Villa players in drunken bust up

[glasses]

Id like to know who the coaching staff were that were involved. Robert Duverne was the fella involved in the ruck with Evra and most of the French squad at the World cup, who is now our fitness coach.

Not seeking to defend the players unproffessional actions at all, but perhaps Duverne is a bit of a knobhead?

[WikiVilla]

If reports are true, he's lost a huge chunk of his personal fortune to failed business ventures, so I have some sympathy

He's on £53,000 a week!!!

He earns in a year what the average wage earning man in the street would need to work 100 years to earn

Some reports suggested he'd lost +£20m. If true, I have sympathy for the bloke

[Risso]

If reports are true, he's lost a huge chunk of his personal fortune to failed business ventures, so I have some sympathy

He's on £53,000 a week!!!

He earns in a year what the average wage earning man in the street would need to work 100 years to earn

Some reports suggested he'd lost +£20m. If true, I have sympathy for the bloke

More fool him then.  He earns enough that he could live in the lap of luxury for the rest of his life without having to lift a finger ever again, either in terms of working or investing.

If he's invested his spare cash in high risk ventures, then that's his look out.  With that much money, I'd have done what Robbie Fowler has done and stick it all into relatively low value property.

Even if he has lost £20m, he's only ever a few months away from earning his next million, which is something most of us never achieve in our lifetimes.

[Chris Smith]

If reports are true, he's lost a huge chunk of his personal fortune to failed business ventures, so I have some sympathy

He's on £53,000 a week!!!

He earns in a year what the average wage earning man in the street would need to work 100 years to earn

Some reports suggested he'd lost +£20m. If true, I have sympathy for the bloke

Then you think he would have enough sense not to risk his main source of income.

My sympathy does not extend to extremely wealthy men who make bad business decisions.

[cdbearsfan]

So that's Friedel and Dunne in the financial shit then. Have they been consulting Stewart Downing's agent?

[Barney74]

Clark - Shandy and 2 bob for the space invaders. Stay where we can see ya!

I love it!

[WikiVilla]

Oh & lets not bash Dunne & Collins because the club were foolish enough to pay them silly wages !
It's not the players fault that they earn in excess of £50 k per week

[Chris Smith]

Oh & lets not bash Dunne & Collins because the club were foolish enough to pay them silly wages !
It's not the players fault that they earn in excess of £50 k per week

If you earn over £50k a week and find yourself in financial difficulties then you really are a prize chump.

[WikiVilla]

Oh & lets not bash Dunne & Collins because the club were foolish enough to pay them silly wages !
It's not the players fault that they earn in excess of £50 k per week

If you earn over £50k a week and find yourself in financial difficulties then you really are a prize chump.

Wouldn't disagree, my point was around the wages they're paid was agreed by some chumpo down B6, as was the decision to open a free bar at Champneys !!

[Chico Hamilton III]

Oh & lets not bash Dunne & Collins because the club were foolish enough to pay them silly wages !

I'm not

I was just saying that I don't share your sympathy for a man who spunks his £50k a week on stupid, risky business ventures.

If I went out and spent my wages on lottery tickets I wouldn't expect my missus to be big on the sympathy.

And if i then went out on a bender with colleagues and started scrapping with them, I wouldn't imagine my employer would be over sympathetic either.

I don't think any of the "Dunne bashing" on here is being particularly unfair on him.

[Risso]

I'm not going to criticise any player for taking home what they get, even players like Beye and Warnock.  I'm certainly not going to feel sorry for them though, and earning that much money places a certain responsibility on their heads to behave accordingly.

[Mazrim]

Oh & lets not bash Dunne & Collins because the club were foolish enough to pay them silly wages !
It's not the players fault that they earn in excess of £50 k per week

If you earn over £50k a week and find yourself in financial difficulties then you really are a prize chump.

Wouldn't disagree, my point was around the wages they're paid was agreed by some chumpo down B6, as was the decision to open a free bar at Champneys !!

Yes, its not Dunne's fault that somebody is paying him a shitload of money to be overweight and substandard and he's gone and pissed it all up the wall.
Also, when a professional sportsman has a free bar he must feel obliged to get absolutely mortal.
I mean, if he had to pay for the drinks himself he might have baulked at drinking a lot, being a multi millionaire like, but a free bar? It's like saying "please have no self control and get drunk". Madness!

[damon loves JT]

I'm not going to criticise Robert Duverne. That thing at the World Cup where he lost it and threw his stopwatch in the hedge was one of the best moments of my life.

[WikiVilla]

Well at least this has distracted the Petrov bashers for a while

[TheSandman]

I'm not sure how much truth there is in all this, or who's in the right or wrong etc, all I can say categorically state is that this season has been an utter shambles, and I really can't wait for it to finish.  As long as we stay up, even if it's by goal difference, that's all that matters now.  We need to get to the summer and for Lerner to have a good, long look at things.

This.