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Originally Posted by wakey
You can be a club based in a major city, with massive support and a great history but in football terms you are only a 'big club' when you winning things and achieving good league standings.
As JBG said you haven't won a trophy in 10 years (and then it was the weakest of them) and since then haven't appeared in a major cup final or finished above 6th and players joining aren't joining what they consider a big club and are probably joining as a stepping stone to a 'big club'
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Back in the days (the 90s), Liverpool were unable to win the league and qualify for the Champions League yet they were still classified as a big club. It was only in the late 90s that they started winning trophies again.
Your definition of a "big club" is pretty distorted in my opinion. Villa has always been a big club... just a sleeping one.