Phil Silvers Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Can see these being in a relegation battle if they don't sign Jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Phil Silvers said: Can see these being in a relegation battle if they don't sign Jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tommo_b Posted July 27, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2021 Can we rename this thread… it just bugs me. Maybe the “I Hope They Rot” thread or something like that! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 30/06/2009 at 03:17, ClaretMahoney said: This club deserves its own thread, much like the Toon and SHA ones. I find it incredible how many players this club is buying WITHOUT even offering European football, it's simply astounding! These players are moving there to sit on the bench and rake in loads of oil money, lining their pockets to play for such a small club! They've already got loads of strikers! How could any striker want to go there knowing they've got such a fight for their place?! Eto'o to City is just astonishing, I can't believe he might even be considering it, it's madness. Going from a club that just finished best in the world, to play for a club that won't even be playing Sevilla in competition. How many players do you think will leave in the January window next year? If they aren't in the top 4 by Christmas I think we'll see an exodus, and hopefuly Villa will be in prime position to pounce on a couple of their more talented players! The irony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May-Z Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Just seems something so wrong about these dickheads trying to form the ESL (getting blasted for it by all in the media) fiddling FFP, and then still being allowed to put huge offers out for players without any consequences. Not to mention the same media bods who were so against the ESL now seemingly not bothered about the actions anymore and activeoy promoting speculation about it for clicks. Just doing what they want. It's gross. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa_Vids Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, May-Z said: Just seems something so wrong about these dickheads trying to form the ESL (getting blasted for it by all in the media) fiddling FFP, and then still being allowed to put huge offers out for players without any consequences. Not to mention the same media bods who were so against the ESL now seemingly not bothered about the actions anymore and activeoy promoting speculation about it for clicks. Just doing what they want. It's gross. Bang on. It is hilarious because the City fans (sheep) say they are standing up against the elites of football. But in reality they are standing side by side with the likes of Utd to crush other clubs and the competition. The only club who are anything like that are Leicester City IMO. City fans surely jest when they say that sort of stuff. They are a corrupt machine with no ethics. I genuinely despise what they are and how they act. Man City 1880-2008. Edited July 31, 2021 by Villa_Vids 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 This cannot be read and shared enough. https://medium.com/@NcGeehan/the-men-behind-man-city-a-documentary-not-coming-soon-to-a-cinema-near-you-14bc8e393e06 Quote Speaking about Manchester City on the excellent Second Captain’s podcast, Ken Early recently referred to Manchester City as a “host organism”. Early didn’t go so far as to compare Abu Dhabi’s rulers to a malicious virus, but when you look at how the men behind Manchester City exert their influence abroad, “host organism” is the perfect metaphor. In 2012, Simon Pearce wrote briefing notes for Mohamed bin Zayed in which he urged David Cameron’s government to take steps to end what Pearce described as Islamist infiltration of BBC Arabic — Pearce advised MBZ that he should demand the prime minister’s “help … with the BBC in particular.” In return for silencing the British press and other favours, Pearce’s briefing notes indicate that Cameron was to be offered lucrative arms and oil deals for British business which would have generated billions of pounds for BAE Systems and allowed BP to bid to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf. Abu Dhabi also invests millions in Washington DC, much of it on the type of think-tanks that seem to think mostly about money. After successfully encouraging the neo-conservative analyst Michael Rubin to write an article questioning the credibility of Human Rights Watch research on torture in the UAE, Pearce could scarcely disguise his glee in the email he sent to Yousef Al-Otaiba. “Happy new year!!” it began. “The [Rubin] article demonstrates that we have now empowered the right to make legitimate demands of the left wing Human Rights lobby.” (In the interests of transparency, I should point out that I researched and wrote the Human Rights Watch press release on torture that Rubin criticised.) In France, the UAE was keen to empower the far-right, as documented by French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, whose book “Nos Très Chers Émirs” contained the revelation, repeated elsewhere, that the UAE was at the ready to provide $2 million to Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign in France in 2015. Things aren’t much better on the home front. MBZ has few qualms about keeping his own subjects in line the old-fashioned way, and his thuggish state security apparatus do that to devastating effect, roaming the streets in custom-made 4x4s with shackles built-in to the frame. Anyone who tweets out of turn is toast. One of the people languishing in Abu Dhabi’s jails is the award-winning human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor. To describe Ahmed as a human rights activist seems rather reductive, he’s always been a lot more than that and his imprisonment — he tweeted criticism of the Abu Dhabi government and of the Sisi government in Egypt just before his arrest in March 2017 — weighs very heavily on everyone who ever had the pleasure of his company. A disgusting club and even if Liverpool or Man Utd fans are unbearable there is nothing lower than them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Basically its now impossible for anyone else to do a 'man city' and they buy any good players from teams who might try to do this. Them and Chelsea got so,so,so lucky in their owners at the right time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa_Vids Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Basically its now impossible for anyone else to do a 'man city' and they buy any good players from teams who might try to do this. Them and Chelsea got so,so,so lucky in their owners at the right time. I wouldn't want to do it like Citeh. Any success they have is tainted by the way that they have achieved it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 31, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Basically its now impossible for anyone else to do a 'man city' and they buy any good players from teams who might try to do this. Them and Chelsea got so,so,so lucky in their owners at the right time. Yup. FFP is a bit of a sham tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, Villa_Vids said: I wouldn't want to do it like Citeh. Any success they have is tainted by the way that they have achieved it. Partly agree but at least we have a magnificent history to back up all that glory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa_Vids Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 11 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: Partly agree but at least we have a magnificent history to back up all that glory. True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa_Vids Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) Edited July 31, 2021 by Villa_Vids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 On 27/07/2021 at 21:55, Tommo_b said: Can we rename this thread… it just bugs me. Maybe the “I Hope They Rot” thread or something like that! The how to **** football and alienate people thread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talldarkandransome Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Horrible club, horrible stadium, horrible fans and dirty corrupt owners. I'd rather do it the Leicester way, or soon to be called the Villa way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 **** Citeh, **** Pep, **** Abu Dhabi, **** em all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 I hope they continue to remain as far as possible from winning the champions league. The longer this goes on the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 36 minutes ago, dudevillaisnice said: I hope they continue to remain as far as possible from winning the champions league. The longer this goes on the better. The longer they keep Pep it will happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshVilla Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 The fact that it's City is part of the reason why Jack potentially going is so gut wrenching. They are the epitome of everything that is wrong with modern football. Clubs like them are the reason why it's so rare to see genuine competition in this league. They already have a squad that's worth an eye watering amount of money, and yet they're now looking to splash 100 million on a player that they simply do not need. It's rinse and repeat every season - one of the "lesser clubs" sees significant improvement and starts to build a team that might soon compete for those European places, then one of the big boys comes along and cherry picks their star player and then they have to rebuild again. But the press won't call out the blatant greed. They'll only do it when it's the trendy thing to do, like when everyone was condemning the ESL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 If they get both Grealish and Kane I don’t want to read/hear anymore about how Bayern destroyed the Bundesliga by taking all the good players in the league. This is no different now. It sets a dangerous precedent for the league I fear. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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