Vancvillan

I know I'm just adding to the problem, but statto fact - this thread now has more pages than Elmo and the entire ladies team combined.

And I've checked it at least eight times today.

5 hours ago, bielesibub said:

You get me wrong, I never intended to give them any concession.

Fair enough - I misread your post, my apologies.

1 hour ago, bielesibub said:

This could be an interesting speech - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53819020 (US couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters 'to speak at Republican convention') Lovely to see he had time to get his gun but not his espadrilles.

To note, I wouldn't like a protest going by my house.

I wouldn't like a lot of things but it doesn't mean I'm going to stand on my lawn with an AR.  There's no need to "both sides" this by given this couple any kind of concessions.

15 minutes ago, osmark86 said:

yeah I'm not going to get salty because a player isn't sure about joining our club...

This. Benteke thought we were a London club and openly wanted to play for Arsenal. Worked out pretty well for us.

Any player who is excited about playing for Villa right now either comes from the lower leagues or the youth team.

On 14/08/2020 at 17:28, skarroki said:

My name is Olly Watson so I was kinda excited for this signing to happen just so I could get a kit for next season with a player name and feel 10% less of an idiot wearing it. I wouldn't get my own name on a shirt but getting someone else's name that happens to be mine as well is okay and I think this is as good as I can hope for without impregnating half of Birmingham and naming all my children Olly Watson jnr. Which would be a bit much just for a football shirt 

You could just claim to be a huge fan of late 90's right backs.

On 14/08/2020 at 16:41, AvfcRigo82 said:

We we're a great team.

James, Watson, Southgate, Ehiogu, Wright, Stone, Taylor, Carbone, Merson, Joachim, Dublin.

That claret and blue stripe strip we wore from that season was just as awesome as the team.

 

I think Watson was on his way out that season and Delaney was becoming the new favourite player everyone would forget within a decade...

3 hours ago, TreeVillan said:

Excellent use of the word bludgeoned

I can't believe no-one else picked this up.

5 hours ago, Fight Like Lions said:

A few daft comments and then the media going after her shouldn't be an issue 

7 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

I keep seeing people in the Transfer Thread saying they want to sign a large number of players . . . well there's a maximum squad size so if we are going to sign people we may also need to move people on, and as easy as it is to type 'sell Lansbury' I doubt anyone who could afford him would want him.

Hence the numerous typings of "loan Lansbury and pay some of his wages".

If we get to a point where Nakamba can't fit into the squad then great, but let's cross that bridge when we get there.

1 hour ago, villan-scott said:

He’s a decent squad player. He’s not done anything terrible or amazing. He needs that number 11 shirt taken off him tho! Need that for our new winger star signing, whoever that may be!

This is the kind of rational analysis that will get ridiculed on here.

9 hours ago, joey55 said:

Utd's profits are so huge that Covid isn't going to hold them back

Approx 19 million, which puts them behind Wolves for 2018-2019 I think...

McCarthy, Benrahma, Billing.

3 minutes ago, AvonVillain said:

Struggle to understand some of the pessimism. Even with the exact same squad, I think *next* season we would finish around 10th/11th. Imagine not having our spine ripped apart last season. A full season with John McGinn regaining his super, Heaton in goal, Wesley continuing his improvement plus having fully settled in a new culture.

If Jack stays, plus these new signings, it's top 8 for me. We'll be chasing a European place, no doubt in my mind.

Sure, if we have no injuries we'll likely do better, but what are the chances of that?  Heaton is made of paper, Jack is fouled hundreds of times a game and SJM + Mings dive head first into every challenge. It's also a more compact season, so more fatigue and likely more injuries.

I think people underestimate how much more of a squad we need next season.  We have very little to offer from the bench, so having the likes of Trez, AEG and Connor as subs is key. I don't think we have anything like that amount of quality in every position.

The days of MON playing 14 players in a season are going to look pretty distant (if they don't already).

19 hours ago, The Fun Factory said:

but I do wonder where he will go next. Maybe Palace when they pension off Uncle Woy

Palace are set up as the antithesis of Bournemouth at the moment. Would suggest that the club aren't sticking with a system - would be interesting to see how that'd work out though. My guess would be badly.

Experienced heads snapped up: 4

Journeymen for cover: 1

Great future prospects:2

Splashed: 117m

Opening shots fired: Aug 6th

8 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

If Brentford don’t go up we need to go all out for Watkins. He looks a really tidy player and will work hard. 

My dream signings would be:

Watkins, Abraham, Sarr and Buendia. 

Perfect blend of pace, skill and hard work. 

The lack of a keeper would worry me. Heaton is basically Darren Anderton with gloves on.

The Star (I know) says he's off to Leeds.

Just when you'd forgotten how much you dislike the guy, he gives you a reason to remember. 

On the plus side, seeing his face when Leeds get relegated would put the cherry on top of a slice of tasty schadenfreude.

15 minutes ago, colhint said:

Utd fans on football v real life, 

Why price him out of his dream move, he wants to come to us, kept you up, and that's how they repay him,.

Real life

I want to buy your car. I know it's served you well' probably took your missus to the hospital in labour. I know it got you to hospital when your kid swallowed a marble. 

We have a lovely garage, we'll polish it every day and we'll drive it in the countryside every Sunday and maybe a trip to the south of France once a year.

Can I buy it from you for £5000.

Bugger off it's worth at least £8000

Or from another point of view, the club have invested well over a decade of money, training and development into a young lad knowing there a 1-100 chance of him becoming a first team regular, but giving him his shot at a dream that most kids would give their right arm for.

He's now repaying the club with performances that are driving us forward.

People seem to forget that clubs invest a lot in these kids in the front end, and that selling them to Man United isn't the end game for a lot of us.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming of the pre-prem days when your star player retired on the back of a testimonial and bought a local pub.

I've spent some time on the Bournemouth forum recently (another hour or so and I'd have finished it). They seem to have no interest in being involved with this kind of thing unless it's a financial compensation claim. 

I would be really interested if they did go that route - could give us some fascinating insight into the PL's agreement with Hawkeye, and I wouldn't take it as a personal attack on Villa at all.

On 27/07/2020 at 10:52, cheltenham_villa said:

Interesting challenge if we get bids for mings. Hes 27 this year so his resale only goes down, if the club can turn a 10-15m profit in a year it maybe hard to resist.

I don't think the owners would consider it. We paid $25m-ish for TM, and priced into that is the fact that he's good but has a mistake in him + lacked experience. With a season or two under his belt, he could grow into one of the top defenders in the country.

If we sell for a $10m profit, who are we going to get in today's market for $35m who is a better defender at the start of the season?

If it were crazy money ($60m+) then obviously it'd be a question, but right now a team with experience of playing both in the PL and with each other has its own value.  You can't buy stability, and we need to keep a solid core of this team.

14 hours ago, Villaphan04 said:

If we stay up, wouldn't be opposed to keeping him at Luton for next year as well. Very interesting to see him as the set piece specialist as said before.

Don't see him replacing Elmo or Guilbert in the PL yet.  

Assuming we stay up I'd like to see him loaned to a better Championship team. Or at least one that didn't mean him having to live in a shit hole like Luton.

Poor guy. Luton is **** rancid.

5 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Have you watched West Ham? They're anything but physical. Watch em today against United. They just have quality players who produce the goods when they needed it most.

Well that makes me feel better.

3 hours ago, Jareth said:

Fully agree. Also love that you're using a browser from 1997.

To be fair I think it's the Watford fans forum that hasn't quite entered the age of mobility.

Much like their front line.

I think he's put in a shift and other parts of his game have looked better, but the amount of times he still hits the first man from a set piece or cross has been notable. Given that it's his #1 quality I guess I still expect more, er, quality.