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Sherwood's not about to say 'yeah mate, LAHDSA maneyyyyyy' is he?

You see for me this is melodramatic sentimentality for the sake of it. We aren't destroying any heritage at all, the stadium is still the stadium and all the fans will still know it has villa park.

Disagree that he isn't good enough - he's a good CB IMO, apart from Senderos he's the only one that is good in the air too.

We're fairly strong but pretty narrow here. Our best attacking players are Grealish and Gil, but both are better off central as neither are that pacey and are creative types. I trust Sinclair on the wing and I think that Bacuna can do a job there too but other than that, not convinced. Really have no how Sherwood will have us lined up next season.

I get the impression that he's not unhappy here but is keeping an eye out for a bigger club, which is a pragmatic approach to things. Doesn't want to push it too hard and bite the hand that feeds him but knows he's good enough for a champions league team, which he obviously is. We know he'll leave at some point, he's too good not to - just a matter of when.

It's a shame that Cissokho doesn't fit into Tim's plans, as I think he's a good left back. Ah well, we need more outs though, such is the size of the squad and he's not a first teamer.

Really impressed with his attitude - could quite easily have said 'sod this' and gone back to Spain but he's stepping up and trying to make his mark. Keep up the good work Carles.

I bleeding well hope not. One of the worst signings we've ever made.

Good, I hope they bloody well sign Llorente and just let us get on with our preparations for next season. They're like a particularly irritating mosquito.

It'll still be Villa Park, just not officially - it's really not a big deal at all.

They were great passes, for sure, but are hardly indicative of his overall passing ability. It's all about consistency at this level; if he could do that a lot more frequently, he'd be a much better player but he's just as likely to give it to the opposition as he is play a scintillating through ball. It's really not "all about consistency". At any level of football. It's about scoring more goals than the opposition and you could argue that is really all it is about. In that respect for me, Bacuna is worth his defensive deficiencies. So it's not about consistency, unless you score more goals than the opposition as regularly as possible... I assumed you were talking about consistency within a game, as in movement to movement, because his goal/assist to minute ratio is excellent. As we have already discussed. Consistency is consistency - playing to a good standard throughout games and seasons. He is consistently bad at defending but has shown some consistency in attacking terms. All that shows is that if we're giving him game time, he needs to be in an attacking role.

Laughable if true.

Sigh. Didn't watch that one then? EDIT - In fact, that game summed up his abilities very well. Did well going forward but defensively poor. I'd rather just play him as a winger.

They were great passes, for sure, but are hardly indicative of his overall passing ability. It's all about consistency at this level; if he could do that a lot more frequently, he'd be a much better player but he's just as likely to give it to the opposition as he is play a scintillating through ball. It's really not "all about consistency". At any level of football. It's about scoring more goals than the opposition and you could argue that is really all it is about. In that respect for me, Bacuna is worth his defensive deficiencies. So it's not about consistency, unless you score more goals than the opposition as regularly as possible...

Yeah but Bacuna gets taken to the cleaner by QPR level teams.

Thanks Ron - gave us a good three years and was a snip at the price we signed him for. Best of luck.

Hutton is a lot more defensively solid though - that's why I'd prefer him to Bacuna. Really though, I'd like us to sign someone better than both of them.

They were great passes, for sure, but are hardly indicative of his overall passing ability. It's all about consistency at this level; if he could do that a lot more frequently, he'd be a much better player but he's just as likely to give it to the opposition as he is play a scintillating through ball.

He's just turned 26, so 15/18mil for a guy just entering his prime is decent enough. Could get 5 good seasons out of him.

Far from being the best I've seen, Lexicon, but that is probably down to our respective ages. I'm soon to be 29, for the record - so obviously missed out on most of the greats. Who would you say is the best you've seen?

He's the best player I've ever seen play for Villa. I really hope he does stay but it certainly doesn't look like that'll be the case. If I had to hazard a guess, he'll be a Liverpool player this time next week.

I take it you haven't seen my posts BOF

You can't coach talent P3te, you really can't. People have different ceilings of ability and I just don't think he's got it in him. I really hope I'm wrong and he turns out to be a big success but I'm doubtful, obviously.

I'm not surprised that Joe Cole writes like an eight-year-old but it still made me cringe a bit. I like jam. I also like toast. They are really good and tasty.

Yeah, that too. I think the likeliest transfer to go through next will be Mason Holgate for some reason.