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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

On 13/11/2023 at 12:46, lapal_fan said:

I **** love him.

I thought he'd reached his ceiling as a solid, streaky prem midfielder, but he's looking perfectly at home at the top of the table.

Me too.

Just goes to show what a bit of quality management and well drilled coaching can bring out of a player 

Nobody is taking a shot, we are utterly gutless…

So frustrating to watch…

On 19/10/2023 at 14:56, AvfcRigo82 said:

Does anyone think he might return to B6 one day?

 

I’d rather see him on fire than in a Villa shirt 

22 hours ago, luckyeddie said:

I used to love football, rugby and cricket before big business killed them as competitive sports, now I can't be arsed as we all know the outcome before the season starts. The entertainment factor is dying, because that uncertainty connected with entertainment is the enemy of the capitalist running these sport. I totally agree with supporting the club and not the players. If they leave Villa, they're basically dead to me.

Grealish was so good because everything was set up for him (Smith's good management) to do what he does best, but the last couple of seasons have shown he cannot be that robotic player PL teams require. I love that he was a maverick, but he preferred to be a better paid cog in a richer wheel than a legend at Villa, so **** him.

He preferred the idea of doing stupid little dances for their verminous fans and hearing dirty Mancs cheering his name than “his own”

On 28/09/2023 at 09:38, Stevo985 said:

So you're basically saying you don't like him so you're pretending he wasn't as good as he was.

As long as people are admitting it  

I don’t give credit to anyone who leaves us so they can cheat to win things…

Unai has now made it abundantly clear that our second string is nowhere close to being good enough if we want to win silverware or be competitive at the top end of the table...

12 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Yeah I don’t get the need to rewrite history, although it’s very much a contemporary thing.

Grealish was superb, he was often clearly playing at a level far beyond every one of his teammates. You moved to the edge of your seat every time he got the ball. He made watching football what watching football should be - entertaining and fun. 
 

He captained us to victory at Wembley to get us back into the top flight, scored the goal that secured our top flight status a year later. There’ll always be a bitterness attached to him leaving, irrespective of when and where he went. To convince yourself he was anything but magical - most of the time he was here, is simply cutting off your nose to spite your face.

That’s not true…

Had he done what Jude did and went abroad to one of Europe’s super clubs, I don’t think you’d find a Villa fan alive who wouldn’t have wished him a fond fairwell…

but to go to Citeh the way he did?

My club + release clause?

To exactly the same team?

Makes him no less of a snake than Delph…

Moreso considering the narrative of how he was “Mr Aston Villa”, “Mr Villa till I die”

and then he dived against us as well…

Out of all of our former captains who just broke into the England squad who up sticks and left for them?

He is easily the most despicable

Heard a little factoid on the radio the other day that apparently Plymouth is the largest city in the UK to have a team that has never been in the top division of English football...

5 hours ago, Keyblade said:

It's weird because Young snaked us too. Dived at OT and all as we all remember. Coming back as an ancient defender seems to have rewritten his whole history.

Young never pretended to be a Villa fan to get us all on side…

He was an employee who did his job…

Grealish was supposed to be one of us…

but ended up as the second coming of Fabian Delph…

1 hour ago, PaulC said:

Made a huge difference when he came on. 

That’s what I thought…

The gauntlet has been laid down now by the signings of Diaby and Zaniolo…

Leon HAS to show what he is made of now

I thought he brought some flair and arrogance to our play…

Did his bit…

Looking forward to what more he can do!

Saw the article in the Mirror…

Just comes across as typical Red Top newspapers shitstirring…

That Jack Grealish would be the only player of ours in this decade who could possibly get nominated for a Ballon D’Or

On 15/08/2023 at 15:30, sne said:

De Bruyne out for the rest of the year. That's sting for City.

Awww diddums