Looking at Villa's squad... 18:05 - Apr 21 with 2982 views | judespiveyg | We might as well forget financial fair play. I mean sure, they have the money to spend so they're perfectly entitled to spend it, but compare it to a team like us say, or millwall, it doesn't seem very much like 'fair play'. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:08 - Apr 21 with 2953 views | Illinoisblue | A Burton fan could say the same about us. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:11 - Apr 21 with 2925 views | Mach_foreignBlue | Conor Hourihane let go for free by Jewell. | | | |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:16 - Apr 21 with 2894 views | ElderGrizzly | £81m to put that squad together i read earlier today | | | |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:19 - Apr 21 with 2883 views | Garv |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:11 - Apr 21 by Mach_foreignBlue | Conor Hourihane let go for free by Jewell. |
Ones that like really grind. He went elsewhere and albeit in a lower league excelled immediately. Strange that Keane brought him in and didn't play him for a whole season, and strange to think Jewell and whatever coaching staff at the time didn't see anything to suggest he might be worth keeping. I don't think he was particularly young either (might be wrong there). | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:31 - Apr 21 with 2839 views | floridaboy | Their spending will only matter if they go up Just ask Derby!! | | | |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:37 - Apr 21 with 2818 views | Herbivore |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:08 - Apr 21 by Illinoisblue | A Burton fan could say the same about us. |
Is our budget several times higher than Burton's? We're WAY closer to Burton financially than we are to Villa. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:39 - Apr 21 with 2810 views | Mullet |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:19 - Apr 21 by Garv | Ones that like really grind. He went elsewhere and albeit in a lower league excelled immediately. Strange that Keane brought him in and didn't play him for a whole season, and strange to think Jewell and whatever coaching staff at the time didn't see anything to suggest he might be worth keeping. I don't think he was particularly young either (might be wrong there). |
He was in the youth team when we got him in. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:42 - Apr 21 with 2805 views | RegencyBlue | I’m not sure the rest of football ever took FFP seriously in the first place. It provided a useful smokescreen for the lack of investment in our squad for a few years but even Evans doesn’t seem to mention it much now. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Looking at Villa's squad... on 19:03 - Apr 21 with 2744 views | homer_123 |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:16 - Apr 21 by ElderGrizzly | £81m to put that squad together i read earlier today |
For the first 20, they looked decidedly ordinary. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 19:13 - Apr 21 with 2716 views | homer_123 |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:37 - Apr 21 by Herbivore | Is our budget several times higher than Burton's? We're WAY closer to Burton financially than we are to Villa. |
Are we starting to see what we already knew, I think. Mick is able to get a very average group of players to perform way above their collective ability. Not surprised. I hope that whoever comes in is able to make some proper changes and invest, properly. I doubt that latter. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 22:10 - Apr 21 with 2565 views | Bent_double |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:42 - Apr 21 by RegencyBlue | I’m not sure the rest of football ever took FFP seriously in the first place. It provided a useful smokescreen for the lack of investment in our squad for a few years but even Evans doesn’t seem to mention it much now. |
Or the idea of could be to prevent clubs from overspending, going into administration or even being liquidated. Of course it isn't working, in the Championshop, Leagues 1 & 2 and the PL. There are always going to be richer clubs and poorer clubs in the same league, how things are evened-out is a mystery to everyone in football it seems, which is a shame. I wish that money wasn't a factor, that the league could employ the players and divvi them up between the clubs for example, then it would come down to the better manager/better club. Can't or won't happen of course. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 22:13 - Apr 21 with 2554 views | ArnieM |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:16 - Apr 21 by ElderGrizzly | £81m to put that squad together i read earlier today |
And they’re still not guarenteed promotion! | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 13:06 - Apr 22 with 2357 views | Garv |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 18:39 - Apr 21 by Mullet | He was in the youth team when we got him in. |
19 when he arrived from Premier League Sunderland. What I meant was I'd like to think he would at least have been involved in the first team. | |
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Looking at Villa's squad... on 20:31 - Apr 22 with 2188 views | No9 |
Looking at Villa's squad... on 19:13 - Apr 21 by homer_123 | Are we starting to see what we already knew, I think. Mick is able to get a very average group of players to perform way above their collective ability. Not surprised. I hope that whoever comes in is able to make some proper changes and invest, properly. I doubt that latter. |
MM rarely had to play without the skipper. We are seeing what the skipper is worth on the field | | | |
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