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11 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

 

 

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The Athletic. 

 

Villa will need to sell to compensate for losses that total over £200million in the previous two yearly accounts, regardless of whether they qualify for the Champions League. They boast large assets in their squad, which other clubs have an interest in, so, in this regard, selling would not be an issue. Crucially, though, qualification would then enable recruitment staff to be more ambitious in who they want to sign and the financial outlay they can offer, both in salaries and fees.

 

Without participation in Europe’s blue-chip competition, Villa’s squad size will have to be reduced and wage bill — which stands at 91 per cent — will have to be cut more dramatically than intended to comply with UEFA’s rule of 70 per cent limit of club turnover being spent on wages. This would lead to the calibre of player Villa are aiming to recruit likely being from a slightly lower starting point.

 

 

Of course, this is a farce to protect the cartel. We shouldn't laugh. Villa are not being allowed to compete. 

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Zero fucks given because they ultimately imploded after the disallowed goal.  

 

Keep your head for another 15 minutes, park the bus and you're in the Champions League if it remains a draw.  If they had needed a win or lost 1-0 I would feel more sympathetic but ultimately it didn't matter since they lost 2-0 anyway.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Pandamninator said:

Zero fucks given because they ultimately imploded after the disallowed goal.  

 

 

 

They should have been 2 or 3 down before the martinez red card by all accounts

It's like us complaining not getting cl whilst putting in that performance yesterday

Fuck them

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1 hour ago, r0cafella said:

 

 

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The Athletic. 

 

Villa will need to sell to compensate for losses that total over £200million in the previous two yearly accounts, regardless of whether they qualify for the Champions League. They boast large assets in their squad, which other clubs have an interest in, so, in this regard, selling would not be an issue. Crucially, though, qualification would then enable recruitment staff to be more ambitious in who they want to sign and the financial outlay they can offer, both in salaries and fees.

 

Without participation in Europe’s blue-chip competition, Villa’s squad size will have to be reduced and wage bill — which stands at 91 per cent — will have to be cut more dramatically than intended to comply with UEFA’s rule of 70 per cent limit of club turnover being spent on wages. This would lead to the calibre of player Villa are aiming to recruit likely being from a slightly lower starting point.

 

 

And yet Man U, running out of money by Christmas, not making Europe, just soldier on as if nothing's happened.

 

Fuck me.

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9 hours ago, Mazzy said:

Is it even that bad of a mistake? 

 

I think it's getting totally blown out of proportion because it's the last game of the season. If this happens in any other month of the season it gets moved on from pretty quickly. 

How many times have we had a player breaking free only for the ref to blow up because a defender fell over? It happens atleast once every few weeks or something, Villa just have the hilarious money shot of the ball hitting the net when the goal would have won them a CL place.

 

The problem is if it WAS a soft foul, VAR don't intervene and a goal is given regardless due to the 'clear and obvious' ruling. It's a daft system but the ref cannot be blamed imo.

 

 

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2 hours ago, David Edgar said:

 

They voted against it.

Fuck them, complicit as everyone apart from Man City in the voting patterns until it became clear it hurt them once they got some success:

 

Post takeover vote 1: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/19/premier-league-clubs-v-newcastle-inside-the-stunning-emergency-vote

 

Post takeover vote 2:

https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2023/11/22/results-of-second-premier-league-vote-go-public-as-7-clubs-stand-by-newcastle/

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2 hours ago, David Edgar said:

 

Of course, this is a farce to protect the cartel. We shouldn't laugh. Villa are not being allowed to compete. 

Hey, I think we're rewriting history here, like I said before when the takeover happened. Seventeen Premier League clubs voted for these rules—Villa included—just to stop NUFC. Leeds, Villa, and Brighton even joined the cartel to block us and protect themselves. They were shortsighted; Amanda warned them, but they still voted for it.

 Those cartel clubs can't run the league without other teams; they need at least 14 votes to get anything passed. That's 5 cartel clubs (Man City usually sits out or votes no) and 9 others. See, it was clubs like Villa that shielded the cartel in 2021.

Obviously since then they have been voting against them, but at the point of the take over they wanted to screw us over and have us relegated. 

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3 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

Fuck them, complicit as everyone apart from Man City in the voting patterns until it became clear it hurt them once they got some success:

 

Post takeover vote 1: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/19/premier-league-clubs-v-newcastle-inside-the-stunning-emergency-vote

 

Post takeover vote 2:

https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2023/11/22/results-of-second-premier-league-vote-go-public-as-7-clubs-stand-by-newcastle/

This. The whole league wanted to stop us and have us relegated.  We were bottom with zero wins at the time. They screwed us big time. 

 

Amanda Staveley warned them, and they didn't listen. So yes. Fuck them.

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It looks like Karma caught up with the Villa fans at last. 

 

They were very unlucky with Rogers' goal. I did get a little bit of experience at reffing in my younger days, and one of the first lessons I came across was the need to make decisions fairly quickly. Football is a fast and fluid game, and if you hesitate, the ball can be on another part of the pitch before you know it. It's then difficult to drag the play back for a free kick. That ref yesterday could have given himself a bit more time, but it was an unusual situation. It would have been easy to assume that the keeper had gathered the ball, because he had plenty of time to do that.

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3 minutes ago, Cf said:

Complaining about the referee selection is so classless and to do so publicly they should face punitive action imo. 

I understand their annoyance having just seen it, but nothings gonna change, it's tough shit.

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32 minutes ago, Cf said:

Complaining about the referee selection is so classless and to do so publicly they should face punitive action imo. 


Honestly, the way Emery was jumping around on the touchline when it happened, there is absolutely no way he could have seen from where he was whether it was actually a foul, and then the way he went on when the penalty was given (exaggerated applause for the ref). Absolute tool.

 

 

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I've no great hatred of Villa but it's absolutely excellent for us that we not only got CL but potentially stuck a dagger into their progress (if it's true they have to sell etc).

 

I wonder if we might nick a player off them before the PSR deadline.

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Just now, STM said:

I've no great hatred of Villa but it's absolutely excellent for us that we not only got CL but potentially stuck a dagger into their progress (if it's true they have to sell etc).

 

I wonder if we might nick a player off them before the PSR deadline.

Would love Kamara. Still gutted we didn't get him when he was free. 

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12 minutes ago, Cf said:

Complaining about the referee selection is so classless and to do so publicly they should face punitive action imo. 

 

Yep, only raising the issue beforehand would make it valid. Complaining after a perceived injustice is just petty.

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