Fantail Breeze

Why walk away full stop? By walking away they gave the PL an out. Otherwise the PL would’ve been forced to make a decision. Of course walking away so publicly (and blaming COVID) was a mistake. Some people just aren’t blinded by the false optimism to be able to see that.

Not like us to be scraping around the bargain bins.

Should’ve happened last month too, but it only went up by 20k. Maybe there is a huge amount going in later this week, but it’s only up 3k so far.

Well, that’s not what he said at all. But okay. Secondly, I have no issues with having an open mind and listening to thoughts from many people. He made some really good points today, with seemingly good information to back it up. If Keith could do the same, maybe I’d listen to him more. But all he’s done recently is bang on about a fairly irrelevant letter and abuse anyone who disagrees with him.

Aye. Let’s do away with credible people presenting a credible take on the situation and move to the other thread and see what The Sun has to say.

Much better Q&A with Jacobs, actually allowing him the opportunity to answer the questions put to him, rather than just talking over him about a letter. Really insightful, thought it was interesting that PIF have said they’ll walk away for good if arbitration fails. Also found the explanation of arbitration helpful. They’re not arbitrating the separation per se, but they are arbitrating whether the PL’s O&D test is robust enough to make a judgement about separation in the first place. Basically an argument about the word ‘control’ as the PL’s test doesn’t define it properly. Some really good answers too about why the fake ITKs on Twitter are full of bollocks and why particular rules didn’t apply - simple terms, because the consortium never forced the PL into a corner and PIF publicly withdrew too soon. Interesting that Jacobs has no idea which way it’ll go, which again adds evidence to his credibility. As he says, all we can do is W A I T until the arbitration ruling.

It is if they hold onto their spine of the team, but Soumare is apparently with expectations of Tielemans leaving - which would be a disaster.

We wouldn’t need a CB if we had a competent manager. Literally about the only position on the pitch we have adequate cover for and he ostracises one of the better CBs we have and sends him out on loan.

£87k in the charity fundraiser after three months Next payment due next week for most too, after only £20k repeat pledges last month, wonder if it’ll have dropped even further. Only about 30 years until Alex Hurst gets enough to buy 1% and fulfil his sole dream of sitting in a posh seat. Must admit even I didn’t expect it to flop this badly. I thought it might get a year or so before the terrible idea fell to it’s inevitable conclusion.

Weird post. I’ve barely posted in this thread recently, other than a post yesterday which wasn’t negative at all. Don’t let the truth get in the way of your dramatisation though.

Love it how it’s seemingly completely normal for a PL club to fail to get a transfer completed due to a £6m transfer fee. Most insulting thing is CB is the least of our issues

He means Villa.

We can’t. Unless we sell one of our decent players (Miggy, ASM, Wilson) and go backwards before we’ve even taken a step forward.

I’ve never been a fan of away goals. For the reasons is directly above - you can draw two games but go out, which seems bizarre. As others have also said, it’s fairly crap because away goals often kill games that should still be alive. I also think ET is bollocks too. You rarely see a good period of ET, usually it’s just people going through the motions. Just go straight to penalties.

Not sure who is thicker there - Ferguson or Everton (if offered).

The only move I could see for Grealish is Man Utd - anywhere else* he’d be a bit part player and regularly rotated. He’s certainly not going to leave Villa to do that. *Chelsea, Liverpool & Man City - the teams realistically fighting for the title. And even saying that, Man Utd are far from guaranteed to be fighting/winning honours at the moment. I think he’ll give Villa at least another season.

No idea why I found this amusing, but it looks like Rüdiger has given birth himself.

Tore the Championship apart and looked a class apart. Although, so did Shelvey.

His last tweet doesn’t even make sense. I’ve got no idea what point he is trying to make.

Outspent the Mags this summer marra.

Aside from Peterborough, who spent £2.2m after receiving £5m in player sales last season - that transfer alone would outspend the other 22 teams in the league combined. A weird signing. I’m assuming there are better options than some expensive kid from a PL club - could they not just have loaned him again too?

If that happened this season: CL: Leicester, West Ham, Leeds & Everton EL: Aston Villa, Newcastle Conf L: Wolves Would’ve been quality for English sides next season.

What a dreadful signing that would be.

Even Edward Scissorhands?

Could they not do so with a loan from PIF? How would that be different from people like those at the mackems, Man Utd and Burnley, buying the clubs with borrowed funds? The PL/EFL don’t ask the lenders to go through the O&D test, do they? Set the loan with an interest rate of 0% and PIF can use the loan to purchase 80% of shares once this whole faff has been resolved.