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Go and take a look at the guy on Youtube (yeah I know...) If that doesn't look like exactly the sort of player Villa have been missing for the last God knows how long then I don't know who is. He has more talent in his left bollock than the rest of our squad put together. Amazing technique, scores from free kicks, gets fans excited and attendances up, sells shirts. No, we definitely don't need a player like this

Very much agree with point 3. We seem to always steer clear of exciting signings. Fans need players to get excited about which will gets bums on seats, get the atmosphere going and get us back up the table. I actually think Merson was the last genuinely exciting player we had down at VP.

I'm definitely firmly behind Lambert but Morpheus and Papillon before him make a lot of good points. I must admit, Lambert's idea of setting the ball rolling on a new forward-thinking way of playing the game had me very excited. Even when we were successful under MON I just hated watching us mindlessly hoof the ball up the pitch. However you could argue that the short-term needs to be mixed effectively with the long-term else we may drop. Maybe Lambert's just got more balls than us though and he's not going to change his outlook despite the pressure cranking up. If that's the case, good on him and it would be great if at the end of the season, we all realize he knew what he was doing all along. Something about the man gives me huge confidence in him. All that said, the short-term is pretty bleak and you don't just worry about relegation when you're in it, you worry about it when you're hovering near it consistently.

Is this a joke? Yes I know he's shipped a fair few but the man's been our MOTM in virtually every game this season. Don't forget he has made world-class saves in the last two games and also stopped a penalty.

Looks like a young Rio on that first vid

To be fair he looks an amazing talent on that video. Check out the first goal on this vid too.

I know, it's great isn't it?!

4-0 shots to nil away at Newcastle. Oh and as I type - GOAL!!!

FFS guys, I think we're playing pretty well. Can definitely see a young team taking shape. We may still get shafted 4-0 but I'm sorry I can definitely see an improvement in our play

Un-be-****-lievable

Well said.

Feeling generally very positive despite sharing people's fear of a lack of quality. I absolutely back the way they're going about building a sustained development, TRO and P3TE are completely right about buying players and improving them and them having a resale value. I just hope we can get by this year. It seems to me that we can slowly add to this squad in the next few windows and we'll end up getting better and better. We just need to start collecting some points but I think it may be a few games yet before we do. Hoping for a good second half to the season.

Funny how people on here tend to range from one extreme to the other. I can definitely see both side's POV. While I totally agree that Lerner has spent plenty of his own money on Villa and I see the value in a long-term young players based approach, I do look and think "Shit, we really have fallen a long way". Spin it how you like but for one reason or another, it would seem that a large portion of Villa fans are now happy with us avoiding relegation. That saddens me more than anything.

As in Villa - a type of house?

**** yes. He could be our best Youtube signing yet!

Hmm anyone else think this morning has made us look a bit small-time. Why put in an offer for a player without sounding out if he was interested in us. I fear it was an Ellis style ploy sadly.

Villa have had a bid accepted for Clint Dempsey!

You know, we may just go down this season but come back up with a maturing youthful squad that gels together and learns to play the same way and ends up being more effective in the long term (Swansea?). Or we may stay up by the skin of our teeth. Or we may sink like Notts Forest, I hope not. Either way, you have to say it's a very brave call if Lambert has anything to do with this and you'd have to admire him for sticking to his principles when everyone around him seemed sure we'd go in to panic buying mode.

It's obvious why we're buying this guy. To make Benteke look good.

Adams. Adams. Who the **** is Adams?!

Funny Sonic, I've thought the same a few times these last couple of seasons. Reassuringly a lot of replies to the original post, show that Villa has some great fans just like any other club and though I share Gazton's hatred of the money involved in the game today, I believe Villa fans are starved of enjoyment. Things need to pick up on the pitch and badly.

Agreed. The only worrying thing, is a vastly overrated "leader" though he is, he'd still probably improve our team. Someone else said it further up but there's only really 3 or 4 players of Premier League standard in the team, the rest is filled up with players who either aren't there yet or will never be. Totally back the regime but think we desperately need a stronger starting point.

This on 7500 to holte pretty much sums up how I feel, hope link is OK http://www.7500toholte.com/2012/8/26/3268983/aston-villa-west-ham-match-review?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Reminds me of that scene from Life of Brian...

Have to agree that it seems like Lambert is still trying out different players in different positions. Our selections have the air of preseason about them, maybe after 3 games, he'll go "Enough **** around" and pick a solid side and get the ball forward. Or... he'll stick with it and in 2 years time we'll look back at a very important learning period for the players as well as the fans. I daren't think of the other alternatives.