MessiWillSignForVilla

Joined even though I missed week 1 My team:

Let's hope not, I remember a time that Carew literally had his shirt ripped off by a defender and still wasn't fouled

Did I just see Gabby do something creative?!

I thought that when I first read his tweet, but he said he's buzzing to start the Premier League season tomorrow, not the game. I think it was just a tweet about the season starting, not specifically about our game.

Typical, in my lifetime the average Villa score was 1-1, we were probably winning 1-0 until the 80th minute too.

I know it's completely OT, but, the problem with that CSKA game was that we didn't get 4th that season more than the playing youth, for me at least. Instead afterwards we blew a two goal lead v Stoke and won just 2 more games. If after that game we'd pushed on in the league without any distractions and at least challenged top 4 then that game against CSKA would probably be forgotten. Instead it is remembered as a game that MON threw the slimmest chance of silverware and still f'ed our league position. And I agree about if Villa took that approach to qualifiers. What MON did and what Bilic did are very different. One shows prioritising different things, one is complete disrespect for the competition. Anyway, West Ham, what a bunch of bastards.

Yes, I believe it is law in Spain that all contracts include a buy-out clause, not just football contracts. As for the buy-back clause, I believe that's because we allegedly don't want to pay the full amount for the clause.

He might've played with Muniesa, but Bojan left Barca when Traore was 15 and Afellay is 10 years older too, so doubt they'd have been in the same team. Only thing I can imagine will really be a pull with those players is that they speak Spanish, so easier to acclimatise.

really? the top 4 Reading too much of the Liverpool biased media mate If Liverpool had spent that money on a decent striker, they could've pipped Utd, they were only 8 points off. Balotelli scored a grand total of 1 league goal for them, Gerrard was their top league scorer with 9. We should know better than most the difference a good striker can make. Just because their faults last season can be laid at the doors of others doesn't mean that if Balotelli had scored ~15 goals they could've gotten 9-10 points more. As for Balotelli here? No way for me, way too volatile to be relied upon consistently like he would be here.

I agree, he may have been playing on the left against Forest, but all three of his goals came from central positions. IMO, he's Gabby with better technical abilities and better attacking movement. Out on the wing Sinclair has often played for us with his head down and trying to dribble past everyone.

Well yeah, of course Aranguiz turned them down, their form last season only made Europe sit up and take notice, he's South American, duh

He was part of the French U20 team that won the U20 World Cup 2 years ago with those two.

Nani and Ronaldo? If Youth careers count. Edit: Never played for rivals did they Just seen the answer too, so way out

Gregg Evans, the Villa reporter for the B'Ham Mail, mentioned on twitter that Veretout is due in England when asked about him. Dunno how reliable they still are, but I'd have thought after both Lambert and Matt Kendrick have moved on they club may be more willing to speak to them again.

So if £8m is enough to trigger his release, why exactly are they then going to want to potentially give us more money? Perhaps it was a clause saying that's the minimum we would get for him, so could still negotiate add-ons possibly?

After Sherwood seduced Gueye, it's becoming clear why so many are willing to join us

Just been having a read of the Leicester forum linked in the Veretout thread, and **** me are some of their fans delusional Apparently their form at the end of last season made all of Europe sit up and take notice It's gonna be a long long season for those fans, I get a feeling that they may not be outside of the relegation zone much this season.

Did Captain Jack just give a shout out to Scuba Steve?

Sign of the times! Why bother watching someone play when FIFA can guess their ratings. Because not everyone has the means to watch every Ligue 1 game whereas a lot of people do have games such as FIFA and FM, so what's wrong with using that as a baseline judgement? And I can guarantee those types of comments only come out when talking about players who don't play in the Premier League, Championship or Champion's League, if we were trying to sign Joey Barton you wouldn't be seeing comments saying "well, he is rated high 70's on FIFA, he could be good" because most people will have seen someone like Barton regularly so can gauge his ability more from what they've seen rather than having to make hesitant guesses about his ability on the limited knowledge pool they have.

nevermind.

No-one would've given Arsenal a good game that day, the way they played they could've picked apart anyone. Maybe not a 10 man defence Chelsea.

What? Is that real? If so Sherwood is REALLY working fast this window. The Jordan strategy is brilliant, sign the first one and then the media will be confused and leave subsequent Jordan sgnings quiet until confusedly announcing done deals. No, the picture's not real. Unless Veretout is a Villa fan as that is last seasons shirt. And if he bought a fake shirt as the badge is on the wrong side. Also I don't think it's even Veretout, just looks a tad like him.

http://www.ouest-france.fr/fc-nantes-jordan-veretout-choisi-aston-villa-3588087 Woah woah woah, who's this Mendy fella we've supposedly signed from Nice? Nampalys mendy, plays for Nice and was gueye's midfield partner, journalists got a bit confused But those two weren't even at the same club.

http://www.ouest-france.fr/fc-nantes-jordan-veretout-choisi-aston-villa-3588087 Woah woah woah, who's this Mendy fella we've supposedly signed from Nice?

All I know about that guy is that he was quality for my Nantes team on FM before I had to sell him, sign him up