Tony

Didn’t look as selfish tonight. Done it on his own when needed. And passed when needed. Great performance 

Great play from us today. Deserved to win, ref was against us. It showed how much we needed new wingers, could of won easily win abit of quality. Dean smiths subs changed the game, Steve Bruce subs seemed to have the opposite effect, still don’t like him. Jedinaks not a cb. Nyland should of done better for the second, so should have Tuanzebe. McGin at the centre of the press seems a great buy. Whelan done pretty well. The king is back. Sums up my thoughts. 

1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

That be odd considering the lack of strikers we have.

If he signs two adomah wont be gettin much game time

dont think he has ever really liked adomah. Didnt play him at the start of last season and put him back into the team after an injury if i can remember right. That along with the fact we arent offering him a new contract suggests he might be off. Weren't borough interested? Also Hogan looking likely to leave for Shef United. Very weak upfront, then again hogan spends 70% of the season out injured anyway. 

Could be done by today supposedly 

Linky

15 minutes ago, weedman said:

Surely every loan is "short termism"? Maybe we shouldn't bother in that case and just stuck with what we've got? 

For the cost of loaning a bolasie for one season, why not put that towards a younger player who can develop and we can actually get an option to buy on. Bolasie unlikely to want to stay if we don’t go up, and if we do go up will you want a 30 year old on 80k a week who’s injury prone ? Will be an amazing player if he stays fit and was anything like his previous self. We’ve just been down this route last year and it didn’t work. It got us into a mess and has left us weak in certain positions. Would personally prefer to build for the long term. 

If we sign him and don’t go up I wouldn’t be able to see this potential signing as anything but a failure. Short termism over buying and developing for the long term. Don’t go up back to square one. 

17 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

Should try pinch stockdale from Birmingham, he was good when he was at Brighton.

LOL

probably the last season well have grealish. would hate to see it wasted playing this way we do under bruce. such a limited manager, such an average manager. 

Has to be doing this on purpose to send some kind of message for reinforcement. 

33 minutes ago, VillanousOne said:

that would be awful, he was mediocre at best at Villa i was genuinely happy he went to Newcastle and seemed so very happy about it.
 

Thought he did well for Newcastle at this level. Don’t think he’d be a bad option tbh. Better than what we currently have playing next to Chester anyway. Although I’d like to see axel given prolonged time in the position 

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13 minutes ago, avfcwills10 said:

He would be unbelievable in the Championship on the right wing.

Some of the things he does in that clip is outrageous. Looks like he’d link up well with grealish and it’s is a big if, but if he did come in could be a potential loan to buy with possible buy back option for Madrid. Might just work. 

Martin Odegaard please. Supposedly available for loan to a championship club. RW too. 

45 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

I have a horrible feeling thia could end up like the rowett blose sacking.

I'd say keep bruce see how he does. I think he will suprise people 

Different situation for me. Rowett was literally working off scraps and had them competing at top end. Bruce in my opinion has had above and beyond what he’s needed and underachieved. I personally don’t think we can improve under him, and I don’t think he can adapt to what the new owners might want in terms of playing style . However having said that he has stabalised us and would be the safer pair of hands. Big decision either way 

Might turn out horribly wrong, might be the best thing that’s happened to us, or it might be in between. What I think this would tell us though is that our new owners have a specific way they want us to play, and also how we’ll go about our business. Attacking football with youth and inexperience given the chance to shine. With how FFP works, this method makes so much more sense. And I for one am well up for that. 

At this stage I’d be happily take being red bull villa 

52 minutes ago, John said:

In this case he may have had little choice because I don't think there are any direct flights from China to Birmingham. 

But I thought “little bit more than dollar billionaires” were supposed to have there own jets. 

Might as well close the thread 

Looks like nurseys been trying to profit out of a bad situation. Come out with so much ****

19 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

We lost 1-0 in a play off final. Was bruce on the pitch?

Was it bruce who was giving players like McCormack stupid wages on long term contracts? Or Richards?

Come on guys absolute nonsense to blame bruce for this its all at xia round and that oaf wyness 

“Was Bruce on the pitch”, what a terrible argument. Bruce spent 22m in January 17 on his signings. Only one of which started that play off final, worth about 3m. So that’s 22m he wasted on players who he now clearly deems not good enough and for that same reason we can’t get rid of. If he wasn’t as incompetent at one, choosing players for his system and, two playing a style to win games we would be out of this league. So you are right, Keith and Xia are to blame, but Bruce very much has to share that burden. 

2 hours ago, KHV said:

I would take Collymore with a pinch of salt. Wyness as a CEO had a duty of care for all employee's at Aston Villa. He had to make a desperate call to Burnley for the Westwood money to meet payroll. With not enough revenue coming in to meet HMRC bills or payroll to be met its means the business is insolvent. The club has to call in the administrators at that point. The black hole at Villa is around £100 million over the next 12 months. The tax bill doesn't even scratch the surface. Xia has run us into the ground. Xia cannot bankroll us like Lerner did until we are sold. We can no longer pay our bills , wages or debts. The Dr has gambled with our club to the point of no return. At least Lerner could pay the bills and did. I think Wyness has known for a long time Xia is more hype than substance.

Sounds like you are sympathising with Wyness there. Why, I don’t know. Both are incredibly incompotant, whilst you only have to look at Wyness time at Everton and now the situation with ourselves to realise his **** will deffinetly not smell like roses. 

49 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

I read at the weekend that he values the club at 100 million, and is open to offers. If true, then it seems he's losing interest already. 

Where did you read it?

6 minutes ago, holteend1982 said:

Its Made the game worse because now the big clubs can pay over 100 million for a player no problem but smaller clubs wanting to make a go of it get punished. They say its there to protect clubs from going into administration and getting ruined but at the same time they are trying to fine qpr 40 million, just doesn't make sense. 

Won’t I don’t get is how they are able to enforce it and for example charge QPR 40 million. Surely someone will win a legal case against it soon enough. 

When did football become about creative accounting and not the team you put on a pitch ?

13 minutes ago, thejoker said:

If Bruce ‘resigned’, we could save his payoff money from FFP and maybe Dr Tony could pay him off through one of his other companies possibly.

Is he not on a one year rolling contract ? Hence we wouldn’t have to worry about a pay off if it had not been renewed yet.