Thug

hehehe elmo.

we're gonna win this

For all their possesison, they've not looked like scoring.

We've had the best 2 shots.

Just now, Danishlad said:

Who is Ramsay?

The young skinny dude from the youth team

Got a good feeling about the second half.

1 minute ago, villalad21 said:

Whelan played well fair play to him.

Terrible half though. Brentford well on par with us, how far we've fallen.

Errrr.....

I worry every time Mings goes near a player on the floor 

What the ****?????

He's GOT to score!

On the plus side, they MUST be knackered for the second half.

Just now, NurembergVillan said:

Alright mate, calm it down a bit.

lol.

Yh you're right.

I'm just annoyed watching this shit.

(He's still left back tho)

Just now, Danishlad said:

He isn’t a left back. 

He's playing left back.

I didn't say he's a left back by trade.

He's left back

look at the game

He's LEFT. BACK.

Did not think I'd see a worse left back than Taylor in a villa shirt...

Step forward Kortney Hause

hause 

5 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Agreed but I think we’re thinking long term now with the signing of Guilbert and Jack himself signing a new long term contract not so long ago. Rushing him back could have a detrimental effect in my opinion 

True, but if we sell him then it’ll be spurs problem and not ours...  we need to get back up, and quick.

39 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

We might as well have kept Bruce until the end of the season.

The majority of them obviously aren't suited in DS style of play and this season is just drifting to no man's land.

Who knows where we would be if Bruce was still in charge? Things can change fast in this league, just look at Hull earlier in the season in very bad form similar to us and suddenly thy go on a great run.

Sacking a manager mid season rarely work out well and the more i think about it the more i think keeping Bruce till the end of the season would be the better option. At least the majority of the players suited his style of play.

It’s a no from me too I’m afraid.

we were going nowhere under him.

id rather have a new manager mid season to fully assess the players he has and make his mind up about dead wood, and be prepared fully for the summer transfer window. Be in no doubt about what he needs.

just need a little patience from being judged by well-meaning but overly eager for immediate results fans 

Quality.

On 08/02/2019 at 16:19, LakotaDakota said:

Name more than 5? He along with most of the rest of the team were pretty shit when bruce was here, 4 or 5 good games under smith then injured. Nobody other than spurs wanted him and they didn't wan't him enough to pay stupid money. By the time the transfer window comes round he will be nearly 24. He has been in the championship for 3 years now and has managed an almighty 60 starts in 122 games (40 out of 76 in the previous 2 seasons) 10 goals & 14 assists in 3 years combined is only slightly better than snodgrass managed last season.

Players from a lower league that miss large chunks of 2 consecutive seasons do not go for £40 million.

Why would anyone pay 40 million for him? If you really must have an attacking midfielder from a championship club why not just buy someone like Bradley Dack for 15million or less who is a year older, has 4 or 5 years of playing nearly every game and has 125 goals & assists in 264 appearances compared to grealishes 42 in 171.

Maddison only went for £20 million or so last year and he is twice the player grealish is despite being a year younger.

Failing that you could buy a whole team of foreign 18-21 year olds & pay them a fraction of the wages grealish would want.

Norwich only paid 1.5 million for Beundia and he has had a far better season than grealish.

 

Dean Smith said we were good against Reading so i'll take what he says with a pinch of salt for now....

Wow.

There’s more to football than assists and goals you know.

Have you not seen the difference between him in the team and out of it? He draws 2-3 players to him every time he’s on the ball, creating so much space for the rest of the team.

just look at the last 10 games to know how much he contributes to this team.

He’s worth more than £40m to us, because without him, we’re not going up.  As for buying a bunch of foreign 18-21 yr olds - for every one bargain £1.5m player, there’s about 50 duds. 

£4m gets you hourihane, or Lansbury.

Now if Spurs can get £18m from stoke for a 29 year old Kevin (who??) Wimner, they can bloody pay £40m for Grealish - or they can **** off.

You also need to realise that transfer prices are dictated by who is buying and who is selling - not necessarily as a direct reflection of the quality of the player.  When a champions league club want a player from Aston Villa, they’re gonna have to pay champions league prices.

So one footed it’s appalling 

telegraphs what he’s going to do every time 

14 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Our squad is so unsuited to 4-4-2 its unreal. We may as well try to play hockey.

El Ghazi booked for a whoopsie-uppsie fallie over.

doesnt seem much suited to 4-3-3 either really does it?

4 - 4 - 2.

Do it.

1 minute ago, VillaChris said:

Wouldn't say nearly a million for a 17 year old was that cheap tbh, particularly with lack of premier league funds to waste.

Had forgot about him but surely a loan move would've been more logical unless he was homesick?

Not really. Once it’s decided no future, then there’s little point in keeping him on the wage bill.

53 minutes ago, Bomvilla7 said:

Still catching up but this is something I don't understand. I had thought that the players contracted salary remains the same, and the offer is to the club for how much of it we will cover. Clubs surely don't have to offer a loan salary to the player as well? maybe I'm reading this wrong but i'm pretty sure I've seen this more than once before where a player chooses one club over another to go on loan to because the offer was better. 

I suppose this is where the option to buy part comes in?

no idea, just guessing.

He needs to come back.

We're a one man team.

And he's the one.

better than chester.