thunderball

1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

People rave byt watkins but he isnt a top striker for me. He is so inconsistent and frustrating to watch. Not signing a striker was a collosal **** up

He does a lot of good and is important to how we play but the lack of goals prevails as the dominant memory. Made even worse when Archer plays like he did yesterday

Should try Tielmans and Duran for the last 20?

Just now, TheAuthority said:

Unpopular opinion.

We look stronger with Dendonker than Boubs. That was the midfield when we trounced Newcastle last season

Thought he looked very comfortable when he came on midweek

Just can’t even make passes now

Not at the races for some reason, we are poor all over today, but Liverpool are a good side, foolish to say otherwise, beating the Toon at their place with 10 men say something, and their team is still very good and they are well drilled at this, it’s how they’ve played for years.

Also, the defeat we had at Newcastle was very flattering for them, we were actually OK.

Is Bailey still on?

Just now, Zero7 said:

I’ve got some great food lined up for the bbq, and a bottle of vodka 

Me too, my family can eat an hour earlier than planned at this rate.

Two goals from corners

FFS

2 minutes ago, Callum said:

Watkins off. 
Pau off. 
Kamara off. 
 

need duran tearing around, ruffling their back line. 

Pau, so far for me is no where near physical enough. extremely naive. Needs to get the basics right before trying his floozy tricks.

teilemans to replace kamara, who is the biggest Jekyll & Hyde of them all. Either borderline world class, or like today, absolutely redundant. 
 

As fans we really need to stop getting carried away. We’ve improved yes, but so has every single other team. Infact more in most cases. Every single time we come up against anyone half decent we are really, really questionable

 

lol Go and have a walk around the garden! 

Clutching at straws re the obstructed vision.

Need to get a grip on the midfield battle, it’s not working and we have our best out there. It’s putting pressure on the whole team. 

Half time talk will help, and if we score i reckon this game gets turned on its head

Just now, HKP90 said:

We've won our last 4 comprehensively. If you're not confident after that you might as well go and play Cricket or something.

I am sure we started confidently, but after conceding after 3, losing a key defender to injury and struggling to put any sequence together for 20 minutes, it’s gone.

1 minute ago, maqroll said:

That Bailey and Traore remain in the side is telling. We are a ways away yet.

In fairness Bailey’s scored in his last 3 outings.

Watkins showing lots of very frustrated body language.

Show that we have enough to hurt Liverpool if we tag in our confidence. Could be level with better luck….

10 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Gave away a needless corner.

Tried a bit of skill to get out of our box, gave it away and had to challenge leading to a corner.

We conceded from said corner.

I just hope it doesn't affect the rest of his game

So do we go back to hoofing it out? No, we keep it going, there’s going to be hicups.

what I will say in typical Villa fan fashion we have to have a scape goat of the moment and a lot are choosing Torres at the moment. But whilst he conceded a corner, the corner led to a goal which needed defending after. I dont blame Torres.

Happy days (for Archer). Vindicates his move, no way he start s here. He is now going to get at least 30+ full 90 minute games at PL level which he would never have achieved here. Never. You cannot offer that where we are in our journey and jeopardy that is involved for all involved.

If he blossoms and we have a £30m buy-back we have a decision to make, but in a year or two Villa is going to be a stellar destination for most ambitious players. Who knows, we may have Watkins, Vlahovic, Diaby, Nico Williams as our forward then. I just wish Archer well and hope he gets so good we have another bargain to buy, but we are on our own journey and its up to him to catch up.

You can only be delighted by our window: both the quality we added and the price we paid.

Outgoing seem logical and good value too. Very accomplished and efficient business, and you just know Monchi and the team will be in overdrive lining up further remodelling for the future.

What’s interesting is the eventual price of some players moving to other clubs who we were linked with vs the price the media suggested the selling club was looking for. These varied hugely which suggests that it’s mostly BS from the press. Fresneda, the other young Spanish fullback who’s name escapes me and Abde are three who eventually moved for considerably less than the press were valuing the deals at.

6 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Which keeper isn’t ? (To other clubs fans).

It’s no wonder given the sh*t they have to put up with with opposing fans  baiting them all game from a few metres away. They can’t run away.

40 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Seems like he’s a bit of a prick. 

He’s a good keeper, not sure he’d play second fiddle

1 hour ago, jacketspuds said:

Sadly, that’s exactly where I’m at with this. I can see him signing for someone this evening.

Just not us.

This is new ”us”, this is now Monchi’s us!

The reality is we are good to go, anything incoming needs to be better than what we've got or its a waste, we really dont need the numbers with Ramsey and Moreno coming back. I reckon Diaby, Traore and most convincingly Zaniolo could all play in place of Watkins if needed.

Fati leaving was likely enough to assure a future at Barca. Based on his start to the season it was far more likely Ebde might appear here. Torres may be a long term target however, as might Goncalves, Nico Williams and Vlahovic if we get Champions league.