BG_Villa_Fan

Will he play for free?

It's 'pidgin' not pigeon, and 'you' not u. Ouch!

Randy initially did a lot of good things at the club maybe this has earned RL more time from supporters. Initially he said all the right things and spent a lot of money. Not sure this can be classified as having done a lot of good things when looking back with hindsight.

Lambert and Randy both have the privilege to be the ones who have followed much hated predecessors. They'll both be given more time in result to this and be judged in an entirely different, hypocritical manner. I'm pretty sure that's for the good of Villa when it comes to Lambert, but not so sure about Randy at all. Currently his main saving grace is that he's not Deadly.

How long does it take for a manager to realize you can't play a very high defensive line with Michael Dawson in it? Seriously!

Desperately trying to rebuild bridges he's burnt himself a long time ago. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but I doubt he even believes he'll be a Villa manager, or any other team's manager.

That's precisely the issue - if he told us the real aim would fans get behind him?

Berbatov, IF he can still be bothered, would fit like a glove in this Arsenal team.

Poor teams get more decisions going against them and good teams - for them. It's both the subjective judgement of referees, as of course it's easier to award a 50-50 penalty against Crystal Palace than against Man U at old Trafford. But the other aspect is that better teams generally create more chances, have more of the ball and so to say more opportunities to get into a position in which a game-changing decision has to be made. If Palace get a player of theirs tackled in the opposition box around 2 or 3 times per game, Man U have that at least twice as many times, thus more of a chance to get a decision go their way, especially combined with the subjective factor.

Last in the league in possession, last in total passes and last in successful passes having played almost half of the season. If McLeish had served that he'd be hanged. Results are OK though. Still, if Mcleish had served that he'd hanged and rightly so.

Bacuna is miles better defensively compared to Lowton - he's quicker, stronger and much better defending one on one. His positioning is suspect but that's hardly Lowton's strong point as well.

If we play Bradford in the cup again.. why not.

Lowton must be able to do better on the left surely, with Clark replacing Baker next to Vlaar.

They'd be mad to sack him. Yes, he's made mistakes and he's trying to be too clever but they have so much talent they are bound to click at some point.

Popov has said there's been an inquiry from Aston Villa but he wouldn't comment further as his agent's working on these things.

True. That's a very good quality and we're top of the league with 7 points from losing positions. The only problem is that we find ourselves behind way too often - 8 games to only 2 in which we've scored first.

I think the squad needs another CB on loan to cover for possible injuries. Someone like Antolin Alcaraz for half a season would be great, especially since he's played in a 3-man central defence quite a bit.

I've critisized him before but he's really been playing quite well lately, so credit where it's due. Hope he keeps it up and avoids injuries, because Baker looked like he walked on ice out there.

The chief executive, of course.

The FA's concerned will pay for the players to have new passports (or more likely will have done so when the team travelled to Israel). StanBalaban asks a good question on behalf of the fans though. I wonder whether Israeli customs officials think that many people only visit there and nowhere else, as all they see are brand new passports. Actually, it is not the greatest pleasure to go to a Israeli airport with a brand new passport as you'd get quite a thorough questioning and lugagge check.

But that's already happened to some degree, hasn't it? The only matter is how many millions/billions the owners have.

It still takes Con only 5 minutes to get a reaction. Well done, Con.

Unfortunately we're very unlikely to have the funds to get a player of Dembele's quality, even on loan. I think Tottenham are crazy if they let him go, but there's obviously a logjam in midfield there. He'd fit so well in Southampton's midfield next to Schneiderlin ( sp? ) and Wanyama.

There's also this player we bought for ~20-24 mil and then struggled to sell for 10 times less, so we've had to loan him out. Lerner must be pleased. No wonder he's cut the 'let's-spend-a-shit-load-on-a-player-in-hope-he'd-save-us' pot.

Link? Here's one: http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topic/9831-libor-kozák/page-19?hl=hairyhands Oh.. someone said it in a message board! Must be true then.