Dillon66

Absolutely spot on - we have a squad full of experienced players, many of whom are seasoned internationals, plus some exciting young prospects coming through, as well as the likes of Moreno and Ramsay who are only out for another couple of weeks or so. No need for panic and I still think that Emery and Monchi were planning to bring more people in before the Buendia and Mings injuries. More than half the Premier league would be very happy with our squad as it stands....a couple of additions in the right areas and we'll be just fine.......no sweat, no dramas.

...only if it deflects off his crutches....

Has anyone taken note of the fact that he's actually supposed to be out until September with an ongoing injury ?

Moreno is decent, a good player. But he's not better than Chilwell.....no chance.

Its also on BBC Scotland....ch844 on my sky box

Remember this game well.....early morning piss-up and resulting beer fight in the Springbok by the ground, on the pitch after the game with Villa fans hanging off the cross bar until it inevitably snapped. Then driving home through London, coming across 2 Villa lads getting chased up the road by a mixture of a few QPR fans and a few cockbey reds....at which point our minibus made an abrupt stop and emptied out, to explain the errors of their ways...

No. Why do you ask ?

I'm one of Kamara's biggest fans, but I thought he was really poor today ? Gave up possession far too easily and invited pressure onto himself by over dwelling on the ball. Made one great saving tackle, but caused our centre halves more problems than any of their forwards tonight. Hope he's back to his best real soon.....we need him bang at it.

I was at the game too....and we definitely were not class. We controlled the game for large parts of the match mainly due to the fact that they were poorer than we were. Kamara and Bailey were dreadful and could rightfully have been hooked after half an hour. We brightened up a fair bit in the second half, Buendia was excellent, JPB caused problems, Digne and Tielemans pretty decent too. Funnily enough, I didnt think the ref was over biased towards them - he gave us plenty of fouls whereby we hung onto the ball too long to invite a challenge, then we promptly fell over much to Valencia's ire. A good day overall though, the Mestalla is an iconic old lady of a ground.........but those effing stairs up to the stand ! Something else indeed.

I agree....and would love to see us try and get Ian Maatsen from Chelsea. He's impressed me every time I've seen him play and I think his speed and technical ability would be right up Emery's street.

Unfortunately, every time the ball went near him, he gave us the Trotsky's........ I'll get my coat

I was told by a reliable 'sauce' that Digne has in fact bought Al-Hilal for himself, out of the overtime payments Purslow and Gerrard paid him for working Saturdays.

....and therein lies the problem. He's not even close to good enough for 'where we want to be'......far from it. He has no spatial awareness in the box, useless in the air, and just swings a boot at whatever drops close to him. In a one on one situation with the keeper, I'd expect him to miss more than he scores. He scored 15 last season in spite of his deficiencies, not because he's good.....I heard he expects to score 20+ next season ? God knows where we're going to get 45 penalties from.

Spot on folks....Archer just needs time and patience. Bit more than Watkins who apparently can do no wrong because he runs around a bit.

Hope we take a decent team out to face Valencis (selfishly, because I'm going to this one !) Given that its one of Ùnai's old clubs and we're competing for the 'Orange Trophy' or something, I'd like to think we'll be fielding a strong side ?

Any Villa fans going over for this next week and staying / travelling to the match from the Benidorm area ? If so, just wondered how people getting to Valencia, I've been looking at bus/coach from Benidorm, seems pretty reasonable...

No point judging him by Ollie's standards.....his conversion rate for penalties is 4/9 (44%)....and we still let him take them.

Jim Cumbes had no problem throwing the ball - stopping the ball was a different matter altogether....

Emi is currently my favourite player, best keeper we've had since Bosnich and in the top 3 we've had in my 50+ years of supporting the Villa. But...... the rumours that Unai doesn't really fancy him have never really gone away and is it beyond the realms of fantasy that we could surreptitiously be testing the water to invite potential bids ? I genuinely hope not and i'd be seriously pi$$ed off if he left......but equally I wouldn't be totally surprised. It could even be his agent working behind the scenes to drum up any interest if he's got the sense from the club they'd be prepared to do business if the deal is right ? All conspiracy theory and/or smoke with no fire ? Jeez...I hope so.

Most definitely.......he's probably the best finisher in the squad despite his relative inexperience. Lets be honest, for all his off the ball effort and link up play, when Ollie goes through one on one with the keeper we're more hopeful than expectant that he's going to score. If Archer gets the same opportunities I'd be much more confident in his ability to provide the right finish - he just needs game time and patience, same as Ramsey did.

They did.

I met him at Digbeth Dining Club once.....bloody nice bloke. (I just realised as I typed that, I had the voice of Tim Nice but Dim from the Fast Show in my head.....)

Yes....we're in for Mason Greenwood

Is the £1560 all up front, or can you have it on the strap same as normal season tickets.....asking for a friend

Last time I looked, Liverpool and Newcastle were both in England. Unfortunately.