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Well we were the only team out of the 4 that did not see a red card in either leg.

Taylor-Crossdale (iirc we were also randomly linked with him) is also another young English player apparently headed abroad (from chelsea to Hoffenheim) Reece Oxford going to Augsburg as well. good to see youngsters try moving abroad

ah yes okay. forgot about that

wasn't one of their goals (in the second game this season) literally kicked out of Kalinić's grasp? Or am I thinking wrong?

Hudson-Odoi has apparently ruptured his achilles. very tough injury to take, especially at his young age

I just saw this angle on twitter and I think i've just gotten more confused about the handball rule. Live time as it happened yesterday, I thought the ref had made the right decision with VAR, but after seeing this combined with the other changed var decisions in the recent champs league I'm not so sure.

Thought I'd make this as Villa have just announced that they will be coming over Stateside for a pre-season friendly with Minnesota United. (Not sure if this is the right thread to put this) Also I had seen rumors that we were under consideration to play DC United as well so keep an eye out for that as well. https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2019/04/16/aston-villa-heading-to-usa-this-summer

Alex Neil has apparently changed his mind about the WBA job and signed a new 3 year deal with Preston. Their search goes on

what a performance by him today.

i think that this clip of bernie just shows how 'conservative' pretty much all of the US government is in regards to Israel/Middle east and the Israeli conundrum

believe AVTV mentioned he has a slight knee problem today?

I haven't seen this anywhere, but the Moise Kean situation from the other day is absolutely horrible. Some of the responses have been laughable

I still don't particularly like putting both of the women's titles up in the same match for what is similar to a unification bout. (There are way to many woman superstars on either brand to only have one championship) I think that is spot on with McIntyre winning MITB (unless he wins the title before)

So Wrestlemania is coming up this weekend. The current card looks like this: Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch (Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships) Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston (WWE Championship) Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins (Universal Championship) Samoa Joe vs. Rey Mysterio (United States Championship) Bobby Lashley vs. Finn Balor (Intercontinental Championship) Triple H vs. Batista (No Holds Barred) The Miz vs. Shane McMahon (Falls Count Anywhere) Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre Kurt Angle vs. Baron Corbin AJ Styles vs. Randy Orton Buddy Murphy vs. Tony Nese (Cruiserweight Championship) Bayley and Sasha Banks vs. Nia Jax and Tamina vs. The IIconics vs. Beth Phoenix and Natalya (Women's Tag Team Championships) Andre the Giant Battle Royal Women's Battle Royal

As much as I would love to see us sign him permanently in the Summer, I don't think that would be quite a wise move. I think it was @wilko154 that said we have to stop spending on overpriced players with big wages. If the transfer fee was reduced (highly unlikely) then I might be more open to it but spending 20/25 mil on Tammy just doesn't seem like the best value for money we could get. With all that being said — IF we could get him "cheaply" then I would be all for it. (or even another loan wouldn't be as bad).

If we don't go up I would be temped to see if he'd be open to extending his contract for another year at fair/reduced terms.

Genuinely curious about this, but when was the last time he was really tested by a team? I don't recall him making a lot of big saves. That said, he's in great form

I thought so myself, but seems like he was pushed in the back. Still I would've thought that VAR would've checked that. Also don't know how Chiellini didn't foul the Madrid guy right at the end by clearly impending him. Thats a pen for me and not sure why VAR didn't even have a look at it....

Well who would've thought of this..... https://apnews.com/421dca3cbf454bf191cfc3af9f4dc685

Restarted my game with the new update and got the Spain U-19 job with the lowest rep etc. Went unbeaten through the entire year to the U-19 championships. Also had England loaded as "view only" and Villa got promoted. First year they go out and splash the cash to sign Mahrez, Cena Tosun, Holgate, and Juanmi.

looks like Ranieri is going to get the Roma job.

Roma sacked Eusebio Di Francesco and are rumored to be close to replacing him with Ranieri

Considering that this call is garnering debate amongst refs seems to me that it wasn't a "clear and obvious error".