Mantis Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Just saw somewhere that this is Kalvin Phillips' first league start for them. This is a player that cost over £40m and they can afford to utilise him in the same way we utilise Sanson. Just obscene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Just now, Mantis said: Just saw somewhere that this is Kalvin Phillips' first league start for them. This is a player that cost over £40m and they can afford to utilise him in the same way we utilise Sanson. Just obscene. Another PL teams star player / captain / boyhood fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 7 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: 115 breeches of the FFP rules! Wow. I'm not sure they will have titles stripped from them, but if there are to be punushments then a few I would be willing to see thrown at them would be that:- -They should be banned from playing in any major European tournament for the next few years. -A transfer embargo for the next few seasons. -Start with a heavy points deduction in the league for the next few seasons. No other team would get away with this absolute scandalous shite! 4 hours ago, Genie said: I’m still pissed off they they weren’t given a punishment at the same time as being charged. I don’t know why football operates this way. Points the finger then steps back and waits before deciding what the punishment should be. Agreed. Italian FA would have given them an immediate fifteen to twenty points deduction or demoted them from the league. Why does the FA wait? Oh yeah, fame, fortune and Man S****y are the flag bearers for our game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 11 minutes ago, VillaChris said: I'm a bit like @GlobalVillan here tbh. I find as a neutral watching Man. City games very boring. At least with the state likes of Liverpool and Spurs have been in for most of the season their games for a neutral have been good to watch as they always give the opposition chances. Man. City are just robotic like. Same move endlessly times that opposition can't cope with and it's all over as soon as they go 2 up. It's not that I find them boring, although I imagine they would be, I just refuse to watch them, as everything they do is completely invalid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Back to the dark age's!.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 So bored with the media w@nkfest over the plucky billionaire club that i let the missus switch over to watch repeats of say yes to the dress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 I hope the MEN reporting live pre game for the title celebrations gets circulated Absolute **** shambles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 24 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Agreed. Italian FA would have given them an immediate fifteen to twenty points deduction or demoted them from the league. Why does the FA wait? Oh yeah, fame, fortune and Man S****y are the flag bearers for our game... Lawyers that's why If the FA / PL charged them with something tomorrow they'd be lucky to see it come in to play within 2 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 31 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Agreed. Italian FA would have given them an immediate fifteen to twenty points deduction or demoted them from the league. Why does the FA wait? Oh yeah, fame, fortune and Man S****y are the flag bearers for our game... And then overturn it when nobody's looking. As they've done multiple times over thee years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 21, 2023 Moderator Share Posted May 21, 2023 59 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Why does the FA wait? Oh yeah, fame, fortune and Man S****y are the flag bearers for our game... It's not the FA, it's the Premier League. They wait because City have, it's reported, taken legal action claiming the investigation process is invalid and flawed and blah blah blah. Like with UEFA - they investigated, found them guilty, banned them from Europe for 2 years and fined them 60 million quid...but City got the lawyers in, appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and escaped on a technicality (too long since some offences), not enough evidence on others...because City refused to co-operate. In essence both the PL and UEFA did take action, but City's lawyers and bottomless pockets are a powerful tool. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Congrats to the champions* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Man City celebrating in a third full stadium is peak football heritage. "Amazing scenes at Man City here." Not really. No. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Just such a nothing club that nobody really gives a shit about. Yes they've won the title, could win a treble but so what. Everything they win is just another purchase for the plastic fantastic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will87 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Mantis said: Just saw somewhere that this is Kalvin Phillips' first league start for them. This is a player that cost over £40m and they can afford to utilise him in the same way we utilise Sanson. Just obscene. Why is £40m obscene and £14m not though? Who decides where the line for what is and isn't acceptable to spend on a player is? We as Villa fans seem to have conveniently decided it's somewhere between what us and City spend, despite ourselves outspending the vast majority of clubs in Europe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Their reserves would probably finish top 7. They've destroyed the Premier league with their financial cheating. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 20 minutes ago, will87 said: Why is £40m obscene and £14m not though? Who decides where the line for what is and isn't acceptable to spend on a player is? We as Villa fans seem to have conveniently decided it's somewhere between what us and City spend, despite ourselves outspending the vast majority of clubs in Europe. Because it's not just a one off? Because they've been cooking the books for years? Obviously money plays a bigger part in the game than it used to but City are on a whole different level compared to everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bobzy Posted May 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2023 43 minutes ago, will87 said: Why is £40m obscene and £14m not though? Who decides where the line for what is and isn't acceptable to spend on a player is? We as Villa fans seem to have conveniently decided it's somewhere between what us and City spend, despite ourselves outspending the vast majority of clubs in Europe. It's an example, isn't it? We're in the richest league in the World and yet even with Villa's comparative wealth, Man City have just given a first start to a player who was another Premier League clubs' star player and captain and who cost more than Aston Villa's record purchase - yet he's just a backup, squad filler, nobody. The financial gap is huge. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Up until today Phillips had played 113 minutes of Prem football for City without starting a game. He has more minutes this season for England than he does for City in the Prem. He cost roughly 10m more than Emi Buendia and would be our second highest earner if you believe some of the websites that report wages. You can't compete with that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 I was thinking about Foden earlier, labelled as a generation talent and he has 5x PL winners medals before his 23rd birthday but is very much a fringe player. Will he be happy with that long term? Lots of money and medals, will he be wanting regular football now? Villa to make a cheeky bid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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