Popular Post markavfc40 Posted April 17 Popular Post Share Posted April 17 I'd take a cup win all day long over qualification for Champions League. My eldest daughter is 26 this year and has had a season ticket since she was 5 and has never seen us win anything. There are thousands of supporters like her. 28 years since we last won a trophy so we haven't won a trophy this century. SHA have won a trophy more recently than us and I have some of them often remind me of that fact. Champions league qualification doesn't guarantee future success. Far from it. A trophy in the cabinet can never be taken away though and will be something we'll talk about until our last breaths. 10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted April 17 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17 I don't mind admitting that I almost obsess over getting CL qualification. I would absolutely love to win the UCL and break our trophy duck, but I'm equally as excited about being in the CL. The UCL is a newly formed competition, great to win, but the CL is the tournament I've been watching since I started getting into football and my dream as a Villa fan is to experience that song at VP just once. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 1 minute ago, HeyAnty said: Yeah i guess i am then based on your analysis. Would i rather watch Real Madrid at villa park than Bury? Absolutely. Would you rather watch Real Madrid at Villa Park, or see Aston Villa lift a trophy is the more accurate analysis. You go for the former, I'd rather the latter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 A club like Aston Villa needs CL football AND to win trophies. The manager we have is an expert at both. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 8 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Tonali was about £60m wasn't he ? Harvey Barnes was £44m Livremento was £32m + £8m and they now have to pay Chelsea something like £28m for Lewis Hall Gordon was £40m in the Jan window and could well have been bought with CL money in mind ? They could have signed those players anyway without CL, they spent more the season before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pongo Waring Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Villa can reach the Semi's of the UCL next season. This Dortmund team isn't great all and they did it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 2 minutes ago, Pongo Waring said: Villa can reach the Semi's of the UCL next season. This Dortmund team isn't great all and they did it. If Don Unai is our manager for the next five seasons and we qualify for CL at least 3 times then I think we’ll definitely make Semi’s at least once. Then anything can happen at that stage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Regarding Newcastle’s CL money The club said that it expected the Champions League to yield at least £37m, as there will also be additional revenue from gate receipts Etc https://swissramble.substack.com/p/newcastle-united-finances-202223 They were spending obscene amounts before and after and barely selling players, hence their FFP issues now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eholm Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 2 hours ago, tinker said: No, it's measured by how well the teams did the previous year Right. Thanks for the info. Good to see i was completly wrong!! FFS. So the whole coefficient thing will be used every season to see who gets that extra place? My interest in it has just completely fallen off a cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 (edited) 2 hours ago, lexicon said: Screw the coefficient. It's in our hands to get us there regardless. This is the reality. 5 games left and 4th is ours for the taking. If we don't take it then we can't blame Man Utd. or West Ham or Liverpool. Edited April 17 by villa89 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icouldtelltheworld Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 18 minutes ago, bobzy said: Would you rather watch Real Madrid at Villa Park, or see Aston Villa lift a trophy is the more accurate analysis. You go for the former, I'd rather the latter. Nailed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 10 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said: If Don Unai is our manager for the next five seasons and we qualify for CL at least 3 times then I think we’ll definitely make Semi’s at least once. Then anything can happen at that stage. I get at least one very time we win 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pez1974 Posted April 17 Popular Post Share Posted April 17 Like others - I don't get the 'which one?' We have 5 games left in the league - if we can't muster enough points from this position to stay in 4th, we don't deserve it. And our main competition is Bottlejob FC, who have harder fixtures on paper. We have a lead going into the 2nd leg of a QF in Europe, having just kept a clean sheet against PL title challengers. Then 3 more games to win it. And from winning it would come a 26 point co-efficient for next season, which would help us get a better draw, and means we can build on that ranking in the following seasons. This is why the top cubs stay there - see the draw that Newcastle got in their first season back in the CL because they had no ranking points (just those that come with being a PL club). (And I know this is boring to many, but it is the reality of being able to compete consistently at the top of Europe) I've seen about players being tired, but it's a maximum of 9 games now. McGinn has just had a rest period, so too Luiz. Watkins can just keep going. We seem to be good at rotating other positions when necessary because Unai is a genius. This is our moment to take a huge step up - we have to do both. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 33 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said: A club like Aston Villa needs CL football AND to win trophies. The manager we have is an expert at both. This is the correct answer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post holteend1982 Posted April 17 Popular Post Share Posted April 17 41 minutes ago, HeyAnty said: No it wasn’t that. It was 4th to get CL. I don’t really care about a 3rd rate euro cup if im being honest. And i hate FA cup as well. 3rd rate euro cup downplays it massively, finishing 7th in the prem or winning league cup Is hard enough and that's just to qualify for it. Then for us to win it we will have had to have beaten Ajax, Lille and potentially Fenebache and Fiorentina, some big clubs there. I've enjoyed every moment of this competition so far and would love to go on to win it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beasley14 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 59 minutes ago, Zatman said: 2 of them were relegated, not superstars people think we be automatically attracting Agreed but big money regardless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beasley14 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, HeyAnty said: And they didn’t have to sell one of their best players which we might have to do (rumours i know) inorder to balance the books if we don’t make CL I don't think we have to either, I'd be surprised if we have budgeted that way. Goes against everything else we have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beasley14 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said: Meh. Oh I agree a bit behind but they spent 100+ to improve their squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 40 minutes ago, duke313 said: They could have signed those players anyway without CL, well I can't answer that , but say hypothetically that Villa were interested in Barnes , he then has a choice of Newcastle in CL or Villa in conference league ... it could be a factor the original post seemed to be suggesting that they only signed one player , I was just pointing out they made other transfers , you'd have to assume the CL money was a factor in that spending , same as it will / would be for us ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 58 minutes ago, bobzy said: Would you rather watch Real Madrid at Villa Park, or see Aston Villa lift a trophy is the more accurate analysis. You go for the former, I'd rather the latter. Yup were we stand . Ive saw us win a trophy so might sway my thinking abit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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