DJ_Villain

Made “the best club side in the world” look like Sunday league team…

Restricted them to less than a handful of attempts, kept “Mr Ballon D’Or” quiet…

So proud of our club…

Leon… you absolute diamond…

7 hours ago, Oaks said:

For me Delph was more genuinely conflicted he couldn't make his mind up...Jack left like a flash. I honestly think Delph gets more stick than he deserves.

Nah… **** him… **** Barry and **** Grealish

The only one of our players to have joined them that doesn’t deserve any scorn is Milner…

and that’s only because he pissed them off and they feel disrespected because he said he was leaving them to join a “big club” or something along those lines…

8 hours ago, LondonLax said:

I don’t think they gave a **** about Aston Villa as any kind of threat to them. We were just a club who were always willing to sell our best players. 

What?

with their limitless finances, ability to buy anyone and everyone on the planet on a whim… Robinho, Kompany, David Silva, Aguero…

they NEEDED Barry, Milner, Delph and Grealish??

Nah… they were good players, but not THAT good…

it was a show of power… a boot to us to show us where they think we belong…

They deserve to suffer for what they did…

2 hours ago, Zatman said:

One of the biggest myths ever spun. Yes he played a major part but so did Smith, McGinn, Mings, Dougie, Steer, Emi, Trezeguet, Anwar, Elmo, Hourihane and many others

He wasnt the main reason

Similarly, Delph was one of the main reasons we stayed up… as well as Benteke, Vlaar and Cleverley…

they all left at the same time…

However… having your captain ripped from your team… when he openly claims how much this is “his club”…

and for him to go to the same insidious… disgusting… frankly virulent sack of words removed masquerading as a football club…

4 captains in about 15 years…

they did this on purpose….

1 hour ago, useless said:

The way Grealish left was nothing like the way Delph left, Delph signed a new contract in the January and made a video going on about how he signed the deal because he wanted to show how loyalty still exists in football at the end of that video he winked at the camera, but not only that the following summer a week or so before he left, once again he reiterated that he would be staying, because of all that Villa fans were secure in the idea that there was no possibility of him leaving, but then a few days later he changed his mind.

If I remember rightly not long after he announced that he was staying for the second time Delph was pictured with Man City officials, that's how the news of him joining them after all, broke, I remember at the time people trying to convince themselves that it wasn't him in the pictures, or that it had been photoshoped.

Grealish signed a contract and left a year later, that's nothing like what Delph did, most knew that him leaving the following summer was a possibility as didn't stop going on about it, so wasn't as if he did anything to make people think it wouldn't happen, 'my club' or whatever the quote was doesn't mean a player is going to stay forever, and no took it like that at the time, it was just a reference to what it was, which is to him being a Villa fan

Another way he differs to Delph is that he's the main reason we were promoted, retained PL status, and then became established in the PL, and then brought £100m into the club, without him we wouldn't be where we are today, taking nothing away from Delph he became a good player for us, but he wasn't on Grealish's level in terms of importance

It’s not THAT Grealish left…

It’s WHO he left for…

that’s what burns my piss…
 

They cheated their way to their success when clubs like ours stuck to the rules… and they cherry picked us by cheating… and we suffered the most because of it… and he as “Mr Aston Villa” saw it all happening…

He chose to join them…

He could have gone the Bellingham route… but he decided to cheat his way to glory…

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2 hours ago, ThunderPower_14 said:

I'm really not sure how it's Delph like. Delph left about a week after saying he was staying.

Grealish just maintained he was a Villa fan, and still does.

Plenty of players who would call themselves Villa fans play a lot of their career away from the club, and the one recent notable Villa fan who spent his entire career here is wildly unpopular.

But of course that’s bollocks… because otherwise (at the most) he would have demanded a clause in his contract stopping him from playing a game against us before leaving… or (at the least) he wouldn’t have had the barefaced audacity to dive against us… and then applaud us after…

Face it… “2010s Mr Aston Villa” is a prick…

1 hour ago, Mic09 said:

At what point is it a necessity to support a Villa player regardless of what they do? 

Apparently, if they and their idiot father claim they are Villa fans… then it doesn’t matter if they are our players or not!

6 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Seems some people are annoyed or " confused " by the view, when it's plain logic, without sentiment. Sentiment doesn't keep your club afloat , keep your best players and help you get better.

I wonder if Wigan and Portsmouth ( F A Cup Winners ) would still choose the Cup, and their current statuses over Champions League qualification.

" Hey all our best players have left, we needed to meet FFP and we are now battling for mid table but hey... We had a great run and we have a trophy "

Obviously you would ideally want all three, but if there is only ONE choice it's a no brainer.

I went to uni with someone from Pompey… This was in 2016/2017 when they had already had a tumble down the leagues…

I asked him at the time if he would exchange their FA cup for Premier League survival…

He was very very very happy with the memories of winning the FA cup and wouldn’t change it for anything…

40 minutes ago, ThunderPower_14 said:

What do we play football for again?

As Villa supporters we should know better than anyone that times like these can be fleeting. Champions League football would be absolutely wonderful and we might get there, but it isn't automatically a golden goose that ensures sustained success. There are plenty of clubs who got there and couldn't sustain it. Leeds, Newcastle, Everton, Tottenham, Leicester. We sacrificed cup runs under Martin O'Neill to focus on the league and it got us nothing.

What are people going to remember in 30 years, away trips against Atletico Madrid and Lazio, or John McGinn lifting the FA cup?

15 hours ago, Mantis said:

I would love nothing more than for Man City to be liquidated, but sadly I think the most they'll get will be something like a 20 point deduction.

I prefer the term “eradicated”

Really emphasises how much of a virus they and their fans are…

Its their fans who deserve to suffer the most, in my opinion…

They are the ones who spout this “it’s our time, we have suffered enough over the years, football is cyclical, you’re just jealous that it didn’t happen to you” schtick… all the time, fully knowledgeable that they cheated everyone else - and most importantly, they cheated us…

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

I've said it before but I genuinely believe if the full truth came out this would be the biggest stain in premier league history. 

For the knock on effect they've had on other clubs, they should be stripped of titles and relegated. 

 

Is that it???

13 hours ago, Mantis said:

Yeah this was a good article. Basically, we're building the club around him so he doesn't get bogged down in the off-field stuff.

Rather build the club around the manager who pulls all the strings and can orchestrate lots of players into his way of thinking than build it around one player who can leave at the drop of a hat and destabilise us for the next year

Redd Pepper - the guy who does the voiceover for movies “In a world where <insert plot of movie>” - is a Villa fan

19 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

In multiple interviews he's said " The Manager makes us all feel important even if we aren't starting " etc.

Don't think he's thick. However, his bargaining position may have strengthened a little.

If he continues in this vein it will be more significant come end of season.

Me neither.

He comes across as articulate and savvy in interviews.

Have heard and read people say he is approachable and seems to be a good guy in person too.

That Craig Butler (is it his agent? Dad? Stepdad? - something like that) seems to be a bit of a loose cannon/knob though

On 22/11/2023 at 23:46, DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth said:

To be fair, he’s sounded pretty happy in interviews of late. And he’s actually playing well when he does play. Last season id have said he’d go and we wouldn’t put much fight up, but not so sure now.

He’s found his stride under Emery.

Knows what it is that he is being asked to do and he is doing it effectively…

Long may it continue

On 21/11/2023 at 23:39, Zatman said:

Either do I but Traore can make magic

That goal against West Brom where he passed it past the keeper into the bottom corner was just cool as ****

21 hours ago, Tom13 said:

Would you be disappointed or relieved if 'Olsen' on the team sheet turned out to be Mary-Kate or Ashley instead?

Depends…

Ok, they are easy on the eye… but can they catch an inswinging corner in a crowded penalty area?

Such a shame.

He seems likeable enough - but for all of his effort, he is way off what we require and we just can’t rely on him…

My stomach turns every time I see his name on a team sheet in a playing capacity.

We do need to improve on him though, but it’s not nice seeing him get dogs abuse…

1 minute ago, HKP90 said:

Didn't we also spend loads more than most other teams when we were in the Championship?

We are allowed to…

We invented league football that the whole world enjoys…

For that reason alone, we should be able to do whatever we like

2 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

You are assuming Aston Villa competed with City and Lerner gave up.

Villa did not compete with Man City. They were just a club that played in our league (until we left that league). Even now, in a great time for the club, we are barely competing with Man City. 

We did…

we were regularly qualifying for Europe, nobody gave a flying **** about Man City… we had a squad of England internationals…

Then they started cheating…

53 minutes ago, Zatman said:

But that didn't happen here. I hate City as much as others but our downfall was our own fault

City didn't stop Lerner from pulling the plug or Purslow hiring his mates

On the contrary, City caused Lerner to pull the plug.

Had a sovereign nation not bankrolled them, we would have felt like we could still compete in the transfer market.

It was their cheating and blowing everyone out of the water that caused Lerner to pack it up.

Its all sliding doors and if-buts-and-maybes… but the key thing that caused our downfall was their takeover and cheating and buying our players…

if any other club had done it, I would have hated them, but they didn’t, it was City… **** em

55 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

It was self inflicted - if Samsung goes to shit they can't really blame Apple for it.

Regarding Delph, he was poor in hindsight. At the time, he was the key player in a struggling team. That's why everyone was angry at the transfer. If he was shit as you suggest, City wouldn't buy him, and we wouldn't be angry at the whole thing. 

What if Apple employed dodgy business practices which went a long way towards Samsung going to shit?

On 23/09/2023 at 15:40, LondonLax said:

The whole point of FFP was to stop Man City doing a Chelsea. 

It was a way for the wealthiest clubs to lock out any upstart challengers. 

It’s why I don’t really hold as much animosity towards Man City as some do. They broke the rules but they broke a rule that was specifically designed to stop them challenging the ‘big teams’.  

It should just be abolished and let teams spend as they see fit. 

How?!

Those rat bastard Manc **** benefitted the most from the worst period in our clubs recent history by systematically dismantling us and taking our captain as soon as he broke into the England squad!

And they did it all by breaking the rules too!

Love how Accrington’s chairman has used the now classic line of “Put that in your Netflix show”…

Just like Billy Sharp…

Dying to get a bit of fame