Villan4Life

https://amp.twimg.com/v/6a0facd2-7fe5-490f-96ac-3ff83af895b9 2nd goal video, keeps onside and knows how to and then a killer instinct to put it in back of the net

His dad is over the moon Peter Robinson @PeterBigg · 5 secs5 seconds ago Thank you to everyone for your kind words ....so proud of my lil man @CallumRobbo37 lost for words #hattrick !!!

and before people start saying.... "oh it's only against Non-League team"... Berahino grabbed a hat-trick against Hereford last season in cup (league cup) and look how that went now. For me he has the same goalscoring nature to Berahino and could go exactly the same way if we give him a go in the first team more.

What a bargain at £1.3million that Ayoze Perez cost!! Amazing goal against the Baggies and now has 3 in 3. Sad, that we never seem to find bargain potentially good youngsters abroad like him and Sakho (West Ham) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If5o7PM9BTQ

Currently 4th with 10 games left on my Beta saved game with Villa, going to play League Cup final against Chelsea later when i am back at home. Jurgen Locadia (8.5mil) has cracked in around 20 goals so far, sold Weimann for £6mil, Benteke for £19mil and Gabby for £8mil to give me more money to buy a handful of players. Virgil Van Dijk is very good defender from Celtic i brought to replace Vlaar, lost Andre Green to Man City on a bosman (with 400k compensation) and Grealish has scored 14 from midfield. Absolutely loving the new Football Manager.

Neil Swarbrick is his name

Just mentioned on Sky Sports this is our worst run (6 defeats in row) in 47 years.

It's free though isn't it to download.

Stan Collymore: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-aston-villa-stars-says-8035114

True that Penguin, he has spent around £50mil on transfer fees since he arrived.

Westwood cost us around £2.5mil as that's around what Swansea bid for him and was turned down. Lambert lied (not a first there) about most fee's of players to stop the abuse he would get if they didn't work out, he paid £3.5mil for Joe Bennett.

Cos Lambert seems to think Westwood's corners are the best for some bizarre reason!

Another suggestion: Vitor Pereira

He has a good record in Spain though Noel, why not give him chance in Premiership? people like Koeman and Pochettino have hardly set other league alight before coming Premier League and been a success and Flores managed in UAE so not really a fair comparison as they sack managers successful or not and he actually won trophies there as well. Still only 49 and managed some big teams and has done well.. Manager[edit] Benfica Taça da Liga: 2008–09 Atlético Madrid UEFA Europa League: 2009–10 UEFA Super Cup: 2010 Copa del Rey: Runner-up 2009–10 Al Ahli Emirates Cup: 2011–12 President's Cup: 2012–13 Al Ain President's Cup: 2013–14

From Today's Sun:

Quique Flores anyone? he was interested in Villa job before we got Houllier and is only 49 and won a fair few cups including Europa League in 2009/2010

Read in The Sun today in a 2 page article that American baseball owners have turned all their attention to buying English Football clubs because of the decline of baseball and the rise of football (soccer) in the states!! Few of the owners may look towards Villa.

Would he come here? Genuine question. I think Unai Emery would make a great appointment, but I highly doubt he'd be interested unless he had some overriding desire to come to the Premier League. who know's mate but he isn't managing a club at the moment and might fancy the chance of working in Premier League.

Thomas Tuchel is still available and he would be a much better manager than Lambert

Indeed you are and I was merely challenging your stance, which is the basic purpose of a forum I believe. As for 'being wrong', I was referring specifically to your claim that Lambert is the best manager we've had in the last 30 years. Do you still believe this? If yes, then may I ask your reasoning as to why? I posted a long post some time back to justify that stance, cant remember all of it but I'll try and do the same again. The managerial appointments we have made in the last 30 years are Turner Mcneill Taylor MK1 Venglos Atkinson Little Gregory Taylor Mk2 Oleary Oneill Houllier Mcleish (I'm ignoring the interim and caretaker types like Aitken and Mcallister) Each of those have operated in different circumstances and under differing strategies / philosophies and each have had unique circumstances and the changing football picture with which to contend as well so let me deal with them individually to show how I think Lamber stacks up. Turner - Bought in in similar circumstances to Lambert to be honest. A team that had been relatively successful but the owner wanting to cut back on costs and run it on the cheap brings in an up and coming manager with the spec of doing just that. He reduced the wage bill and finally dismantled our champions and brought in largely up and coming players and then went on to sprinkle it with a bit odf experience. He still actually went on a spending spree for the time he was operating in and outspent rivals. Football at the time was not as cash rich or dominated by 3 or 4 clubs with the emphasis of trying to reach the top four so I would argue that he had easier circumstances within which to operate. He failed and for me was not a person with the strength of character Lamber has. Lamber is better than Turner IMO Mcneill - Came in for a season and was woeful. Lambert better than Mcneill Taylor MK1 - The first real challenger to being one of our best appointments. Graham came in after we had been relegated but we were still a massive club. Yes we were in a mess but far better than any team in the lower division IMO. I do think he oversold our position at the time a little and the reason for that was to play politics a bit with Ellis was was domineering and wanted to run things his way. Graham's protestations over our position were exaggerated a little as a poke at Ellis. He did bring us back, not as champions. And we did finish runners up as well as flirting with relegation, but again the time was different and circumstances were easier for us. He bought Cascarino when Sherringham would have won us the league!. Venglos - Foreign experiment number 1. No contest Lambert wins for me. Atkinson - Second real challenger. Was flamboyant and so was his team. Assembled a decent team on the back of the Platt money again at a time when it was not about money so much. An aging manager though and so was his team. It wasn't so much built for the future as for the immediate 3 years. Won a trophy though and that doesearn him loads of brownie points. He loses to Lambert in that Ron was more of a now manager and Lambert is more of a long term plan man, IMO. Close call here though Little - Brought in as the game was changing, won a trophy and we finished high in the league. Spent huge amounts for us and at the time we were competing. A definite build for the future man and for me the man who runs Lambert closest in the best managerial appointment stakes. Its really close this and just a personal opinion for me on Lambo, I could be persuaded though and Lambert could move down to second place. His wastes on Collymore and Curcic do not help him. Gregory - A bit wee a bit woo for me was JG. Always just needed a couple more players. Spent a fortune on the back of dwight yorke and although this will not be a popular opinion and those will disagree, he did not spend it wisely. he spent it on players for now, more so than Ron did. so 6M a piece for aging Merson and Dublin was basically sunk cost and never allowed us to recycle the cash. Balaban, Stone, Kachloul, Hadji. He was allowed to spend huge sums, the kind of money Lambert would love to have I think. Oleary - Not a nice man at all . Never liked him crap manager Lambert is the better man by a mile and has a strategy which does not involve slagging the club off from top to bottom, the letter to Ellis was more about Oleary than anything else, we would not have that with Lambert. Oneill - I loved the man and still do, brilliant manager but was operating in a different world to Lambert. Spent a huge amount of money, but had to to play catch up. One thing about Martin and I guess most successful people are the same, he believed his own hype. Call it arrogance call it what you will but I think you also have to be pragmatic enough to see your own faults and not believe you are always right. Houllier - Failure. Just could not comprehend this appointment. I think the word Dis was missing. Mcleish - If I could not comprehend the appointment of Houllier then I am trying to block this one from my memory. Not fit to lace the boots of Lambert IMO Now I know some will come on and say about Mcleish and the results under him and show stats about them and how he may outscore Lambert etc etc, but for me there's more to it than that. He was a dreadful manager. Other managers in this list will have better points total as well. You know an opinion on the merits of a manager or how you rate them is largely subjective, as is everything in football judgement really. And i recognise my opinion on Lambert is in a minority of probably 1 on here. But I still hold it. Little and Taylor MK1 come close but I still think given the circumstances of the time, where we were / are as a club at the time of appointment, what strategy the managers were asked to work towards bearing all that and more in mind I rate Paul above the others. Sure it may not work and sure he may leave the club in the near future I accept that. But I truly believe given the circumstances some of the others had he would have out performed them and given where we were as a club and what was happening to us at the time he was appointed I am not sure any of the others could have done better or that there were other managers we could have got that could have done better You do realise we finished runners up to Man Utd with Atkinson in charge in 92/93 and won the League Cup in 1994!! Something Lambert will never achieve with us and you believe he is better than Big Ron? whatever

Lowton apparently told Villa fans to **** off at end and his missus is going off on one via Twitter again.. https://twitter.com/AbiLowton

been said on other forums that Lowton told Villa fans to "**** off" at the end of the game.

wonder if Lambert would ever WALK?? as only way he is gonna leave the Villa as Lerner would never sack him!! WORST manager we have ever had.. Venglos had the right idea but was too far ahead of his time!! Lambert is worse than McNeil and McLeish

Bring Cole and Bent on for Gabby and Weimann... Benteke and Bent up front and Cole behind Never likely to happen but think our best way we could score tonight.

Broad street plenty of places on there will be showing it Gabby's bar... Oh Velvet on Broad Street!! His brother runs the bar bit, but i think Gabby is the money man who brought the place about 10 years ago they show every game in there home and away on foreign channels