The College Dropout

He does touch the ball uno.

Don’t think it’s enough. But it will be given.

He’s started the game like prime KDB

I disagree fundamentally. Without an owner willing to invest substantial sums or with some other type of genius we have a ceiling. You do realise we are still a doped club right? Just because we can’t go crazy in the market doesn’t mean we are not benefitting from being owned by a State.

Still worth a 1-year contract from West Ham imo. If he scored a couple before the end of the season, I could be tempted....

Palace is our toughest home game remaining imo.

Our Owners also own our two main shirt sponsors and the value of those will be as high as regulations allow. Can Villa's owners do that? Could Villa's owners build a £2Bn stadium? I suspect without a loan. I don't think any other Owner would be building that. The our Owners will slap a sponsor on that new stadium at maximum value allowed. Could Villa's owners do that? The maximum potential of us is similar to Man City. It could genuinely help to regenerate the entire City - campuses etc. Could Aston Villa's owners do that? Transfer market is major but it's not the only thing. Think what this could look like in 15 years. Our ceiling is considerably higher. It's like Abramovic vs Abu Dhabi. That's the model Villa will pursue. Youth academy manufacturer line, player development and sale, get the best of what the market can offer in terms of sponsorships. We (should) pursue the City model - youth sales + juicing the sponsorships as much as possible, build a network of related-clubs to trade with.

It’s not really a debate. Our potential is unrivalled. Which is why we attract the likes of Isak and Tonali. Our sponsors are capped by football regulations and are still artificially high. Our deal with Adidas is so high because of our potential. Our stadium and training grounds etc. will be built loan free right? The POTENTIAL is unrivalled. It might not happen and PIF might not leverage all their might. But they can do things Villa’s owners can’t.

Beating Palace is more important than getting a draw at Villa. Even if Villa beat us. We should beat Ipswich. Atleast one of Villa or City will drop points that week. I fancied City to drop points against palace or Everton. I think they draw Everton.

The owners of our club also own our 2 biggest sponsors and will build our new stadium essentially for free. Villa will have to continue to distort their accounts through various sales. We will inflate our primary sponsors as much as possible and juice the youth academy and infrastructure the way Villa cant. We are owned by the state of Saudi Arabia. Villa are owned by the richest Egyptian. Our potential is far greater than Villa’s.

Find the Villa bitterness weird. Their potential isn’t as big as ours. Have no reason to be bitter. They’ve been fantastic in the CL. I just hope they get 0 points from the next 2 and that’s them done. No issue with them winning the FA Cup. I want the notion of the top 6 to be broken.

I don’t think this was as gutting as the Liverpool game. Villa knew deep down they wouldn’t do it deep down.

No options? tbf the Villa subs seemed pre planned. Eddie can do that all day.

Proactive subs kinda fucked Villa. Wor Eddie wouldn’t do that. Keep them boys on until their legs fall off.

wanted Villa to go through. That would’ve definitely end them getting top 5.

15.

Maybe Emery was right. Raahford was electric for 15 minutes. Villa subs haven’t helped at all. At least the last few.

Ref has been a PSG agent all game

PSG seeing out the game well. I kinda hope I jinx it.

Chance that is

They’ll get one more no?

Rogers seemingly never gets tired. Tielemans I give you. But he’s not completing 90 either.

I was so confident PSG would beat them. But arsenals size and power against these? Man….

Who are their best 5 players? Watkins. Rashford. McGinn. Ramsey. Asensio. Digne. None playing the full 90. I think it’s more a case of cumulative fatigue and mental fatigue than physical. There’s been rotation.

Yes.