hippo

3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

So we offered to make him the highest paid teen in the country, and some will still say it wasn't enough.

Perhaps it was game time.

46 minutes ago, CosmicVillan said:

Well played Sir...unbelievable deal under the circumstances 

Yes Purslow has done worse deeds .........

Just now, villa4europe said:

Who's his manager can't be that important to him cos in 6 months it won't be tuchel... 

Makes sense.

Perhaps Chelsea are going to come in for Stevie G

At least it puts the mythical Stevie G pulling power in perspective.

Should be one of the first names on the sheet. End of.

14 hours ago, jim said:

7th is a stretch, even with the best manager in world. We’ll finish 8-11th.

Thought we already had him ?

3 hours ago, 7392craig said:

It sounds like he knows the squad isn’t good enough, and he’s just getting his excuses in early. They’ll be this seasons Norwich.

Just lowering expectations.

I agree we have way way too much for Bournemouth - even if we ourselves aren't the real deal yet.

Easy villa win.

Love the commentary:-

"There's people on her tits ....they think it's all over" 

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

Bit early to be wasting time.

Take it you're not a season ticket holder

Horrible jugs 

Always up there for worst ever villa player.

Sure babalan, micha, plenty to choose from.

But his control of the ball was utterly abysmal. I'm amazed he scored as many goals as he did for us.

Anyone else think the ref looks like Eleven from stranger things ?

I want to be entertained.

Bring him home.

2 hours ago, M_Afro said:

One of my work colleagues has just had to cancel his summer holiday. His entire family applied for new passport’s in March. They have all arrived apart from one for his daughter which is still pending. I wouldn’t believe everything you are being told there. Maybe tell your son to hang fire on plans if possible.

It's the one week express service. But there are only so many slots available.

3 hours ago, Pissflaps said:

I don't understand what people are confused by here.

He didn't have an in date passport. He had no call for one with his previous job they were not doing money making preseason tours abroad were they.

He obviously didn't need one personally for holidays. The villa job came about quickly. The preseason your was already booked in Australia and France. The wait for passports is months and months. Just because we are a football club doesn't mean we get preferential treatment to get a passport quicker. It's that simple.

It's not months and months. It's about 3 weeks.

Go on line and check the Apt slots for a 1 week passport.

On 24/07/2022 at 11:37, allani said:

Not sure how that is the fault of the club.  The deadline for him applying for a passport and getting it back was before he joined us.  It would have been far more weird to not sign a head coach just because he didn't have a valid passport.

As it happens my son has had to apply for a passport at short notice.

It's going to take around 3 weeks 

Just now, Peter Griffin said:

It is such pity that, it just ruins any decent debate as people argue with bias as opposed to what is happening at our club

TBH I think it's similar with any manager - but look at page 1 of this thread. He wasn't popular from the get go.

I'm not a fan of SG myself. Have to say though results have overall been good enough for a guy yet to complete a full season.

I'd be content with 10th. But I would like to see us turn on the style a bit more.

1 minute ago, Peter Griffin said:

When u say something going on, like what? I can't imagine SG has lost the support of Purslow and he has been well supported in the window. Do u think a player revolt?

I think he was being ironic tbh.

13 minutes ago, jim said:

I’ve never known a pre season come under so much scrutiny. 
 

You’d think we’d spent £150m and replaced the first 11 the way some are going on.

Rightly or wrongly there a quite a few fans who don't like Gerrard. 

As such he won't get much slack if results / performances aren't good. The only way for it to go away is an absolute storming season hovering in the high echelons of the table.

I'm pretty confident we can get 10th - just on the amount of quality in the squad.

Beyond that we need to see a team being moulded. 

Weve squeezed decent results in pre season and imo that's how the season will pan out. Narrow victories over lesser sides.

But not long to wait now.

19 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

One thing Gerrard had mentioned a lot last season was that it was hard to put his stamp on the team in terms of style when the games were coming thick and fast. Now we've had a full preseason, and I don't really see any changes in terms of style and cohesion? We look pretty much the same as we did last season to be honest.

The games were coming thick and fast so he couldn't put his stamp on the team.

So he's arranged an extra couple of friendlies.

6 minutes ago, Farlz said:

Well he's had his full pre season and I still haven't the slightest on what his ideas are meant to be.

Just get top 10, anything else is a bonus. 

Sorry but his idea is starring you in the face .

Buy enough decent and costly players - and a couple of em will have enough decent moments in a match to eek 3pts against lesser equipped sides.

10th for me.

2 hours ago, nick76 said:

You mention in one of the comments above that SG comes across as an elite manager, I just don’t see that.  I see a man that has had media training all through his playing career because he was one of the best ever in the PL so was always in the spotlight so his media presence I’d expect to be there.  I’ll give him big ups on the recruitment, along with Lange, Purslow and whoever else but for the elite manager, the main part is the football and I don’t see anything to suggest eliteness at all, his decisions have mostly poor and the impact following the initial period of his tenure has been poor.  He makes odd decisions a lot, I just, s far, don’t see anything that I think he could be an elite manager.  I just hope the new season he shows us he has that skill.

As for learning, you know my view on that, I don’t think he was ready for the Villa job and nothing on the pitch to date has changed my mind.  Thankfully if it does go wrong this season, his name, has got us some quality players in the door so the next manager has a good squad.  It’s all irrelevant now as he’s our manager and I will support him a 100% at the ground but he’s got a lot to do to prove he’s worthy of the job in my eyes and even a lot more to say he could be an elite manager one day.

But he's a born winner who has a presence when he walks into a room.

1 hour ago, TRO said:

was he?

oh it really is about opinions.....I saw a shrinking violet, bless him.

Do everyone said.

What was the quote...

"Right man wrong time" .....wot a load of cobblers.

1 hour ago, TRO said:

We all want it to translate in to our performances Nick......but being articulate in his deliveries to the Media has to be and indication of the way the man communicates with the players/coaches.

It is only an indication....but One I feel from my experience listening to My CEO's over the years, it makes for encouragement.

Good communication is a tremendous filip, when leading men.

Remi Garde was good with media.