Assuming another battle against relegation. Could really do with a boring mid-table season...
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Griffin's Penultimate Stand - Division 2 2018-19
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I’m assuming the thread title is referring to our imminent stadium move. It’s not quite as imminent as you imply as Lionel Road is due to be completed in the middle of the 2019-20 season. Nonetheless, non-Brentford fans would be wise to make their first, or possibly last, visit to Griffin Park next season.
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Originally posted by cantagalo View PostI’m assuming the thread title is referring to our imminent stadium move. It’s not quite as imminent as you imply as Lionel Road is due to be completed in the middle of the 2019-20 season.
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Originally posted by Бога Нет View PostAround the same time as New Plough Lane is due to open, though that could always go back. Opening a ground mid-season seems strangely unsatisfying, I wonder which new ground will actually stage a match first.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the opening put back to the start of the 2020-21 season.
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Wow Villa. Even by the standards of governance of Birmingham football clubs, this is pretty special. They're losing 5-6 million quid a month. They've avoided administration this month, but what about next month? I was listening to a journalist on the radio and he was saying that Villa have already given clubs big discounts on transfer fees owed to get them this far. That's never a good sign, and with a drop of £18 million in the parachute payment, and the introduction of capital controls in China, this could go very wrong, very quickly
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The impressive thing about Villa's woes is that JT only accounts for 5% of their monthly losses.
Does anyone have any idea why it's necessary for Birmingham clubs to be the worst run in the country? And what is it about second cities? The League of Ireland club in Cork goes bankrupt every 20 years regardless of who is in charge.
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This Mirror article is worth reading - though I think Keith Wyness may well have had a word with the journo.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...villa-12655774
If Villa don’t get £30m (with most of it upfront) for Jack Grealish pretty sharpish we could be in admin and points deduction territory. And Steve Bruce will probably walk - he’s got form for that.
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I hear that Villa have reached an agreement with HMRC over the £4.2m tax bill. A payment of £500,000 has been made with more to follow next week.
Good news? Well, maybe not. Dr Tony has agreed a deal with the Premier League for it to be paid out of next season’s £15m parachute payments. And there’s another £8m wage bill due later this month.
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On my phone so can't link to it, but there's a detailed explanation on the Express & Star website as to how Villa have arrived in this position. Short : they bet the shop on going up, it didn't happen, now they are in even more trouble than anyone thought, now there is massive pressure on Xia to prove he is in the club for more than the Premier league money.
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We were delighted that Lampard's discussions about the Ipswich job came to nothing because we've been there before.
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