Villarocker

Ramsey, for me.

This ref is a top class, higher than the highest, see you next tuesday. Ronaldo should've been off. Martinez for them should've been off. Then he gets in the way of our breakaway. What a fooking piece of shite.

I'm prepared to give SJM more time. Yes, he's not playing well and hasn't done so for a while but, he's been played out of position for quite some time and it has obviously affected his game. Hopefully, Emery will play him in a more suitable role and we get our old SJM back.

No no no no NO. Coutinho has to be the lesson learned on signing previous great Premier League players who've done nothing ever since they left

If we could get Pau Torres to somehow join up with Emery I'd love seeing a centre back partnership of Carlos and Torres. Sorry Ty but, needs must if we're to move forward.

We need to remember that 4-0 absolutely flatters us. We were lucky to come off that pitch not having conceded 7 or 8.

I'll tell you what's wrong with this group of players - there are too many players that have played at Championship level. Cash from Forest, Konsa from Brentford, Buendia from Norwich, Watkins from Brentford. Mings wasn't getting PL games for a struggling Bournemouth. McGinn came from Hibs, Luiz was playing for Girona in Spain, Ings was at Southampton (lower PL level), Denoncker and Champers came from a better level but were surplus to requirements, Young is 37! The only top level players we have in our squad are Martinez, Digne, Kamara, Carlos and Coutinho (and even he looks way past it). The board needs to throw a lot of money at Emery if they want him to have any chance of success with our club.

I think the Premier League itself was a major attraction for Emery to join us. Xavi was quoted as saying that La Liga is still as big as the Premier League. It was almost like he was trying to convince himself as well as others. Maybe Emery realised that he wants to challenge himself in what he believes is the toughest league in world football and we were the club to approach him and give him that challenge. I know he turned down Newcastle but he was on a mission with Villarreal at that time, so had a very good reason to turn it down. I think that we have a manager who feels that he wants to win things here, in the toughest league. That bodes very well for us. Our owners will back him if it means success for their (and ours) club.

I've been saying exactly the same! We won't have too many players away at the World Cup so Emery and the board can really start to file away the cobwebs and get the club back on track. A smooth end to the season.

What I love about this appointment is, even if it fails, from day one, they showed a truly big intention. It never felt like that with the Gerrard appointment.

We couldn't ask for more than our owners. This is a massive statement from them of their intentions. You don't get someone like Unai Emery in to manage you unless you have really serious ambition. I think they realised that to go big you need to be managed big.

Swapped Villareal for the real Villa. Who can blame him? Now, that's what you call a statement appointment. Welcome to the REAL Villa, Unai. May you and our wonderful club enjoy much success together

I think that there's some kind of irony that Liz Truss and Steven Gerrard lost their jobs on the same day. They were both short-lived expensive failures and their mistakes could prove costly and lead to economic castrophe for years to come.

All we can hope for now is for Gerrard to get another job and take Coutinho off our hands in January.

I never want to see Gary Macallister back at our club.

Do you mean Herr Flick? No thanks. We've had enough of the Gestapo-type management under Stevie G, thanks!

I'm not a fan of Bielsa so I'm hoping it isn't him. My personal choice would be Pochettino. He did a great job at Southampton and he'd probably be a decent fit for us. However, I think we missed a trick to get some feelgood factor back by failing to sack Gerrard earlier and bring in Potter, another Villa fan.

If you're highlighting our lack of width you are going to be in for some further disappointment because we now have only one winger because of our manager's greatness.

Honestly, they're not a great bunch of players overall. But, they're better than this. Gerrard wasn't up to the task. He's obviously gone either tonight or tomorrow but, he shouldn't be the only one. All bar Cutler of his coaches should go too and, I'd also like NSWE to get rid of Lange because the players he's bringing in are just not good enough. Purslow's position also needs to be questioned.

I agree about the decisions going wrongfully against us but, in your heart of hearts, did you ever believe we would score in this game? They were one up and looking like the only team in this game to score a goal. We'd have lost anyway.

We've got to stop the flow of goals in this game. Could be damaging for our goal difference.

Well, for those that want Gerrard out, but not really hoping for a Villa defeat to get their way, now may get their way and can blame this all on the ref instead. Daft from Luiz and Cash. Sunday was Emi and Mings. The players are devoid of confidence and this will take more than manager change to save us from relegation.

Exactly! I cannot help but feel that he knows in his own heart that defeat tonight means the sack for him.

That is f**king dumb if Luiz has nutted him after trying the same the other day and getting away with that.

Gerrard probably got the numbers mixed up!