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Villa is a nothing club, end off. Feel no hate, no love, nothing.. Win 2-1. Howay!

Good manager, boom in the economy, it was a buzz in the city, nohing was impossible. Average player became gods But seriously, we had a very good team who got promoted, and we did some fantastic investment who paid of, cant say that these days At that time, our wages was very low compared to the income. (i cant back that up, but i would imagine)

Start of the 90`s we had a better ratio with wages:income, some CL adventures. When we keept spending money, and did fall out of europe, the wage eat away most of our revenue. Its a fact that we in that time borrowd money for players, paid with future income. But we did not succed. Exeption of a few SBR years. We was in dept when we was sold, and we had problems managing the dept. But i think its plain stupid of MA no to invest now, keep us up cost less than relegation. But it looks like he is a gambler, and think we can stay up without a little investment (£5-15m)

Im no expert, but dident we use future revenue, borrowed money for this? Nothing wrong to borrow money if you have the ability to pay back, and afford to take the risk. Im not sure if we are in that possition now.

Guess it depends who else has been offered to us on loan for a season. There's no way our club have actively gone out looking for players; that would be a complete waste of money.

Meanwhile, Ben Arfa has chained himself to Hughton's desk, and is screaming, 'Please Mr Hughton, don't let them take me away!' Maybe Ireland played Tunisia away in 1987 and Hughton is, in fact, Ben Arfa's birth father. Hatem Ben Hughton

I'd wager we had designs on only playing him at home, thus avoiding the potential cost. Sorry Dave I know it is the season to be pessimistic but that has to be bollocks. The club has to be crazy if we did anything like that i.e. not play him in away games so that we don't have to pay the full fees.

Ashley will tell Chris to use him 25 matches in PL, rest cup games. Then pay the 3mill eur in the summer Ashley is streetsmart Dave beat me to it.

Fuck off man

I will wait until anything is confirmed before i draw my gun. To many ups and downs in this saga

I guess "someone" didn't get it My irony-o-meter went trough the roof tbh.

Now? 200 right edit. doh!

Not very bad, but not good. Defending to deep, and we are not taking our counter attacks as good as i would expect. Jonas giving away the first goal tbh, We need a creative offensive midfielder to replace Nolan imo.

Hmmm, can see some mileage in that story. Huntelaar is on a road to nowhere at Milan, and OM is after a striker desperately. Hope this does not materialise.. ben arfa wouldn't fit in the milan team tbh Why not? Could be the understudy to an aging Ronaldinho..? Don't think he'd go from sitting on the bench at Marseille to sitting on the bench at Milan tbh. Isn't that wishful thinking though..? Milan is a massive club and I don't think he will say no to the chance of joining them in favour of playing week in week out with the likes of Nolan and Smith. He may not play every week, but he would play with world class players and everybody knows Milan are in need of rejuvenation, so he should get plenty of opportunity to prove what he can do.. Please dont talk sense in this thread okay?

:clap2: Remember how fucking great Jonas looked on the opening day at OT two years ago? Howay the lads! Ay, it was crazy, one of the best debuts i have seen tbh.

Haha, loved that post man Come On!!!!

Just woke up, worst hangover in a long time, thought it should be a shit day. Made some egg&bacon and read this tread This tread is fkn gold,hall of fame??

In other news.... http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7929/imagesno20matter20whattna9.jpg

If i see you in Oslo this weekend i will slap you in the face

This team need Bellamy. Anyone who don't want him here is crazy imo.

What? If he is nearly as good as Robert im very very happy.

I know that but very strange he isn't included in the qualifying round. Sorry but

Half the forum by the looks of it

Isent Ben Arfa known to be a rebel? If he dont want to play there, i am sure they will let him go. Ben Arfa not happy in a squad, will be terrible for the moral in the dressing room. Its the only thing i have against him coming here also tbh...

Statment from Lerner. http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2118261,00.html