Villan4Life

On 12/11/2020 at 13:37, Brentfordnylons said:

Marcus Forss remember the name.

I watched him on loan at AFC Wimbledon last season. I really rate him he's a good player.

Mark Harrison (Academy Manager) at Villa will know about him too as Forss was in the West Bromwich |Academy for number of years before signing for yourselves.

11 minutes ago, Rob182 said:

@Villan4Life Have you ever watched El Bilal Traore? He’s a 17 year old forward that plays for Rennes and Mali (he’s actually just scored a penalty for Mali). He seems to have notched up a good handful of senior appearances even at his young age. 

i've watched him play twice mate and he looks very impressive.

Sheff Utd & Marseille where interested in him few months ago. Definitely someone to monitor as a potential signing.

19 hours ago, KMitch said:

Would anyone take Ozil on loan for the rest of the season?

Yusuf Yazıcı (Lille) an Attacking Midfield 23 year old Turkish player is worth looking at.

They signed him in summer of 2019 for around £15.7million from Trabzonspor and he has had a great start this season.

Two hat-tricks (inc Hat-trick vs AC Milan last week) in Europa League already this season. 

8 minutes ago, Kingman said:

Nice one Cyril, PM me if you need a George Mendes type super agent  

Good luck pal  

Thanks mate and you know it . UTV

On 04/10/2020 at 09:58, Tomaszk said:

In a non-COVID world he's definitely been picked up by a L2 club at the lowest.

He' signed for St Mirren yesterday @Tomaszk

I suggested him to them last May 2019 for a loan move.

Jake signed for St Mirren on a free transfer yesterday.

21 hours ago, sne said:

According to Björn Engel's agent Evert Maeschalck it was him who brokered our deals with the players with history in Belgium along with Jesus Pitarch

Yep.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8886307/Tyrone-Mings-warns-black-players-NOT-sign-clubs-havent-joined-new-diversity-code.html

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Tyrone Mings believes black footballers will consider boycotting clubs who have not signed up to the FA's historic leadership diversity code, which was unveiled on Tuesday.

As revealed by Sportsmail, Southampton are the only Premier League club not to have joined the FA's new initiative to help combat inequality at the very top of football. 

Over 40 clubs across men's and women's professional football have agreed to becoming founding members of the code, with the FA hopeful that many more will follow suit.

Aston Villa defender Mings was part of a players' focus group who helped develop the code and — alongside the chair of the FA's advisory inclusion board Paul Elliott — played a key role ahead of its launch.

The code, as revealed by Sportsmail last week, demands that clubs appoint more female, black, Asian and mixed-heritage staff to coaching positions.

And Mings, 27, said: 'Of course it will come into players' minds if they see that one club has alienated itself from the code by choosing not to sign up or choosing to not be a part of it. You would want to ask the question why.

'That may be an issue that those clubs may have to deal with in the future, those difficult conversations around, 'Why haven't you signed up?'.'

England star Mings, who was racially abused during his international debut in Bulgaria last year, has been a big supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement — he was one of 4,000 people to attend a march in Birmingham in June.

Southampton's current position as the only top-flight club not to sign up certainly leaves them open to criticism. 

But those in positions of power at St Mary's are said to be entirely comfortable with their decision, believing their work in promoting equality and diversity at the club in recent years speaks for itself.

There is also a feeling — a view shared by a number of EFL clubs who have decided against joining — that Southampton did not feel they were afforded enough time to consider whether joining up to the code would be worthwhile, given the advances they have already made internally in trying to create a more diverse workforce.

The club were reluctant to sign up as a token gesture and issued a robust defence of their decision in a statement — but also opened the door to becoming a member in the future.

'Southampton FC are wholly supportive of the Football Leadership Diversity Code objectives,' they said in a statement. 'We are aware that the Premier League are revising their Equality Standard to bring the two closer together.

At this time the club consider its most appropriate course of action is to wait and understand how a revised Premier League Equality Standard and the Football Leadership Diversity Code will work together and complement each other before revising our recruitment targets and already established processes.

'We have had productive and encouraging discussions with Paul Elliott on this topic and will continue to work closely with him on this.'

On Southampton's decision, Mings acknowledged that having total unanimity in the top flight would be symbolic of a collective determination to drive equality.

He said: 'I don't know the reasons why Southampton haven't signed up but I guess if there's one that hasn't it means 19 have. It's important to look at the positives. The fact that there are so many that have signed up represents huge progress and that is probably more important than the one that hasn't.

'But of course if they do sign up and the whole Premier League signs up it represents a real collective sign of people wanting to make change.

'At the moment that's not something that we have but hopefully in future they will and they will see the benefits of being part of a collective.'

14 hours ago, VillaChris said:

They actually played really well second half so while I still think they'll go down they have more life about them than Fulham, down to having a manager experienced at this level.

I rated Grant at Huddersfield and he's scord today and had one just offside last week. I'd have gone in for him considering Huddersfield sold him for 15m and sent them Davis on season loan.

I said this to @omariqyChris mate,

That we should go fo Karlan Grant (before baggies bought him) to push Ollie giving him competition upfront. 

At £15mil it really was no brainier.

9 minutes ago, the_eristic said:

Weren't we linked with a striker of the same name years back? Think he was 6'8" or something. Wound up going to.... Everton, maybe?

Yeah, Lacina Traoré.

Ivory Coast International Striker, Now age 30 playing for Bandırmaspor in Turkey.

Lassina Traoré (Ajax, striker). plays internationally for Burkina Faso.

Hopefully Villa start monitoring Lassina Traoré (Ajax) He's a 19 year old striker who is also Bertrand Traoré's cousin

Lassina scored 5 goals for Ajax in 13-0 away win at VVV Venlo yesterday.

He looks a very promising indeed.

Emi has an exceptional attitude.  This guy is absolutely pure class.

48 minutes ago, villan-scott said:

He’d have to fight @Villan4Life for the user name once he’s retired and he can finally join Villa Talk!

I'll let him have my username @villan-scott if he gives me a one off six figure payment

I'll send him my paypal address

15 hours ago, Phil Silvers said:

 https://www.villatalk.com/profile/4074-omariqy/

https://www.villatalk.com/profile/3079-villan4life/

Brilliant episode again, sorry to hear about Chris's recent health issues.

Hope to hear same guys on again soon.

edit .  I still don't know how to mention members properly, what a dumbass

Thanks @Phil Silvers that means a lot mate. UTV

I just keep going to get my full health back! have my good days and bad days (More good than bad)  but..... As Yazz once sung

2 hours ago, villan-scott said:

Going from strength to strength already. Making waves in the Villa world. Well done @omariqy

Quality content. @Villan4Life loved your episode, a great insight, and FairPlay for linking Josh up to get him into scouting from the other side of the world!

Thanks @villan-scott, i've known Josh since 2012 he's a great guy and a brilliant scout too. 

He is always sending me a lot of names new American young player's to look out for. He told me about how good Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennnie, Gio Reyna and others years before they were known.

@omariqyis an absolutely brilliant host and a great guy! The show's are varied and interesting and the content is excellent.

7 hours ago, DCJonah said:

Just finished the episode with Josh and @Villan4Lifeand thought it was excellent.

Could honestly listen to both of them talk about players for hours. Always enjoy hearing knowledgeable people talking about their area of expertise.

@omariqydoes a fantastic job of hosting. 

Good show 

Thanks @DCJonah that means a lot  mate.

@omariqy is a great host and doing a immense job as host.

Myself and Josh are back on end of next month.

UTV mate

Looks like Benrahma is joining West Ham after-all on loan with view to them signing him next summer

1 hour ago, Rich192 said:

I’m a newbie to this forum, so I’m sure you’ve answered these kind of questions before, so apologies for that!

How did you get in to scouting? How many matches do you watch a week? How many times do you have to watch a player before you feel you’ve got a comprehensive understanding of them? Prior to working specifically for clubs, how would you go about selling a player to a club?

Sorry for bombarding you with them, but always found scouting fascinating, and wanted to know more about it, and if it wasn’t for Omar’s podcast, I wouldn’t have known we had a scout on the forum!

 

Hi Rich, after many years pondering shall i get into scouting, i worked at Villa as a voluntary coach back in 1996  before match days i used to help coach kids down at Stumps next to Villa Park, i decided in early 2017 that i would try and pursue it as a secondary career and saved up to do the qualifiications with the P.F.S.A (Professional Football Scouting Assoication), normally i can't spot good player quickly one or two matches.

Before i was scout best i did  apart from post on here suggestion's was i worked out Paul Lambert's then Villa email address and emailed him a player suggestion but he never replied.

16 minutes ago, Rich192 said:

Gave it a listen, thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Thanks @Rich192 mate. UTV  

11 hours ago, omariqy said:

New episode out with @Villan4Life. Really interesting to hear what Chris has gone through in life and how he's forged a career in scouting! We also had his friend and DC United scout Josh Hill join us. 

 

Thanks for having myself & Josh on the show  @omariqy we absolutely loved it mate.

Hope everyone enjoyed the show. UTV

37 minutes ago, crimski said:

Baby Meatball

John started his career as player at St Mirren FC.

The same club i started my professional scouting career at in 2017 and the club i follow now in Scotland

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