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19 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Yes it should but you always risk  bad results when you don't pick your strongest team.

We are  not in Europe. We are in a mid table no man's land in the league.

There was no reason not playing our strongest XI

Apart from Leeds on Friday, risk of injuries,  existing niggles and knocks and the fact again, that we put out a team of internationals that rightly for 85 minutes nullified a league 2 side.

Again, Deondoncker committed a cardinal sin of not checking his shoulder 5 yards outside his own box! 

6 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

This is what can happen when you disrespect cups and don't field your  strongest team.

We will never win another trophy if we don't take cups seriously.

The team should have been enough to beat Stevenage, it was suicidal stupidity that cost us

Was too lightweight and decision making was as poor, still very much a work in progress despite the goal (simple tap in)

Love the fact that all of the links, whether second division in Spain or Korean u19 player of the year have trekkers, pace and more importantly energy.

No more Ollie Watkins single man press, we will be busy on and off the ball and for me that will be most important thing!

34 minutes ago, thabucks said:

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/01/05/aston-villa-transfer-news-emery-to-rival-chelsea-spurs-for-53m-star/

What a crap article, in short, Villa want to buy him but Villa recognise it’s not best use of available budget.

is that it, contradicts their own headline 

Spurs think they are bigger than they are, soulless ground with crap fans who only sing when they are winning.

proper Manager, give him the keys, he knows what we need and where to get it.  Awesome structure and tactics.

Only downside was McGinn’s hammy and Dougie’s knee.  Hoping nothing serious

Get a grip, Emery showing there is no favouritism and picking on form/readiness.  
Not Gerrards playing the same team even when they are too ball bagged to tie their own laces 

Are we still looking at the “icing on the cake” type players rather than the main ingredients?

Personally think we are still missing a midfielder and a centre  half before we start polishing our forward line 

8 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

The high line was realkt scary yesterday.  If nunez wasnt such a donkey we really could have been thumped.  Think thats something we need to work on vs spurs. Kane and son will have a absolute field day of we defend like that

Kane won’t, he has no pace

On 12/12/2022 at 18:24, sne said:

Linked to Terem Moffi, can't say I know anything about him. Has 10 in 14 for Lorient this season.

He's only 6ft 2 thou so no were near tall enough.

Looks Bentekesque in the you tube vids!

8 hours ago, Steero113 said:

Zaha says hi. 

Went back to a club that still played exactly the same style as when he left.  We do not now, we have a more rounded team and more options and I wouldn’t trade that to bring Jack back

8 hours ago, Tom13 said:

Sorry to say, but if a CL club comes in for him, he'll be off. As would any other player.

Let’s see, I am not worried, he has done the bench at a CL club, think he likes being our Nr 1

I am not sold on Grealish coming back, it’s never the same second time round and he made his choice. 

Also, I think getting Emery in will see a totally different strategy where, quite rightly, it’s not about the romanticism of any given individual, it’s is about the pragmatism of the team and it’s constituent parts.

I want to see pace, athleticism and work ethic across the team, that will win more games than an individual

I am going to stick my head above the parapet and say Emi loves Villa and has no reason or desire to leave.

Think he is here till he retires 

At this point in time, don’t care how we win as long as we do.  However, we have a shape, we have tactics that are tailored to opposition and situation, like a proper Manager brings.  For that, we have something to look forward to, still a project, but one that’s taking shape nicely 

Is Olsen now glued to his line.  What a nightmare of a game, basically cost us the result 

Olsen is shocking, I hate Fernandes, that is all.

Xabi Alonso?

Square pegs in square holes plus intensity, simple game 

32 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Over to you @TRO

Wasn’t he part of that?  Or is he throwing his boss under the bus?

Maybe he means they didn’t manage to truck through 38 players before he left.

Personally, I saw little to suggest that he could get a tune out of Villa and reckon QPR won’t come up either

1 hour ago, foreveryoung said:

Rodgers has just lost his mojo at Leicester, he's pissed they have also turned the taps off and couldn't bring in any new players he wanted 

He needs a new project, I personally think he would do well here and certainly has more experience than our recent trainees.

The bit that nags at me re Rogers is the money he spent the year before, bringing in some quality emerging players, apart for Daka, most have seen few minutes.

Apart from that, the guy builds teams that play decent attacking football.

The key element of the next manager will be to rebuild the fractured relationship Deano built between team, fans and owners.  You only have to look at the comments on here to see that is broken.

I like the sound of the Amorin as he sounds like Ten Haag, has an expectation and way of playing, won’t compromise on that and will rebuild the culture, confidence and direction.  He also has shown the ability to tap into the youth, again, part of the clubs strategy.

I think he sounds ideal, if not him, another “force of nature” type person who will drag the club by its bootstraps back to where it needs to be