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Offline Pete3206

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4200 on: May 14, 2024, 10:05:56 PM »
Nope, straight to the league. No qualifiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_UEFA_Champions_League
« Last Edit: May 14, 2024, 10:07:33 PM by Pete3206 »

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4201 on: May 14, 2024, 10:06:41 PM »
Guess Man Utd aren't catching us then.

Offline coreyfeldman

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4202 on: May 14, 2024, 10:06:50 PM »
Sorry for my ignorance do we go striaght into group stage

Yes we  do. Not qualifiers 😁

Are you sure? I thought it was qualifying rounds first.

Straight in

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4203 on: May 14, 2024, 10:07:44 PM »
Sorry for my ignorance do we go striaght into group stage

Yes we  do. Not qualifiers 😁

Are you sure? I thought it was qualifying rounds first.

Yes its a new league foemat of  32 teams and w ego straight in but we will be one of the worst seeded sides so the draw wont be kind but we will get a bayern dortmund barcelona or real madrid

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4204 on: May 14, 2024, 10:07:48 PM »
Sorry for my ignorance do we go striaght into group stage

Yes we  do. Not qualifiers 😁

Are you sure? I thought it was qualifying rounds first.

Straight in

Correct.

Offline Legion

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4205 on: May 14, 2024, 10:07:57 PM »
Thank you. Even better!

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4206 on: May 14, 2024, 10:08:31 PM »
One of these sides will be in the Champions League next season


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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4207 on: May 14, 2024, 10:09:55 PM »
Thank you. Even better!

8 games guaranteed and we'll lose every single one of them 2-0 !

Offline saint13

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4208 on: May 14, 2024, 10:11:41 PM »
I have to admit I went into work on the Monday after this match and said that we had no chance of qualifying for the CL.

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4209 on: May 14, 2024, 10:11:56 PM »
Guaranteed 8 CL games.

Online Dante Lavelli

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4210 on: May 14, 2024, 10:15:37 PM »
One of these sides will be in the Champions League next season



Ferguson called it right.

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4211 on: May 14, 2024, 10:16:35 PM »
I've been drip feeding my bets against us. When the winnings were under a thousand I definitely felt anxious which told me that wasn't enough. I topped it up a little bit more - £1250 still didn't shift my mood. I'm now at £1600 and it feels about right. I don't want the money and I'll be cock-a-hoop if we do Liverpool. But the nerves have largely gone. That's my price, it would seem.

The remote chance of winning a grand has done absolutely nothing for my nerves. I’m desperate to lose that money tonight or tomorrow. Preferably tonight.

I've had a bit of that as well, about £1k if we don't do it. All the other bets I had as I was on the app have failed miserably so just one more to go.

I cant believe how utterly overjoyed I am to have lost a thousand pounds. Over the moon.

Up the Villa. Up the fucking Villa.

Online Demitri_C

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4212 on: May 14, 2024, 10:18:33 PM »
Heres some of the teams we couls be playing

Leverkusen
Bayern munich
Leizpig
Real madrid
Barcelona
Girona
PSG
Monaco
Lille
Sporting lisbon
Benfica
Inter
Ac milan
Bologna
AEK Athens

To name a few!

Offline Footy-Vill

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Re: Champions League Contention
« Reply #4213 on: May 14, 2024, 10:49:14 PM »
It's now Champions League time thread.
The Project for Aston Villa was to compete in ‘upper echelons’
Back when Dean Smith was coach he said the club wanted to ‘emulate and surpass’ Leicester’s progress.
It wasn't all smooth with Gerrard but it's an upward trajectory since Emery is now our man.
An elite manager taking us to elite levels. As the owners have always wanted.

Emery now has us in European Competition and in the top 4 contending for Champions League he said it was with Aston Villa "An ultimate aim of playing is to be in the Champions League"

On 26th November 2023 Villa moved to fourth place in the Prem after a statement victory.
Emery said afterwards:
“There are seven contenders to be in the top four: Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle and Chelsea. We are not a contender"
But he was smiling. He was playing down expectations.
And 5th place is a possibility for an expanded Champions League next season.
2 of the best performing teams from leagues in Europe 23/24 will be awarded an extra place.

So the very real discussion now that Villa are a Champions League contender?
I think and believe Villa are.
 
I'm honoured and thrilled to open this thread to focus on and discuss Champions League aims for this season and beyond!
 
Go Villa!


Fair play, FV. I thought we would fall out of contention in the New Year and am delighted to be proved totally wrong.
Appreciate that Legion.
Thank you, and that's fair enough given how it's been and what we have to compete against.
 I hope everyone, both dissenters and believers, learned something this season. No one is better. No one is worse. Everyone is officially talking Champions League now, and I won't ever bump this post again because we now have a permanent one Champions League 24/25, and I humbly request to write there.  I just wanted to thank everyone who contributed positively to the discussion, especially in its early stages, and how opinions changed and belief increased and now the objective was met. Best wishes to each and every one of us, and it is a pleasure to be an Aston Villa supporter! And, of course, apologies for upsetting those who prefer it to be confirmed before me shouting out that Aston Villa are playing Champions League!
We are Champions League say we are Champions League!
Feel free to lock this thread! Mission accomplished!
And see you in the 24/25 Champions League to discuss all things there!

UTV!!

 


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