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15 hours ago, The Fun Factory said:

Sturridge has scored 11 league goals in his past four seasons. That is late Gabby form. He has only hit double figures for league goals in 3 seasons in his entire career.

He is shot, I wouldn't touch him with a bargepole.

I'm contemplating how much I want to put on him ending up at Newcastle.

Daka looks really impressive, but also very expensive. 

8 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Teams don't typically sign the best players from teams that are better than them. Maybe City and Chelsea did it when they were first getting going but those days are long gone.

"As the team who barely finished 17th, we need to sign the best striker of the club who finished 10th, an established PL side who have been finishing midtable/in European positions while we were struggling to get out of the Championship." sounds like something that only happens on Football Manager. There's no incentive at all for either the player or the club to make it happen. 

I don't even know why I'm entertaining you, you have a picture of a manure player, says it all really.

6 minutes ago, Mjvilla said:

Would you have signed Chris wood from Leeds?

If you're getting at the signing of him back then would be like the signing of Watkins now to prove some point, then you're barking up the wrong tree.

Would you sign Chris Wood from Burnley?

7 minutes ago, MCU said:

I’m just saying a club of Leicester’s strength and position and they are excited at the thought of Watkins links , and us, narrowly escaping relegation , some don’t think he’s good enough for us. 

I never said he wasn't good enough for us. I said the chances of him lighting up the Premier League like he did in the Championship is basically slim, unlikely. I also said I'm not opposed to signing him.

The "some don’t think he’s good enough for us" has nothing to do with me or what I wrote.

Just now, Keyblade said:

I see your Football Manager save has been going swimmingly.

What's with the riddles? Just say what you want to say.

1 minute ago, Mjvilla said:

Who would you want?

I suggested Chris Wood.

Just now, Keyblade said:

Yes, the Burnley who finished 10th while we stayed up by the skin of our teeth on the last day and were playing in Europe a couple of years ago. 

And how do we get to 10th? We take their best player(s).

What we don't do is gamble on some rookie again.

1 minute ago, Keyblade said:

How do you expect us to sign the best players from clubs who are better than us? The only striker in the PL who would come to us and would improve us is probably Iheanacho, and even then I imagine he'd have better suitors.

Burnley, better than Aston Villa? I don't rate Iheanacho, or would want him.

31 minutes ago, MCU said:

Some villa fans really disappoint me. Questioning this signing, paying too much, could do better, isn’t proven etc. You wouldn’t be happy if we signed Salah, Messi or Ronaldo. It was only yesterday on twitter I was reading the sheer excitement of Leicester fans after they had been linked with him. Have a bit of faith I say, Watkins would be a fantastic signing for us. 

Leicester have the current Premier League top goal scorer and golden boot winner to fall back on, they ain't worried about a damn thing. "You wouldn’t be happy if we signed Salah, Messi or Ronaldo." I posted about wanting Salah on-loan when Chelsea were binning him off, before he went to Fiorentina, before he got so huge.

Everyone is ranting and raving about Watkins. A player that has zero Premier League experience and has had one good season in the Championship. The chances of him immediately hitting the ground running for us against superior defences are slim.

Just look at Bowen - consistently excellent in the Championship, but found the transition to the top flight difficult. He didn't do too bad assist wise, but his usual goal scoring form was non-existent after moving.

Lots seem to have forgot that the Championship is a league where dross like Cameron Jerome regularly scored double figures. I'm not opposed to the signing of Watkins, but he simply cannot be our only forward signing.  We must sign a striker that has played in the league we are in. I would be buying Chris Wood, he scored 14 league goals in 32 league apps last season, an excellent return.

7 hours ago, useless said:

Judging Max Aaron's, a right-back, solely on his goals and assists is pretty dumb. He's one of the best young right-backs in the country, been linked to Liverpool, Spurs and Bayern Munich, and despite the lack of assists and goals last season looks very dangerous going forward with his pace.

As for him making us worse, that's pretty dumb as well, has all the potential to achieve more in the game than any of our current right-backs have achieved.

That's your opinion, which isn't factual. The link dropping is also hearsay, which is irrelevant. When we hammered Norwich (like pretty much every other team did) this guy looked very poor. 

Also, it's "dumb" for me to use his defensive and attacking stats, as a RB, to counter your post about him being a "coup" for us. Yet you do the same thing below, and solely use stats to back-up why Wilson, as you put it, is "a very good player." 

2 hours ago, useless said:

Surprised that more hasn't been said about the Max Aarons speculation, of all the players we've been linked to in the media that one would probably be the biggest signal of intent. Very highly rated and would be a big coup for us.

A right-back that in 40 appearances last season produced 1 assist and 0 goals. He was also a part of the worst defence in the league and you think he would be a big coup for us? Jesus Christ! I swear some of you actually want to make us worse. 

Even Elmo produced 3 assists and 3 goals and Guilbert 2 assists and 2 goals in less appearances than Aarons made last season.

Just now, Lord Willard said:

If you're not going to perform when the pressure is on, I'm not really sure if we want you. Villa have been great when the pressure is on. I'd offer £18m for Benramha. 

Nah. £16m with add-ons like Maupay

23 hours ago, sidcow said:

When do our new kits come out? Not heard anything,. If others are our ours should be soon to follow surely? 

When every other club has released theirs, and is playing in it like Chelsea were the other night. It always amazes me how pedestrian we are with kit releases. Hopefully, it's not a bunch of chavs doing the promo either. 

4 hours ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Imagine scoring!

*Fixed

"Trezeguet was outstanding today" Said no Villa fan ever.

Everyone call me Trezeguet BTW... yeah sure thing Hassan.

This guy has actually got some nerve naming himself after world cup winner David Trezeguet, who scored goals for fun from 97-07, and even after that.

10 minutes ago, pintpotvilla said:

Don't support them then  I will give them my full support win draw or lose!!!

My superfan senses just reached max levels.

Do our owners who invested £150m actually check the results?

Smith out.

5 minutes ago, AVFCforever1991 said:

What did Samatta do to Smith? 

Probably suggested playing with a strike partner.

6 minutes ago, KAZZAM said:

Chelsea's team looks pretty rubbish tbh

Yeah, total crap.

I like big Kienan but he's a striker that never looks like scoring. He has no goals or assists in 9 league appearances, which is poor.

Also Smith saying he's the "Heskey type" is equally ineffective if you don't play him alongside an "Owen type". Doh!

I bought this seasons shirt early on, wore it once then sold it before the rona lock down for not much of a loss. Utter sh*te, everything about it sucked. The sooner we bin krappa off the better.

Got myself a proper shirt, a 1997 AST computers home v neck instead, I could frame this beauty.

0-3 loss

36 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

We looked very good defensively. Something to build from.

Yeah apart from when either Konsa or Hause passed the ball straight to them at the edge of our box. If we were 2-3 games into this mini-season that's a certain opposition goal.