MessiWillSignForVilla

When Pique was loaned to Zaragoza from United, there was a clause that he had to play in at least 20 games, it's not unheard of.

Well, not just foreign, but we seem to always have to go with Premier League and now Championship experience when there are potentially some very good managers abroad, or even in the lower leagues (though I can't think of an example of someone putting their name in lights right now), that we ignore for some arbitrary reason. Good managers are good managers, and we should be trying to find them. Bielsa and Mancini don't have jobs currently, a bit fanciful yes, but why not throw money at them to see if they'd come? Mancini almost joined Notts County when Sven was there, so why not join a team that would be 2 divisions higher? Instead of restricting ourselves to the same old tired English managers, why not look for someone with a good reputation abroad?

Yes, he is, would be a decent shout. Got to say, names like Rowett/Warnock/Warburton are depressing, take a chance and just throw some cash at a foreign manager, can't do much worse that what we've had to endure over the last 6 years.

Isn't it? We're only 7 points above the drop zone and have picked up 2 points in our last 8 games (assuming we don't come back tonight, which I can't see), we're rocketing toward League 1 currently, something needs to change.

One signing awaiting to be announced, one pretty much done, half done signing from earlier now complete/waiting announcement and a new half finished signing. I think...

Lol, how has Gardner convinced him that's ours

Yes, this is the last game of his ban.

The social media thing is weird, it's almost as if there has to be at least one negative view, one positive and one neutral, regardless of what happened. Just had a game where Ayew got a hat-trick, and one of the items was "Bit too much hype around Ayew, he was good not excellent." as well as "Ayew was good? Can't see it myself." What the **** were you expecting? Then again, they are Villa fans Edit: They definitely need to improve this social feed stuff, apparently after beating Newcastle 4-2 one of the fans said: "people watching football for entertainment should find a new hobby." Err... Not to mention another Ayew hat-trick failing to satisfy the fans

Fair enough, wasn't having a go, just I see it a lot as if Sinclair scoring for Celtic means he's suddenly amazing.

I don't really get this sentiment about Sinclair, not just on here but from football fans in general, that him doing well means we've lost some great player that could help us currently. He's playing against League 1/2 level opposition, the standard in Scotland is atrocious. I was at their game v Motherwell a couple months ago in the cup, they won 5-0 and Motherwell were possibly the worst team I have ever seen, could hardly string together more than two passes, our team from last season could've beaten them by a few goals.

His crosses have always been awful, they look fancy and he puts curl on them that makes you think they're good, but they rarely beat the first man.

Also not actually true. If you don't arbitrarily cut off the Bournemouth game to make it worse, it's 8 in our last 55. Not saying it's good, but why lie to make the shitshow look even worse?

Why's he playing out wide

Not to mention he denied that he refused to play (or sit on the bench), as well as most evidence pointing to Black being a bit of a dickhead.

Unless I've missed something, aren't the Sun (and those quoting the Sun) the only ones talking about that? There not exactly the best source for truth...

How disrespectful to tell fans why he decided to block a move

That West Ham fans sit too far away from the pitch in the new stadium I believe, that the atmosphere will be better. Or possibly that he didn't think the quality was great, therefore if we got promoted the Europa won't be far away.

Whilst that would be amazing and unlikely anyway, he announced about an hour ago that Man Utd would be his last club in Europe, so even less chance of him coming here.

He has 1 in 4 games, if he plays 46 games he'll get 11 goals at that rate

I assume DoF will be the same as Technical Director, if so, suggests it's not Round after all?

I know which one you're on about, but I'm not just thinking of that one pass, I was thinking it pretty much throughout the entire game, the one that got intercepted was just a particularly bad example. On the whole I just felt like it was all a little too slow, I remember Grealish or Bacuna often having to almost stop their runs to control a pass behind them. By the time pretty much any pass Westwood made over 10 meters got to the intended target, the ball was almost stopped. The rest of the game he was good, I just felt he had a bit of an unusually poor game for passing.

Whilst I thought he mostly played quite well, his passing last night was really bad. They were accurate, yes, but he never hit them with any pace at all, by the time the ball reached it's man, it was practically at a standstill, and most of the time his passing absolutely killed any pace we had in counter attacks or when switching flanks. Other than that he put himself about well and until the last 20 was very good, but most players tired in the last 20 so not much of a specific criticism. I do really rate Westwood, but his passing last night was poor.

Well, this is Inflation in football compared to UK Inflation, that is not sustainable at all.

If Clark couldn't break his legs in training, then I'm sure he'll be fine

Did you accidentally post something about Tony Xia? Easy mistake to make. Beaten to it, Damn you Richard