#5661649 - 05/08/12 10:06 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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Comicopolis
Only 7000 posts in more than 7 years - that's just lazy.
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Poor old Blackburn - who could have seen that coming once they got their new owners. I've got some sympathy for Steve Kean, but it was always on the cards. The fans have the right to feel cheated by the Blackburn board. Kudos to Wigan for staying up, as it turned out, quite comfortably. If you buy a football club just for the sake of making money the thing to do is sell of the better players who earn the high wages, don't renew the contracts of other high earners, and then promote cheap alternatives from your own academy.
I'm hoping that Allardyce goes up, so we can enjoy the sight of the insufficiently_thoughtful_person Blackburn owners see their team going down while the manager they fired for no good reason comes back up.
This is where Lerner and his expert advisers have gone wrong at Villa. I think it's great to promote academy players into the first team - how may other top flight English clubs have done this on a regular basis? Not many, and clubs like Chelsea & Arsenal may as well do away with their academies - but the core of any team needs to be experienced professionals.
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#5661721 - 05/08/12 10:37 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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tth2
"I blame it on the low quality of the newbies that are joining the boards."
--And with one swoop tth2 become the community crotchety old man. Damn kids today.
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If you really need more than a month to save up the $25 to pay off your debt just say so. Sorry, I'd forgotten about it while I was waiting for my account to fill up from my recent football pool winnings. PM me your paypal address and I'll send it straight away. No worries Tim, I was just messing with you 
But do PM me your paypal, as the money is now there!
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#5661726 - 05/08/12 10:38 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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tth2
"I blame it on the low quality of the newbies that are joining the boards."
--And with one swoop tth2 become the community crotchety old man. Damn kids today.
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 12/04/03
Posts: 33294
Loc: Hong Kong
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Poor old Blackburn - who could have seen that coming once they got their new owners. I've got some sympathy for Steve Kean, but it was always on the cards. The fans have the right to feel cheated by the Blackburn board. Kudos to Wigan for staying up, as it turned out, quite comfortably. If you buy a football club just for the sake of making money the thing to do is sell of the better players who earn the high wages, don't renew the contracts of other high earners, and then promote cheap alternatives from your own academy.
I'm hoping that Allardyce goes up, so we can enjoy the sight of the insufficiently_thoughtful_person Blackburn owners see their team going down while the manager they fired for no good reason comes back up. This is where Lerner and his expert advisers have gone wrong at Villa. I think it's great to promote academy players into the first team - how may other top flight English clubs have done this on a regular basis? Not many, and clubs like Chelsea & Arsenal may as well do away with their academies - but the core of any team needs to be experienced professionals.
I thought you were talking about Blackburn! I`m fairly sure Lerner understood the concept of relegation, which the Venkys guys apparently didn`t. 
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#5661760 - 05/08/12 10:48 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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Comicopolis
Only 7000 posts in more than 7 years - that's just lazy.
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 07/21/08
Posts: 48961
Loc: Riders on the Storm
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Poor old Blackburn - who could have seen that coming once they got their new owners. I've got some sympathy for Steve Kean, but it was always on the cards. The fans have the right to feel cheated by the Blackburn board. Kudos to Wigan for staying up, as it turned out, quite comfortably. If you buy a football club just for the sake of making money the thing to do is sell of the better players who earn the high wages, don't renew the contracts of other high earners, and then promote cheap alternatives from your own academy.
I'm hoping that Allardyce goes up, so we can enjoy the sight of the insufficiently_thoughtful_person Blackburn owners see their team going down while the manager they fired for no good reason comes back up. This is where Lerner and his expert advisers have gone wrong at Villa. I think it's great to promote academy players into the first team - how may other top flight English clubs have done this on a regular basis? Not many, and clubs like Chelsea & Arsenal may as well do away with their academies - but the core of any team needs to be experienced professionals. I thought you were talking about Blackburn! I`m fairly sure Lerner understood the concept of relegation, which the Venkys guys apparently didn`t.
I was talking about Blackburn - but the similarities with Villa now compared to Lerner's first few seasons are there to see.
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#5661789 - 05/08/12 10:59 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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tth2
"I blame it on the low quality of the newbies that are joining the boards."
--And with one swoop tth2 become the community crotchety old man. Damn kids today.
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 12/04/03
Posts: 33294
Loc: Hong Kong
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I was talking about Blackburn - but the similarities with Villa now compared to Lerner's first few seasons are there to see.
I would think that Villa is the most attractive club right now for some new big money buyer.
Big name, good stadium, not loaded with debt, should be relatively cheap.
Everton`s the other club that should be an attractive takeover candidate, but their balance sheet is probably not as good as Villa`s.
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