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Vardy Dear god. Luke Garbutt would be fantastic signing for a minimal compensation fee. If Tim is looking at Spurs players Carroll and Pritchard would be good signings. I've seen both a handful of times for Spurs u21s and England u21s and Carroll is a good little technical player, would be a good rotation option in with Westwood and Cleverley. Could probably get him for 2-3m, Swansea fans have compared him to Leon Britton which is a fair comparison. Will look to get on the ball and move it around quick. He was criticised a bit by QPR fans for keeping it too simple at times but I've seen him be very adventurous in his play and am certain Tim would do a good job at getting him to play freely like Clevs. Pritchard has had a more successful season with Brentford so would likely be more in demand and cost a bit more, Spurs are more likely to want to keep him too or prefer a loan move. He is more attacking and can play anywhere across the midfield really. Can play wide and would do better than N'Zogbia. Would play similar to Grealish, in that he'll drift all over constantly demanding the ball and trying to create, he has great technical ability. If you aren't going to play Gil, Pritchard would be a good replacement. He has got comparisons to Eriksen in the way he plays from wide. All 3 are in the provisional squad for England u21s Euro cup squad.

Oh don't even get me started on him. I'm just glad he is finally gone, absolute joke he is. He played a couple u21 matches this season and was easily the worst player on the pitch each time. He gives hope to everyone that you can play for Manchester United for 8 years by doing nothing. He still can't even speak English. There's no tax in Monaco so AFAIK Man united have to pay him something like ~£400,000 a week to match the wages he was getting in Monaco as his contract (as with all contracts in France) are negotiated amounts after tax. One of my United supporting buddies claim that Rooney & RVP have clauses in their contracts to match United's highest earner and this is why Falcao was loaned not bought. Your mate is a fecking idiot then and pulled that straight out of his arse. Falcao was signed on loan because of his injury issues and we weren't going to throw 50m at a crock and it has turned out to be a good idea. Falcao also doesn't get 400k. You have to take a large chunk off of all reported wages as they are a load of shite and somehow increase every week. The papers can't get transfer fee right either, the BBC's reporting on the Memphis Depay deal is embarrassing, they don't even know the difference between euros and pounds. Unfortunatley on VT alot of shite is spouted without any ounce of proof Its not just VT, it is all forums but you can't expect anything else when the papers are the ones telling them this. Marcos Rojo's cleaner found one of his pay-slips and released a picture of it with 200k on it. Papers then started saying he makes 200k a week failing to understand he is paid monthly. When the media can't even get simple things like that right then you can't expect any better when they are supposed to be the source of info.

Players want to play at the highest level and make the most money. Villa doesn't offer either of these. Being 'tapped up' on international duty plays little if any part other than giving one top club the edge over another top club. If someone is good enough for a Champions League to come in for they are going there and its not because Terry, Wilshere or whoever was whispering sweet nothings in their ear.

There's no tax in Monaco so AFAIK Man united have to pay him something like ~£400,000 a week to match the wages he was getting in Monaco as his contract (as with all contracts in France) are negotiated amounts after tax. One of my United supporting buddies claim that Rooney & RVP have clauses in their contracts to match United's highest earner and this is why Falcao was loaned not bought. Your mate is a fecking idiot then and pulled that straight out of his arse. Falcao was signed on loan because of his injury issues and we weren't going to throw 50m at a crock and it has turned out to be a good idea. Falcao also doesn't get 400k. You have to take a large chunk off of all reported wages as they are a load of shite and somehow increase every week. The papers can't get transfer fee right either, the BBC's reporting on the Memphis Depay deal is embarrassing, they don't even know the difference between euros and pounds.

No, his contract is until summer 2017. You sure about that? He was on a list of out of contract players and all I can see in terms of news is that he was to be offered a new deal in February but nothing about him signing. Yes, the list was wrong and likely was using transfermarkt as a source which isn't reliable at all. Reliable journalists have said on twitter that he has 2 years remaining and other youth experts have told me the same.

He's much better than Macheda ever was. Sure he looks raw but every young player looks raw. He is unbelievably fast and is amazing at getting in behind defences. He has great finishing from all ranges and has a beautiful snapshot where he generates so much power with the ball at his foot which you can see in his youtube videos. He is also a great dribbler and makes some great darting runs. He is still getting used to the physicality of senior football and has struggled against teams who play really defensive and park the bus as teams don't really do that in the u21s and he is more a player who will thrive with space which he should get at Villa. I doubt he'd be brought into replace Benteke, that would be stupid and incredibly risky by Sherwood. I'd imagine you'll bring in someone like Austin with Wilson as back-up. I think he'd link up superbly with Grealish finding him in space. Although I'd probably rather he go to Championship side where he'll play every match. He's also got an amazing spring in his jump with Nicky Butt saying he has the best standing jump you will ever see. He isn't very good in the air though, often mistiming his jump or misjudging the flight of the ball. If Benteke sticks around he could learn a thing or two from him. An interesting fact too is he beat Rooney's club record in the leg press at the start of the season.

No, his contract is until summer 2017.

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Different player, januzaj looks an out and out winger, jack looks like he's best in a free role behind the striker or top of a diamond Adnan is anything but an out and out winger. Its why he has struggled this season. He is much better centrally or playing as an inside winger the way the likes of Silva or Ozil play when they are wide. I thought Jack was great today.

Tbh that isn't a bold claim. Our other options aren't very good.

I don't know why he wears his socks so low. He said he wears the infant shinpads so they don't get in the way but then he practically wears them on his boot. Get those little things up under your knee buddy. Someone give him this insight and he'll be dribbling like motherfucking Messi.

Falcao will have to bang them in quick as he'll be lucky to get 10 mins off the bench. Di Maria could be benched again, will depend if van Gaal is willing to sacrifices Young's defensive stability.

No. He is a Bradford City and United fan. He doesn't love Everton at all, he just has a very good relationship with Martinez.

There is no context there though. Say that with a smile and he is just joking and taking the piss out of Jack's dad.

I think the likes of Hazard, Mata, Silva etc. are considered attacking mids. But yeah Schneiderlin, Herrera and Ramires are ones most are saying are better than Henderson. The Liverpool fans aren't having it though but they're just biased as I thought.

Ok looking for more of a neutral opinion. On a Manchester United forum a Liverpool fan is saying only Fabregas, Toure, Ramsey and Matic are better CMs than Henderson. No one is agreeing but the usual bias is involved I suppose so what do Villa supporters think? Where does Jordan Henderson rank among CMs in the Premier League?

His Dad's as Brummie as they come. Having grown up with a lot of Birmingham born mates with Irish grandparents I can understand why it's not a simple decision for him; I suspect just about all of them would choose Ireland though, and I suspect he will too. I'm happy with that in all honesty, it'll save him a lot of trouble in the long term. Was his dad born in Birmingham or Ireland? I always thought he was born in Dublin but I've seen that he went to school in Birmingham so wondering if he moved there as a child or was born there.

Aye, Rojo was all over the shop yesterday. Sporting fans say he isn't a LB and he had a similar performance for them at LB a couple years ago and never played there again and is much better at CB. The way he was all over the place yesterday though makes me skeptical if he'll have the awareness, position and discipline to play at CB either or if he'll be a bit of David Luiz and play as a free-role CB.

I feel sorry for him, he's apparently a 'talented' young 'prospect' but could well be destroyed by his experiences this season already. He's young and hasn't got an experienced head next to him, instead he has numpties like Smalling, Evans and Jones, who are overrated mid table standard footballers with no leadership qualities. He really isn't that talented of a prospect and most reserve/youth followers don't rate him very much. He is very calm and composed on the ball but he has always lacked concentration and his defensive awareness to pick up runs etc. isn't very good. He also shies away from picking up a man and always seems to want to play as the extra man at the back which he got away with it in a back 3 but in a back 4 he can't do that. He is lucky to have got his chances due to him being left footed and van Gaal preferring to have a left footer at LCB. Michael Keane and Tom Thorpe are much better players.

Says stay classy, then calls a club manure. Stay class Aston Villa. There are bellends who supposedly support all clubs on twitter and football forums just as you can pick out a handful of words removed on this very forum.

He just returned from injury last week so wasn't fit to start against QPR. Played 45 mins in the reserve match on Monday and played great. After the performance against QPR though van Gaal understandably chose to stay with the same back line. Shaw will more than likely start next week.

You would be lucky if 90% of the fans of those clubs even know one player from their youth team. Not really sure what your point is Aye, as a United fan myself I am lucky enough to have great access to the reserve/youth teams through MUTV and I frankly I find it embarrassing when our top young players make their debut like Adnan, James Wilson and Andreas Pereira recently and so many people are asking who these guys are.

Yep, has had quite a good start. I've always believed if he could get a bit of consistency to his final ball he'd be a really good player. Great pace and dribbles past defenders with ease.

The thing about Martin though is he is doing it against full grown senior professionals and there is no reaching the first team as he is already there. He was on trial at Manchester United last year and I've followed his progress a bit. He's been on trial at most top clubs around Europe and I think it was his agent who said he isn't trying out for clubs anymore but rather clubs are trying out to get him. I believe his preferred move is to a mid-table Bundesliga club like a Monchengladbach or Stuttgart where he will get regular first team football. Didn't get to watch the U21 Portugal match but mates of mine who are Portuguese were blown away at his talent and impact on the Norway side. Even got praised by the Portugal U21 manager. No chance of him coming to England any time soon imo as I don't see clubs guaranteeing first team football to a 15/16 year old and no chance of him playing u21/reserves. Unbelievable really what he is doing now as a 15 year old in senior football.

Aye and it is even worse when you got two way better players in Gibo and Meyler sitting on the bench. You can throw Ward and Walters onto the pile of absolute trash as well. Robbie Keane has been a fantastic player for us as well but he offers nothing other then waving his arms around which in the end is of no benefit at all.