Saint86

I don't think there is anyway we can sell JWP and expect to stay up at this point.

Quite. No words for the ones trying to dress up a £40m panic bid for tammy Abraham as "Leadership" and anyone who disagrees with them as lacking it and wrong 😄 Amazing how some fans think we have that kind of money, and that football is so black and white 🤷‍♂️

Such a weird one, the owners don't want to sell so they're trying to turn the fans against them. Toxic from the word go. And lets be honest, they've done a good job at West Ham. What happened to the De Grosa view being that serious bidders keep things quiet as well?

Coached him to the best season of his career and got him in the England squad 😆

I think this is little more than the club knew he wouldn't sign and villa offered us and amount we'd be crazy to turn down. The fact that it came utterly out of the blue for both clubs is a sign of desperation / craziness on the part of Villa. But ultimatley, if they cna keep him fit then it's a good deal for all parties.

Due to that JWP comment, you're credibility has gone straight in the dog house whilst your reputational promiance has sky rocketed... For shear crazy talk! Going to take a while to recover from that 😅... Well maybe not given what normally gets said on here... But I doubt I am the only one who read that post and wtf'd out loud. 😜

It doesn't add up that we wanted him out whilst also offering him the most lucrative contract in the club's history though.

Gets the point across fairly succinctly. I said at the time that the Reed leadership was one of the worst things to happen to the club. We've tied an absolute millstone around our necks - and even once they've all left, we'll still have the debt. Yet i see fans constantly blaming Gao for the club's finances. The blame for the club's current finances does not lie with him, and if anyting, under his ownership we've got rid of the idiots like Reed and Krueger (who would have totally ruined us), introduced Crocker and Semmens, started to really fix our recruitment, and brought in Ralph who I am convinced is a good manager for us and fairly loyal to the project.

Bravo 👌🏼. Saved me (and doubtless some others) the hassle / scratched the itch to correct 😄

Now that really would be a dissapointment if he's out main option - which seems to be the case.

We've got a double down folks 😆

We've looked good in preseason so far, the championship clubs are a week ahead of us in terms of preseason and we've breezed past them both. Fairly comfortable tonight vs levante as well, albeit dry.

Yeah deano is the co commentator. Great goal by KWP there. But fairly dry stuff so far, but to be fair levante look a reasonably solid defensive side. We're missing JWP and Armstrong, serious lack of movement and creativity when its romeu and diallo in the middle. Lots of threat down the wings which is good. Bibao had the best defence outside the top 5 in la liga, so will prove and interesting test for us.

Yeah exactly this. We don't have Reed running the show anymore, even if some of his mistakes are still kicking about. People crying about this, honestly - it was very likely he was going to be sold this summer. We've clearly had a good offer in and can use it on replacements. Are folks going to shit the bed when vestergard goes as well? 🙄

Good business all in all. Tottenham would have fucked us around until the final hours of the transfer window and then paid £20m. Also, villa really don't need Ings. To spend that money with that short notice smacks of a panic buy by them.

We just got £25M-£30M for a player with a dodgy injury record, who is pushing 30, going into the last year of his contract, and didn't want to be here. That's great business. I get you're pissed off, but we've had a decent window so far, and we are going to sign Armstrong who looks a great replacement. When you wake up in the morning you'll realise this is a contender for absolute bed wetter post of the summer 🙃.

It could be an incorrect statement about the past and therefore not a fact. Equally, it could be an opinion of something that happened in the past, which still not a matter of fact 🙃

That doesn't fit with any evidence thus far re villa making bids or noises out of the club. Or is the entire media in cahoots to make it look like Villa have put in derisory offers, but that actually saints have accepted it? 🙃

Spot on.

Is the predictor league still running as well?

Unless i hate the job, why would you give less? You're either a hard worker who cares about his colleagues, or a lazy tosser who's taking the piss. Doesn't change until maybe the last afternoon etc. when everything is done 🤷‍♂️

It would be disappointing if he goes for anything less than £40M.

Yes precisely, you've nailed it! Now get on your knees and apologise for Britain. But whatever you do, please don't look at the government as it quietly makes personal transport and home heating unaffordable for the average person, kills off whole industries whilst transferring huge debt onto the taxpayer etc. Because that isn't important. What's really important is that the person next to you is different and therefore bad.

I think this is spot on to be honest.

We're beating Everton first game. No doubts.😎