Champions League Contention

[Legion]

Please just let F-V post his CL opinions and info on this thread with no response to them deemed necessary.

[paul_e]

This isn't having a go at footy but we have a 23/24 season outcome thread that seems to serve the same purpose as this. That it hadn't been used for a month because there wasn't much interest doesn't scream of a need for new thread.

However, on topic I don't see any value in the stats about where Emery has finished with other teams. Even if there was any relevance to that it becomes lost when you randomly exclude him winning the title with PSG.

[Mister E]

Mods please can you tell them ! Champions League discussion!
Like it's been said let's focus on that
Please stop tormenting me. I've said it twice tonight reported tand just can't take it anymore

if you were from Birmingham, you'd realise that pessimism is our default. Opening a thread about future success is just not going to fly.
Cultural awareness is important ...
... That's my insight on this.

[Footy-Vill]

Tom Collomosse:
'Unai Emery insists the Premier League remains Aston Villa’s priority as he prepares to rotate his starting XI for Thursday’s meeting with Legia Warsaw.
Yet Emery’s focus remains the league, with many at Villa believing they have a strong chance of qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
With up to five places available to English clubs for the 2024-25 competition, fourth-placed Villa will leave nothing to chance on the domestic front:

"The most important competition for us is the Premier League
The European positions for us are very difficult for us to get this season, but we are now in. We have to be demanding in how we face each match."

[Footy-Vill]

Mods please can you tell them ! Champions League discussion!
Like it's been said let's focus on that
Please stop tormenting me. I've said it twice tonight reported tand just can't take it anymore

if you were from Birmingham, you'd realise that pessimism is our default. Opening a thread about future success is just not going to fly.
Cultural awareness is important ...
... That's my insight on this.

Oh sure . I addressed that it's not everyone's way of thinking and very mindful that some aren't ready to talk terms. Equally this is opportunity to do so .
. Anyway ...

The Hearld Scotland opens with :
"Even John McGinn, the least ‘follow the media training script’ Premier League footballer, isn’t too keen to talk about it. But on current trajectory, Aston Villa can only fly under the radar for so long.

A desire to remain inconspicuous isn’t really compatible with repeatedly winning important football matches, unfortunately. A highly impressive 2-1 victory over all-action Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday hoisted Unai Emery and his players above their opponents and into the top four, two points off Arsenal at the top, one behind Manchester City, and level with Liverpool. The inevitable question afterwards became – are they Champions League material?"

[Footy-Vill]

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/23954637.aston-villa-represent-changing-face-premier-league-elite/

McGinn:
It’s my job and the manager’s job to keep a lid on things, We’ve got a really important month ahead, and then after that we can maybe analyse what our ambitions are. It’s our job to just keep going, enjoy the ride and you never know

The Hearld Scotland:
They also represent the changing face of the Premier League, in which there are no longer cast-iron guarantees that the traditional powerhouses will dine eternally at the top table. Where the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea have slumped, clubs such Villa have emerged. Re-emerged is perhaps the more appropriate term, given their proud history, but the point stands: their strength, and the strength of others like them, is making the Premier League’s ‘big six’ – Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man United, and Tottenham – an increasingly malleable concept.

With hindsight, this was always bound to happen.

[mike]

Mods please can you tell them ! Champions League discussion!
Like it's been said let's focus on that
Please stop tormenting me. I've said it twice tonight reported tand just can't take it anymore

if you were from Birmingham, you'd realise that pessimism is our default. Opening a thread about future success is just not going to fly.
Cultural awareness is important ...
... That's my insight on this.

I 100% agree with this. I attribute my provenance from the wonderful City of Birmingham as a huge contributory factor in my clinical depression and my refusal to believe that what is happening right now at Villa Park is going to last. I would also attribute some neurodiversity issues to Footy's communication style. I don't think he can communicate or read social signals the way most people do. If he did, he'd have stopped posting here a long time ago. So, as the father of a 'special' boy, I'd just say go easy on him, he means no harm. And he loves the Villa.

[kippaxvilla2]

No.  Just no.

[Footy-Vill]

Please stop the post directly above thank you...Reported. sick of it.

[Footy-Vill]

Right back on topic and to address this one.

Please tell me I can root for Galatasaray tonight without hindering 5th place CL spot to much

I hope this helps.
Well, ideally, but reluctantly,  we would like to see English teams advance as far as possible in the Champions League and Europa League.
Going out in the group stages is not good.
The two top performing leagues in Europe this season will receive extra Champions League slots.

The English Premier League would have received one of those in 5 of the previous 6 seasons.

[Footy-Vill]

Mods please can you tell them ! Champions League discussion!
Like it's been said let's focus on that
Please stop tormenting me. I've said it twice tonight reported tand just can't take it anymore

if you were from Birmingham, you'd realise that pessimism is our default. Opening a thread about future success is just not going to fly.
Cultural awareness is important ...
... That's my insight on this.

I 100% agree with this. I attribute my provenance from the wonderful City of Birmingham as a huge contributory factor in my clinical depression and my refusal to believe that what is happening right now at Villa Park is going to last. I would also attribute some neurodiversity issues to Footy's communication style. I don't think he can communicate or read social signals the way most people do. If he did, he'd have stopped posting here a long time ago. So, as the father of a 'special' boy, I'd just say go easy on him, he means no harm. And he loves the Villa.

Thanks. All the best to you. And your son.

[kippaxvilla2]

Please stop the post directly above thank you...Reported. sick of it.

 No. No.  Just no.

[Percy McCarthy]

Please stop the post directly above thank you...Reported. sick of it.

 No. No.  Just no.

… there’s  no limits.

This is fun!

[kippaxvilla2]

No valley too deep no mountain too high. 

[Mellin]

Mods please can you tell them ! Champions League discussion!
Like it's been said let's focus on that
Please stop tormenting me. I've said it twice tonight reported tand just can't take it anymore

if you were from Birmingham, you'd realise that pessimism is our default. Opening a thread about future success is just not going to fly.
Cultural awareness is important ...
... That's my insight on this.

I would also attribute some neurodiversity issues to Footy's communication style. I don't think he can communicate or read social signals the way most people do. If he did, he'd have stopped posting here a long time ago. So, as the father of a 'special' boy, I'd just say go easy on him, he means no harm. And he loves the Villa.

This is quite clearly what is going on here and has been obvious for years now. Treatment of him is quite distasteful to be honest.

How would you treat someone in person who struggles with societal norms? With a pile on?