Premier League Discussion Thread

Yikes 9mil for Foster, i hope it's still a rumor

That story has popped up again.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/250726/Aston-Villa-close-in-on-deal-for-Ben-Foster

Would love Laursen to be manager!

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2298081,00.html

That would be awesome, great player and leader.

I dont know if any of you guys signed up to Villa Streams for any games last year, but they are offering a year long membership for a limited time for only £30.

Usual prices are:

1day - £1.99
1 week - £3.50
3 months £12.00
(I think, I cant remember the exact prices)

£30 will get you every one of Villa's Premiership game and 99% of the cup games (there was only 1 cup game that they were unable to stream last season).

You should also be able to view any other Premiership game on there (pretty much anything that was on Sky Sports or ESPN was streamed on there too).

I subscribed for most of the last half of least season and the quality is probably the best you can find online. No buffering, no loss of picture or sound. The entire game streamed perfectly.

Only downside that I found was that 2 of the games had foreign commentary (Swedish, I think). These were the less popular games that seemed to have foreign commentary. I remember one being the game at Blackpool.

Link: www.villastreams.com/amember/member.php

Thanks for the heads up, i paid for a game earlier in the season (Bolton i think),
so i'll jump on this definitely.

Got an email from them this morning saying there are only 50 of these season tickets left so I just paid for mine.

Also Roberto Martinez being interviewed for the Villa job

Yeah i recieved that email aswell, i signed up earlier.

I hope martinez isn't selected to be manager, he doesn't look like a manager with alot of influence, especially over signing players. I would prefer Hughes over him any day.

Martinez isn't interested in the Villa job,

http://www.skysports.com/skysportsnews/story/0,28679,19494_6979521,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8568024/Roberto-Martinez-snubs-Aston-Villas-advances-and-will-remain-in-his-role-as-manager-of-Wigan-Athletic.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3630394/Roberto-Martinez-snubs-Aston-Villa-managers-job.html

Bad day. The manager of Wigan (a team that almost got relegated!) rejects us and Ashley seems to have agreed terms with Man Utd.

There was a post here about a year ago saying our annual wage bill was something like £80-£90m and MON had to lower which was one of the reasons he left.

Since the end of least season we have sold/released all of these players so we should have cut off around £20m-£25m off our wage bill (yes, I know we signed a few players too).

Can see us selling a few more players too before next season (Beye, Warnock, Dunne/Collins, Ireland, Heskey) so that could reach £30-£35m.

I imagine we will end up having one of the cheapest wage bills in the Premiership depending on who we buy this summer.

PLAYERS SOLD/RELEASED
John Carew (£2.6m)
Steve Sidwell (£2.6m)
Curtis Davies (£2.1m)
Nicky Shorey (£1.6m)
James Milner (£2.6m)
Craig Gardner (£1.1m)
Nigel Reo-Coker (£2.6m)
Brad Fridel (£2.1m)
Moustapha Salifou (£0.6m)
Wilfred Bouma (£1.6m)
Marlon Harewood (£1.1m)
Ashley Young (£3.4m)

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/premiership/villa-seeking-to-control-wage-bill-15100432.html

Take Bent, Ashley Young and Downing out of our first team squad and we look extremely ordinary:

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/FirstTeam

I think we'll do well to get in the top half again next season. Will either need 3 or 4 quality signings or our kids to really up their game.

Alex McLeish has emerged as favourite to take charge of Aston Villa after quitting Birmingham City

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6986260,00.html
http://eurosport.yahoo.com/12062011/58/premier-league-mcleish-quits-blues-favourite-villa-job.html

I read about this last night.

Surely there is no chance of it happening? Good manager though.

David Moyes to Villa according to this:

http://twitter.com/#!/AVFCMysteryMan

I followed him quite a bit last season and he picked up on alot of things that turned out to be true.

Moyes would be ideal, no complaints at all if he is chosen.

BBC say we have approached Birmingham to speak to McLeish!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are surely other managers who want the job, why Lerner turned to Mcleish i have no idea, he surely knows what the reaction will be!

Rumors going around is that an official announcement will be made tomorrow

Protests of around 200 was outside Villa Park yesterday :s

In other news, this is a 'leaked' picture of the away kit.


More info - http://www.footballshirtculture.com/11/12-kits/aston-villa-2011-12-nike-away-shirt-leaked.html

Even if he wasnt the Birmingham manager, I cant see why we would want him.

He made Birmingham so boring (37 goals last season I think), and has got them relegated twice. I think only Avram Grant did a worse job than him. He got a bit restricted by the Birmingham board with who he could buy but he still shouldnt have got relegated with that squad.

He'll be a good manager for Blackburn, Bolton, Stoke etc, but not us. We started to play some nice football towards the end of last season and move away from the long ball. It's just one large step backwards in my opinion.

Mcleish is a good manager and will do well for you lot i reckon, played nice football when he was hibs manager, same when he was at rangers and also the same when he managed Scotland.

I reckon his style of play when he was at brum was more to do with the players he had at his disposal tbh.


lets hope there is a derby next season in the cup, should be interesting xD

2011-12 Schedule
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/FixturesAndResults

First 6 games are pretty good to start with, but December is going to be rough.
Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all in one month.

March-April will be rough too
Arsenal - Chelsea - Liverpool - Stoke - Manchester Utd

AtticusValo wrote:

In other news, this is a 'leaked' picture of the away kit.


More info - http://www.footballshirtculture.com/11/12-kits/aston-villa-2011-12-nike-away-shirt-leaked.html

Nice kit. Glad they have gone back to the round-necks. I hate v-neck shirts. We dont have a sponsor yet do we?

We should be top of the league with those opening fixtures. If not, then MCLEISH OUT!

Na no word on the new sponsor yet.

Mcleish is having his first press conference as Villa manager on Monday.