JPAngel

Ha! Sorry, three games. But is three enough to judge a player on then? Is that the cut off point? The so called "serious errors" are your opinion on it dude. I thinks it's way too soon to call and what I've seen of him aside from two freak incidents (my opinion) is that he's strong, vocal, about 10x better than Guzan and about 15x better than Bunn. That's good enough for me.

Based on TWO games?

Okay .

So you think he aimed it at the striker?

This is the best thing to happen this season. PLEASE get this over the line!

No way was last night's goal his fault. Put his foot right through it and what keeper/defender/manager can legislate for a clearance to be ricocheted into their net from what, 20 yards out? Add to this that we had 17 other shots on goal and at least one of them should have been buried. Should have been out of sight. The Sheffield Wednesday goal was a bit closer to his fault. He sliced his clearance, yes, but Elphick tried to deal with it before it bounced off Forrestieri, ricocheted back off him and rolled right into the path of the striker. Again, how can you legislate for that? The way I see it, we've conceded two goals in the championship this season and both have been flukes. Unfortunately those flukes have cost us 3 points which makes it a little harder to swallow but you'd hope that over the course of the season these type of things will even themselves out. When was the last time we scored an incredibly jammy ricochet?

God, you're actually right. If only Xia would've come in sooner!

Diawara?

That's not how the press had it. They said that he snubbed us to join Newcastle? Surely if the terms had been agreed and contracts submitted to the FA there's no going back from there? What do I know anyway, I'm just sat here waiting for the next transfer

Also said that we'd signed Doumbia in January.

Plus Ayew a shite. I've finally admitted it to myself. Don't like the bloke, hate his attitude.

Would you be embarrassed if we signed Berahino?

Whilst I agree with some of your points, I'm trying to look at this as: It's a player RDM wants. Great previous experience in the Championship. Good pedigree and character. Has a bit of Prem experience. Honest and hardworking. I think it's more of a case of looking at the impact on the whole team and not just the individual. Fingers crossed.

If us and Borough both have our bids accepted I can see him going to them over us. We did well with snatching McCormack from Norwich but to do the same to a Prem team might prove a step too far. Unless he has taste, of course.

He had about 6 yards (?) to react to a ball not moving that quickly. Pretty sure most of the people of this forum could've dealt with it without putting into our net!

Okore was absolutely awful last night. Scored one own goal and then attempted to score another with a deft lob. What was he actually trying to achieve with the own goal? Opposition everywhere in the box and his body shape suggests that he wanted to pass it to someone close by? WHy wouldn't he have just put his foot through it? Then there was the point where he was boxed into a corner and rather than attempting to clear (and potentially get a goal kick/throw-in via a deflection) he accepted that he couldn't do anything positive so he just passed it out for a throw.

Okore and Richards in particular are WAY too eager to stop an attack to the point of putting themselves completely out of position. How many time last night did one of them sprint to pressure a striker leaving a hole which Hutton or Amavi had to fill, resulting in more space on the wing. I've honestly never seen defending as bad as this in my entire life watching football. Get f***ing rid.

I don't think Gollini, Elphick, Tshibola or McCormack will be tainted by the deadwood still at Villa but it's clear as day to me that players like Richards, Hutton, Okore, Cissokho, Bunn, Ayew, Bacuna and Gestede are all totally f***ed in terms of confidence and I would be inclined to get rid of almost all of them. Ayew in particular really disappointed last night. I know he scored and looked good for half an hour but after that he became a petulant prat.

Richards is god awful in that clip but what the f*** was Bacuna think with that pass? I know it's been brought up before but I just cannot get my head around it

Struggling to get to grips with this one.

100% according to who? Genuine question.

There is absolutely no chance this will happen. Doesn't fit the criteria and I just can't see a championship club spending 17mil on anyone

Hernandez is absolutely rapid as well. Was garbage in the prem but so were that whole side... Only 25/26 so plenty of scope for improvement and he was a boss with Dybala in THAT Palermo side.