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It took Grealish years to do that... Ramsey has two solid games and we're already expecting more out of him?

I love reading this thread. I get to add all these new accounts to my ignore list!!!

Yes, we need a "Mike Dean" level below Very Poor...

Mcginn is MOTM. Was a gladiator. If he would have scored a goal, it would have been his best Premier League performance yet. Ramsey continues to impress. Smith got his tactics right, but individual mistakes continue to cost us. Looking forward to finally having a full strength and fit squad against Everton next Saturday. UTV!!!

Ouch. Lukaku has been quiet all game except for his two shots for goals. That's why 100 million will buy you. I don't think Man City will see that kind of return from their 100 million pound purchase...

Because Atwell's performance was brilliant for Chelsea.

Everton will be the first time we'll have a full strength squad available to us, too. Our season starts next Saturday.

On top of that we did this without our world class goalkeeper and record signing midfielder.

lol... All last season we complained about having Davis on the bench. We address that major weakness and go out and buy Danny Fookin' Ings, but some still are complaining about the decision. I'm done...

No, we lost control after their second goal. That deflated the energy we were playing with.

Lol... So... we're back to usual VillaTalk? Let me guess this week's talking points... Midfield is being overrun, we need a brick shithouse DM Tuanzebe/Mings/McGinn/Dougie is shit and we'd be winning if we had bought someone else Smith's tatics/subs are awful and we'll never progress under him

He's just recovered from COVID, according to reports.

Yeah, you're right. Our captain should be superhuman never make a mistake... Someone like this guy...

Still 40 minutes to play... Plenty of time to get something from this.

Oh Tyrone... Unlucky...

NBC commentators waxing lyrical about Ramsey's performance. Also trashing Saul saying Villa will win this if Tuchel doesn't change his midfield around to deal with our dominance.

It truly has... Brilliant tactical decision by Smith. We're unlucky to not be level. Ramsey has been a dynamo, we're creating chance after chance, and winning just about everything in the midfield.

Everything but his finishing has been brilliant.

Brilliant interception again from Dougie... He's been excellent today. Probably third best performer behind Ramsey and Watkins.

If that professional foul from Ramsey was a yellow, than Silva should have gotten one there for his foul on Ings...

Brilliant goalkeeping from Mendy... We should be level.

Garbage refereeing once again...

Lol... What's with all the negativity? 5-3-2 isn't park the bus football... I'm happy to see Smith trying something new out. Watkins & Ings are well suited to the system and I'm excited to see how things shake out.

Nah... They're not good enough for the 11th placed Villa side...

It's easier said than done... Generating revenue for football clubs comes only a in a few main ways: Broadcasting rights Match day revenue Sponsorships Merchandise Transfers Prize Money Broadcasting rights are split equally among Premier League clubs now. Prize money comes directly from performance on the pitch. You need to be successful on the pitch in order to grow your fanbase and win more prize money. The bigger your fanbase is locally, the more money you can generate from matchday revenue. The bigger your fanbase is globally, the more revenue you can generate from sponsorships/merchandise sales. It's a Catch-22 situation where you need to perform well on the pitch in order to make more money, but because you don't make a lot of money, you aren't allow to spend consistently more than you take in because of FFP rules. This leads us down the discussion of transfer strategy and recruitment. The number 1 biggest way for clubs outside of the top 6 to make money while following FFP rules is to play the transfer market well and continue to generate steady profits off of player sales. Excluding Jack's transfer to Man City, Villa have done a terrible job selling players over the past 15 years. We've lost so much money because of paying too much for the wrong players (both in transfer fees and wages over long contracts), paying peanuts for players who aren't good enough, extending poor performers on big contracts, and not developing/flipping our youth team players well enough. Everyone is playing "Moneyball" these days, so it's becoming harder and harder to have a statistical advantage in recruiting players than ~10 years ago when Southampton/Swansea burst into the Premier League flipping unknown talents to the big clubs and reinvesting into more quality, season after season. That said, there is one significant untapped area of revenue which really hasn't been saturated by all of the big clubs at the moment, besides Man City and Chelsea, and that's academy recruitment/development. Man City and Chelsea have dominated the youth team market for a while now and consistently recruit the best talent from across England and Europe, develop them, then loan them out and get them exposure. They then sell them at a profit, with a buy-back clause and a sell on fee, allowing them to go back in for someone if they actually turn into the superstar they hoped they would be. Look at how many players Chelsea has sent out on loan and flipped over the years. They currently have 22 players out on loan, and had over 40 on loan last year. Adopting their business model will allow us to generate the funds necessary to improve our squad and break into Europe, but it will take several years for our new strategy to start paying dividends and we need to be patient and stick with the plan until then.