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well if he cant even appoint a competent manager or chief exec what are the chances he'll sell to anyone compentent? he'll probably sell us back to DOUG!!!

i couldn't care less about the money thing really if i am honest, the major point is that since he took over he has not brought in 1 single person who has done anything to bring th club forward. Every appointment he has made has damaged the clubs stature and reputation and made incredibly bad decisions - its time Randy acknowledges that he hasnt a clue and either steps down or brings in someone who has a footballing background to run the show for him as he clearly isnt able fo the job

why are we talking about MON's legacy and youth players in a thread about Enda Steven's who is neither a youth player nor anything to do with MON???

Warnock isnt a good defender and his atacking play, especially crosses, have been woeful of late. Stevens couldnt do worse than him lets put it that way...

Well it would certainly appear as though Randy is incapable of picking even one semi competent person to be involved with a football club. The only person to bring any success to Villa under his stewardship is MON and he was appointed by Randy! Literally every other person appointed by Randy (Krulak, Falkner, Houllier, Eck, et al) have all been complete and utter failures. Hopefully Randy is in Dubai digging up a nice oil billionaire or prince who'll pour billions into the club in an atempt to at least make them competitive never mind entertaining or successful. Literally anything would be better than the dross we are currently being subjected to

i think we should rest as many first team players as possible. However, i think eck will play pretty much our first string team. Either way we'll look crap against an even worse team and struggle to a 2-1 victory

god damn corner AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats twice warnack had a chance to cross and fluffed it - cop on man!!!

that was nearly short lived! great save guzan - more dodgy defending from corners

villa score the 20000th premier league goal - AWESOME!

c'mon albie you can cross better than that!

c'mon villa - great start!

thought ireland was excellent until the injury but i think bannan is equally as good in that roleas the boy can really pass the ball gabby is a bit isolated and doesnt look fit to me - maybe chnage to two up front after 65 mins if still 1-0 but result or no i like what i am seeing tonight - long may this good football continue!

yeah we're playing quite well but i think we need to explit their right side more as that right back is on a yellow and doesnt seem to be able to cope with nzogs skill

only saw the last 25 mins but we could if not should have scored 3 goals dont know what happened in the rest of the game but we looked the better side in what i saw not saying we were good or even mediocre, but we were better than man utd

even a blind sheppard can see that heskey isnt a footballer and collins is a liability take them two out of the equation and we'd still be level - its like playing with 9 men

encouraging signs if i am honest. Can see eck bringing in his own defenders in January and shipping out a few. To me Collins and Dunne are both liabilities, Cuellar and clark should be playing as those two have done nothing this season to suggest they deserve to be starting Over the moon for gabby - he's awesome!

yeah the red card was unfair and the officials were poor, but that does not excuse that we were 1 up and poor defending cost us 3 points i'm sorry but the 'team' has gotten worse for me since houlier left both in personel and in performances - i see no reason to pursue any further with this manager as he is a complete muppet. i guarantee i could do a better job - and I'll do it for free!

quality keeper, glad that the shoulder injury hasnt affected his game which was my only concern over him really. His injury today looked like a hamstring issue but shouldnt affect him mobility so not overly worried.

nail... head... you hit it... We did not play with a left winger, Heskey played left side of a front 3 (or 4 at times). Semantics I know, but I thought id make the point! if he was playing left side of a front three then he's even worse than i thought he was as i dont recall him being within 40 yards of bent all day (not that gabby was any better but gabby stuck to the byline and made more of a nuisance of himself until he ran out of steam)

nail... head... you hit it...

he's big, fat, awkward and lacks any real skill, speed or ability - so perfect for villa at the moment :cry:

toothless considering we had 3 strikers on the pitch in heskey, gabby and bent but looks like only bent was actually playing as a striker... interesting thing is that if gabby and heskey arent playing as strikers it means one of nzog, gabby or heskey in playing as a CM which is just asking for a disaster Gabby and Petrov were dead after 60 mins and should have come off Heskey should never have started. having said that, a draw away to Fulham is a good result and i'll take it

Petrov is past it, hold onto him to have on the bench to play the last 20-30 mins if we're winning to help run down the clock, dont think he has any uses beyond this as when he plays more than 50 mins he comes to a stand still as he just isnt able for it any more. bringing in the likes of Parker or barton would be brilliant, exactly the type of players we need despite what peoples opinion of them personally is, we need a fighter and a passer in midfield and either of these would be a huge step up

Dont talk utter bloody rubbish , jesus people here are - oh forget it. Now children , lets spell this out shall we. But remember, we are talking Narnia land here because it is July 23rd, and the transfer window shuts on Aug 31st so who knows who we shall buy, what we will spend, and who we will sell until that date - but to clarify the situation on here so everyone with an IQ of 0.1 can get it. Most the S136 patients with suicidal markers on here seem to think that our manager is a puppet, who will say "Yes Mr Lerner, you sell anybody you want and pocket the money , coz I am just here to say yes, let you sell the squad, pocket the money and I will make do with what I have" These people then quote "See Liverpool for a board that has ambition" Yet I point out that this Liverpool board have bought about 60m worth of players this year. however, they have sold Torres for 50m , Babbel for whatever, and many other players - meaning they have actually sold more than they have bought. I also point out that Man U for the past few seasons have sold more than they have bought. And for the record, I think (although I am not going to check) that Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton and many others are the same. In fact, without checking I would hazard a guess the only two clubs who have spent more money than they have bought in are Spurs and Man City. So maybe, just maybe, a) Even if it is the case, every club is the same as us - it is not Randy fleecing us - it is business - I have had to cut back this year - I had to give up Sky Sports coz I couldn'tafford it (and now I can I have got it back) and maybe football clubs are in the same boat. or Why dont we just wait and see until Sept 1st to see how much we actually do spend shall we. I presume if on Aug 30th , we have bought Gary Cahill for 15m, Scott Parker for 7m , NZogbia for 10m , Given for 3m , Der Hammer on a free, resigned NRC for the squad, Vargas for whatever it is.................................... it will have been a poor window coz we only bought Given in for the Walsall game. oh and just for you people out there who can't work out sarcasm - I am not saying we will sign these - the point is "Lets just wait and see shall we" before making judgement. Liverpool players Sold Mavinga 1,000,000 Bruna 250,000 Bouzanis 0,000,000 Torres 50,000,000 Babel 5,000,000 Macherno 18,000,000 Riera 5,000,000 Benayoun 10,000,000 Simon 0,000,000 Palsson 0,000,000 Itandje 0,000,000 Plessis 0,000,000 Della Valle 0,000,000 Total: 89,250,000 Liverpool players bought Downing 20,000,000 Doni 0,000,000 Adam 6,000,000 Henderson 20,000,000 Carroll 35,000,000 Suarez 22,800,000 Konchesky 5,000,000 Meireiles 11,500,000 Jones 2,300,000 Wilson 2,000,000 Cole 0,000,000 Shelvey 2,000,000 Poulsen 2,000,000 Total 128,600,000 Total net spend 38,350,000 so how have liverpool not invested in their squad if they have spent the guts of 40 million more than they have received in transfers?