I fear you are right. I said it at the time and stand by it. City's request over Christmas was a ridiculous precedent to set. They basically said we have a few (4players +1 staff) cases and we dont fancy that trip to goodison; the 14 players fit and available rule was not applied and the precedent is set; you watch now there will be plenty more utterly making completion of the season impossible
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I fear you are right. I said it at the time and stand by it. City's request over Christmas was a ridiculous precedent to set. They basically said we have a few (4players +1 staff) cases and we dont fancy that trip to goodison; the 14 players fit and available rule was not applied and the precedent is set; you watch now there will be plenty more utterly making completion of the season impossible
I fear you are right. I said it at the time and stand by it. City's request over Christmas was a ridiculous precedent to set. They basically said we have a few (4players +1 staff) cases and we dont fancy that trip to goodison; the 14 players fit and available rule was not applied and the precedent is set; you watch now there will be plenty more utterly making completion of the season impossible
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Nope. They can field a team. End of. They've already got 2 games in hand.
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Bit of a joke isn’t it? Ducked out of playing Spurs and landed Fulham an extra game on 48 hours notice, meaning the league had to push both Fulham v Chelsea and our game out a day and now they don’t even want that
You don't name a 25 man squad for a league game either. You also don't register U23's.
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Academy Under 23s don't have the be registered.
duncs pigeon
Player Valuation: £35m
I thought you register a 25 man squad at the start of season or when the transfer window closes.
These are the players Villa named for this season.
25 Squad players (*Home grown)
Barkley, Ross*
Cash, Matthew Stuart*
Davis, Keinan Vincent Joseph*
Eissa, Ahmed Elmohamady Abdelfattah Aly
El Ghazi, Anwar
Engels, Bjorn Lionel G.
Grealish, Jack*
Guilbert, Frederic
Hassan, Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim
Hause, Kortney Paul Duncan*
Heaton, Thomas David*
Hourihane, Conor*
Kalinic, Lovre
Konsa, Ezri Ngoyo*
Martinez Romero, Damian Emiliano*
McGinn, John
Mings, Tyrone Deon*
Moraes Ferreira Da Silva, Wesley
Nakamba, Marvelous
Soares De Paulo, Douglas Luiz
Steer, Jed John*
Targett, Matthew Robert*
Taylor, Neil John*
Traore, Bertrand Isidore
Watkins, Oliver George Arthur*
U21 players (Contract and Scholars)
Abldeen-Goodridge, Tristan Kareem
Appiah, Paul Nana Akwashi
Archer, Cameron Desmond
Barry, Louie Mark
Bogarde, Lamare Trenton Chansey
Bridge, Mungo Olayipo Oladapo Erogbogbo
Brunt, Lewis
Burton, Bradley
Campton-Sturridge, Dj
Chrisene, Benjamin Joshua
Chukwuemeka, Carney Chibueze
Clarke, Jack Aidan
Ealing, Frankie
Farr, Charlie Edward James
Guy, Ben Tyler
Hart, Taylor-Jay Phillip
Hayden, Kaine Kesler
Lane, Joshua Thomas
Lindley, Hayden Taylor
Marschall, Filip
McBride, Caolan James
O'Reilly, Aaron Christopher
O'Reilly, Tommi Dylan
Onodi, Akos Sandor
Philogene-Bidace, Jaden
Raikhy, Arjan Singh
Ramsey, Aaron James
Ramsey, Jacob
Reddin, Kahrel Azariah
Revan, Dominic
Revan, Sebastian Emmanuel
Rowe, Callum Miles
Rowe, Edward James
Sewell, Dewain Leon
Shakpoke, Ruben Okemute
Sinisalo, Viljami Kari Veikko
Sohna, Harrison Sheriff
Sohna, Myles Baboucarr
Swinkels, Sil Laurentius
Sylla Diallo, Mamadou
Tait Moran, Michael
Vassilev, Indiana Denchev
Walker, Jake
Wright, Tyreik Samuel
Young, Bradley Jamie Ethan
Zito, Patrick Tchuako
Zych, Oliwier
But their training ground is shut, its not like their youth players dont train there as well.
Yeh but you don't need to register 25 players on a match day.
That side they put out vs Liverpool they could put out vs us in the league.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
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Why would that stop them fielding a team this weekend? They can go one week without training at the training ground. They all had home personal regimes during the first lockdown.
Very inconsistent it seems. Celtic played last night missing 13 players who were self-isolating. Scottish FA seem to think it is ok to ask clubs to use their whole squads, not sure why the same doesn't apply here. And yes, I would still be saying the same if it was us in Villa's position - after all I presume all the players in our 25 man squad (and Villa's) plus most of the eligible scholars are paid professionals. You also never know who might grab their chance who otherwise wouldn't have had a look in.
The worst thing for us is it's not like the rest did us any good. We were AWFUL against West Ham with a weeks rest.
I don't think you get the benefit with such a late cancellation, you have done your light session the day before and need to still manage that load catch-up before normal.
Where the benefit was seen was City running the absolute legs of chelsea two days later. Any PL manager offered to postpone a fixture during the entire season would have picked that one; it was all a bit too convenient
Dublin blue 75
Player Valuation: £50m
There is almost a week until this tie. Surely they can isolate a rump of the senior squad who have tested negative and supplement it with yoof? Plenty of time to have another squad have 2-3 sessions in advance of Sunday. Not buying this. The club need to grow a pair and resist this.
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