VillaChris

Tbf I'll say it every friday to try to jinx them. :winkold:

Spurs will win tommorrow.

Is it me or is he staying on his feet more playing for them?

The main thing imo is Fergie isn't pandering to Young by trying to play him centrally. He's recognised Young is much better out wide.

Similar to Given our James is. I know a West Ham fan who said this to me the day we signed him.

"When he plays, he's a warrior, you'll love him - problem is - he won't play that often !"

and he was right wasn't he.

Not really, he played 30 games for us in his first season and 25 last season so he hasn't been as injury prone as at West Ham.

Has his uses in games where teams use the high ball but gets dragged out of position too often for me.

Gabby will start instead of Heskey imo.

Makoun, Petrov and Ireland will be the three central midfielders tommorrow imo with Gabby, Zog and Bent ahead of them.

Delph's not quite up to speed yet so I think he'll be a sub for the first few games.

People like Makoun. The jumper was a good start. Now he's in a

with his Villa jersey on. His debut against United didn't hurt. People want to like their own players (as shameful and laughable as that clearly is on here). He has more to prove to everyone before he will live up to some of the hype but he has shown in flashes what he can do and because he is liked he will be given every chance to do so. A full pre-season with some much needed acclimatisation will hopefully stand him in good stead. But as confusing as it is to you that he is so liked, it is equally confusing to me that you wish to deride the player in an attempt to somehow prove to everyone else that our player isn't that good. Whatever floats your Villa-supporting boat though I suppose.

Fair enough but it's hardly Salifou levels is it, when an unused squad player had his own chant from the Holte.

Anyway, I think Makoun will come good this season. He showed glimpses of quality in games last season and I think he's one of these players that needed 6 months to settle into the English game.

What's this cult status Makoun is supposed to have anyway?

He was shite aswell.

When's Adler back?

Whelan will accept 10m.

I'm with Gareth and others, walk away.

Supposedly, we were told that the price was 9m. We bid 9m. Then DW says "sorry old chaps, the price is 10m". Say we then bid the 10m, there's no reason to doubt that DW will do it again and say "actually old bean, the price is now 11m", and so on, until the price is closer to 15m. Is that still a good deal?

At the end of the day, i'm not sure that N'Zogbia is this panacea to cure all Villa's ills, and there are alternatives out there.

Hope not as then we'd have the prospect of eck coming up with SWP and McGeady as replacements for Young and Downing. :shock:

Not a huge fan really.

He's got a dodgy shoulder aswell now so stand by for him being injured a few times next season and Guzan or whoever our number 2 will be playing a few prem games.

Won't miss him at all, him being around next season will just mean blocking the Fonz and Weimann even getting on the bench and we don't want to dispirit those two.

Doubt the club will miss his 60k a week wages either.

Van Gaal would be a coup.

Can somebody explain to me why Benitez is a no go?! He was brilliant at Liverpool! And he has won more stuff than anybody on that list - almost. Why the ****, would we want a manager from the championship?! Makes no sense what so ever.

So did Houllier.

I don't really want another manager who'd award himself a testimonial when he goes back to Anfield.

I'd really like Coyle but Moyes or Hughes would be fine by me.

While at the moment he appears a lost cause, strange things happen in football.

Houllier retires on health grounds, Mark Hughes comes in and suddenly you have a manager who helped him produce his best form of his career two seasons ago so he'd be back in the fold.

Same with Warnock who played very well for Hughes at Blackburn.

Was poor last night...I think start of next season we need to send him on loan to another prem club for 6 months, same for the Fonz.

Arsenal did it with Wilshere and it worked a treat.

Forgot about Gary, would like to see him get a few cameos once we get past 40 points.

Petrov (as cover and the odd starter), Delph, Bannan, Makoun and Bradley are how I see our midfield options for next season. Probably need one more if we play three centrally often.

Will Downing end up playing in the 'hole' if Ash goes?

I'd like to see this tried out actually as he has a decent long range shot and uses the ball intelligently so I bet he wouldn't overhit as many throughballs as Young does.

He played in a central two against Man. City and did o.k so it's not an absurd suggestion.

Everon could still finish 6th if they pick up away from home.

Rondon's looked brilliant for Malaga all season, another goal last night.

Venezuela have suddenly starting producing some good young players like miku at Getafe so wouldn't surprise me if they finally qualified for the world cup in Brazil.

He was in his tracksuit by the tunnel along with Davies and Bannan.

Utterly bizarre bench from us, with Carew injured why on earth did we have two central defenders and a full back on the bench and no Fonz?!

There would be no free kick if we could actually keep the ball for two minute in injury time which isn't beyond most sides.

Poor.