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Let’s hope the owners have a plan for the summer, and it is executed quickly. Not saying Smith is a complete dud, but Wolves’ current owners made a couple of terrible appointments before finding Nuno (with the help of Mendes no doubt).
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Smith said after the Liverpool and Man Utd games that realistically we didn’t expect to get anything. And that is the problem, and probably explains our terrible record against the top 10. He seems to have the same mentality that he had at Walsall. We’re not plucky Villa punching above our weight. We SHOULD be competing with the top 10 teams, we spent £140m this season. That is probably the reason that I want him to be replaced because we’ll be back in this position again IF Smith manages to get us promoted again.
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I think we need to presume that Watford will beat one of Newcastle or West Ham. Therefore we need 3 wins out of the last 5. We MUST beat Crystal Palace, end of. Realistically we’ve got to beat either Man Utd or Arsenal at home. That leaves us needing to beat either Everton or West Ham away (or both if we fail to beat Man Utd or Arsenal). It’s very tough, but not impossible. Everton, West Ham and Crystal Palace don’t have anything left to play for.
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Interesting that it says for the final 6 games. Hardly a massive show of support in the long term.
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We won’t and wouldn’t need to spend anything like £90m to get a promotion winning team. No other team in Championship history has needed to spend that sort of money to win promotion. Solid buys and loans with good coaching is what we would need.
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Alan Curbishley at Charlton is the only other one I can think of.
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He will be amazing in The Championship. Maybe he’ll give us one season to get back up?
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Despite us being really bad, I think we’ve made a better go of it than a Fulham did. They were pretty much already down at this stage last season. They had the advantage of having a goal scorer too in Mitrovic. Oh, and we got to a cup final!
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For me, there is nothing to lose by sacking him now. However small, there might be a chance of new manager bounce keeping us up. We are almost certainly going down if Smith stays. If there was a style of play that looked promising then I’d be willing to keep him in the Championship next season, but there just isn’t anything there. Like a lot of Villa managers previously, he talks a good game, but that’s about it.
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I'm not so sure we would be wise to give him a long term deal. Two years, maybe 3 at a push. He's always injured, we could give him a 5 year deal and he'll probably be injured for 3 years of that going by his track record.
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I don’t think my heart would survive that last game.
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I’m not sure what they would do with relegation or promotion but I’m fairly sure they won’t be allowed to relegate teams without all the fixtures being played. Can you imagine the lawsuits? We’re heading into unchartered waters, that’s for sure.
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The only way we get Big Sam is by offering him a longer contract if he keeps us up.
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I don't think we'll be in financial trouble if we go down. Grealish, Mings and Mcginn will leave for £120m+ for starters. Plus we'll have 3 more years of parachute payments. Fulham (I know) spent the same as us in the Premier League, came straight back down, haven't really sold anyone of note and have continued to spend in The Championship - and they aren't in any financial trouble.
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I just don't understand what our style of play is supposed to be. We were promised a team that would attack opposition (regardless of who they are), and (to quote Bruce) "give it a go". We play far too defensively, which is unfortunate as we cannot defend. I think everyone accepted that this season would be tough, but I think people would be more forgiving if we were playing well with a positive identity (like Smith's Brentford team). I honestly don't know what Smith is trying to do.
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The board either need to accept that we weren’t really ready to be promoted - and accept probable relegation with Smith, or need to be ruthless and find someone that can keep us up this season. It’s a hard one to call because they could change manager and we could still go down, and Smith would probably be the best candidate to get us promoted again. Unless they can get a top manager like Poch then I think they’d be better off sticking with Smith.
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The shots conceded table might look a bit better for us when all the other teams have played Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea and Man Utd away from home. We've had quite a ridiculous run of away games when you consider we’ve also played Palace and Wolves too.
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We didn’t play particularly well today but we deserve some luck after the past few weeks, but boy, what a job Dean Smith has done in 12 months. It really couldn’t have gone any better. From mid table Championship to mid table Premier League playing some of the best football I can remember at Villa. If we can just survive this season I think we’ll go from strength to strength.
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That’s one way of lowering your price to get a move in the next window anyway.
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Dreadful when he came on yesterday. I’d definitely give Davis a chance before Kodjia gets another.
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I’m not judging him based on yesterday. He had hardly any service first half, and absolutely no service second half. He’s been purchased to score goals, so I’ll judge him when he gets the chances to score.
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I’m not liking that defence, hard to see us getting anything today.
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I can’t see us spending £30m on a 28 year old with little sell on value in 2/3 years, it goes against everything Purslow has said in the past. We’ll go for someone much younger in my opinion.
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I expect we’ll hear something shortly from John Percy if it’s true.
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We’re signing Benrahma according to this tweet from an Express reporter. Exclusive with @ScottBurns75: Neal Maupay is having a medical at Brighton, Said Benrahma is heading to Aston Villa and Brentford are looking to do a deal to sign Sandro Kulenovic, who has been dubbed the new Mandzukic - to replace them express.co.uk/sport/football… #Bees
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