Jimmy_D

I'm not nervous about this at all 😬

Penalty surely?

Flippin' 'eck. Daylight robbery today.

Gerrrrrrrin!

I think it was taking about Elyounoussi possibly getting a chance while Armstrong is injured if Elyounoussi stays at the club this season.

Meh, could be a worse draw I guess

Jeez that was a roller-coaster! Yet another finals day for us!

That'll do

Still time for 9?

96 for 8!

League Cup still going straight to penalties isn't it?

Redmond gets on the scoresheet.

It was a joke, but it wasn't a good one, and it being played with a perfectly straight bat like that was even funnier.

Broja again! Double figures on the cards maybe...

Elyounoussi again!

Elyounoussi!

KWP during technical difficulties for Solent...

And Tella

Broja!

Obviously he’s been fooled by his own team’s diving antics.

Good performance, decent result, could have won!

Probably, aye... Martin Odegaard: Arsenal sign midfielder from Real Madrid for about £30m - BBC Sport

Indeed. Grealish was replacing a shorter contract that already had a known (albeit smaller) release clause in it when he signed the last Villa one. Completely different situation.

Aye, we tend to do pretty well on that front. I wouldn't say we'd never use them, for example Chelsea effectively have one for Livramento, but it's certainly very rare.

Villa fans seem convinced that JWP will have a release clause in his contract now because he has the same agent that Grealish had, and that he'll be leaving next summer. It's also the same agent that JWP had when he signed a new contract last season, as far as I know, and that appears not to have had a release clause. If there is one, I reckon it'd most likely be a very high one, or a relegation release clause, otherwise, like you say, his last contract still had us in a very strong position.