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Fucking liability Tiote man, he's done it three or four times in this game already and given them two great chances because of it. Its not even weakness, its the fact he's determined to spin and twist away with the ball all the time, there's players right there to pass to you thick twat!

Agreed, Rafa out Haha nah, obviously he's got my support 100%. I don't have to agree with every single thing he does though.

Well I care in as much as it would be nice not to have to see some of the worst offenders in our relegation on the pitch again.

Looks like their is no other option to Taylor looking at the bench. Would have liked to see Perez and De Jong start though, obviously he's not just treating this as a friendly and wants to win, but Wijnaldum shouldn't still be getting in the side regardless.

The £13m limit for the 2015/16 season is in line with the losses permitted under the new regulations which will permit a maximum loss of £39m over a rolling 3 season timeframe (compared to an equivalent figure of £105m in the Premier League). A club that moves between the Premier League and Championship will be assessed in accordance with the permitted loss in the relevant divisions played in during the three-year period in question. For example, a club that had played two seasons in the Championship and one in the Premier League would have a maximum permitted loss of £61m, consisting of one season at £35m and two at £13m. So it's no issue then. With the 80m we get despite relegation plus sales of players off currently out on loan plus any extra sales, we'll still probably break even The parachute is £38.7m next season, not £80m.. He's referring to the money we'll get for being in the Premier League this season, though I'd assume that will come in right at the end of the current financial year rather than the start of next.

Do you genuinely believe we won't ask him to take a wage cut? If they do then they deserve us all to stop supporting them. What we'd save from him taking a pay cut is insignificant. His wage will be a few percent of our total wage bill, yet his worth is immeasurable.

Khazri with a flying karate kick, both feet off the ground, nowt even said..

Should have shook him by the hand and thanked him for keeping us in the Premier League for 5 seasons and taking us to a UEFA Cup quarter final. Mark Bright did that?

Not strictly true as Norwich could relegate us both By they I assumed he meant both Sunderland and Norwich.

We wouldn't be safe, but we'd go into the Spurs game knowing that if we win we stay up no matter what.

He's just in poor form, when he was in good form his decision making was better and he was just quicker with everything he did. Even at his worst he's a good squad player with a lot of potential, at his best he's looked brilliant, so I wouldn't sell him.

Really hope he's fit, shitting my pants at the idea of Janmaat coming back in

It wasn't bitterness, it was schadenfreude. It's all part of football. The time to worry is when you go down and nobody bats a f***ing eyelid. People go on about 'the banners' but they're talking about two banners which could have been brought by one person for all we know. It's not like we were all riding around the city centre, sat on top of our cars, bibbing our horns and waving flags at 3am in the morning because you'd got relegated. Anyway, we know what it's like now - we've been slowly tortured to death in front of the entire world for one entire season now. We have had loads of p*ss take and media coverage about it and to be honest, it just makes me feel better - that us getting relegated is still 'a story'. Unlike pointless yoyo clubs like Albion or Norwich, up and down so often people forget where they are from one year to the next. This fixture is a great opportunity for you lot to take the p*ss back, and we're going to have to suck it up. The only problem is: 1. Your current league position which may render p*ss taking inadvisable before the end of the match. 2. The fact that that banner posted here is proper s****. Tbh Brummie, it was worse than you probably saw, although granted "bitter" is probably the wrong word to describe it. I've been to numerous away grounds down the years and never experienced the amount of abuse, threats of violence, wankers taking their turn to get in my face and eyeball me etc as on the train from aston to new st that day. Loads even followed us onto our platform to wring every last bit of piss-taking they could out of the day. That is not banter, it's really really odd behaviour. Heard stories from more than one group of fans I see regularly that villa fans were driving up the motorway taunting coaches by waving flags and beeping horns. The banners and singing in stadium were fine and all part of the crack imo but it was after, outside that a large majority (but I would stress not all) of villa fans just seemed to collectively turn into a pack of rabid zombies. That said, it was SEVEN fucking years ago. That people still seem to be genuinely upset baffles me, and as for the banners in this thread well, Jesus fucking wept!! Personally, I'd turn up and not even mention the whole thing- as Brummie has alluded to, no-one likes being ignored or feeling unimportant. I resent that the whole Villa thing has basically become part of our culture as a fanbase now. I hate that every time we play Villa the same articles surface in the mag and true faith. It just comes across as very bitter and we used to be bigger and better than that. Those banners were designed to get a rise out of us- 7 years later we're still biting, you couldn't make it up. It's a massive game for NUFC on Saturday, all efforts should go into supporting the manager and the team. And as for the opposition, fuck giving them the attention they want. Aston who?? Any group of fans would dislike another set of fans who acted like such cunts. We aren't bigger and better than that and we never were, no group of fans are as its really part of Football. Having said that yeah we shouldn't be pissing about with banners in this game, we need to concentrate on supporting our side above all else.

We're already out of the bottom 3 though, which I think was the point.

Aye, we'd be second even if you just went back 4 games though.

You mean if they go down?, they'd get up to £87m spread over three seasons: 2016-17 - £40 million 2017-18 - £33 million 2018-19 - £14 million But they got £70m last season alone and still managed to lose £25.5m. EDIT: Thought the money was spread evenly per season but apparently not.

It was obviously far too late for Marveaux by the time Rafa came in.

NUFC came out and said they didn't want to qualify for Europe, or have a cup run. What was the manager (Pardew or any other) supposed to do with that? As if Pardew didn't have a big part to play in that..

Nah it did matter like. Pardew wasn't just an arse licking obsequious yes man, he was the most unbearable tosser imaginable. That definitely made things worse, few people could make so many fans want their own club to lose.

It does look like a face looking down on the stadium. I'm unsure how that's considered to be a good sign though.

Aye, no better time to play Tottenham either.

We're 2nd bottom and odds on for relegation. To be fair to them if they're not confident of beating us who exactly could they be confident of beating? They shouldn't be confident of beating anybody, they're fucking horrible. Only reason they're safe is their good start, since the turn of the year they've been the worst side in the league.

That's the parachute payments after relegation (the money split over 3 seasons you're referring to). But whether we stay up or go down we're still due our £80m or so for being in the Premier League this season. Of course if we do go down we'd need to use that to help cushion the financial blow.

Screaming "fucking hit it" at the TV, Arsenal are unbelievably frustrating to watch.

Would assume that's the point of the arms length rate. They'll probably have a third party assess what kind of money should be paid for that kind of service so that questions can't be raised about its legitimacy.