Reaching for the star

[Billy Walker]

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[darren woolley]

Great read Dave.

[gpbarr]

Emi's going nowhere! He loves the Villa.

Emi will be gone this summer.

Like every other PL player, he loves winning, he loves the adulation, and he loves the money and the lifestyle. He will say all the right things, but this game is, like it or not, all about the money. Loyalty doesn’t exist. His agent/team will have demanded clauses in his contract when he re-signed (fact) to include buy-outs in the event of relegation, a minimum fee being met, etc. Just like with Grealish, all Villa can do is price into those clauses compensation.

It’s a money business. And every year fans get a slap round the face as a reminder.

The only opportunity to change that destiny is to qualify for Europe (and even that may not be enough).

I love Emi - but he won’t be a Villa player come September.

[dave.woodhall]

You mean FACT, not fact.

[chrisw1]

'FACT' 

I think you mean opinion.

He won't go unless our owners are prepared to sell him.

We didn't need to extend his contract.  It was a reward for doing well, so won't have NEEDED to put in buy out clauses.

[gpbarr]

What was needed and demanded are two different things. Buy out clauses are a part of the game.

[Pat Mustard]

Not the same for a goalkeeper though, is it.  There are only a very limited number of first team positions available, and for him to move on he is going to want that at a club that is going to be competing to win trophies regularly, not just qualify for, the Champions League.  So out of those, where realistically is going to offer that?  None of the English clubs need him (nor realistically do Real Madrid, PSG or Bayern Munich), and outside of those clubs who will match the terms he is on at Villa? 

Emi wasted the best part of 10 years on the bench at Arsenal, he won't go anywhere he is not guaranteed to be the starting keeper, so what better options does he realistically have than staying here at the moment?

[Clark W Griswold]

Too many people i come in contact with seem to state their opinion as 'FACT'  these days, and not just on internet forums. I wish they'd just 'FACT' off.

[chrisw1]

Probably Man Utd if we're honest Pat, but it doesn't mean he'll definitely want to go.

[Sexual Ealing]

Given that he seems to be playing up the shithousing aspect of his game, surely Atletico Madrid would be his only natural destination?

[bob]

Too many people i come in contact with seem to state their opinion as 'FACT'  these days, and not just on internet forums. I wish they'd just 'FACT' off.

What he said was fact though.

No need to get your knickers in a twist because you disapprove of the syntax.

[paul_e]

Too many people i come in contact with seem to state their opinion as 'FACT'  these days, and not just on internet forums. I wish they'd just 'FACT' off.

What he said was fact though.

No need to get your knickers in a twist because you disapprove of the syntax.

No it wasn't, for it to be a fact we'd need evidence to prove there is a clause, without that it's an opinion, regardless of how strongly you believe it or not.

The only FACT we have is that he's contracted to the club until 2027.

[bob]

It's a fact that release clauses are regularly included in players contracts.

[rob_bridge]

It's a fact that release clauses are regularly included in players contracts.

What's the % split between those with and without release clauses in recent time

[ChicagoLion]

I have a problem when people make statements either side of the argument without knowledge or facts to back it up.
I have absolutely no idea how long Emi will remain a Villa player, nothing I have read on here informs me either way.
I hope he stays because it will be very difficult to get another as good as him and the less disruption the better.