MrBlack Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Derby a fellow club of the first ever football league. Proper history. Nottingham Forest a fellow European Cup winner. I'd prefer teams with a longer history to make it back to the top flight than teams without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 52 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Which is why I'm glad it's them Fulham and Bournemouth are both boring as **** and Huddersfield... Well they're Huddersfield Same as I like Brentford being a PL team, they're just more interesting 'uddersfield have won the league title more than forest. Borderline interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 The history and the "proper" club stuff doesn't bother me, I just want an end to the too good for the EFL not good enough for the PL revolving door to end Got no interest in Norwich, Watford, Bournemouth, Fulham, baggies etc Give me a Forest after 20 years, Preston, Luton even Millwall any day of the week For example I'd rather Sheffield Wednesday came up than Sheffield Utd, nothing to do with history or size I just think given the last 20 years Wednesday are more interesting And @The Fun Factory I get that but they're a bit of a nothing team though aren't they? Will anyone do anything other than shrug their shoulders when Huddersfield at home comes around on the fixtures list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 18 minutes ago, MrBlack said: Derby a fellow club of the first ever football league. Proper history. Nottingham Forest a fellow European Cup winner. I'd prefer teams with a longer history to make it back to the top flight than teams without. Burnley have just got relegated and have better history than a lot of Premier League clubs but were always spoke down as some minnow. Blackburn are also similar with the insults they get as a nothing boring club, I think only 5 other teams have won the league since they did and I think founder league members Compared to Leeds who according to some media who were Real Madrid getting back to that level 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 5 hours ago, bobzy said: Part of their problem is that they had a few loan players in last season - all who played pretty big roles. Davis, Garner, Zinckernagel, Spence and Lowe. In fact, the first four were basically ever presents if available. Only Spence would cost 20m + (don't think Man. United will sell Garner). Could probably get Lowe, Davis and Zinckernagal for 20m combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 4 hours ago, The Fun Factory said: 'uddersfield have won the league title more than forest. Borderline interesting. Huddersfield were in the league as recently as 2017-19. Did fine first season under Wagner but then totally bombed in the second season and think they managed about 20 points. I like to see reasonably big clubs come up who haven't been in top flight for ages so Forest fitted the bill nicely. Preston are easily biggest club left now in English football who have had a long top flight drought, think it's something ridiculous like they haven't been in top league since mid 60s so their fans are certainly long suffering when pretty much every other team around them has made prem in that time (Bolton, Blackpool, Wigan etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Only Spence would cost 20m + (don't think Man. United will sell Garner). Could probably get Lowe, Davis and Zinckernagal for 20m combined. Yes, sure. But of that £100m being touted, they’d need to spend (let’s say) at least £20m to not-even-quite stand still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, bobzy said: Yes, sure. But of that £100m being touted, they’d need to spend (let’s say) at least £20m to not-even-quite stand still. Similar to where we were when we came up. Tells you how far we've come to firstly avoid relegation, avoid the second season plummet down the league when teams figure you out, and now have the ability to attract one of the hotest prospects in the world, champions league winners, and top quality internationals. Forest have a big challenge ahead of them without the same level of financial backing our owners provided. Edited June 8, 2022 by MrBlack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 Forest could look at some of our players that are no longer needed. I think hause and el ghazi would be good signings ofr them that wont break the bank. Should they also go down they are very solid championship players to get them back up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 They could potentially pick up a few bargains from Derby County, Lee Buchanan, Max Bird, Jason Knight, and Malcom Ebiowei, all young players with potential to play in the Premier League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 11 minutes ago, useless said: They could potentially pick up a few bargains from Derby County, Lee Buchanan, Max Bird, Jason Knight, and Malcom Ebiowei, all young players with potential to play in the Premier League. Sibley no good anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villatillidie95 Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 They should look at players that can bulk their squad, but who also have plenty of premier league experience and who can step up in the championship again if they were to get relegated. Someone cheap like Ashley Westwood would keep them ticking over in midfield, would make part of a good squad for first couple of years back in the premier league and in the event of relegation can easily contribute more offesnively than in the premier league. Hause, El Ghazi, Weimann, those sorts of players wouldnt cost the earth, would make an impact and can be mixed in with more expensive foreign signings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 I think Sibley's form has dipped a little, wasn't first choice last season despite their issues, but still only twenty so could be an interesting pick up for someone, maybe a championship team, as must still have potential. Festy Ebosele probably would have been an ideal pick up for Forest if they can't get Spence, but he's already agreed to sign for Udinese, I think the idea was that he was going to then go to Watford, but not sure if that will happen now they've been relegated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Spurs had a bid accepted for Spence, with Davis returning to Villa They will easily go down with a low points tally Edited June 10, 2022 by Zatman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Said it on other thread but Ryan Fredricks on a free would be a decent pick up given they're not getting Spence back. Either that or 10-15m gamble from abroad you suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Zatman said: Spurs had a bid accepted for Spence, with Davis returning to Villa They will easily go down with a low points tally Spence looks ok but suprised spurs want him nit sur ehe is goid enough fir ahere they are at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 4 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Spence looks ok but suprised spurs want him nit sur ehe is goid enough fir ahere they are at Tonight's conundrum for the VT regulars to decipher. I'm going to say Demitri_C thinks Spence isn't good enough for spuds 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Demitri_C Posted June 10, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2022 19 minutes ago, MrBlack said: Tonight's conundrum for the VT regulars to decipher. I'm going to say Demitri_C thinks Spence isn't good enough for spuds Want a job? I have a ever growing team in VT that break down my posts to make sense of it 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 43 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Spence looks ok but suprised spurs want him nit sur ehe is goid enough fir ahere they are at It's one of those low risk ones for Spurs I think. If Spence hits it off straight away under Conte then brilliant for them as he becomes assist machine for Kane and Son. If he struggles then they still have Emerson Royal and Matt Doherty around and they can flog him to someone else for 15-20m next summer as he'll still be in demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, VillaChris said: It's one of those low risk ones for Spurs I think. If Spence hits it off straight away under Conte then brilliant for them as he becomes assist machine for Kane and Son. If he struggles then they still have Emerson Royal and Matt Doherty around and they can flog him to someone else for 15-20m next summer as he'll still be in demand. 20 million apparently, Cash was probably 5 million less for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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