The Football News Thread 2017/18 - everything not Wolves

[Tredman]

Should be peanuts to them though.

 

[Parkins left foot]

At the end not sure that many would have been praising Steve Morgan, but that was a sale to the right place

 

[darlowolf64]

Yeah, I'm with you. A small bit of their fanbase learns a bit of humility, Phony Tony, Keith the Pie and Steve Barnes go, then we're cool again.

With the finances allegedly so bad then surely they can't afford to pay Bruce off so are stuck with him unless he walks...

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Should be peanuts to them though.

If they had to pull in transfer money for cash flow in February, then that might actually be a fairly significant pack of peanuts. It looks like they are in very very serious trouble indeed and the emperor is somewhat lacking in clothes

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

With the finances allegedly so bad then surely they can't afford to pay Bruce off so are stuck with him unless he walks...

Same position we were in with Hoddle (Jez thought he'd been clever with the contract, then realised he hadn't).

Bruce won't hang around for long. He hates working with no budget.

 

[YoungWolf]

Thank god Hoddle walked. And even that he did it in a shitty way the coward. Right after the quarter final of world cup against Portugal right?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

10 mins before. Kenny texted me (remember texts, kids)

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Yep. Everyone in the pub I was in was really down and then I cheered at that news. Not a Wolves area in Buckinghamshire so I was lucky to leave alive.

 

[AndyWolves]

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8ot1aj/the_ability_of_goalkeepers_to_save_freekicks_with/

Rather lengthy article on whether walls help or hinder goalkeepers.

From what I could skim read I think the answer is, it depends.

 

[AndyWolves]

Villa to be relegated looking more and more likely.

They're gonna have to sell to meet FFP and administration might be happening.

It's worth a £5 on them going down

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They were 28s to drop last week.

Betfred are still offering them at 22s it seems but they're as short as 8s with Will Hills and that will only tumble. So basically if you want to do it and you haven't already, do it now.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

I m not very good with these kind of things, but I would imagine that Aston Villa have maybe 20,000 season ticket holders. That plus their income from the play off final should make any tax bill easily repayable with plenty to spare.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I m not very good with these kind of things, but I would imagine that Aston Villa have maybe 20,000 season ticket holders. That plus their income from the play off final should make any tax bill easily repayable with plenty to spare.

Yeah, but that money is supposed to go towards other things. Not debts that should have been paid months ago.

Same as selling Grealish should fund the rebuilding of the squad, not just filling the massive gap caused because they took a ridiculously short-term strategy and ran with it.

 

[AndyWolves]

If cash is a problem then they absolutely can't fall foul of FFP because that'll be a fine, if they've got no money that'll put them into administration.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

John Percy says Trevor Birch is working with them now. That's Trevor Birch who specialises in dealing with insolvent clubs.

I mean he's good at what he does. But that's a big red flag.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Such a schadenfreude moment really

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I'm in the minority here but I don't want Villa to fall like we did through the divisions as I still like the club as a whole. Barring the utter morons who run the club I think there's a decent fanbase. They seem to have just the Chinese Bahtti's.

Blouse on the other hand I could happily watch fall into obscurity.

I was about to post something similar. I wouldn't even be pleased to see it happen to Albion. I'd be delighted if it happened to Blues, however.

 

[Aikiwolf]

They were 28s to drop last week.

Betfred are still offering them at 22s it seems but they're as short as 8s with Will Hills and that will only tumble. So basically if you want to do it and you haven't already, do it now.

I got 26s last week! Straight after I read Dr T's "severe FFP" statement.

 

[Sedgley Wolf]

I was about to post something similar. I wouldn't even be pleased to see it happen to Albion. I'd be delighted if it happened to Blues, however.

Yep, the joy being shown at this is pretty bizarre.

What, so we don't want Aston Villa to exist now? Is that where we're at?

 

[leedswolf]

Villa release statement "tax will be paid in 24/48 hours"

Sky - Villa are trying to negotiate paying in installments.

Oh christ, they are completely fucked.

Day made. Wonderful.