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I think Villa is playing fucking great

Pardew always do well in matches with more than enough preparation time.

if he is proven innocent, we must sign this guy.

everything started during that Bowyer summer, under Shepherd.

We will win this one

Bramble wasn't THAT bad. Not costing a lot, could be handy occasionally. Every thing started to turn bad since the arrival of Bowyer.

Yep. Just like we got Bellamy after Jeffers turned us down.

I think the latest quote in nufc.com is targetting both Ashley and Cabaye.

Both are magnificant. Ben arfa is more consistent though.

I think cabaye is still reconsidering his future after knowing that he is just a "reserve" in top team plan.

To be honest, told ya he will be injury prone.

Souness ruined the club. Pardew didn't.

...........no.

That is accounting fraud if true. This arrangement must be disclosed as related party transactions.

It seems like he is the one who execute rather than finding the targets. So the failure could actually contributed to the struggles between pardew and Carr again. That said, he is the one who call off the Douglas deal.

I want to point out that, if Ashley's ultimate aim is to sell the club, then the arguments of "milking out the money" "pay back the loan" actually do not hold, because these will only decrease the club's net assets value and in turn decrease the potential selling price. So Ashley's best interest would be to maximize the club's value without any more personal inputs. I agree that he is trying to take least risk in running the club. But at the same time, I also wonder how "risky" that could be. We were almost close to administration just because 1. we missed out on CL and 2. spending 15m on Owen and 10m on Luque. Even taking into account the wages, the hit shouldn't be that critical. So is that we over estimate our club's revenue generating power? The likes of Liverpool and Spurs could afford to have a few 10m+ flops, but "seems" we can't. I didn't read the accounts in detail, just my general impression.

I don't think selling Cabaye for 10m and buy Thauvin for 12m is a good business in Ashley's eyes. The reason why cabaye was not sold is purely because no one pay 20m. Moreover, Ashley would not keep Cabaye in order to ask Pardew to stay. Non sense.

I do heard a theory that during the end of the 3 years period, some top clubs will have to sell players cheaply to decorate the books in order to avoid Euro game ban.

Pards, all your sins will be forgiven now if you resign immediately

Class. That is North Korean style.

Steve, in that case, you should not blame Ashley for spending nth during this summer because we have "more than enough" Bullshit

That's pretty harsh on Anelka, brummie

Seriously, should we hope him to do well now?

I am more optimistic. HBA is a player that needs love, and he didn't get it throughout his career until he joined us. Unless it is Real Madrid l, he won't activity ask for a transfer. What Ashley will do is another question though.

Same here.