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Just now, Pissflaps said:

I would sell Bailey. Don't need any more stress and drama behind the scenes. Let him go for a profit if we can and let his dad no doubt ruin Bailey's career with his brilliant advice.

Strong words, flaps.

Surprise surprise. 

I wonder if he’s insinuating that he’s had an offer from another club and wants to leave but perhaps we’re not allowing it. 

‘best in the world’ - LOL

6 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

This could be a bit of a mix up…

I’ve seen and maybe heard that Gerrard wants more “killers” in the team… after the Bolton game too… can’t recall the exact words now…

That would seem to suggest players that are clinical… not creativity as such, not in the literal sense..

Tbh, I don’t like this attitude of “if you’re unable to get the best out of the players at your disposal, just go and spend money on others…”

It’s not the solution, proper coaching is… with a quality addition here and there (midfield)…

I do think we need to get rid of a few if we are bringing new guys in, the squad and wage bill is getting really bloated… 

One of Ings or Watkins must go if we sign a quality CF imo…

Ings doesn’t fit into a single striker system, is ageing and past his best and is on massive wages… his value is only going to depreciate… despite his reputation as a good finisher…

Nobody is taking Ings from us with that contract. We just have to accept now that he’s with us for the next 3 years and that’s that. 

3 hours ago, Tom13 said:

Buendia is superb at spotting a forward pass into a player who's in space, and crucially, he plays it early. He's honestly such an intelligent player.

Personally I think he’s overrated on here.

3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Anyone think he'd be more useful as a wingback in a 3 - 5 - 2?

As a matter of fact, probably both him and Cash.

 

Probably but not sure we’d play it. Does make sense with the players we have. 

I’d love him to play this…

——————Watkins——————
Coutinho———————Bailey
——————Ramsey——————
————Luiz———Kamara———
—————————————————-
Digne—Mings—Chambers—Cash

Id tell the fullbacks that only one can go forward and must be ready to defend first and foremost. Luiz and Kamara would hold and not do much attacking at all. They’d also shift over to cover any attacking fullback. Buendia to come on after 55mins to add impetus and/or challenge one of the two for a starting place.

We need to go back to basics. Be more compact and not allow teams to run through us and get in down the channels. The current system with marauding full backs and not playing anybody in the middle of the pitch is suicide. McGinn absolutely has to be dropped. 
 

1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said:

I just feel with the system where the wing backs bomb forward and the midfielders have to cover, you could have prime Vieira in there and he would be horribly exposed.  I'd rather we spent the Sarr money on terminating Gerrard's contract and bringing in a much better manager.  Just stick Luiz and Kamara together and tell them not to move much more than 10 yards away from each other and bring back wingers.

Here here.

18 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

The otavio links seem to be coming back. He does have better stats that sarr

I think he’s probably a good player but I feel a diminutive attacking midfielder is the absolute last thing we need now. 

We need physical central midfielders who are good at passing. 

To be honest, I’m at the point now where I don’t really care. Until we change the entire system and stop playing the fullbacks further forward than our No. 10’s, we’re never going to improve. 

The only two teams that get away with playing so expansively are Man City and Liverpool and even Liverpool are struggling now they’ve lost some key personnel and their midfield isn’t as strong. 

We’re a mess and I can’t see how any new signing changes things under Gerrard. 

He’s a victim of the system, as is Ramsey, but his performances haven’t been good enough for a long, long time. 

We’re trying to improve. The first way we’re going to do that is by sacking the manager and bringing in a manager that tells players they’re allowed to play in the middle of the pitch. The second way is to then improve our first XI. Unfortunately for McGinn, I’d say he’s the first player we’d need to replace. He’s not good enough for a top half PL side. 

So many times he finds himself either on his own without anybody else in midfield to pass to or being run at by an entire team whilst his teammates are off doing something random in an area of the pitch they shouldn’t be. 

8 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

Like I said, "food for thought". 

This cliche of having "lost the dressing room", for me, it's just another excuse for the players to hide behind. They don't represent Steven Gerrard, they represent Aston Villa. To give 90 minutes of unquestionable commitment is the minimum we ask of our players, if that's not forthcoming,  then I'm afraid,  they need to be held accountable. 

I think this is fanciful thinking. Of course, it SHOULD be that way but it just doesn’t work that way. 

There have been plenty of times where I probably should have put more effort in at work but when your boss is a c*** it affects your motivation and will to succeed for them. It just does. 

I doubt the players really care about Villa, not most of them anyway, they care about themselves and their paycheck. They’re also powerful enough nowadays to affect management and who gets to keep their job. In our case, I hope the players get Gerrard the sack because we’re going nowhere under this clown.

2 minutes ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said:

There are vague rumours floating around that we had someone at Porto v Sporting on Saturday. Whether we did, and who we were watching, is just rumour and guesswork. 

That’s not very Villatalk of you. We definitely had someone there and we were watching at least 4 players and we’ll sign two of them.

Discuss.

I’d be willing to bet big money the players dislike Gerrard. I can’t back that theory up but I bet they’re sick and tired of being set up to lose every week. 

Can’t imagine Gerrard is a nice bloke to play for. 

4 minutes ago, messi11 said:

I've heard Villa are moving hard for Otavio Edmilson da Silva Monteiro.

Voices inside your head or for real? 

You called the Sarr thing before anybody else.. I’ll credit you for that. I want to believe in you, Messi. 

Just now, tezzaleed said:

sarr would have been a quality signing and I'm gutted Gerard pulled the plug on it.  He really is a two Bob manager without a fecking clue.  I Hope he's gone by the World Cup. The pointless scouse clearing in the woods

 

Jeez, tell us what you really think, Tezza.

Lolz

2 minutes ago, ciggiesnbeer said:

This is a good idea.

Can Sanson and Doug play as fullbacks?

One of the strangest transfers we’ve made in a while. I was convinced we wouldn’t be signing any wingers in this window. It just doesn’t fit at all.

That said, if it means we move away from this suicidal 4-3-2-1 we’re playing, I’m all for it. 

4 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

Those voices inside your head getting louder champ? 

Made me laugh more than it should. Nice work. 

Just now, DCJonah said:

I'll give him some credit. But apart from Coutinho we haven't signed anyone who I think would be unimaginable if he wasn't here. 

 

My worry with Coutinho is what happens when Gerrard isn’t here in a few weeks. That’s a big old contract to run down..

You can absolutely forget it if this is the way we’re going to play this season. Just forget it. You could go and sign Modric, De Bruyne and Kante and it isn’t going to make the slighest bit of difference. If you set your team up to literally not play anybody in the middle of the pitch, you’re going to lose a helluva lot more matches than you win. This is staggering. 

13 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

What's Kamara doing wasting his time in no man's land? We don't do that here. Front or back, lad.

So true. I’m sure Gerrard must be giving him a rollicking for not playing out wide as close to the fullbacks as possible.