Paul33

Don't rate him ..... no good with crosses !

Staggering lack of perspective on here ...... bit embarrassing if I'm honest !!!

Hopefully that will be a question faced by his new club !!!

Fed up of watching Villa v Blues as we always show a complete lack of passion and attitude. Somebody needs to give these women a lesson about what playing Blues actually means if you are Villa and get them to play with more heart, passion and desire. Very poor once again !!!

Keep him if money is very sensible but it won't be so get rid ..... rather spend the money on a very good player who is going to get better. Phil is at his peak and that peak will drop over seasons ahead.

Probably 30 seconds of significant contribution in 97 minutes. Nowhere near what we should be paying big money for.

Decent point from that hole, we were as good as they were and thought Ollie had a good game up top where he was a constant threat. On the downside or upside, depending on your perspective, Coutinho proved he isn't worth wasting big money on and Bailey should be the first out the door this Summer ..... two anonymous players who contributed nothing today.

So you think Serie A and Premiere over here are the same style and standard of football ? I'd rather go with Keinan Davis than Tammy !!!

You ARE kidding aren't you ? We can do better than Ollie if we wanted to go big but Tammy is not big and is probably a £15M Premiership player if you think you might get a season out of him. He'll do okay in other leagues but not ours. Decent Championship striker when on form and we are better than that !

Whatever the questions here, it is so obvious that the answer is Keinan Davis ...... just do it ! #KeinanTime

..... so you really did expect Gerrard to come in mid-season and radically turn this team into a top four side ? Really ? Last I looked, we were top ten and I'm not sure Deano would have got close to top ten. Villa is a long term project and the true Gerrard era starts next season and then you can judge if you wish.

They really won't you know !

Somebody voted Coutinho as MOM ...... no, really they did !!!

Based primarily on his performances when he has come on and played. He gives the impression that he has nothing to prove and seems to just do the bare minimum. If he felt he had a point to prove - which he has - you would expect him to grab those opportunities by the scruff of the neck and he never does that. He should recognise that he desperately needs to get regular game time at senior level and should be pushing for a loan move as many of his peers have done to their benefit. I really do think he believes he is Premier ready and he is nowhere near in truth.

At the moment, he really is not very good and has shown nothing to suggest he is even close to top flight ready. That is fine given his age and he still has the "p word" .... potential but I think he is no more than 20-30% likely to make a true Premier standard player at any age in the future. I agree with others that he desperately needs beefing up both physically and mentally with at least a season playing regular football on loan in League 1 or League 2, after which we'd be in a better position to assess his likely progress. I hope he both stays here and makes the grade but he gives the impression he thinks he's already there and he really is nowhere near.

Defo win for Villa as I still have my lucky pants on ..... don't change them until we lose !

I'm referring to the type of player for whom when the going gets tough, the tough get going. A player who leaves absolutely nothing out on the pitch and Luiz is none of those things. He has skills for sure but major doubts about his character and commitment. The sort of guy you would not want in the trenches alongside you. A player who plays for the name on the back of his shirt rather than the badge on the front. Do you want more ?

Luiz is not a Gerrard player ..... he's slow, lazy, can't tackle and neither supports the defence nor the forwards. IMHO he hasn't had a decent run of form here for a very long time. Be absolutely delighted to lose him, especially if some mugs are prepared to pay £30M !!!

^^^ THIS ^^^ I get the "potential" thing but he's had quite a few cameo performances and never seems to show anything. Even Gerrard hinted that he needs to show on the pitch what he shows in training so if that isn't happening then now is not the time. Equally, if he is messing around with contract negotiations then leave him be. Don't see why we should be putting ourselves out for somebody who seems to think he's bigger and better than he really is. Send him out to League 1/2 for a few months of bump and grind on muddy pitches and if he performs as others have/are then maybe he can come back a better option.

From experience, shin splints require a year of rest to repair and you will always be prone to a recurrence. Jack was suffering at the Euros and was never recovered even then. Sadly, I think he will never return to the level he once was at Villa. How on earth did he ever pass his City medical …… I seem to know more about shin splints than their medical team !!!

Hugely rated once, played for England and then seems to have fallen through a trap door to oblivion. Hopefully those that abandoned him got it wrong and we can drag him back up to his best even if he is surely more a squad player than 1st XI !

In fairness, its not unreasonable to expect more than one game in his first season. I don't blame the player, nor am I writing him off ..... I'm merely responding to the assertion that he would destroy Leeds if he played. I just don't get what that could be based on !

LOL ! What, based on a few minutes in a substitute performance ? He is injury prone and woefully short of fitness (understandably) if he ever does get back. If he is going to rip anything, it will be his thigh / groin / hamstring / calf or whatever !

Played well in the first half when it was a football contest. Second half, all that Blue Scouse did was hoof it long to Calvert-Lewin and hope to feed off the knock ons which obviously gave them territorial advantage, obviously took our midfield out of the game and obviously made them look like they were in the game but did they score ? I don't get some of the "played bad" negativity on here. Its like do they really have such a poor understanding of the game that they can't understand what they are watching ? Would love to hear their strategic plan for dealing with the Blue Scouse hoof ball because I sure as hell don't know what we could have done !!! Horrendously tough and ugly game out there in a cauldron of an atmosphere and we WON ...... well done lads !

..... or bring back Keinan ?!!!!