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Villa 1-2 Liverpool Man United 2-1 Forest Brentford 2-0 Palace Everton 1-0 Sunderland Leeds 2-2 Brighton Wolves 0-0 Fulham Newcastle 1-1 West Ham Arsenal 3-0 Burnley Bournemouth 1-2 Man City Chelsea 1-1 Spurs

Yeah, this is a big mistake.

He is class tbf.

Romano reporting Joao Gomes to them is close and the Ederson deal is stalling.

Feels like we've been linked with 6/7 midfielders already mind. Is that Italian journo reputable?

If Casemiro does that he's banned for four games.

Villa have lost 6 of their last 10 domestic games, winning 2 and drawing 2. They got a couple of draws against Forest and Leeds who were 15th and 16th, and they beat West Ham (18th in table) and Sunderland (needed a 93rd min winner). No evidence at all to suggest they haven't phoned it in the same way us and Spurs did. The difference is Villa had already got enough points on the board from massively overperforming their xG earlier in the season and picking up points they didn't deserve. Their form around this time of the year compared to us and Spurs is probably very similar.

We're all Man United today aye?

We've been heavily linked but you'd think him sparking out his teammate will close that door. I hope.

French.

We have had no other choice to be fair. The contracts handed out by Woodward and co. were insane. Thankfully we're under a wage structure now where the last of the mental contracts should end this summer and everyone else will be <£200k a week except for Bruno Fernandes who could be on a billion a week and still be underpaid.

It's 24/25 we're talking about. Like you said, the official figures will include staff wages etc. so we will never know the exact breakdown without asking players for their payslips. I personally think Maguire's graph makes good reading for us though, aside from player fees owed and Glazer debt. It's all trending in the right direction.

No, did you just stop reading there? They base their wages on reports. I'm not saying it's 100% accurate, but it's obviously not very far away at all.

They're in 25/26 accounts, not 24/25. Their wages are significantly less than all the previous players I've mentioned though. I don't know who we will sign this summer, but with Casemiro, Zirkzee, Malacia, Ugarte and Bayinidr all set to leave, we will almost certainly reduce our wage bill again in 26/27.

Our wage bill was £198m on Capology for 24/25, and that was the adjusted figure after removing Sancho, Rashford, Onana, Antony and Hojlund etc. after they left on loan (circa £50-60m of wages) Add in the staff wages (like you say, around 10%, roughly £30m) and if anything it's showing Capology is fairly close to the real amounts.

Newcastle closing in rightly on the "cartel." @Yorkie Pretty much paying the same wages as Spurs last year and that's before adding Elanga, Ramsey, Woltemade, Wissa and Ramsey who are all reported to be on £100,000+ each. Thiaw also reported to be on £75k. £70m a year behind us and that's before we got rid of Sancho, Rashford, Onana, Antony, Hojlund, Lindelof, Eriksen, Evans etc. off the wage bill which is significantly more than £70m. Thoughts?

Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea Brighton 2-0 Wolves Fulham 1-1 Bournemouth Sunderland 1-2 Man United Man City 2-0 Brentford Burnley 1-2 Villa Palace 1-1 Everton Forest 1-1 Newcastle West Ham 0-1 Arsenal Spurs 2-1 Leeds Man City 2-0 Palace

37 points ahead of Branko. Get in.

I'll take things that never happened for $500 Alex.

More reliant on Casemiro.

I'd say it's less to do with the changes in the team and more than they don't want to get hurt before a big European game on Thursday. We both saw it with our own teams last year. Zero desire in the games leading up to the European matches.

Join us in blaming the Glazers for that.

Can you be part of an imaginary club?