Delphinho123

Just now, foreveryoung said:

I wouldn't say you outplayed us. Both poor teams, that's what made it a boring game!!

They definitely outplayed us. 

2 minutes ago, Johnnyp said:

Bizarrely i think England have an easier time with Holland , Senegal/Ecuador than they had tonight. Southgate needs to start doing a very simple thing. Play his best players. 

He’s not done that in years.

Just now, Demitri_C said:

Maguire for me 

Shaw, Maguire and Kane have done ok. Bellingham, Rice, Mount and Saka have been particularly poor. 

Just now, Marka Ragnos said:

The England goal is about to come, I feel like I can feel it.

I feel like I can feel like you can feel it’s coming. 

Kane has been our best player.

I’m seriously impressed with this US side. Musah, Adams and McKennie works well in the middle and Pulisic has the quality to hurt teams. They’re well drilled and they’re athletic.

We might go on to win this game, but there is a lot to like about this American side.

Southgate is a f***** moron. 

48 minutes ago, villa89 said:

It shows you how little Putin and his cronies think of the Serfs they are sending to die. I'm surprised there hasn't been more revolt amongst the Russian soldiers. If it was me I'd shoot the officer trying to send me to my death and then surrender to the Ukrainians. A year or two as a PoW and then hope the war is over. 

Or shoot the officer and then disappear into the night with a friend and hope you make it to Georgia or Moldova or somewhere like that. 
There really is no way back for Russia in this war is there?

Just now, Delphinho123 said:

You know what, I forgot about Carlos! Yeh, he'd slot in there I guess.
Buendia could play ahead of Ramsey as an example. Either way, we definitely have the players to play this formation. 

So like this...

————————Watkins————————
———Bailey———————Buendia———
Digne———Kamara—Luiz————Cash
————Mings—Carlos—Konsa————
———————Martinez—————————

49 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Donk as left sided centre back? What about Carlos?

I’d also rather Buendia in the starting XI somehow even in this system.

You know what, I forgot about Carlos! Yeh, he'd slot in there I guess.
Buendia could play ahead of Ramsey as an example. Either way, we definitely have the players to play this formation. 

I still think we could play a very good 3-4-2-1.

————————Watkins————————
———Bailey———————Ramsey———
Digne———Kamara—Luiz————Cash
————Donk—Mings—Konsa—————
———————Martinez—————————

11 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

£15-20m is not a possibility. No way.

£5m with us paying some of his wages is the sort of offers we'll attract. From clubs he probably won't want to go to.

This.

Nobody is paying Ings what we’re paying him here. 

He’ll run his contract down and then look to pick up a couple of 1 year deals before retiring around the age of 34 I suspect. I think he lacks the natural fitness to play beyond that - could be wrong. 

Everybody knows Ings was a panic buy. We’re stuck with him. I just hope Emery can get a tune out of him. The early signs are quite good.

I can’t see us signing another striker unless we sell Watkins. 

Just now, villa4europe said:

With the formation it's no great shakes that DL missed out on the squad to be fair to him, same as everyone else he's struggled under Gerrard but this isn't an easy midfield to get in to

Definitely. If Fabinho can’t get into your midfield, you’ve got some very good players!

To think Brazil have Ederson, Martinelli, Jesus, Rodrygo and Fabinho on the bench. Some squad.

Surprised Paqueta and Richarlison start. 

Any decent Japanese players on view here?

1 minute ago, magnkarl said:

I guess Denmark's point here is to scare FIFA, Norway would for sure join, with the popular vote just barely coming on the side of competing in the world cup if they got there. It'd also give other nations an example to follow and likely scare FIFA to the point where they'd have to do something. 

The most depressing part of it all is Saudi Arabia will win their bid in 2030. 

6 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

I would be amazed if Denmark withdrew. At the end of the day despite all of the wishy washy liberal views, money talks.

Agreed that money talks, but I'm not sure that opposing modern slavery, equal rights for men and women and equal rights for the LGBTQ community are 'wishy washy liberal views'.
I wouldn't class myself as a 'liberal' and I sure as hell think this whole WC has been a completely distasteful, unmitigated disaster. 

On 10/11/2022 at 00:06, skarroki said:

The hell is going on with Wesley? Really not good enough to start for a team in the Spanish 2nd Division?! Getting maybe 8 minutes a fortnight. 

Even when Wesley was here, I thought he was such a poor player. He did ok in a couple of games but for the most part, was very, very bad. 
On top of that, you have the injury, which sounds as if it's all but ended his career. I feel for the bloke. 

12 hours ago, Made In Aston said:

A lot of the loanees don't seem to be getting much game time at the moment. 

I've been saying this for as long as anyone will listen, we're not great at loaning our players out. We either don't loan them out, or we make a mess of the club we loan the player to. There are, of course, a couple of exceptions, but on the whole, we need to improve at it. 
In fairness, I think we have improved since NSWE came in, but we still could be a lot better at it!
 

I've never been that impressed by him whenever I've seen him play (Liverpool goal aside). I've always thought Kessler, A. Ramsey and Chuk were the players that had the best chance of breaking through. 
Hopefully he surprises me, but I think he's destined to ply his trade in either L1 or maybe the Championship if things go his way. Which is fine, he'll earn more money than I will in my lifetime. 

1 hour ago, burchy said:

Gladbach set a £10 million asking price for Marcus Thuram, get it done Villa

 

I really can’t see us signing Thuram given the clubs he’s linked with. Although I did say that about Kamara and we did well there. 

3 hours ago, villa89 said:

Cricket has the same problem as every other sport. The people running it are obsessed with money and they way to make more money is to have more games. They don't run the game in the correct manner, it's just a numbers game focused solely on revenue. Same problem in football, rugby, golf, etc. 

I think you're right, but I also think Cricket has done an excellent job of re-inventing itself almost and moving with the times. Yes, it's heavily commercialised now, but you can't say it hasn't driven a huge amount of interest in the sport. 
Like all things, there needs to be a balance which I agree, there isn't at the moment, but T20 and to a lesser extent T100, have really made cricket an attractive option as a sporting event to go and watch and take the kids. My brother in law hasn't been to a cricket match in his life but went to a T100 game at Edgbaston recently with his daughter and he came back saying he can't wait to go again next year. That's an example of somebody who has no real passion for the game, going and enjoying the sport with his family. That can only be a good thing. 

49 minutes ago, nick76 said:

All the stats, data I’ve seen suggests that there is virtually no chance Trump wins a second term.  I said before the midterms a number of pages back that the Senate would stay with the Democrats and I thought the Republicans would win the house with a forty seat swing after seeing the pre election data and watching both sides of the aisle commentaries.  Dems kept the Senate and Republicans did even worse than I thought in the House and will likely only have a single digit seat majority so roughly a ten seat swing.

I can see Trump winning the nomination because there is too much spineless souls in the Republican Party but no way he wins the election.  If he is the candidate, it galvanises the Dem voters more than anything, most independents won’t vote for him and a proportion of Republicans dislike him enough not to vote at all in the election for the top of the ticket.  

It’s the biggest problem for Trump that beyond his base he struggles and he doesn’t care, he doesn’t reach out to the moderate Republicans and in fact is quite nasty to them, so much so they just don’t vote Republican for the top of the ticket.  If Trump is on the ticket, you can bet Dems will be turning out and voting against him.

The only way Republicans win the 2024 Presidency is a nominee that isn’t Trump. Even then if Trump isn’t the nominee in the end he’s going to burn down the Republican Party on his way out.  

The only way I see Trump winning and it’s a really small chance is if Biden doesn’t run for whatever reason like he pulls out due to health and the Dems choose a candidate that really galvanises the Republican base.

I watched an interview with a pollster on CNN and he framed it quite nicely by saying Trump would lose simply because enough people dislike him so much that they would vote against him regardless of who is running for the Dems (if that makes sense). 
However, if DeSantis were to run, it's likely he wouldn't garner the same hate and people would at least entertain his ideas and views. 

Trumps race is run. I'm convinced the only reason he wants a second term is because it will help him avoid spending the rest of his days in prison. 

6 hours ago, icouldtelltheworld said:

Would be a shame to see him go, he is clearly a talented player who is not yet at his peak. At the same time, he's never really fully shown what he could do here. If somewhere we're to offer a silly price, he's also never shown anything to suggest he's irreplaceable. 

Get the sense with Bailey that he has to be personally invested for you to get the best from him, and suspect if there was serious interest from the top 6 that his head would be turned and we'd probably be best off cashing in

This is where I’m at. If someone came in with a bid of £55-60m, they’d be doing so off the back of a handful of decent performances for us. I can’t see it myself. 

Bailey is getting better here but if someone offered mega money, I’d sell and try to replace with two starters.  

That Dest looks like a handy right back. I’ve always liked Pulisic, would love him down the Villa.