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McGinn turned down celtic to come to the champ. Don't underestimate the pull of B6, body more heath and the chance to live in gods country. you wouldn't know being suffolk.

Hourihane's new role should be 10 mins before the end sub. just in case we get any late free kicks. he came on and did a job yesturday. That tactical foul right at the end was right out of the Sebastien Chabal text book snuffed out a certain breakaway and is what has been missing from our play all season. Man utd's James should of done the same thing today. soft lad.

I thought Drinkwater had a good shift yesturday. he put in an early reducer on maupay which seemed to keep him quiet for the rest of the match. and generally put himself about winning a few tackles. whihch is more than hourihane and luiz can do. Drink water definatly has a bit of swagger about him. he struts about like a bloke who has won the league, he doesn't care people think he's crap. The same with REina picking the ball up one handed like a boss. This is why we signed them. If you look at konsa and hause they are nervous wrecks they look like they are scared to death. They should be out on loan if we had a clue.

They should of been tapping up in december....everyone else realised Wesley was a dud back in October

the dither brothers deano and jesus really have got soup in the laundry bag this time. by keeping their powder dry and waiting till nearer the end of the window to sign a striker in hope of the price goes down will now certainly leave then searching through the waifs and strays especially now manchester united need strikers as well as spurs. due to rashfords injury. we had a golden opportuinity to get a coup such a piatek in before any of the big guns came sniffing, however as usual failure to get deals over the line has cost us. It's just like when Gregory let Junhinio and Keane slip through the net. Forever in excrement creek!

Forget all that business...the big question is why Smith again was dishonest with the fans over Kodjia? saying he had flu. why not be honest and upfront with the supporters. And this is not the first occassion, MCginn playing with injury, Grealish injury this season and last, Kenian Davis was only meant to be out for 2 weeks. Why all the bs? Some things are best kept under the radar. however with mcginn fans quickly noticed he wasn't making the usual impact and were screaming for him to be rested. It appears like deano has the same disregard for the supporters as doug ellis. he thinks we don't know what we seeing. Smith is not a man of integrity and certainly not one of us. Smith should come out in a press conference and make a gesture to the fans....like O'Neils meal.

Smith said in the pre match presser he was dissappointed with the number of fouls we committed against mancity. So I'm expecting blood and thunder. you know what footballers are like....take instructions literally Got a sneaking feeling he might start lansbury due to him being the biggest nutter in the squad. he'll be sharpening his elbows in his bedsit right about now with his bastard cut file. It should be like the football match in eastenders when they play the athetic youth club and Grant mitchel decides to rough up the kids and intimidate the ref. I've just watched this clip on youtube the similarities are endless. Fat ron is injured so Arthur fowler goes in goal....... a dead ringer for pepe Reina!

I can't believe we are repeating our mistakes from the summer by going back for another unproven striker from the belgique league. It's insanity. Villa's philosophy is if something doesn't work keep going back and doing it again and again until it does. Another suicidal gamble. can write the script now....awful hold up play terrible first touch misses sitters, smith telling fans to give him time as he's in a new country playing in the "toughest league in the world" pathetic waste of 10m. the only sliver lining is he should be available for the cup semi, I just hope he can take a pen.

It's a joke. they pay jesus to sort out the transfers and all he can manage is a pair of has beens. when we said we needed experience what we didn't need was a load of pensioners moaning about the triple lock. Smith is not on Pepe Reina's Villa Arrival video....why? cos he didnt want the old word removed Deano is clearly pissed off with it in interviews he's stopped name checking "suso" and saying "I'll have to ask the director of football". It's obvious Smith is sick of taking all the flack, he's even getting grealish to turn tricks on social media to give them a kick up the tush. He knew what he was doing playing fat boy Drinkwater on Sunday. It was to throw Jesus under the bus. we could of competed like against liverpool and narrowly lost. Or we could totally surrender and he could send out a big message to the board. The problem is it's weds and we still don't have a striker for Saturday. This is the problem when you have commitee's in charge of transfers too many people involved. you need one. the manager of the club and thats it. Just like Martin O'Neill. knew who he wanted and blew them out the water to get them in the shirt and on the pitch.

I'd rather see ohare getting the chances douglas luiz keeps pissing away. Luiz gives me the impression he really doesn't give a shit. If liverpools kids can come in and knock their local rivals out of the cup, why can't villa throw some of their own fresh meat onto the bbq. If your brummy midfielder gives it away cheap there would be more leeway than the 15m brazillian giving it away with his horrendous lack of focus.

can't believe we are 15 days into the window, knew we needed a striker and a winger to take the hapless wesley and trez out of the team, wesley gets injured anyway (blessing in disguise) and yet 15 days in we've not addressed these key areas. Before the window even opened liverpool doing a medical for minamino pops up on my youtube feed. We should of been shaking hands with agents at the start of December. Basicly we need to either go down the robbie keane veteran route with someone like defoe or sturridge or go down the darren bent avenue with a big money move to get piateck. Benteke would be the middle ground. Anyway Heads should roll for this absoluite shambles.

pissheads and nazi's? just like bosnich and mcGrath then plus ça change plus c'est la même Might aswell get James McClean on board. at least the banter on the team bus won't be Jack and Henri talking about shampoo anymore.

If Villa board don't want to spend any money, don't want to sack the manager, the solution is to "do a boro" When Middlesboro chairman Gibson brought in "the cockney messiah" Venables as co manager to bryan robson at the turn of the century, apart from Robsons increasing moody demeanour it worked wonders. If Villa brought in Allardyce and give him a special title such as "team manager" this would a) not put Smith's nose out of join as his title is head coach. 2) The smith fan boys get to keep their hero in a job 3)Villa get somone in charge who knows what he's doing This would be groundbreaking and send shockwaves through premiership football, Purslow should ACT NOW!

I think we could have witnessed Smith using the surrender tactic to maneuver the board to get their wallets out. Probably/possibly Smith wasn;t happy about the Drinkwater signing. He gave a coded message with the hungry eyes interveiw. ie he said danny want a fat word removed. (he's not wrong) Then Drinkwater is thrown in at the deep end looking lbs overweight and breathing through his ring piece. Villa get battered in a game we were expected to get nothing from, but didn't show anywhere near the desire we did against liverpool. Smith looked pretty relaxed in the after game interview in comparrison the watford game he looked really stressed. Then he goes on about the squad costing less than Man City's front 3 even tho Sheffield united could of said the same when they spanked us at brammel! Then this morning we wake up to Grealish stirring up waters on social media. It's possible Smith is screaming at the board for extra cash. and using Grealish too. Is Smith clever enough for such a daring manlipulation of the board using the media and the star player? We all know he's good at BSing the fans (grealish's injury last year, McGinn playing through injury, Davis etc) This would be next level stuff if he pulls this off.

do the board realise its going to cost loads to stay in the prem.....but it's usually worth the spend..................Just get edens to flog some more crap trainers to pay for the january splurge! The adidas superstars I got from bangkok market for £12 only lasted 3 months. disgrace. How about addidas drinkwater trackbacks? limited edition sneakers exclusivly available to slimming world customers. Or Adidas dean smiths - orange with pressure activated encroaching grey sides.

I thought drinkwater was a solid zero out of ten.

Sturridge - the supreme poacher can also bend one in from 30 yards Benteke - hold up man who is brilliant in the air Piateck - knows where the net is Murry - the stalwart would love to finish his career at a truely massive club Townsend - the supplyline can play left or right, precision delivery and not afraid to shoot himself. I'm seriously aroused by the thought of this dream team with grealish pulling the strings behind. I'd like Villa to be losing with 5mins to go for my apparition to come true

4 forwards and 1 winger are needed. If we are loosing with 5 mins to go we can put all four strikers on the pitch and the winger can lump it in the mixer. bingo. thank me in may.

You could let Mings push forward into midfield as a sweeper as he can play. However he's crucial at the back. His blocks keep the score respectable. Konsa is meant to be a ball playing centre half but he is awful.

That was one of the worst debut's in the history of football. Fat and slow. We would be better off with Jedi or Whelan. IT was up there with Ugo's debut which wasn't actually his debut. and bryan small's who trod on the ball with his first ever touch.

Jack would never leave Villa apart from to go to real or juve. This is all a PR stunt to get the board to spunk big money on proven class so he can fire us up the table. As Geldoff said "We need to spent the fooking money now!" get the piateck, get sturridge, get Benteke. and Andros Townsend. It's spend or go you adidas rocket polisher.

Smith said "Drinkwater has hunger in his eyes" thats why he signed him. hungry eyes by eric carmen

I want either of the following scenarios :- a) draw or win 2 )Benteke/Pitaek paraded infront of the fans wearing a del a cruise style white suit and cream loafers. q) Smith to grab the mic and put pressure on the board by saying "i'll do everything in my power to bring Benteke/Pitaek to the football club" ..... sending the fans wild with euphoria plucky losers is only acceptable if scenaria 2 and q are activated. your move smith

This situation is a disgrace. The biggest injury crisis since the bubonic plague and all they've done is bought in one player...a freebie Dunno Deano is showing the exact same ineptitude towards transfers that he does for 2nd half substitutions. ie sitting on his hands. having a couple of meetings on the touch line then shrugging his shoulders and saying "erm erm yeah no well... the price goes down the closer you get to the deadline" Palace have a pensioner in charge who looks like he has more baggage under his eyes than the lost luggage department at bhx, yet still has the get up and go to take tosun from everton in time for their early kick off... and still see to his allotment! At this rate we will be going down sheldon to get riccardo scimeca out of the kitchen to play up front again. I expect to see Smith get mic'd up come on pitch tomorrow like big ron the game before we signed sarnders and make a statement of intent.

with the ammount of romanians in birmingham you could easily add 10000 to the gate by signing a romanian superstar. Gordan Cowans came back to Villa and was class in his 2nd spell. and so did steve staunton. I back Benteke to come in and do a job. back in the day Some of his link up play with weiman was breathtaking. So his hold up play will generate loads more goals for the midfielders. All any incoming stiker has to do is get more goals than wesley (5) in the remaining fixtures. and fire us to wembley. obtaining god like status has never looked so simple.