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"Moron"? As if anyone can forget your moronic, bitter anti-Kodjia posts on Villa Talk. ? No - It's a figment of your imagination.

Tidied for you

I think you are flattering your team a tad. I have no interest in Bristol City - I know nothing about them other than Baker & Weiman play for you as well as some bloke you call Fam. Aston Villa live rent free on this forum so I comment (down to the fact that Aston Villa is my favourite subject).

As I stated on the ffp thread, the first 2 seasons would be okay. That’s based on ffp alone. With another £100m profit from sales, we would probably be okay into the third year.

You answered your own question. How much do you think we would get for our best players? £100m plus for the top 3. Why didn’t Fulham “do a Sunderland “? We wouldn’t have ffp to contend with as the majority of that £100m plus would be pure profit.

You couldn’t be more wrong. cancelling obviously guarantees staying up. However, we have a game in hand over all our rivals. Furthermore, we have 6 games out of the remaining 10 at home. Some of those rivals only have 4 home games left. Finally, our key midfielder will be fit enough to return from injury. Our slide started when he came out of the team. we have no chance of doing a Sunderland and if we go down, we’d have over £100m to spend on players without even touching the parachute money. you lot are miles off the likes of Fulham, forest and Brentford. You’ve no chance of promotion.

I love the sterotypes I read on here. Nobody goes around living off 82 and they never have. Likewise, Leeds - I never see them harping on about being a massive club either (although they are too big for the Championship. As for being a yo-yo club. We've been relegated once since the PL started and that was due to an owner taking what money out of the club that he could. You think just because you have a new little ground that it's any good? Ask supporters across the land their favourite stadium. Villa Park will be right up there whereas I doubt most will even know where Ashton Gate is.

Since August 2016 when we signed Kodjia. Shows exactly what a bunch of two bob, bitter bunch of small timers you are. Prior to that, our paths hadn't crossed for donkeys years.

We are not your rivals. Just because we took Kodjia off you doesn't mean there is a rivalry, other than in your bitter heads. You just worry your pretty heads over Bristol Rovers and Bath City and leave the big boys to contest big boy rivalries.

Pops - There will be no lawyers rubbing their hands. The TV companies are covered by both contract and statute. This is why the PL are so keen to get the season played out - They know the alternative is to miss out on circa £750m.

Personally, I'm still of the opinion that FFP will be relaxed in some form or other. However, if we find ourselves back down, we will most likely receive £100m + in transfer sales. Whilst this will probably be spread over a 4 year period, it will still see over £25m come in for the relevant year. From our previous experience, I sense that relegated teams have 2 seasons in which to get back up - The 3rd year of parachute payments falling substantially. If we went down, with Leeds & WBA out of the way, I'd be fairly confident of us going back up within 2 years.

It could well be the case that this payment will not fall under the parameters of FFP (see Villa's payment to Xia). You would assume that the new owner was aware that this money would have to be paid. With that in mind, you'd think a contingency is in place - Either parachute money or a cash injection directly from the new owner. PS - How much would the McAlpine stadium be worth (dons tin hat).

As far as I'm aware, nothing is in place at this point for the self-employed. If and when something is introduced, it will almost certainly be classed as income and therefore taxable (provided that the worker earns over his personal tax allowance for that year (which is around £12,000 I believe).

You are employed that way because your employer is trying to ensure that they do not have to pay you holiday pay.

What 80%? Do you mean if he receives £80 instead of £100 from the client? Why would he want to do that? Why would he want to evade tax, risk the consequences of doing so, just to save the client £20? He gets £80 either way so obviously, he might just as well receive it through the books - He has nothing to gain by letting the client off £20.

Do people pay cash for houses to avoid tax? I would be amazed if anyone paid cash for an extension or if they did, whether the builder would not declare it. It would take a tax inspector 20 minutes to cross check planning applications and find out who carried out the work. If an electrician was carrying out a job for say £100, he would end up paying 20% tax (based on the first tax threshold) This means it is worth £80 to him. What would he possibly have to gain by offering to do the job for £80 cash? It's still worth the same to him. Tax evasion is the same throughout industry. It is not exclusive or even more prevalent to the self-employed.

Making out that people are going around pocketing thousands of pounds cash in hand. It just doesn't happen. Who would pay in this way? You might get a plumber who calls out and changes a washer on a tap or an electrician who comes out to repair a light - These things, people may well just pay cash for. It might save them £20. However, if you have an extension built, you're hardly likely to have £40K sitting around the house, nor would you want to pay cash. You would want evidence of transactions so that if there is any dispute, you can show what you've paid. I think you are being naive if you think people pocket thousands of pounds in this way - Most would be traceable anyway. In any case, I don't think self employed are asking for their entire income to be paid, just some kind of support. I watch the news and I see people going to building sites, not because they want to but because they have no choice. How can it be fair or reasonable for one builder to get 80% of his wages paid but his workmate (who does exactly the same job) get nothing just because they are employed differently? To be, it just demonstrates the abuse of workers that goes on and everyone is happy for it to do so when it suits them.

I'm not quite sure why you think the league are faced with "awkward situations"? They seem to have dealt with both Birmingham and QPR swiftly and effectively. I have every confidence in the league dealing with these issues fairly. Points deductions will still be implemented if wrongdoing has occurred and there will be little room for sympathy (that's just a silly suggestion) as Bolton and Bury will confirm.

In what way is it apparent Pops? Do you have evidence to support this claim or have you just included the word "apparent" in order to add value to your claim? You yourself have stated many times that there are numerous sanctions available. If wrongdoing has occurred then it should be addressed. In this case, the league have decided that no wrongdoing has occurred and you have decided that this is because of Covid 19. In your blinkered world, everyone is guilty and those who are not charged have benefited from some warped conspiracy theory or other.

You tarred an entire sector with the same brush. If somebody has low tax returns, then naturally, they would only be entitled to minimal support. However, currently, they don't even have that. People always think the grass is greener on the other side. Your view of the self-employed being some kind of Del boy figure with wads of cash in their pockets and under the floorboards being an example. You should try living the life of the self-employed for a while. My experience of them is that it's not so rosy - Certainly, many are not in the position to turn work down (to sit at home instead) because someone offers cash. In fact, in this day and age, cash payments are becoming rarer and rarer as people realise the importance of keeping paper trails and proof of transfer of funds. Many self-employed don't even have a choice - They are told that is how they are going to be employed by unscrupulous employers. They work on zero hours contracts and don't enjoy many benefits and rights that others take for granted - Again, I urge you to try living that life for a while and see how you enjoy it. Many will already have been told there is no work for them, no notice, no holiday pay, just dropped like a lead balloon with no income moving forward. Taxi drivers are normally self-employed for example. We all take them for granted - Pick up a phone and one appears to take us from A to B for a few pounds. I dare say they don't declare all of their earnings. I would go further and suggest that if they did, once running costs are factored in, they are more or less working for minimum wage, perhaps even less. Tax evasion is rife - From the pennies that the self employed don't declare, right up to the thousands of pounds that big businesses don't declare or the millionaire football manager who opens foreign bank accounts in the name of their dog.

I think you may be a bit confused here or maybe you don't know what you are talking about. It is usually the case that the tax dodger is the person who is paying for the work "can you do it cheaper for cash guvnor?" Naturally if there's a bit of VAT to evade along the way then so much the better. In my experience, the self-employed person will be pressed to drop his rate in order to receive cash. He is then faced with the prospect of paying tax on an underpaid job or keeping the whole amount which is more or less equal to the amount he would have ended up with if he'd have been paid the going rate. I think you are doing the self-employed a terrible injustice.

It's another one of Pop's famous conspiracy theories. He thinks that the whole world is conspiring against lil old Bristol.

Okay mate. No probs.

Pops- this goes to vote. You should know this because we’ve discussed it in the ffp thread. you can’t sue somebody just because a vote goes against you.

Wouldn't affect too much _ Liverpool still champs WBA & Leeds promoted. Have the PL as 24 teams next season with 4 relegated.