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Same... Now that Southampton don't have anything left to play for, they might actually turn up to play.

Literally says "Grealish" and the video glitches. You're making something out of nothing. The fact that this is even on your list of reasons you hold against the man is hilariously petty and pathetically sad.

You're right... Sacking Bruce and appointing Smith had nothing to do with our promotion. It was 100% the result of Jack Grealish.

We have a massive waiting list for season tickets... Basic economics will dictate that prices will rise until demand drops to match the supply. It doesn't matter who was in charge at the club, it would have happened regardless.

You clearly haven't been to the Purslow thread lately...

He turned down our offer... Doesn't mean we got played or used. This is the real world. People weigh up options like this all the time and doesn't mean everyone is malicious or using others for their own benefit. I've turned down good job offers after interviews and touring the workplaces because I didn't want to relocate or it wasn't right for me at that point in my life. Hell, maybe he was ready to leave Barcelona until Jordi Cruyff was axed and they counteroffered to keep him and made it a much better proposition for him. Doesn't mean he used Villa or took us for a ride, or we're idiots for getting played. Who cares what Barcelona fans think about us? They're all glory hunting plastics anyway.

I've literally gone back 25 pages in this thread and the only things I can find are: Gerrard... Over and over and over again. Coutinho - 100% his decision, apparently... Sawiris thinks he's incompetent, apparently, and had to step in and unilaterally sack Gerrard and appoint Emery himself without including Purslow in the conversations - Completely unfounded conspiracies He was a Liverpool fan growing up Liverpool & Chelsea fans don't like him from when he was with their clubs so we shouldn't like him either He's a shady/untrustworthy person with no reasons other than... Gerrard Other than making every wrong decision at the club, he is nothing more than a glorified secretary who does nothing but photo ops and takes credit for successes he had no part in (because all the good that's been done at the club is 100% done without him, apparently) Sorry, but this huge list of criticisms just doesn't exist and he doesn't want to take the time to think of a bunch of legit ones and post them for an actual conversation, so it's much easier to just say "Trust me, mate, they're bad!".

You're the one talking nonstop these past few pages about wanting to be heard and have a debate/discussion regarding Purslow, but instead of stating anything besides "hE aPpOiNtEd GeRrArD!11!!1!!1" you act like it's a huge laundry list of egregious offenses that are too long to post when we're all sitting here very confused. Air them out and let's actually have a discussion then...

The problem is you lot aren't debating or even having a discussion. This whole "Purslow was 100% solely responsible for Gerrard and deserves to be run out of town for it" goes against everything all reliable sources have said about the appointment of Gerrard. You might as well be posting on here that you don't like Christian Purslow because you think he pees sitting down and anyone who tells you otherwise is a happy clapper trying to stifle debate...

It's almost like we have someone at the club who does this already... Someone like a certain Director of Football???

You mean like Emery when Poch turned NSWE down before him? Stuff like this happens in business all the time. Anyone who takes it personally won't get very far in their careers. It's not like you're on Love is Blind and proposing to someone right after their roommate turned you down.

100% this... Some need to grow the fook up. Misery loves company and somehow the unhappy Villa fans all seem to congregate on VillaTalk. Some of the worst football takes I've ever seen are these unfounded conspiracy theories about Purslow I've read on here. We're on the cusp of something great at the moment and some just want to moan about something instead.

Meh... Pretty sure we already have a Director of Football in place as it stands. Nothing changes this summer.

I don't want to say it's outright disrespectful, but the kinds of questions the two English guys kept asking the Spaniard about Alemany coming to Villa were slight digs at the club. Implying Villa are a "simpler" project than Barcelona made it sound like Alemany was running away from the "challenge of an elite club". Also the whole "players don't care about behind the scenes stuff and don't want to go to a club like Villa over a club like Barcelona" makes it sound like Alemany is going to only try to complete directly with Barcelona for every signing.

He's a solid lower half Prem DM. Will be good enough to try to keep them up, but I don't think he's good enough to be a regular in a team pushing for Europe.

Man United. Will replace De Gea.

Flekken is already on his way to Brentford to replace Raya. Pretty much a done deal being reported by everyone. Also, weren't you flipping out about Torres being a terrible signing the other day?

Ugarte??? He's a 5'10" defensive midfielder with no goals or assists this year... What makes you think he'd be a good option for the attacking roles for us?

Another odd one for us because he would play Douglas Luiz's role for us and Dougie is in the running for our Player of the Season. I can maybe see it if Dougie was off this summer, but he signed a new deal last fall after Arsenal came in for him on deadline day.

Torres is a great player, but I don't see him displacing Mings from the starting 11 unless Tyrone starts having howlers again like he did under Slippy G. Torres has Kamara's passing ability, but he would be the least physical of all our CBs, including Chambers, and he is very weak in the air. Mings and Konsa have been one of the best CB partnerships in the Premier League under Emery so far. Does that mean they can't be improved? Not at all, but when you have a quality CB like Diego Carlos stuck on the bench because Mings & Konsa are playing so well, it's hard to believe we're going to spend 30 million on a player to replace Chambers on the bench.

Would be amazing, but will never happen. PSG have a buyback clause.

Can't wait for the 3 month long saga of daily BS Romano tweets of "Guendouzi close to finalizing move to Aston Villa" along with MARCA linking us to every single La Liga player under the sun.