Junxs

1 hour ago, ferguson1 said:

Can only think of Rooney v Man City that’s possibly similar and better?

You mean the one that flew in off his shin?

Edit: I see others have beaten me to it

Let one under his body last week, and was saved embarrassment by an offside VAR decision today.

Not the best of starts to the season for him, but I trust he'll jump back. He has the right attitude, after he let 2 Lingard shots through him last season, heard he stayed back for extra training to rectify it.

Everyone makes mistakes, its how they let them affect them that builds personalities 

17 hours ago, nepal_villan said:

I sent them an Email requesting that they don't put scores in the titles of the videos.

Maybe a few more of us should do that to get the message across?

I mean its blatantly obvious, but thet obviously dont have very bright people running the service

Whats the email address that you sent it to? I'll do the same 

I want to watch these games in my spare time not always live, but seeing the score just ruins it

Now that Bailey has officially been unveiled and our first game is only hours away, has he been given a squad number yet?

Edit: Just to add I know he was wearing 31 on his top in the pictures, but thats officially Chukwuemekas number. So I presume he was just wearing his top for the photoshoot

12 hours ago, HKP90 said:

When people talk about cost, I kind of feel that they don’t look at both sides of the coin. The monetary value for improving league position is immense.  
 

The difference in prize money alone between finishing 11th, where we were, and 4th, which is the upper end of realistic if we get the breaks and….perhaps sign JWP…. was £26M last year. 
 

Technically all we’ve done is replaced Grealish, and we have a -£10M net spend. If we bought JWP for £45M, and we end up 4th, in real terms we would have spent £9M on transfers this summer. 

Are football transfers exempt from tax?

I'd imagine we'll only get 80m of the Grealish fee

Dean Smith stated in the pre match conference (cant remember exact words) that he's happy with the squad and not actively looking to add to it, if anything some might leave

So I'm taking any new links with a pinch of salt

Absolute numpties, I wanted to watch this live but saw that they were going to show the full 90 at 10pm.. so I did the natural thing and avoided the score so I could watch it during the night shift tonight..

Stupid idiots only gone and put the result in the video title!! I mean how stupid can you get??

Very strange, his parting message seems very kind with his words on the official website.. so I don't think there's anything untoward

Just the timing of it, especially with JT having left a couple of weeks ago, seems very very odd

Even the emergence of Man City and Chelsea hasnt taken these Mun U and Liverpool fans from the Asian community so I'm not sure Villa being successful would make a difference here

2 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

Not sure that is strictly true as we already have “Punjabi Villans” locally. 

I'm Asian myself, most of my mates are Asian - pretty much all of them support the 2 clubs I mentioned.

Even the guys drive I park on matchdays, who lives is Aston, supports Liverpool.

Non of them support England either when it comes to International tournaments, I have conversations with them all the time to try to understand why this is the case.. they all have a rehearsed story why they support these 2 clubs, not a single of them admits to being a glory grabber. 

Obviously there are a few exceptions like the Punjabi Villains and a few others like me. But if you did a survey amongst Asians in Birmingham only about 5% will be Villa fans, maybe even less

All the Asians around Birmingham pretty much support either Liverpool or Man Utd, what chance would we have in India when we can't get the locals of Indian sub-continent descent to support us

23 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

I understand your opinion  and usually i would agree.

However in this scenario I highly doubt we would have agreed to play him X or Y, and I would bet hard earned cash he won't be chosen ahead of mings and konsa, I imagine he will just fill in as required, play the odd cup game etc, cover for injuries etc, and fill a 3rd or 4th choice CD slot without us spending a lot on it.

In terms of the loan, rather than spend 20m on a backup CB, if this loans gives us that much more to Improve the first 11 this summer, then I'm OK with it for now, priorities and all that.

But yeah, I do agree with your sentiment in principle.

12 minutes ago, Thug said:

This, exactly.

We need CB cover. To ‘buy’ anyone decent enough is going to be in this price bracket. White just went for £50m for gods sake, and I wouldn’t pick him before either of our first choices.

We can spend £20m odd and give a 5 year contract on about £40/50k or even more, or we can bring in a loan, a player we know (and clearly like and trust his personality) for about £5-£6m for a year.

Gary Cahill on a 1-2 year deal would have provided just that, then could have been moved into a coaching role..  and we wouldnt be helping a greedy 6 club in the process

Some lovely skill to set up the equaliser v Forest just now. Delightful nutmeg.

Hope the lad has a good season and works his way back to the top

1 minute ago, Adam2003 said:

Well given that a couple of posts ago you were saying we would very rarely have two CBs out and could/should just play our own youngsters, I doubt he’ll be getting much development

Yeah, but it depends on the stipulations of the loan.

What I want and what actually happens are 2 very different things.

Theres a reason Man Utd have sent him to us rather than sit on their bench. they feel he will play more here - and we don't know whats written in the contract

2 minutes ago, est1874 said:

Axel is not going to be starting ahead of Konsa mate. Fear not 

I'm more worried for Hause tbh, he was covering both LCB & RCB

I really hope Axel doesnt play any games ahead of our own 3 (other than early round cup games)

Just when I thought we were becoming a big club we go do this, want to be competing with Man Utd, not loaning their players for development

1 minute ago, est1874 said:

Because they're not ready.

As for Engels - be glad we didn't need him. He wasn't good enough otherwise he'd have played in the early cup rounds at the very least.

Doesn't matter if I'm glad or not, point is we didn't need to call upon him. 

I just hope this doesn't block Konsas development

I have developed an extreme hatred for the "Super League 6" and moves like this to develop their players makes me sick

Man Utd and Axel Tuanzebe are the ones benefitting from this (depending on how much he plays)

On one hand we are moaning that we can only find lower league and non league teams to take our loan players and the other hand we seem delighted with this loan.

Small club mentality 

How often are we going to have 2 CBs out at the same time? why cant one of our youngsters fill in for the odd game should that situation occur? Engels was 4th choice last season and didnt need him once

I really hope we haven't made any promises on appearances, rather we just bought him for 5m. Really don't like loans

Very surprised how many people commenting that this is a signing that makes sense

The guys in his mid 20s now and needs to be playing regularly, seems very bizarre that he wants to come here and play backup. Essentially swapping one bench for another.

Even more bizarre when you think Purslow publicly commented on how bad loans are for progressing the club as you are developing someone else's player.

Part of me is always skeptical that the loaning club asks for % of games that their player must play.

Don't think he was that great in his 2 spells with us either

Would have preferred Cahill on a year and moving into a coaching role to replace Terry

Strange move, but welcome back

Strange move, but welcome back

On 05/08/2021 at 14:13, Pissflaps said:

Bailey isn't even in the country so he won't be available surely. Has he had a pre season with Leverkusen?

Been playing in the Gold Cup  with Jamaica, 10th July - 1st August

Whens the final and what station is it on please?

I'm sure I saw some 'Buendia 20' shirts on twitter, poor  souls

Welcome Danny Ings

Wow what a signing! Always been a huge admirer, best striker in the premier league for me.. just injuries have held him back all his career