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Kodja is good for 20 odd goals, Adomah should weigh in with another batch of 10, and the invisable man Connor Hourihane can get around that many despite not doing much else.

We got 72 goals last season despite not having our main striker thats why I think we can go up.

and if Grealish believes the hype around him he should be getting double figures of goals and assists.

The teams with the best squads this season are Stoke and baggies. but they've given us a massive head start with their choice of managers. I expect big dave to get the bullet in sept and also I think the stoke job is way too big for Gary Rowett and he'll eventually get fired. By then we should get a nice cushion. I can't see Lampard doing much at Derby the only danger is the old master Pulis will surely have boro sorted out by now and launch a genuine title push. The rest of the champ is garbage. Included in that is Leeds who always look tasty at this stage.

I bet Jack will play garbage tonight with all the uncertainty. It'll be like Yorke V Everton

I think the reason we havn't tapped up James Collins is probably.....Sid Cowans is still at the club

think its all a load of hot air

the thinking behind this signing is obviously if he looks like allison of brazil he will play like him.

Just like in the late 90's when ronaldo of brazil lookalikes could get a contract anywhere

I think we should wait to be an established premier league club again before thinking of these mad strategies to play tika taka football.

We've seen last season if the players feel confident enough they will knock it about. but if they don't they will launch it. I think a long winning streak 6 or 7 games the players start believing in themselves you'll start seeing pass and move aplenty.

However the first few games are going to be ugly as **** till we find out how good we are.

Bruce is the best man for the job. get behind him stop dreaming. Henry would have been a nightmare like remi garde.

I can see why they look at Woodhouse...he's a full international with Wales but

Id rather take experienced players who arn't in their premier league teams squad like Snodgrass than these youngsters.

Why not play our own youngsters let them lose possession on the edge of there own box and get a rollicking from the north stand instead of some young toe rag like Josh ohnamah who'll piss off back to spurs, never play a stupid square ball on the edge of his own box again when he gets to put on the white jersey of tottingham, having experienced the vitriol of Villa fans still ringing in his ears.

The youngsters blow hot and cold. Everyone raves about liverpools other kid ryan kent being white hot. however I don't remember him at all when barnsley played at Villa Park, it's all PR to get some champ club to pay 5m for him when his contract is up. I imagine the same hype surrounded Henry Lansbury when he was at Arsenal.

If theres a shirt just give it to O'Hare let him make a few **** ups. the only way they get better is by playing games.

I don't believe he's going anywhere

At this point in his career he's not done enough to make big clubs pay a lot of money. few games in the prem, 1 semi final in the cup, half a season in the champ.  Outside birmingham he's more famous for inhaling helium, on the piss after defeats and being unconscious on the beach after a neck full of sangria.

I work in the south east and I know brummys have a reputation for partying too hard and not giving a shit about the job..... So no club is going to pay mega money for him and give him a fat contract based on half a season in the champ and a few assists...I imagine if you could get him cheap say for 10m might be worth the gamble. but it appears Villa are not in that way desperate after the fresh investment so won't consider giving him away cheap.

English players like to get the fat contract and think they've made it, then stop working eg. Jack Rodwell, Francis Jeffers, Steve Sidwell, John Bostock David Bentley Isiah Osbourne the list is endless.

In the list of great brummy footballers Grealish isn't even in the top ten....yet.

I still rate Lee Hendrie higher

give it to grealish then move into space.

This is a Gollini esque gamble.

Being big doesn't make a good goalkeeper. look at that lump fraiser forster!

I'm hearing loads of players are leaving spain something to do with their tax being too high for the greedy mercs.

We should be going all out for Joe Hart.

I'd like them to say

"we are going all out for promotion this season and we keep all our best players. We have people behind the scenes business people who are working hard to circumvent FFP"

I've never heard any other club in the UK shít themselves so much over FFP

no pics of Grealish in the portugal photo gallary

This guy luke is meant to be a designer?

He must have spent at least 3 seconds designing that. It's like a can't be ársed design.

I have the Villa under armour traccy and a grey polo and it is a thing of beauty

Mccormack is like the crappy ones you get with a mobile phone screen and digitizer kit off ebay. they work once then forget it

thats atrocious!

It looks like a cable knit aran jumper.

I think as it's going to be a nod to 1888 we will see claret and blue quarters like a rugby shirt.

This will please our bourgeoisie following.

Hogan is a different animal. He's more like a goal hanger like defoe without the shots from outside the area.

You can't compare them it's cruel..... it's like slotted and phillips screwdrivers. you need both in the toolbox.

If we get some pacey wingmen we can park the bus then hit on the break. Just like all the greatest moments in our history.

I think Bruce can see this.

I'd play Davis in a 442. He's the best back to goal striker I've seen since Mark Hughes.  He can dribble aswell which is unusal for B2G strikers.

Most of these hold up men are cultivated, like when Juan Pablo lost his pace he became "an outlet" Crouch wasn't a born like it either he was a baller just an awkward looking one, he was turned into one by default.

But Davis is a natural.

what xia needs is a hedge fund running in the background fueling cash flow for Villa. I don't know why he isn't mining bit coin out in china where they have cheap leccy.

Unless of course he bought Villa to be his hedge fund for whatever else?

He could set up a new cyptocurrency get some publicity to get the value to skyrocket then flog all his coins. pump and dump is where it's at.  call it villa skrilla.

If we got Jack Wiltshire on loan we could play some amazing football the two Jacks linking up.

I would try and swap Adomah back with Adamah Traore. Last seasons team was solid but not enough pace especially down the flanks.

I'm still not decided whether I'd want Snodgrass back. He gave me some euphoria with last minute winners but his no show in the final disappointed me immensely. and We need to be rapid down the flanks.

If Jono doesn't want to come back try and get Hart.

We need to go all out for the title this season. Hit the ground running from day 1.

If he buys a load of bitcoin with his billions of yen. Then he can sell the bitcoin from GBP therefore take his money out of China.

Thats if this bullshitter had any money in the first place.

The Bruce out brigade should be carefull what they wish for.

Bruce has improved us in the short time he has been here. We were in danger of going down again under RDM.

We have two improvements in where we finished under Steve despite the heartbreak of losing the play off.

It's frustrating that it looks like we might have to build another spine, but it is what it is. **** it thats football.

and even if theres no money Bruce has the connections to wheel and deal and get us some big names like he got Snod and Terry.

Keeping grealish is the most important thing.

And all the long ball stuff, well if i was a centre half and had conner hourihane in front of me with his give it to me face on...I'd hoof it as hard as I could upfield!

Bruce must stay for me. He knows this division. Letting Bruce leave would be like Albion getting rid of Pulis.

We would be spectators of suicide.

I did really like this years UA away kit, and the grey training gear

When we were with nike, in my opinion the kits were decent but obviously templates nothing classic or inspiring.. the training gear was good I still have a few items.

We've never had adidas so It would be good  to see what adidas Villa kit would look like. I think it's my favorite sports wear brand. I have golf shoes, still got my old predator accelerator football boots and a couple of pairs of trainers