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skarroki

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  1. Great ball in by KKH there but and the finish was fantastic. Every time I come into this thread I think that I want to buy a Plymouth shirt, they look so good.
  2. Well I have to say this seemed hugely inevitable. If Liverpool lose too though it's not terrible. The next two games are still massive and still at home. If we can sneak a point here and get something from the next two, after getting out the knockouts, it's not been a bad couple of weeks.
  3. Are you alright? You think what you wrote is a clear articulation of the certain future? If we finish top 4 we're guaranteed to keep hold of all our players and manager and also bring in better players and then win lots of trophies? If we win a cup instead it'll doom the club into a spiral? This is supposed to be a bit of fun, you don't need to suggest that people who want to win a cup this year are mentally unwell. People are allowed to think different things.
  4. Sounded like it was an injury. If it was I'd leave him out against Bournemouth too. I'd rather have him for the double header of City and Arsenal.
  5. People saying we need champions league as if they haven't been watching football recently. Chelsea spend a billion pounds with no champions league revenue. Leicester win the league and still have money problems and end up relegated after a little go in the champions league. Portsmouth, Bolton, Blackburn examples of EUFA cup to bust. Everton most recent example I think other than Leicester or Newcastle in champions league. It's almost impossible to break in, noone does anything groundbreaking when they do and in order to try maintain that it usually ruins a club. We can be better than that. It might not turn out that way. But if you're saying top 4 cos it means we'll continue to grow then I'm afraid there's no evidence of that in the past and a lot of evidence of the opposite. Unless you count Man City but they've broken rules so many times they gave up counting and they are owned by a country.
  6. Very simply, we could lose our best players or our manager regardless. We could bring in the best player the clubs ever seen also. We could get relegated next year. Luiz or Martinez could get a career ending injury within the next hour. All I know is I love being a Villa fan now more than at any other point in my life, this is my favourite team and favourite manager and if I have the choice of 4th place, or watching them win something at Wembley and lift that trophy, I'm picking the second option all day long. However, if this was a weird wish-granting reality I think I would let the season play out. We're riding such a wave at the moment I feel like anything is possible. I wouldn't rule out both a trophy and top 5 finish the way things are going.
  7. I dunno your question seems a lot more loaded. It makes it sound like you only want people to pick top 4/5.
  8. I think looking at 3 years with our current knowledge looks wait and see. I don't think that was his thought process in the way this insinuates. It looked like he'd have more of a role at a club performing much better than we were and we refused to let him leave and then also didn't play him. Anyone in that scenario would be mad to double down and fully commit to the project. I'm not entirely sure I could speculate what his thinking was, but 3 year extension at a club near the bottom of the league with a clueless manager who isn't playing you - that is a hell of a commitment. Especially after a situation where others in the professional could have stank the place out and gone to that Arsenal team flying at the top of the league instead. My assumption would be that the Arsenal contract was all drawn out between his agent and Edu, then we refused to sell, he's threatening to kick up a stink when he's not been sold and not playing. Then we agree to match the deal Arsenal offered him if he extends, but his agent knocks a couple years off the deal to make it more favourable for him. Even if there were no assurances given by anyone I'm sure they both were well aware Gerrard was a bad result from leaving and the club would be going all out for a dramatic improvement.
  9. Still got a sneaky feeling Wan Bissaka will be a villa player by the end of 2024
  10. I know it's been hit and miss but when you look at the side today, five years ago Cash, Konsa, McGinn, Watkins, Emi were all in the lower leagues of English football and then we've got a couple academy players on the bench and some young talent. Think it shows even when some transfers havent hit, personalities have been spot on and the dressing room harmony seems to have been strong throughout NSWE era. I feel confident that whenever we stop going for a player we're linked with it's because we've uncovered something that makes them a bad fit for the squad.
  11. Ange needs to look at his medical team or his recruitment team for the answer to why his entire squad is made of damp cardboard.
  12. This ref is probably one of those middle aged men with daddy issues that goes out of their way to tell you he'd love to go for a pint with Postecoglu every time he gives a string of cold and distant putdown answers to journalists questions. You're doing great ref, dad I mean Ange thinks you're doing great
  13. Big credit to Carlos imo. He's come into the side and is showing superhuman awareness. I'm getting heart palpitations another day we'd be 3-0 down but we're not, need to ride our luck further I think till half time and have a rethink. Spurs look brilliant unfortunately for us but that defence is sellotaped together.
  14. Thing about Andre is he's extremely defensive and when you're going with a front 4 you need that in the middle. However I would probably pick him over Bruno but a lot of people cream themselves over Bruno ever since he joined Newcastle and he stood out in a team getting top 4. But Luiz is (somehow) younger and I think better all-round. Brazil is always a difficult nation to get picked for in any generation so it's no slight on him but the worry as others have said, there's always the coach or player or manager who says "you'd be starting if you played for X instead of Villa"
  15. The complete nagging pessimist in me thinks we'll beat Spurs and then suddenly everyone will start paying attention to us. Then we'll promptly lose to Bournemouth, then get humiliated by Man City and Arsenal and scrape a draw against Brentford and suddenly somehow we're 9th and in danger of not qualifying for the ECL knockouts. Go into January with the FA Cup the only thing to play for and we draw Man Utd away.
  16. He's just outstanding. Run out of superlatives for him. There is some real stiff competition for the best central midfielder in my time following the club (Barry, Petrov, Milner, Salifou) but it's becoming harder to ignore him. Continue this consistency and stay longer and he'll be someone we look back on for decades
  17. Think I went to Primary school with their number 16 and looks like he's got younger since. Could star in a Rugrats movie
  18. Is there any news on availability for tomorrow? Would be good for Watkins to get a rest.
  19. Genuinely forget he's on our books until a random cup game where he's starting.
  20. I assume I've not watched the amount of games you have when he was in Italy but from what I saw he was extremely talented and some games he ran in a way you only could if you had a football brain. He's someone who was made the focal point of a Mourinho team when he had barely finished being a teenager. I think he's got a lot to contend with. New country, new team, new language after only just adjusting to the same thing in January. He's got a lot to deal with off the field and he's also got to get used to his third completely different style of play, third position and third league since January. On top of this he's gone from a prodigal son, to a key player, to a player that just about gets into the side but will be ousted by a younger local lad as soon as injuries clear up. When you're used to most things going through you and you being a highlight reel creators dream, like Grealish, to a cog in a well defined system, there will be a drop in the quality you're capable of showing. I think he'll be the opposite of our Ross Barkley. I remember in January saying that I'd by Barkley for £20mil easily based on early season form and his linkup with the rest of the midfield. By end of the season he looked like an expensive waste of squad space. Hoping Zaniolo does the opposite. By the end of January I think people will be hoping we're looking to trigger a buy clause.
  21. Think Ndidi has been playing much higher up the pitch this season in the championship and excelling in that new role. He might need some adjustment time to slot back into something more defensive and if he's thrown into a hectic schedule at a new club where he's not first choice or even first off the bench, he might find it tough. Already having Tielemans is a bonus though for that move, providing they get along off the pitch. They certainly clicked on the pitch together when Leicester were flying a couple years back.
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