Aston Villa: Marco Bizot

[Thrice]

Yep. Because it’s impossible to stay up without spending loads of money. But PSR means you’re not allowed to spend that money even if your owners can afford it

Exactly. Forest had to take a point deduction just to barely stay up. Clubs will basically have to risk it all just for a chance to stay in the league.

 

[Batman]

Stan and Josh will actually watch this lot do it with their far less successful and valuable women's team and not think to replicate it. Infuriating.

 

[Thrice]

Stan and Josh will actually watch this lot do it with their far less successful and valuable women's team and not think to replicate it. Infuriating.

You could argue we have too much class to do that.

I mean, it would be a bit degrading towards the women's team if we treat them like a random asset for balance sheet shenanigans. Especially since they just won a major trophy.

 

[Batman]

You could argue we have too much class to do that.

I mean, it would be a bit degrading towards the women's team if we treat them like a random asset for balance sheet shenanigans. Especially since they just won a major trophy.

I could give you numerous instances of how our club has no more class than most other business enterprises but that's a different discussion.

I don't think any of our ladies would care one single bit about a balance sheet transaction that helps the entire club and doesn't fundamentally negatively impact them in any way whatsoever. I actually think they would like their club not to be caught up to or surpassed by lesser clubs exploiting loopholes while we don't take advantage of them and then argue that we have class while being empty handed.

 

[ASAP Berg]

Yep, we should do it too. Competitive advantage is everything.

 

[Stevo the Villan]

I think it's probably something every club, including Arsenal, is considering.
However it's probably something to keep in your back pocket until you really need it.

If Arsenal aren't in any PSR trouble then why play the ace in the hole when you don't need to? It's probably quite sensible to keep it until you need it

The downside of course is if the PL were to close the loophole you'd have missed your chance. But I'm not sure there's much chance of that


We've had to do it because we're right on the line of PSR issues. After next year our really high loss year drops off and isn't counted anymore so we should be fine. We needed this to get over that line


It absolutely ****ing sucks that clubs have to do this ****, but I would wager a lot of money on every single club having explored similar opportunities to play the game

 

[BenTal]

Unbelievable! They don't learn anything

 

[The Ducking Duck]

Unbelievable! They don't learn anything

He is one of the best keepers in the league.

 

[StefanB]

He is one of the best keepers in the league.

He is extremely overrated in the league. He's amazing in cup games, but over a season his concentration and focus isn't there. He makes insanely many mistakes over the course of a season.

 

[BenTal]

He is one of the best keepers in the league.

Watch their game against PSG

 

[Malky]

He is extremely overrated in the league. He's amazing in cup games, but over a season his concentration and focus isn't there. He makes insanely many mistakes over the course of a season.

Backed up by the fact he basically said ‘ goodbye ‘ to Villa in May but the ‘ best keeper in the world ‘ hasn’t been linked with one top club so far.
15th place United is the best he can hope for.

 

[The Ducking Duck]

Watch their game against PSG

Still one of the best keepers in the league. Top 10 in the world i think. Some Arsenal fans hate him because he left the club, that's it. Some of these fans hyped the useless clown Ramsdale for 2 years btw.

 

[BenTal]

Still one of the best keepers in the league. Top 10 in the world i think. Some Arsenal fans hate him because he left the club, that's it. Some of these fans hyped the useless clown Ramsdale for 2 years btw.

Watch his last game against MU that single handedly screwed up his team.

 

[Batman]

He is extremely overrated in the league. He's amazing in cup games, but over a season his concentration and focus isn't there. He makes insanely many mistakes over the course of a season.

His metrics are pretty consistently middle of the pack but he's phenomenal at penalties, has a knack for saves in big moments and makes a spectacle of himself so people overrate him. He has nothing on a Courtois or Donnarumma and Raya is better than him overall as well.

 

[Clrnc]

His metrics are pretty consistently middle of the pack but he's phenomenal at penalties, has a knack for saves in big moments and makes a spectacle of himself so people overrate him. He has nothing on a Courtois or Donnarumma and Raya is better than him overall as well.

He's still top 5 keepers in the league and his highs is probably the best in Europe.

Consistency wise he sometimes lack concentration in small games as hes a big game player but maybe playing in a big club he will improve on that front. When he played for us he was flawless. In terms of performances for us he was the best.

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

Watch his last game against MU that single handedly screwed up his team.

The way Villa were playing in the second leg against PSG they would have gone through if it wasn't for Martinez putting in a stinker. As you have said he also cost them in the final league game by getting needlessly send off. In summary he was responsible for getting knocked out of last season's CL and he was responsible for them not making this year's CL. He is just an overrated prick.

 

[Malky]

He's still top 5 keepers in the league and his highs is probably the best in Europe.

Consistency wise he sometimes lack concentration in small games as hes a big game player but maybe playing in a big club he will improve on that front. When he played for us he was flawless. In terms of performances for us he was the best.

Villas biggest game of the season against PSG and he cost them, he then followed that up by throwing their chances of CL football against United.
Just because he acts like a cocky bastard in big games, doesn’t make him a big game player.
People also forget that before he made that save at the end of the World Cup final and the pens that followed, he was having a terrible game! He was just fortune that France had a washed up Lloris in goal.

 

[The Ducking Duck]

Villas biggest game of the season against PSG and he cost them, he then followed that up by throwing their chances of CL football against United.
Just because he acts like a cocky bastard in big games, doesn’t make him a big game player.
People also forget that before he made that save at the end of the World Cup final and the pens that followed, he was having a terrible game! He was just fortune that France had a washed up Lloris in goal.

All goalkeepers on the planet have had bad games. Raya had Onana games several times his first season.

 

[TH14shahriar]

All goalkeepers on the planet have had bad games. Raya had Onana games several times his first season.

He's trash bro stop defending him.

 

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