoured we were interesting in linking with them a few years ago so was obviously something in it and Portugal is an excellent league for developing up and coming players from South America so that could come to fruition for us aswell. Is Suliman still playing for them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThunderPower_14 Posted February 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2023 3 minutes ago, Zatman said: I fully agree, its great as a football club but it stinks for the sport especially when a lot on here are happy to criticise City sports group etc We have just took a club with a great history and pretty made much them our bitch and ruined any chance of them being successful. There fans should be rightfully livid Football is a disgrace I don't think this automatically means Vitoria become a purely feeder club for us. They're too big a club for that. It's in our best interest to keep both clubs strong. I'd expect us to work together for mutual benefit. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 43 minutes ago, AndyM3000 said: I think it's difficult for us to get players from South America due to work permit issues, potentially they could go here for a few years first now. Brighton signing Moise Caciedo and then loaning him out to a partner club in Belgium for a year is perfect example of how this could work. Portugal league higher standard and Guimaraes are in europe fairly regularly so it's an amazing opportunity. If we'd done this a year ago could've sent Archer for a season as an example. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: These are massive leaps based on nothing. How do you know any of this to be true? If people can't stomach the business side of football, and doing what it takes to grow our club as a brand and make it more competitive on the world stage etc. Then they also need to stop moaning about things like signing players, aspiring for Europe and all the other fancy things they want. Maybe some people should just start supporting the Sunday League club in their town. ( Preferably one which uses eco friendly materials throughout the whole structure and pay UNICEF to sponsor them ) For all you know, they could be giving that club a new lease of life with a mutually beneficial partnership. It seems many want all the perks of being a brilliant football club but don't want any of the capitalism involved. Which is unrealistic. Not sure why us buying a Portuguese team has any connection with us looking for European football unless we are going to buy the licence from them next season How would you feel if PSG or Red Bull bought us in the Championship as a feeder team and we lost all our independence. This is not far off it, sort of sickened the club are trying this City style model 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 minute ago, VillaChris said: Brighton signing Moise Caciedo and then loaning him out to a partner club in Belgium for a year is perfect example of how this could work. Portugal league higher standard and Guimaraes are in europe fairly regularly so it's an amazing opportunity. If we'd done this a year ago could've sent Archer for a season as an example. Caicedo had a lot of international caps and just played at the Copa America. He also went to a club Brighton dont own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Maybe some people should just start supporting the Sunday League club in their town. In all seriousness, you're probably right, because while this pair saved the club from bankruptcy, everything they do on the business side of things fills me with revulsion. I want to support a football club, not a globally diversified sports corporation. One for the Game's Gone thread. Edited February 14, 2023 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 They aren't going to become a feeder club for us, it's probably very rare that they will even have players that we consider good enough for our team. Main benefit will probably be somewhere to send our youngsters, but they aren't just going to accept any academy players, will have to be ones that are genuinely good enough, so probably talking ones that have at least shown they good for Championship level. Maybe they can benefit from some of our older players too, Traore would have probably been better off going there first half of the season rather than Turkey for example. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 25 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I'm not sure what the "confused" reactions are about. I guess the question is whether you view the City Football Group and other global football brands to be an abomination to football, or a blueprint to aspire to. Our owners clearly feel the latter, and I **** hate it. Clubs in portugal welcome the model of buying exceptional potential young players for reasonable amounts and then selling them on for huge fees to premier league sides like Enzo and Darwin Nunez, it's how they survive so from their side there are no big issues. I don't think Vitoria Guimaraes will be wearing claret and blue anytime soon, that would be a step too far and what Man. City have imposed on their newly created feeder clubs around the globe. I think continental link ups work o.k, rather that than the mooted idea years back of clubs lower down the English pyramid just becoming feeder clubs which would quickly destroy the heritage, thankfully it stopped at B teams going into the paintpot trophy and no more. It's an interesting debate but I think we're just about on the right side of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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