AjaxAndy wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2026 9:21 am
This is my biggest takeaway from the new SCR rules... Teams who are on an upward trajectory and trying to build on success have had to decimate their squads to comply, meaning they not only can't build on their success but actually become weaker.
Even if they buy well and rebuild they'll end up back in the same position the moment they achieve anything that historically would have allowed them to at least stand still if not kick on.
Elsewhere other teams are spending hundreds of millions on established guaranteed performers and gambling on expensive kids knowing full well if they need to do the same again next summer they can.
It seemed hard to imagine a worse system than PSR, but SCR seems to have gone the extra mile in ensuring only a few clubs can compete whilst resigning everyone else to being feeder clubs who can never make any progress.
It feels like someone like villa would have to defy the odds 20 years running to get in and someone like utd would have to buy poorly for the same length of time to have any chance lf dropping out
I just dont know where it goes. What is the point of being a villa fan when you do amazing year upon year and year upon year you decimated by teams below you because of the rules. Youre just waiting for period you dont perform miracles and you slide back down the league
Its so incredibly unhealthy. We are never going to see a villa or a newcastle or an everton win the league again. Theres a very good chance we will never see anyone but 1 of the top 6 win a league again.
Theres no route to the top table. Look at leicester, look at villa, look at newcastle with all their wealth. Theres no route to fall out of it either. 2 4th bottom finishes and look at what spurs were able to spend. Even relegation wouldn't have mattered past the 1 season
Having fun winding them up big time in the what's app group tonight, telling them they have let the whole country down, saying I was supporting them (Of course I wasn't like ) They're going mad, already want Iraola out.
On another note, Isak, Wirtz and Barcola for a combined £370M, surely this is up there with some of the worst money ever spent at this rate?
Barcola still has time to adapt but he has been woeful since he signed.
I thought scousers were supposed to stick up for those willing to cheat the system to get a little extra for themselves. Ends justify the means and all that.
I was going to describe Nathan Jackson as not as good a striker as Haaland but I can't afford to be sued so I'll just say they are a different type of player.
In a world full of adversity, we must still dare to dream.
Goes back to what was said yesterday in another thread about how people get so upset about what fans, pundits and commentaters say. It's just someome's opinion.
CannockPricey wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2026 4:03 am
Oh I never imagined a world where I would side with Jamie Carragher but legal action because he suggested Villa were a smaller club than Man United?
Absolutely tapped.
i thought somehow cannock pricey would post on this LOL
i think there is a legal defence called fair comment and i think carragher is quite safe here
) They're going mad, already want Iraola out.
