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Given that he's a potential game changer I think Gerrard will keep him to see if he can use him in his system. If not, and we gat another season out of him, his resale value will not have dropped off alarmingly that makes keepimng him an extra season too much of a risk.

Preece knows nothing. Last summer he was constantly saying that grealish wasn't going but would stay another year on that Podcast. Just shows that anything he says is pure speculation and should be treated as such.

well if he leaves I hope it doesn't work out for him. That's just pure spite obviously.

if he'd have already signed a new contract, or intimated that he would, then most would be just picking out the positives. As he hasn't, or may not, then many will just look for the negatives. I hope he stays because I think every player should want to play for Villa, and every man woman and child should want to support Villa. I genuinely look down my nose at anyone that decides to support Small heath when they know we're in the same city - they are clearly of such low intelligence they need help. However, the reality isn't like that. If he goes, he goes. For every Bellingham where the move works out there's literally thousands of Crowley's where it doesn't. Stay/go - we'll survive.

you could be right. If Aarons does leave them then KKH would be a good fit. Saying that, Gerrard may want to keep hima round the first team until at least the January window and take it from there.carney won't be going anywhere on loan nexty season - one year left on a contract he's either re-signing and will be with the matchday squad, running down the contract in which case he'll be in his own bomb squad, or off. JPB is an interesting one though. Kind of off the radar although highly rated. I think he may well be sold as one who is a nearly but not quite. If Forest don't go up I'd expect Norwich to buy him. Good shout with El Ghazi, too.

I'd move him on from preston - someone like Norwich - a side pushing for promotion who are looking for a forward.

There's no compelling data either way that I'm able to rely on 100% and a lot of it is largely a small show of hands on topical discussion programmes like Question Time which clearly isn't going to translate across the whole population. Therefore a lot of it is anecdotal but if there was such a huge groundswell of feelings that Brexit was a mistake we would be hearing more about it. This comes from various stakeholders, NGOs, constituents asking Qs of MPs, and task groups employed to get the feeling of the people on a range of issues (doesn't just cover Brexit). The problem for these types of questions and opinions is how its worded. " Are we better off or worse off" for example isn't the same as asking someone if they'd change their vote. Similarly, having one side or another ahead in a poll that doesn't really alter a great deal in terms of being in a position to really push for another referendum. There needs to be a greater call for it - as in Scotland - to change people's minds and make the majority want to rejoin, or see it as something really attractive to want to do. I think the point of the gap widening is significant and when we're at a point where 55-60% minimum are repeatedly saying rejoin then any govt worth their salt would re-open the question, but its too soon to do so as there would be a reactionary backlash. It would also give a stage for Johnson et al to worm their way back into the publics affections pointing out that they and only they care for what the electorate want. I agree that the trend is going one-way, but so do polls for mid-term govts where they are usually at their lowest but come General Election time that swings back round. I think another EU vote now would be too soon and risk the stay out cause having a rallying cry of remainers trying to take their voice/opinion/vote away from them. Plus there's too many of them for it to just go away quietly. This is just one of them that rejoiners will have to suck up and play the long game; however encouraging it may be to see polls going one way. I will caveat this, of course, by pointing out that as i do not live in the UK (or Europe) I may be wildly out of touch. Which is of course possible.

True about Brighton but this is their ceiling. With all the will in the world and claret & blue specs off I'd still expect us to be chosen over them because of ambition and expectation is higher, and the players we speak to should (and you's hope) would see that too.

Wages are a little bit on the eye-watering side but if that's what it takes fine. i think he'd be a great signing and just what we, and probably Mings, needs. A tough experienced campaigner next to him.

that's not how it was shaped though. It was taking something back not getting something new or different. It was tugging on the emotional heart strings for the days of Albion and maidens dancing around polls with guys with sticks; dragons swooping overhead protecting the isles whilst Arthur and Merlin kept us all happily at one against the wicked attempts of Morgana and her evil magic. It was very basic and enough people fell for it.

difficulty is having a definitive source asking the question purely to those that voted in 2016. This is generally around it though: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-leave-remain-2021-b1871157.html

This is the difficulty. I don't think they really had an educated idea of the truth behind what they were being fed (a lot of mistruths and outright lies) so believed one thing was true when it was not. That is probably particularly accurate in a lot of cases. As I said though, most opinion polls or questions to date still do not show a huge groundswell of support for those that voted for Brexit to now having changed their minds. It may be stubbornness, it may be racism, it may be ill education/not knowing what they were voting for, and it may be a committed belief to us taking the right course for the UK, but I'm not sure a vote now would give us a widly different result.

Lordy Lord. My (now very laboured) point was about people knowing what they were voting for. As for immigration - you can break it down into his several sub parts or plots if you wish but i think as a reference point it sits quite aptly.

No. he'll just stand for re-Election again in a couple of years, dither and blather and look vulnerable and chumsy , and get home with another majority.

I know - that's the problem when you try and make a quick point. I was referring to people knowing what they're voting for, which is what I was agreeing with - then making a separate point about what those voting for leave voted for and I don't think that will change. maybe I should have just skipped over it and mused to myself...

Given the importance of the position I doubt this would happen even if remotely possible. I;d expect us to go with somebody either more experiened than Mings are at least with plenty of experience in the Premier league. Botman ticks neither box so I doubt that we are looking at him as a potential recruit for this summer.

From the independent: Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of those who are worried about immigration voted Leave, from Ipsos I could go on and I guess I'm getting away a bit from the point. of course there were other reasons but the for the majority it was this issue. Also, when you see random polls you don't see that much a of a shift towards regretting the decision other than the odd anecdotal story here and there. Sadly it'll be a generation at least before we get close to going back in.

Which bit? That people knew what they were voting for? I think they did. Any other point is slightly superfluous as then I added my point. They voted for immigration.

Whilst we're getting carried away with ourselves...what about griezmann? On loan at Atletico from barcelona and i think he has another season loan there before they have something similar to the Coutinho deal. If we stepped in with a £30m or so offer I'm sure there would be serious interest. If you look at Martinez - Kamara - Coutinho - Griezmann these are the kind of sit up and take notice type signings/team.

This I agree with. It was a decision based wholly on immigration. They may not have known the nuances of a post-Brexit UK but I'm pretty sure the vast majority who voted to leave would still do so now.

The mistake you're making here is to assume that we have a government led by a person of integrity who puts the state first, and makes decisions wholly based on what's best for all.

oh, another one, people - usualy Scots - calling fish and chips a 'fish supper' - oh fk off. the words 'delicious' or 'fantastic'. They can fk off, too.

woulda could shoulda - if we'd have had competent peope in charge we wouldn't have been in this mess.

You see, I'm not a chocoholic by any stretch of the imagination but this mouse behavious boils my piss. You don't nibble a bit of your dinner and then put it away for another time.

That's not how it works though is it? Take away the fact that it was an advisory referendum and all that, the winner wins. Simple as. You don't see any Government elected (usually by minority) saying they'll only impose 40% or so of their manifesto on the population given that 55-60% didn't vote for them. The vagaries of first past-the-post I guess.