punkiller1981

I go along with what i think is the general feeling of lambert is probably the right/best man for the job currently. He was the man i wanted after mcleish and last season he had my full support. He still does have my support but the result against chelsea makes me question it to a certain extent. I watched that game delighted with the pressing, hard work and tempo and the resutl was deserved, then i watch stoke and we start well pressing get 1 nil up and we sit back and hardly put a tackle in for the rest of the game and get our pants pulled down making what i consider to be a poor stoke side missing there best midfield player look like barcalona passign around us. For FS press and play at tempo and we would have beaten stoke, then the united game i just new we would capitulate against a side who a struggling with confidence and form and lets be honest are poor compared to other seasons. this is were my frustration with lambert starts, why press chelsea so well and then not bother doing it against stoke it nakes no sense to me and for me its happened to often this season. Good performances on occasions with high tempo but far to often lack lusture slow ponderous naive showings against average sides. I will add that i think the players should take a share of the responsability for poor perfromances. I am still backing lambert but this summer is a massive one for him IMO he needs backing by the board and i think he will get it right but if we have a season next year like the last 2 i will find it hard to keep the faith. I know he has his hands tide to a certain extent but we need to improve.

i agree the whole culture has to be changed in terms of how we play. The is a reason why we don't win many games, firstly that we support or few good players with complete dross. More worringly for me is our desire to try and play games by touching the ball as little as possiable, Southampton we won the game with hardly an possession. I know that stats like that can look misleading but lets be honest how many teams win games with such minimal possession, that result was a freak i would say. We need to gain and keep better possession and that comes from all through the team. Also another worrying trend i have noticed which i think has been with us since the MON era is if we are winning drop so deep the midfield drops right onto our defence. So as a result any ball cleared by are defence goes back over our midfields head and drops back with the oppoisition midfield and they attack again. We do the inevitable and at some point crack under the pressure and concede and all the players look forlorn becuase we ahve conceded despite it beign inevitable.

I have always been a big lambert fan and to be honest i still think he is the best man for the job at the moment and i say this while being very angry and wanting to throw chairs and tables at most of the players. I agree its lamberts job to get the players playing but look at what we have got and be realistic about were we are at. Guzan - decent keeper wouldn't look out of place in majority of sides. Bacuna - probably not good enough makes to many mistakes, gives the ball away to much and decision making is very poor. Vlaar- the one saving grace probably our best player if he does not play we may as well hand the 3 point over. Baker - not good enough for a championship side, wins very few headers for a centre half, tackling is a liablity, postioning awful, distribution pathetic, looks like he is running in quick sand and general all round lack of a clue about football. Looks like a big lad and someone has said just run and kick anything that comes near you. Bertund - Ok on loan better than what we have had a left back but not convinced he is worth spending loads of money on, lets be honest the is a reason why chelsea don't want him. Having said that he does improve us at left back so for a reasonable fee and wages sign him up but don't go excessive to get him just because he played a champions league final. Westwood - Generally good, passes well and gets us moving needs to control games for longer periods though but is a bright spot. El Ahamidi - Looks ok in patches plays some nice football sometimes but not effective enough. Delph - tries hard, puts himself about looks to be positive and with the right people around him could become a good player but he isn't an 18 year old any more so needs to start delivering. Weinmann - can't get to grips with this guy he clearly has no first touch, no football brain no real quality on the ball either passing or shooting but runs around like a made thing and seems to make himself popular for that. Gabby - The only forward player to actually look like he might score yesterday works hard still causes defences a problem. Benteke - Not sure how interested he is but lambert needs to get him playing, still a big strong powerful lad, first touch is not great and his movement needs to improve but we all know he is a good player and he will scare defences. Clarke - not great seems to have a footballing brain but not the ability to do what his brain wants him to do. better however than baker in my opinion but not by much Sylla - disapointing not good enough Bennett - not good enough Albrighton - inconsistant sometimes good some times really poor but perhaps needs a run of games. I am not going to go through anymore players but my point is we have 4-5 decent players but after that the players we have would not get in most championship sides hence why nobody ever tries to sign them from us. I don't know the in's and out's of Lerner/Faulkner/Lambert relationship but my belief is that he kind of has his hands tied money wise. We have spent money on a few players but you get what you pay for so we need to make decent investment in the team. Lambert needs to build a midfield that isn't dominated every single game regardless of who we play. If he can get okore in with vlaar next year then i think that is a decent CB partnetship. Upfront we have benteke (if he stays but the way he is playing he will be staying) and gabby i think given decent service they will be fine. So in summary lambert has his hands tied but next year if we stay up (i think we will just) then its time for lambert to start delivering, ireland's gone given's probably gone, a lot of the big wages are gone. Time for the excusses to stop from all running the club.

Just my opinon here but i would already be thinking about another new contract for this guy giving him what ever wage he wants to sign for 6-7 years. i appriciate this might sound mad but lets face it by now i think we all know this guy is the real deal and by giving him a huge contract the only a risk if he gets injured but i am sure we could get insurance to cover this eventuality. The long contract would show commitment by us and him to the cause and also mean a massive fee if anyone wants to buy him. I normally take the view on players that if i was running Villa everybody would be for sale at anytime as long as we got a great price for them that was on Villa's terms based on the fact that i have full confidence in the clubs ability to find replacement's of same or better quality that are perhaps a bit unproven. In Benteke's case he is so key to our play that i am not sure how we replace him if and when he does leave. I would also have put a clause in his contract which gifted him a 40-50% pay rise every year that he scores 15+ league goals but also adding an extra year onto that contract. While on the subject of contacts if this Okore is as good as people think he will be then by christmas time if he is another player looking the real deal then get him on a very long term contract with performance incentives etc. We need to be proactive in our contract negotiations keep constantly reviewing thinsg making sure we get best value for money while keeping and rewarding our best players.

I think this is fantastic news for the club and for ash and proof to me that somebody is giving a bit of forward planning too. I would have actually given him a 6 year contract make it heavily incentivised but with a sensible basic salary. I know 6 years is a risk with injuries etc but to me it shows faith in him and would give him a massive confidence boost like Arsenal did with fabragas, plus if he does turn out to be as good as we think he is and one of the top clubs comes knocking then we can get an even bigger fee for him. Also this shows me as well that you can create a side to compete in the premier league with good quality youth products combined with excellent young talent in the lower leagues and then add in 2/3 more experienced players. I genuinely think there are more rough diamonds in league one/two similar to lowton and westwood and I think we are the perfect club to find them and develop them and from a commercial point of view they don't require huge wages either.

I agree this one made me actually lol why on earth would spurs think that offering the option of any of these players would interest us its basically saying we want your best player because we are in London and think we are a big club but in reality we are not and can't afford him so we will offer you a load of crap that can't get in our first team play but also we think each of these payers are worth about £10 million so we are actually offering you an amazing deal. We should tell them if they want him they stump up the cash and they do it now not in installments over the next 2 years. The reality is they have already spent £17 million on one player and don't have the funds to spend 25-30 on another so think they can try and get benteke on the cheap. Its like going into a shop and saying i really like that tv and my house is a much better place for it to be but i can't afford it so i am going ot take it off your hands half price and chuck in an old betamax to sweeten the deal. It wouldn't happen we need to stand firm on this have a price we will sell at and if nobody meets it say to benteke tough mate nobody rates you as highly as you rate yourself so fet to training. I will be so bloody angry if we accept any player exchange espeically after getting such a good deal with Ireland from man city in the Milner deal.

I agree this one made me actually lol why on earth would spurs think that offering the option of any of these players would interest us its basically saying we want your best player because we are in London and think we are a big club but in reality we are not and can't afford him so we will offer you a load of crap that can't get in our first team play but also we think each of these payers are worth about £10 million so we are actually offering you an amazing deal. We should tell them if they want him they stump up the cash and they do it now not in installments over the next 2 years. The reality is they have already spent £17 million on one player and don't have the funds to spend 25-30 on another so think they can try and get benteke on the cheap. Its like going into a shop and saying i really like that tv and my house is a much better place for it to be but i can't afford it so i am going ot take it off your hands half price and chuck in an old betamax to sweeten the deal. It wouldn't happen we need to stand firm on this have a price we will sell at and if nobody meets it say to benteke tough mate nobody rates you as highly as you rate yourself so fet to training. I will be so bloody angry if we accept any player exchange espeically after getting such a good deal with Ireland from man city in the Milner deal.

what annoys me about all this is we could have offered him a contract in January/February time to double his money get him signed up for another 4-5 years dobuleing his money but all we got was we had to wait till we were safe from relegation before we risked opening negotiations. Lets be honest we have some players on big contracts that no ther club would come close to matching because they offer really poor value for money. Benteke is not one of those we could have given him a nice new contract safe in the knowledge that had we got relegated we could ship him on still for decent money if we couldn't sustain his wages in the championship. IT all just seems very short sighted not looking at the big picture for the future. None the less lets get rid now get the money in rebuild. We got him in for 8 mill now selling for 25 lets see if PL can spend 15-20 million on a striker that can give similar value to benteke.

for what its worth in my opinion we need to get rid quick and get a good price for him, i honestly think Villa should always be a selling club so we can evolve and always keep pushing forward and if that means selling our best player of last season at a big profit then lets do it. I think it would be naive of us to think that lambo hasn't anticipated this might happen and have had his scouts scowering the world for a suitable replacement. This time last year nto many people had heard of benteke so i feel confident lambert can find someone to replace him. I know any manager wants to keep his best players and its disruptive losing a player like benteke but lets be honest everybody is replacable (perhaps apart from Messi) man utd didn't suffer to dramatically when they lost Ronaldo. IMO the key to Villa being succesful is evolution by young sell on reinvest or even better bring through the system sell on. On getting rid we need to get a really good price for him as we as far as i know were the only ones to take a risk on him last season and £8 million is a big risk for us if it didn't work out. So on that basis we should want massive money for him along with the fact that he is a better player now than he was this time last year and if clubs want him at a cheap price they should turn the clock back a year and go and try and out bid us. I am hoping he gopes abroad but if he stays in this country anybody but spurs will do me, spurs are such an average club with one good (or excellent player) and a dick head of a chairman. I would happily say to chelsea 20 mill plus lukaku. there we go thats my opinion keep evolving

hi all i am a 32 year old villa fan started supporting villa on 5th november 1989 at the age of 8 after the 6-2 demolition of everton in which David Platt scored twice. I try and get to Villa park as often as i can but i still play football myself at teh moment on saturdays so i will by buying my season ticket once i retire. i am looking forward to giving my opinion on all things villa espically as i am a massive fan of paul lambert and the way he is going about rebuilding our squad. having gone through the Graham taylor, joseph venglos big ron managers through Martin o'neill and mcleish i really think we have the best manager in the premier league with a great plan and a brain to balance the books while putting togther a hungry young team. thats all from me for now. cheers xxx