Villarocker

1 minute ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

I like Duran. This kids gonna be good.

What have you seen that makes you think that? 

He's come on, fallen over whilst trying a ridiculous shot with players around him, played a simple 10 yard back-pass when he had a player out wide on the overlap then strolled around without purpose. 

Not saying he won't be good but he's not done anything so far in this game to make him look good. 

I think we've underestimated the team and manager. I think Unai told them to go in not more than 3 goals down, get Citeh complacent, and then go and smash 4 in ourselves when puts on big Jhon. 

Kamara, Digne and Chambers have been really poor today. 

Watkins, Buendia and Bailey really need to work harder to stop the ball coming forward from their defenders. They aren't getting any service going forward so the very least they can do is put themselves about. 

Ramsey has been anonymous apart from their penalty. 

I can't believe that Unai hasn't changed it at half time. Take Ramsey off for McGinn who at the very least will put a foot in. 

1 minute ago, OutByEaster? said:

If it was a foul, was he last man?

 

Yes he was. He should have gone for that.

He never got the ball there, it just got stuck between their legs. His first leg takes out Bailey. Yes, Bailey should've done better but there's no doubt that he got taken out by Dias there. 

Dias was last man too so should've seen red. 

As much as I think he's not as good defensively as Digne, I'd like to see Moreno on as it's clear that the only space we're getting going forward is down our left side and Digne is doing nothing with the ball. 

I'd like to see a Villa player actually make a challenge. Just dancing around us like we are dummies on the training ground. 

The problem we have today? No Mings! He handled Haaland well last time we played these but, already, you just know he's going to get one or two today with Chambers marking him.

In defence of Chambers, he's no left-sided centre back, he's mostly played right side. He looks nervy today and this doesn't look like it will be a good game for him. 

Our forwards have been very poor so far. We won't see much of the ball so when we do get it we have to protect it much better than we are. The forwards have to hold on to it and wait for re-inforcements to arrive and cut out the fancy hopeful flicks. 

He's great and I really want him here but, we need a natural out-and-out goalscorer. Ollie gets chances that natural finishers would be testing the keeper with, at least. 

I think today showed he's trying to still find his feet with these players. 

My worry about the transfer window was that maybe the club got a bit too comfortable with our league position. We know most of these players are vulnerable to collapse. I just hope that Unai doesn't get too carried away with these players and tries to get them doing things they're not capable of or competent at. 

I thought the decision to change Digne was odd. I didn't think he deserved to be changed. 

This isn't me saying that Unai isn't good enough or doesn't know what he's doing etc. I am merely saying that I hope he doesn't put misplaced trust in some of these as they may well let him down. 

There's something about a defender when he always seems to be the last man that makes me think he's not doing something right. Today, it looked like he was playing sweeper but, in a back four. 

For me, Ty made too many errors today. It's a trait of his game to mark space rather than pick up someone. He did that today for Ihenacho's goal. He followed him into the box perfe tly, cleared the ball then, for some reason, ignored him and walked moved towards the near post to mark nobody and Ihenacho just pretty much stood and had a free header. I saw people blaming Digne but he was with another Villa player picking up two Leicester players at the back post. 

Far too many times I see Ty marking space. He's done it on corners, free kicks, crosses into the box etc. His job is to defend and stop players from scoring goals or creatinf them. Space doesn't score goals - players do. 

43 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Digne taken off speaks volumes by the way. 

He will be moved on in the summer i think

Why though? What did he do in that first half that wasn't as good as Moreno in the second? Please don't mention the third goal - that was on Mings. 

Can anyone understand the Digne substitution? Involved going forward and was looking fine. I'd rather he'd have taken Mings off and put someone on who marks players instead of space. 

I think we need to line up someone else instead of punning all our hopes on Guendouzi. If Marseille get Champions League qualification why would he want to leave them? Also, his price will probably be driven up and others will be in for him too. 

I'm not saying we should give up totally on him but, I do think we need to have our alternatives planned. 

Chelsea and Arsenal aside, not many other clubs have done a lot of deals. 

I don't think we will be in a scrap for survival but will maybe drop down the table a little, especially if we get injuries to the likes of Martinez, Kamara or Watkins. 

Hopefully, we set our sights high and hit our targets early in the summer. 

6 hours ago, thabucks said:

I mean … it’s not the best look is it really. But sadly C.R.E.A.M (FYI for those who don’t know it mean Cash Rules Everything Around Me btw) 

That ad is tacky. Fancy allowing those shirts! 

On 03/01/2023 at 12:06, sne said:

Just gotta make sure we get all of the Miley Cyrus fans on board since she seem to be a fan of Emi. That'll get us another couple 100m fans 

I always wanted to be a vase

I hope that someone at the club gives some kind of explanation as to this transfer window business. What the general aim was in regards to dealings. I think it would be helpful. 

A lot of us have spoken about "deadwood" leaving but, in reality, how many of our unused players have actually left the club? Two loanees have gone back to their parent clubs. Guilbert was released. But, the rest are only loans. I'm not including Ings in that group as he's been used a lot this season - however, I can sort of see why they took the money and eased the wage bill there. 

The squad should be enough for the games we have left. I'm not actually that bothered about European football right now as we simply don't have the quality or depth to be playing those extra games. 

I think the positives will be:

Watkins in the number one striker so now needs to show if he's up to it. 

Bailey has serious pressure for his place with Traore returning - when he's fit. 

Traore gets a fresh start with a proper coach. 

The rest will all be about showing who Unai sees as good enough for starting places and who he can rely on to back them up. 

I'm fine our window as long as we don't suddenly do a Villa and go into a free fall looking like headless chickens. But, in the summer, I'm expecting two new attacking players, one of which needs to be a proven goalscorer. I also would like to see a new number two 'keeper and maybe another creative midfielder as Buendia and Coutinho simply just don't create enough. 

In Unai we trust! 

With the squad you have now, what is your target for this season?

Did our business relatively early in this window. Makes me think that we will do our summer business early into that window too. 

Marseille already have some roster of midfielders. They've already bought one from Verona that they've loaned back and now look like signing Vitinha for 30m. 

I'm not sure that a deal for Guendouzi won't be done. If it isn't this month, I think we've got something in place with them to sign him in the summer. 

Who, if any, could we be looking at who would fly in from Madrid? 

Unai took Dani Ceballos on loan to Arsenal at the start of his second season with them. He's at Real Madrid. 

What about agent Emi Martinez having a word in Angel Correa's ear and convinced that Villa's a big club mate? 

I think that Unai really does rate and want Guendouzi and he is our number one target. I reckon the stumbling block would be the fee as Marseille are doing so well right now they're surely not going to let him go cheap, especially given the fact it is us and we took Kamara for nothing. 

I think Marseille are probably playing hardball with us and want a sizeable amount for than we are probably wanting to pay. Don't Arsenal also get a percentage of the fee? I guess if he really wants Guendouzi, Unai us going to have to do some serious arm-twisting in the accounts department. 

With regards to other signings; I think we really do want a new number 9 but, I think we will wait until the summer and break our transfer record. 

5 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

Not a tweet, but the plane Mr The Trees was talking about has landed. It has had an interesting recent history and if it did have a future villa player on it, then there's any number of Spanish clubs that they could have come from.

What we thinking? Even got a Sweden to brum trip in there.

 

Just trolling us with the Swedish link.