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Amazing performance, up against a top player. Made Trippier look bang average. He was my man of the match today. Rolls Royce.

Give this kid whatever he wants to stay for the rest of his career. He just gets better and better. He’s the perfect example of what can be achieved through pure hard work. 
My lad said to me today that Ollie deserves all the accolades because not only is he a great player but he’s also a really nice lad. Can’t argue with that really. 

This is a great opportunity for Deano to start to build his reputation again. I think he will keep them up but it’s unlikely that he will get the job permanently.

I live in Leicester and was enjoying watching them struggle but they will have my support now. They have the players to play a more direct game which is what Deano and Shakey will implement in the time they have to make a difference. It should be enough.

Another great presser from Unai. He is so thoughtful and considered. He respects everyone but backs himself and his team to have the answers to win the game. It will be tough tomorrow but Unai will set us up to win. Hopefully we will get the job done again.

It’s interesting that he said we want 2 players for every position next season. I think we will see quite alot of movement in the summer but for once, we will be building from a solid foundation. I really trust Unai to make the right decisions in relation to who comes in and who leaves. Selling Ings in January was a great bit of business. I will back him whatever he decides 

Two top performances on the bounce. He gives so much to the team and he seems to love it here. Marvelous stuff.

Konsa has been much better recently but I thought that he was quite poor on Saturday. Chelsea consistently targeted his side, particularly in the first half and they created lots of good opportunities.

He has done his bit for us since he signed but he is one of the players that can easily be upgraded in my view. He is probably one who has a relatively high sell on fee. Maybe this summer is good timing for him to move on.

It makes me so happy to see SJM back on top form. The man lives and breathes our club and he’s also a thoroughly decent human being. Works his socks off every day and always carries himself impeccably. I love SJM. A true captain.

3 minutes ago, colhint said:

Thinking about the first. Was it one flew over Cucurellas nest 

This post deserves alot of love. Bravo colhint. Post of the day

Martinez, McGinn and Moreno were all unbelievable. Great to see Ollie with another goal. I thought we looked better with a back three in the second half and fair play to Chambers who stood up well. Happy days.

We’re incredibly lucky to be winning at half time. Hopefully Unai can calm them down at ht. We are so open on the flanks. We need to get on the ball in the middle of the park. Luis and Boubs getting dominated at the moment.

Still, we are winning and it was a lovely finish by Ollie. Hopefully we can sneak another and take some of the sting out of the game.

Brilliant from the women. When’s the draw for the next round? It would be unbelievable if they could win the trophy.

1 hour ago, rodders0223 said:

Needs to bulld up those leg muscles a bit.

True. Should take a few tips from Ian Ormondroyd about not skipping leg day!

He’s not good enough. Not even close. Off loading him is likely to prove difficult. Unfortunately we may have to wait for his contract to finish. 

I like Rambo. I suspect he won’t be as good as we hoped but he will be a useful, fairly low earning squad player. He will get better and his confidence will grow. He’s played way more often than he would have if we’d actually had some decent midfield players in the last few years. It’s much better having young players who care about the club as squad fillers as opposed to over rated/paid jokers like Sanson.

1 minute ago, useless said:

All our teams, U18s, 21s, first team and women's team won this weekend.

It’s incredible isn’t it. I’m also a big Leicester Tigers and England rugby supporter. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a positive weekend of results. I’ve just spent the day watching highlights of all the matches over and over!

It would be great if Villa women could get to the final. I reckon we would take a pretty large following. I’d go for sure. The improvement that they’ve made this season is really impressive.

30 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

I understand that ppl dont like the playing out right now at times, as we do have some players who really cant do it.

However, at least Emery is implementing his style come hell or high water, which is something many of our previous managers failed to do, and look where that got them.

The way i see it right now, is it can look a bit painful at times, and it can cost us, but he is implementing the style he wants and it is allowing him to clearly see which players can do it, and which players cant, so its helping Emery to see who stays/goes in the summer, and exactly what we need players wise.

At last we have a manager who is saying to the players, you play my way, if you cant do it, you will be gone, my way or the highway, and for that im happy tbh (if we do have a big summer...), too often these players have flattered to deceive, reverted to type etc, and Emery is basically saying that aint happening, you do it my way or there is the door.

as i say, i understand the playing out is a little painful right now, but i think in the big picture, its the right thing to do.

I totally agree with this. I’m glad that we didn’t buy too many in Jan. Emery is giving our players a fair chance. Let’s see how good they can be once they have had some quality coaching. If they still can’t do it then we will try and move them on over the next few transfer windows.

I think SJM and Watkins have benefited massively from this. They both look like different players under Unai and if they can keep it up they deserve to stay. Hopefully a few more will step up to the mark. I still think that we have the skeleton of a good team that will really improve with a few well chosen signings. The summer should be really exciting.

I suspect they will win and also score from a corner. Maybe 2-1. Hope to be proved wrong obviously but their good form is coinciding with our dodgy patch. If this game had been played a month ago I would have been very confident of a victory but the landscape has shifted somewhat.

1 hour ago, Tommo_b said:

Question for those who think we should cash in…

Who the heck could we replace him with that would be seen as an improvement?

This is the question that needs answering. In my view, the reason Villa have been so bad, for so long, is our total inability to operate effectively in the transfer market. In fact, since Doug departed, our transfer activity has been woeful. We’ve had a few hits of course, but how many players have we sold at a profit since 2005? Not many and we must be £100m’s in deficit. Particularly if you exclude Jack who came through our academy.

Don’t get me wrong. I did not like Doug. The only thing that he really loved was of course, Doug. He did though have a pretty reasonable record when it came to buying players. We definitely seemed to have more hits than misses in those days.

The problem with him was his total lack of ambition. Our owners since have all had ambition but they lacked his nous when it came to understanding a player’s value.  This has massively held us back.

Now though, I do think that we have a chance. Unai has serious contacts in the game. He also has history of building successful teams and improving players. If anybody can replace Emi and use any surplus funds to effectively strengthen other areas, then it’s him.

In answer to the question posed, I don’t think we can upgrade Emi. No GK better than him will sign for us but without getting all Purslow about this, we could improve the overall team by selling Emi and re-investing effectively.
 

9 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

We would be foolish to give up on Buendia. He could have had a goal on Saturday, and could very easily have had two assists. He has been inconsistent but he's so clever in the final third, there's no way I'd be selling him.

He did have a good game on Saturday. If he can start to string those performances together regularly then I would totally agree with you. He has generally been pretty poor though. Hopefully Saturday can be the turning point.

4 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

I’m not sure he has to play. You could easily play Moreno on the left in midfield or push Buendia in behind Watkins

Maybe but to be honest it’s marginal gains. I would use Bailey at home and maybe look at other options away. For what it’s worth, I prefer Bailey to Buendia. 

With our current options, he has to play but we really need better than him next season. The same is true of Emi2. We’ve managed to shift one of the Grealish three and I suspect the other two won’t be far behind. That summer was a disaster for us. Fortunately, with the sultan pulling the strings, this summer should be more productive.

Ginger, Sporty, Posh, Scary or Baby?

1 minute ago, sne said:

No transfers and not game this weekend makes VT... Go crazy?

Imagine if we’d had a Friday night match and lost!!!!!!!! Longest weekend ever….