OutByEaster?

I'm not sure what the future holds, whether we'll be expanding our current ground, acquiring huge swathes of Aston and building something enormous there or moving out to some quiet grassy suburb on the edge of the green belt, I'm not sure if we'll be building anything - but I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to do it, you'd be delighted if this was the team you'd put together.

Imagine both - a new stadium built at our home - that would be the ideal surely?

It's a fascinating development and there are lots of different things in it. Firstly, what sticks out for me is that it's not always the case that a minority investor would expect a place on the board and the fact that Atairos through Michael Angelakis have taken that route suggests that they aren't in it just to put some money in and sit and watch it. The board position suggests that they're here to do something, to contribute through doing more than dropping £100m and saying 'on you go lads, make us a profit'. The second thing that's surprising is that each of what are now the three main men on our board have all added what is essentially a number two; Nassif with Bashier Lebada, Wes with Sarah Waterson and Michael Angelakis with Chester Hall. More than anything else, and ignoring the skillsets for the moment, that suggests that there's a lot of whatever the 'something' is that needs to be done - each of our owners has put in place a trusted pair of eyes that's capable of acting in their interests and in driving forward whatever it is we're going to do. Perhaps it's the case that Nassif and Wes want to do a little less, perhaps they're very successful elsewhere and have their hands full, but I don't think it's that, I don't think they need extra hands for that, I think it's that there's a lot of something to do. in terms of skillsets, it's often overlooked that the man with most experience in construction and development on that list is Nassif Sawiris, he's a big part in the building of the new Egyptian administrative capital city, an enormous project that's creating a city for six million people out of nothing in the Egyptian desert. The addition of new partners doesn't necessarily add any more than we would need if we only had Nassif in terms of construction. What we've got though are people with huge experience in the sports and event industry and infrastructure development in Atairos and their backers, both in terms of physical infrastructure and in terms of digital and marketing infrastructure, and that's doubled down with Lebada's massive experience in construction and Waterson's experience in infrastructure finance. In terms of experience, know-how and the tools you'd need to drive forward the business of a football club, it's a heck of a team - but it doesn't necessarily translate immediately to 'new stadium' - we had enough to do that already - it doesn't necessarily mean no new stadium either and this team have been put together for something, we just don't know what 'something' is yet. It's exciting, there are things happening, the club is changing, I'd hope we don't see any lessening of the influence or impact of Wes Edens or Nassif Sawiris and I'm very hopeful we won't, they've been just about perfect as owners, and I'm both excited and optimistic to see what it is we're planning to do over the next few years. Something is happening, and though we don't yet have any real idea what 'something' is, we're putting together a serious group of people who want to get it done.

We had two.

He's got at least six more games and hopefully nine - he needs four more goals to get to thirty for the season. Who was the last Villa player to do that?

You watch the game today and the way he's able to manoeuvre a game to the point where players are constantly doing the things that they are good at is just amazing. The way he makes use of every single aspect of his team and the individuals and then builds that into systems and schemes that fit together is just unbelievable. If you watch the way we used Zaniolo to hold the ball up and bring in the midfielders - it's perfect, it's what the player is good at, it's what works in the game and he combines it with Watkins running in behind and Diaby/Bailey down the side to create spaces and options - every player doing what they're best at, knowing their job, every player drilled in it, understanding it, knowing why it will work and loving it because it's what they excel at - it's genius at work. The organisation, the buy-in he gets from players, his ability to get the most of what he has, the planning, the ability to see things and then make them work for him is just superb. He is a genuinely world class manager, and what's more he's a really, really classy individual.

Is that 26 goals and 10 assists so far this season? That's incredible. It's hard to think of any Villa striker in my lifetime who has had a better season. And it can still get better.

Spurs have got Arsenal next - Arsenal have got three games before Spurs though.

That's a really good point - Arsenal and Liverpool will now both know they can't afford to slip up against Spurs.

Bournemouth, Wolves, Brighton crossed out and we're a distant dream to everyone else. This is nice.

Character, determination, quality, hard work, sheer bloody mindedness and an absolute genius on the touchline. That was perfect.

We are quality.

Two throws in from the wrong half - it's the wild west of throw in.

Konsa takes a free kick in the face and gets up. Because he's a grown man.

One throw ten yards away from where it went out, one that wasn't theirs. Lino has started well.

I don't actually want to see Saka injured. I would like to stop seeing him pretend to be injured however.

Done alright I think. Carlos has been excellent, their danger is Havertz coming from deep.

That's our ball surely!!!

He got one.

Arteta in a nutshell - not asking the fans for more support for his team, asking the fans to be louder in getting at the opposition. No class.

That ball to Havertz coming from deep is the danger.

If so, rules accidentally correctly applied - he gave the yellow card because Saka was pointing at his hip.

I didn't see any contact from the boots - Saka was screaming his baby head off because he'd run into Rogers hip.

Fixed that for you.

How is that a booking for Rogers? Saka runs into him and cries like a little bitch.