TomAVFC

Free obviously.

To be fair I do understand your point, we've been let down many times. Not definite but I am away a lot so can't always go the games, if you're ever wanting to go message me and if I am going to be away you can have my swipe card.

There's my boy! Need a good solid Villa fan! I thought Samba was an absolute monster, and as you say, the opposition was shit but he looked in shape and committed whereas Richards looked like a fat piece of shite....which he is. I've seen a lot of twitter shit having a go at Dross, but I thought he was looking very trim! You taken the plunge on the ST this year, I did purely because it's so reasonable with the payment plan, it's like a phone bill.

Just saw us compared to Charlton. Ew.

FFP is difficult, we came down with a mish mash squad of several managers on huge wages, and to follow that in a pursuit to return at the first time of asking we spent the highest figure in the history of the league, over 70m, on playing staff. We're cutting it fine. We'll have a profitable window this time around as Terry was free (wages excluded obviously) and we've already raised 10m via Amavi and Sanchez. We have another 6 or 7 players to sell and probably only another 2 or 3 to buy. To put it bluntly, we need to go up this year. No point being the richest club in the league if you can't spend it without breaking the rules!

It's a loan again, I think hopefully there will be an option to buy, could well be to do with our FFP issues that we've not committed a fee to it.

You can't rely on always being able to replace sold players with the same standard. Albeit, many clubs do so year upon year. Not that I am trying to piss on your parade, I really like Brentford. I'm just hoping your boy we signed has now found his feet and we can hopefully expect a better return, I think he'll be in the goals next year. Talking of Jota, Ive just read hes been left out of your friendly squad due to an imminent Premier League bid.....how do you think that story ends?

Sam Johnstone signing this weekend apparently. I'll be pissed off if it's another loan (unless there is an option to purchase). Good keeper who at first I thought was a liability but who grew on me as the season went on. He can be a good long term option.

If Sergi Canos or Ryan Woods want to go, then they will go, whether you hang on an extra window or not would be the only variant. Whose the best winger in the league? Another big statement. How do you know if you sell him you'll automatically replace him with someone who can make a similar impact? I like Vibe. He ruined us that dreaded night.

Lyden won't get a kick next season. Nice lad and probably could be a decent player but only decent and can't see him ever holding down a position at us. Hard to nail down coaching problems RE Okore as we have a new backroom staff every few months. Sadly our choice is instability, or stability with Bruce...fucked if you do and fucked if you don't!

I like Amavi, still very young and has a serious injury under his belt which I always think affects younger players, in whatever position. With the ball he's comfortably one of our better players, I liked him in that wing role as obviously Bruce nor Di Matteo have seen fit to sign a left winger yet. He's the most saleable assett though, a lot of teams have looked at him before and since he's joined us, can't see him sticking another year in the Championship and not sure he's equipped for it. He'll go on and do well though, that's the annoying thing. Unlike Okore, after all that mocking shit he posted about Villa when we were on that miserable run, the cunts getting released from Copenhagen!

Around the promotion places? That's ambitious. I can't see Brentford doing it. It's all very well signing those key players on long term contracts, but if attractive or financially better off teams go in for those players the contracts won't be worth the paper they're written on,they'll just assure you of a better fee. If a player really wants to leave they invariably do, and it's not always because they're unhappy sometimes it's because they'll simply earn far more elsewhere. I like the manager (Villa fan), any any team who can get on a run has a chance for play-offs but top two is incredibly difficult and I don't think you'll be consistent enough.

We have a huge squad, players people won't remember are even still here, so we have a lot of bodies and wages to be rid of. Obviously not all of them will command big fees, but people like Amavi, Veretout, Tshibola should pull in pounds and to be honest any fees to get rid of shit like Cissokho, Richards and whoever else will be more than welcome. Johnstone is joining on loan again apparently so that's money I thought we'd need to spend on a keeper that we no longer have to. If we get rid of all the shit, and sign 3 or 4 including the keeper, or even loan in the important positions, we'll still come out the other side with a very good squad at this level (on paper). Now the boss needs to earn his money and make them perform on the pitch, because right now I really don't like him or his crap results/football.