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Exactly. Sadly Abramovich started a trend that made football about how much your owners were prepared to pump in and not how big a club you were or what that club could generate. Hopefully UEFA come down on those that break the FFP rules and we can get back to a playing field where we can compete better.

Has he? That's great news if true and I might consider taking him off ignore if he's not going to bore us with talking a board that left 5 years ago every single day.

Come on Bayern!

Cool finish by Alonso.

Should has put that away first time.

It's the Yam Yam's accent that I can't put up with.

It might be them, who knows? We did sign Ba and Obertan in the summer and attempted to buy Mariappa in January so we don't just sign unknown foreign players for the sake of making Graham Carr look good.

The missus old man is a Villa season ticket holder so when we visit for the weekend I usually have a good chat about football with them in the pub, he see's them being in a similar position to us when we went down in the amount of overpaid shite on the books that needs clearing and that they've got the quality in their academy to come straight back up. His friend is a steward there and he thinks if they go down they will struggle. Last time I spoke to him he said Lerner hasn't been to Villa Park all season which is a shift from the guy that was always there, looks like he's lost interest and is apparenly charging them interest on all of the money he puts in to cover their losses too. It's not all Lerner's fault, O'Neill has to take some of the blame for some of the shite they're stuck with and he did stump up the cash for Bent last January who I think kept them up, you do get the feeling though that relegation is coming for them if not this year then next.

If we sign a young striker it will be someone like Hoilett or Moses that can play up top or out wide in this 4-3-3 formation.

So you've said plenty of times already today.

With so many defenders injured or banned hopefully they rest the others that can play in the final against us.

Villa 2-1 down.

I think this summer will be similar to last year with who comes in, 2 or 3 that will walk into the first team and the same number again that will have the potential to be good squad players that can do a job when called upon. I think we will add a few more youngsters that they think they can develop like Abeid though.

Was it last summer he refused a transfer to Spurs because he didn't want to take a pay cut? Also I can remember when we tried to sign him in the January before Allardyce was sacked and he priced himself out of a move to stay down south.

I think it's 11 points from the last 15 games for Spurs. That's relegation form.

This is it for me, we're 2 defenders short of having a whole starting 11 of what I would describe as top 7 players, keys concentrate on getting those in before we worry about replacing anyone else in the starting 11. The team needs tweaking now, not massive changes.

Swansea and West Brom at home too and that's off the top of my head.

I would be happy if it ended now tbf, we'll take 4th and finish early.

We've also dropped points in games where we've deserved more so it evens itself out. Like I said we're beating the teams we should be beating, which is what you have to do to get where we are.

If Wolves don't beat Man City today then they are down.

Definitely qualified now then. 6th is the minimum we can come now.

Come on Man Utd you absolute shambles of a club! Need you to get the league wrapped up before City come to us.

http://www.premiership-football.co.uk/Premiership-League-Table-Clean-Sheets.php Joint 3rd with Man City in games we've failed to score in too. http://www.premiership-football.co.uk/Premiership-League-Table-Fail-Score.php

If the right offer comes in he will sell, it's always been like that so a better question is would us qualifying for the CL attract someone to come and offer the money Ashley wants to buy us? It's possible but I'm wondering what a new owner could offer us with the FFP rules in place?