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remembercolinlee said:
I have read a lot about the gamble villa made which has left them in a financial crisis in the past 2 weeks.
They were paying out around 95% of their income on wages. <yikes>
Journalists, reporters and pundits have all spoken about when will clubs learn the lessons from Leeds and Portsmouth (you can add, Wimbledon, Bradford, Coventry, Sheff Wed, Sheff Utd, Charlton, Leicester, Southampon, Sunderland, QPR, Nottingham Forest, Wigan plus others to the list) where financial risk were taken and ruined stable top flight clubs.

These are the same journalists, reporters and pundits who constantly demand that we must double our players salaries or they will go elsewhere...at no point do these financi l wizards point out that doubling our wage bill would mean spending over 100% of our income on wages. <doh>
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This is apparently what Levy's counting on with Grealish. He's done it before with other sides who overspend.
Mounting debts and a wage bill that you can't possibly sustain? Here's a lowball deal for one of your best players. Can you afford to turn it down?
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
This is apparently what Levy's counting on with Grealish. He's done it before with other sides who overspend.
Mounting debts and a wage bill that you can't possibly sustain? Here's a lowball deal for one of your best players. Can you afford to turn it down?
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Didn't he sign Robbo for £1 because Leeds needed to get him off their wage bill?
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
This is apparently what Levy's counting on with Grealish. He's done it before with other sides who overspend.
Mounting debts and a wage bill that you can't possibly sustain? Here's a lowball deal for one of your best players. Can you afford to turn it down?
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very true...
Keane, Robinson, Rose and Lennon cost us less than £10m from Leeds
We got Kaboul, Crouch, Kranjar, Defoe and Arry for approx £40m from Pompey
And we got Bale for £5m from Southampton and then bought his 20% sell on clause off them for £1m and a great young keeper :bandit:
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Tony Adams has tipped every single Spurs player in the England squad to let the team down this summer
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Internet land has mainly responded with :

1. Only one Gooner in the squad compared to 5 for Spurs,
so statistically far more chance one of them may do as
he claimed.

2. How did the "winning" experience of Adams/Keown etc
exactly help the England campaigns in 1996/1998/2000 ...??
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Tony Adams has tipped every single Spurs player in the England squad to let the team down this summer

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Exactly why would anyone think to get the opinion of this twat on England's WC chances when his only personal memory of representing his country in a major tournament appears to be the following:

'In his Sun interview, the former Arsenal defender talked about the time he wet the bed on after Holland dumped England out of Euro 88:
During my alcoholism, I often wet the bed and I did so that night. The maid came in to the room holding her nose saying ‘Pee-pee’ and my room-mate, Viv Anderson, told all the lads. I was dying inside of shame and embarrassment.'

<doh> Double <doh>
 
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Spur of the Moment said:
Exactly why would anyone think to get the opinion of this test on England's WC chances when his only personal memory of representing his country in a major tournament appears to be the following:

'In his Sun interview, the former Arsenal defender talked about the time he wet the bed on after Holland dumped England out of Euro 88:
During my alcoholism, I often wet the bed and I did so that night. The maid came in to the room holding her nose saying ‘Pee-pee’ and my room-mate, Viv Anderson, told all the lads. I was dying inside of shame and embarrassment.'

<doh> Double <doh>
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Funnily enough, his forays into management regularly saw him **** the bed...
 
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The RDBD said:
2. How did the "winning" experience of Adams/Keown etc
exactly help the England campaigns in 1996/1998/2000 ...??
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Exactly!!!

One of the standard pundit cliches that really winds me up is when they always refer to the "experience" of certain players as reasons to keep them in the squad, or even in the team. At the Euros it was all about keeping Rooney for his "experience" in the dressing room, even if he didn't play. Same this time for Hart - and the fact that the keepers thankfully finally chosen had "no experience". Of course one of the main reasons they don't have enough experience is that Hart continued to play well past his sell by date making it a self-fulfilling thing! And even right up to when the squad was chosen a lot of the pundits still wanted Hart as the 3rd keeper for his experience and contribution in the dressing room - where have we heard that before!!! Nothing is made of the poor tournament temperament which Hart demonstrated on several occasions. And now we have Sterling who time and time again shows his inability to play for the international team*, but will no doubt be picked until he's too old to move.

* Note that I didn't say something along the lines of step up to the international level because most of the football isn't a step up from the premier league at all, which is why a lot of the arguments fail about shoe horning the so-called best players into the team. Sterling may be a fine player for ManC, but the WC is different - not better, but different. Which is why someone who demonstrates a lack of ability when playing for England shouldn't get picked on his league form.
 
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So about all those articles triumphantly declaring Poch would be managing Los Ladrones next season...
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Also, the word their social media bod meant to use is "campeones" - because "champiens" is not a word
 
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