KMitch

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of Potato Head when they saw this!

Barnes personifies a stereotypical Martin O'Neill type signing more so than anyone else in the Premier League right now besides maybe Dwight McNeil. English, overrated, and will be overpriced for what he offers. I would be very disappointed if he was brought in as more than a bench/rotation option because I don't think he's good enough for a team like ours who is chasing Europe next season.

Very different to Coutinho... Asensio is a player in his prime who has impressed for years at Madrid, who is looking for first team football instead of winning things as a bit-part player. It's like Zinchenko leaving Man City and going to Arsenal last summer. Would be a bigger meltdown signing than Darren Bent was, IMO.

Good point... We've never signed any good players from the Championship.

Madrid's super sub/rotation player/12th man who has put up better goals/assist numbers than any of our midfielders over the past 3 seasons isn't good enough for the Villa. Mind you, he's also a nailed on starter for Spain as well... Never change, VillaTalk. Never change.

I expect more fans to be frustrated than the club will be, considering we have a transfer speculation thread for fookin' Messi open right now.

Chelsea are the new Arsenal in the transfer rumor market... They'll be linked to every single player that moves clubs this summer, whether they are or not.

Merino is one of the best midfielders in their prime who isn't at a top club. I'd be amazed if he didn't move clubs this summer for a lot of money because he's been so consistent for La Real these past few seasons. He is substantially better than Guendouzi.

They can, but they have to include him in the conversation when they make the decision... He's a member of the board of directors AND the CEO, so he has to: Be included in the decision making conversation (because he's on the board as an owner, however small his stake is) per the bylaws of the company Carry out/execute the vision of the board of directors as the CEO It's very clear that many on here who are spinning the narrative of "Nas is Purslow's boss! He can do whatever he wants and make Purslow do whatever he tells him to!" have no idea how large companies operate. Purslow runs the club for NSWE. Everything at he club is under his purview (or was until Chris Heck was added to the team recently). The truth is none of us know what happened behind closed doors in the sacking of Gerrard/hiring of Emery, so everyone is speculating what happened. The thing is a lot of the speculation on here being paraded around as fact is actually very unlikely to have happened because of basic company operations knowledge.

Messi - RW Dybala - CAM Vini Jr - LW Bellingham - CM Hakimi - RB Eder Militao - CB

This Brighton team has been brilliant to watch this season and De Zerbi is causing a lot of waves in European football with his tactics and style of play. They fully deserve to be playing in Europe next season. No matter what happens on Sunday, we've still had a brilliant season under Emery and the future is bright for us. I'd love to get into the Conference League and experience some European footy again next season, but you'd imagine that if we miss out, the players are going to go that much harder for it next year. Either way, UTFV!!!

Even Elon doesn't even operate this way (I worked for Tesla for ~7 years). He may give that impression to the public with his whole "sleeping in the factory" nonsense, but how is he shitposting on Twitter all day, playing video games, and hooking up with models if he's truly working as much as he makes himself out to be? The truth is that he has an inner circle of executives/project managers/engineers he trusts completely to carry out and execute his vision at this point in his life. He only really gets involved and takes over things in a crisis. He's kind of like the Eye of Sauron and only ever really focuses in on the one most critical thing to his business at that point in time. If you're the one in his gaze, God help you, because you're most likely already getting served your severance with someone like the Wolf from Pulp Fiction on his way to clean up your mess. Taking this back to Villa, I'm 100% in agreeance with you. Our board is made up of 3 people -> Sawiris, Edens, AND Purslow. As co-chairman, Sawiris most likely can't unilaterally step in and sack the manager who reports to the CEO like that, nor would he unilaterally go out and appoint Emery himself. It's not how it works in the real world in a $750m company like Aston Villa. I'm positive both decisions were talked about at length among the three of them for months before they were carried out. It doesn't fit the narrative some want to believe, but it's the most logical likely scenario.

More than a few people said to do that with Brentford 2 years ago... We've since passed them by... The same thing will happen with Brighton soon. Like Swansea, Southampton, Leicester, and Bournemouth before them, playing moneyball flipping players and unearthing gems isn't sustainable and eventually they'll recruit a bad crop of players one season and fall off hard.

How long did that take you to troll back through 5 years of my posts to find anything negative I posted about Purslow? What a sad and pathetic waste of time that was...

I'm done. It's like trying to have a discussion with a flat earther. I don't care who Purslow was before he came to the Villa or which club he supported as a child. Raising season ticket prices is the only concrete criticism you have in here for him. 99% of this is hearsay and unfounded conspiracy theories about undermining his employees and/or going behind their backs.

I get that, but spending big wages on another player in a position we already have arguably the most depth in the squad is puzzling to me.

Ceballos makes no sense unless we're selling one of Kamara or Douglas Luiz this summer. Asensio, on the other hand, would be a meltdown signing that instantly transforms our attack.

In the USA the most arrogant, loudmouthed fans are the Arsenal supporters. It's like they chose Arsenal so they wouldn't be branded as "glory hunters" but would still be able to gloat and act like douchebags whenever they win something every once in a while. In the meantime, they complain nonstop, act like everything and everyone is biased against them, and how they're always just one signing/manager away from a treble. They were the worst this season and acted like they had already won the league by the World Cup break. They were even worse than Leeds fans in the Championship under Bielsa. I don't care that Man City won another league title but I'm so glad that Arsenal collapsed and won fook all again this season. Watching their fans go from being pompous jerks to "Wenger Out" levels of hysteria to incredible indifference in a matter of months was hilarious to see.

Brilliant...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PremierLeague/comments/13n19qg/time_wasting_is_out_of_control/ Literally a thread on Reddit complaining about him now. lol First it was his "unprofessional antics" during the World Cup, now it's his time wasting shithousery, but nobody talks about his amazing shot stopping ability.

Everything they win has an asterisk next to it in the eyes of every football fan. They could win the Quadruple next season and nobody would care 10 years from now.

I'm going to have a heart attack if I keep watching Emery's Villa... That 2nd half was not good for my blood pressure! Emery Masterclass today! Very happy with a point! UTFV!!!

We need to go back to the days of Mourinho hiding in the dressing room clothes hamper!

3-1!!!