Nightingale hammer 9:43 Thu Mar 3
Villa
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Reckon they will bounce straight back or will it be the end of them for a few years?
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Tomsdad
2:22 Fri Mar 4
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Never had a problem with Villa.
Worked with Paul Birch's best mate, who always had spares for Villa games. Never took any, even when we were playing up there. Can't remember why!
Still, if you get relegated, you deserve it.
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Son of Anarchy
2:03 Fri Mar 4
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Lerner's tenure as the owner of the Cleveland Browns mirrors that of Villa, well supported team going nowhere but down.
cannot understand why he's still there.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:47 Fri Mar 4
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Dump - in a minute he'll be telling you it was all a wind-up and he has caught you in his net.
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Gruesome Dump
1:32 Fri Mar 4
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Ahhhh. So you are changing your stance. Excellent.
As you were.
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,
1:28 Fri Mar 4
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Lerner broke his own imposed pay ceiling in order to get in the experienced players because he knows the cost of going down. It's too late though.
Be interesting to see what he does next season.
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the exile
1:26 Fri Mar 4
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They are completely fucked and still sinking. Wouldn't be surprised if they go straight down to League 2.
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Gruesome Dump
1:18 Fri Mar 4
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Comma, your intial point is incorrect. You asserted that Villa pay "Chanpionship wages". You clearly don't know what players like Lescott, Richards etc command before they agree to join.
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,
12:45 Fri Mar 4
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Those players were brought in, breaking the Lerner principle, because it was realised that unless they did something they would be in danger of going down. Looks like those more expensive acquisitions failed.
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bruuuno
12:44 Fri Mar 4
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Hers another take on what happened at villa:
They are all mugs.
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Gruesome Dump
12:41 Fri Mar 4
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That has nothing to do with your assertion that Villa "pay Championship wages". They don't.
Lescott, Richards and Sinclair - to name just three - are on handsome contracts.
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,
12:30 Fri Mar 4
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Here's a take on what happened to Villa.
That Villa’s wage bill needed to be brought under control has never really been the subject of any serious debate, but what followed Houllier’s tenure stripped the club bare and left only a husk. The appointment of Alex McLeish after pursuing Roberto Martínez and Steve McClaren betrayed Lerner’s lack of a plan, and, despite being backed enough to secure a signing who still has his spurs dug in at Bodymoor Heath, McLeish has since made it clear that his remit had as much to do with finance as football.
Paul Lambert lasted much longer as Villa’s manager but did so against a tidal wave of incompetence and vicious budget cuts. Lambert departed Villa in February 2015 a greyer and gaunter man than he’d been in the summer of 2012. His inability to arrest Villa’s slide renders him partially responsible but, like McLeish, Lambert’s job wasn’t to win football matches. It was to slash the wage bill while attempting to draw them.
Lerner’s fevered backtracking in the name of sustainability has had the opposite effect because he was unaware of, or unwilling to recognise, a basic truth: no club can pedal backwards and expect to stand still. Even as the absurdity of Premier League money has exploded like never before, the unwitting Aston Villa Corinthians have attempted to battle on manfully in a rich man’s game.
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alphaharps
11:57 Thu Mar 3
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Could they beat Spurs in 2 weeks?
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bish bash bosh
11:32 Thu Mar 3
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It does make you appreciate having good owners who genuinely love the club, and don't treat it as a rich mans toy. They could go down again next season, unbelievable for a club of their size but it happens...look at Leeds
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Roby
11:17 Thu Mar 3
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They will be the biggest scalp in the Championship since when we were down there and Newcastle before then.
Everyone will raise their game against them so I don't envisage them going up in the automatic places.
Also will need a complete overhaul of the squad and removal of the French flops.
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Crassus
11:12 Thu Mar 3
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Ex
bang on, Spurs, Villa and Newcastle - all entitled deluded cunts
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WHU(Exeter)
11:10 Thu Mar 3
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Always thought of them as the Spurs of the Midlands, although to be fair, they have actually won things of note.
Don't listen to a lot of football phone ins, but tend to instantly reach for the off switch, when a call starts with "lOid like ta talk about tha Villa"
Heard one of their new recruited top bods on the radio a few weeks back - his left field approaches to future player recruitment, makes me think that they won't be bouncing straight back.
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geoffpikey
11:09 Thu Mar 3
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Garde will leave. Feel a bit sorry for him, as he seems a decent man (if not a great manager) and seems to have been lied to.
Lerner will sell. Or should. He has no interest in football, really. Announced the club was for sale in 2014!
Best players (there aren't many, now even their own egos are shot) will leave. Rumours of 50% salary cuts if they go down. So agents are already circling.
Firesale. Collapse.
Could "do a Wigan". Totally FUCKED UP club..
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Crassus
10:58 Thu Mar 3
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Struggled for a while and just escaped last season
Then lost the whole spine - Goalkeeper, Vlarr, Delph and Benteke
Replaced it with disinterested crud
Doomed I tells you
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Gruesome Dump
10:52 Thu Mar 3
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Lovely barnet as well. Silky.
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Huffers
10:49 Thu Mar 3
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I'd have Grealish all day long for £5m. Ran the game vs us last season.
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Gruesome Dump
10:38 Thu Mar 3
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That's not actuall true, comma. Richards, Lescott, Sinclair and others are on wages that are far from 'Championship level'.
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