Fairy In Boots

V Sports which owns Villa are purchasing a significant stake in Real Union which is the club Emery owns in Spain and his Brother is president of, think City and all the restaurants he gets as sweeteners for being at City. This is the game now, United are being left way behind

I don’t mind him, it’s sweeter when we win and he has to commentate on it

I genuinely don’t think he’d go, he’s in complete control here with the keys to everything, his mission is to build us up so we can fulfil our potential. Why would you go to a situation where you don’t have complete control? He declined Newcastle because of work life balance, I don’t think money is an issue it’s a passion project for him at this point in his life

Him Archer and Ramsey are all buy back clauses, it helps with FFP as we are selling academy players so counts as pure profit

£5m but with a buy back clause

Think Everton will do a Burnley and put a run together near the end of the year

For FFP academy players are classed as pure profit so we’ve generated £160m profit in the last two years with Jack, Chuck, Ramsey & Archer which allows us to spend. Buy backs on the later two and maybe JPB if he leaves this window, it’s how City have circumvented FFP now that they have a stockpile of players. They got to that position to do this illegally but once you’re there selling academy players is within the rules

Anglo Scottish league cup would be fun at least

First time I’ve watched a BBC Scotland game and tbh it’s not a bad set up, we really need to just merge leagues and have a British League system, some big clubs in Scotland who just can’t compete with us at all, we were in 1-2 gear really

Her dad pressured her to drop the charges because Mason is the meal ticket and she has his kid. He’s always been a scumbag, we’re not talking about a good bloke wronged here. There’s loads of stories about him being a right little C word. Now it’s PR spin but in reality, it’s about money, from United perspective and hers, she gets that baby daddy money if he goes on to have a successful career hence charges dropped and United don’t want to write off an asset, if he’s not sold it will be a loan in the hope that he goes away the hate dies down and he can be sold for a decent sum. United don’t give a fuck about public opinion in reality, they haven’t since day 1, this has always been about recouping losses. the term “yesterdays chip paper” is used a lot in football with regards to negative headlines with players, they underestimated the staying power of this story.

We’ll be fine, just need 4-5 games to get new partnerships formed.

Think Mings injury two days after Buendia’s shocked our players, as you could see from Konsa mistake for the third, normally you had Mings barking at him and Pau didn’t as that’s the first time they’ve played together no shout and Isak pinches it and it’s 3-1. After that the just looked shell shocked as you would two top players gone in 48hours for the year. The game was over our heads drop as they’re distraught. They’re not like the squad of yesterday there’s so much work going into the players socialising together, families socialising, kids play together etc so they’ve taken injuries very hard. 3-1 down Newcastle are overrunning us in midfield and they just wanted to go home you could see it. 5-1 looks like we got pumped all game we were actually quite competitive in spells. the club is cursed, last year ACL first game, this year ACL first game plus Buendia in training, we are fucked squad depth in tatters

Won’t pretend I know anything about him, expect a back up GK and a Striker now, would like to see a RB to challenge cash too

Local media suggest trouble with the owners being able to put funds into the club too.

Like this business, rumours of it being around £31.5m in which case very good business.

It’s to do with Chris Heck, he’s new to the role and had success with the 76r’s rebrand, this was launched before he came in.

Graham Rix 2.0

I would genuinely be surprised if we bought him, so much lazy journalism around Villa. Villa pre V sports aside from the Gerrard era yeah, we always brought tat or past their best from “top 4 clubs” always linked with their players too. Now I think we’ll raid Spain and Portugal as bargains to be had

Any golf fans here? See what happened with the PGA? There’s a plan afoot here

Overall happy with Purslow, came in when we were a mess and has improved us, put structures in place but the Gerrard move was all him because he is a bit of a fawning fanboy, NS had enough and took control so it was inevitable really

Everton surviving has probably scuppered it, personal terms were agreed I know that. You never know though

Spurs

Everton have all the hallmarks of a Burnley under Dyche type side that survive next year and then management replace Dyche because they want to play “the Everton way” and then get relegated. It’s just abysmal management at boardroom level

It’s not a strong feeling just an observation, I think because I swear a bit when I write here you think I’m frothing at the mouth typing, quite the opposite I couldn’t care less. Maybe it’s my choice of words idk, was it because I called Kane a “filthy cheat”

We literally competed today for conference league spot, if we didn’t beat Brighton you’d have won that place, why would I not mention you when we beat you to it? Bizarre to pretend that you wouldn’t have been out to qualify for that competition, yes you’ve significantly increased turnover, UEFA competitions and match day revenue have driven that, both will be missing next year, good thing you’re a “financial juggernaut” you can live with the decreased revenue. And you can have all the infrastructure in the world but you’ve become a graveyard of managers and have a squad that has shortcomings. Don’t even have a DOF atm do you? It’s all gone a bit spursy hasn’t it