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Honestly I don't think there's a better manager we can get and I think him leaving and the effect it would have on the players would be a bigger blow to our chances than him staying. 

You know maybe if we played with two strikers we might not have as much of a issue scoring....

8m for a player that's only a year out from his contract ending in a position we have covered by two of our squads strongest players already...

ffs...we could of gone for wellbeck for that much

**** I remember when we could get Nobby for 1/8th that price and he was a much better player. 

 

We need a striker not a midfielder. Our midfield is good enough to avoid the drop. As is our defense.

 

Any decent striker would bring us much much closer to avoiding the drop. And for 8m pounds there are plenty of options that I feel could do better than Bent or Weimann. Especially if we go shopping overseas. Instead we get cleverley.

Lambert thinks Benteke will be back soon and just as good as before, He is not going to blow £8 million on a striker to then drop them for Benteke

 

Why can't we play with two strikers? 

Willing to bet Everton or Hull offer more wages than us!!

 

Why don't we go for someone like Jordi Clasie he would cost around the same and less wages and a much better player.

Doubt he'd want to come to a team with no european football. 

If we're gonna spend that much I much rather we someone like Jordan Rhodes. 

We need a striker not a midfielder. Our midfield is good enough to avoid the drop. As is our defense.

Any decent striker would bring us much much closer to avoiding the drop. And for 8m pounds there are plenty of options that I feel could do better than Bent or Weimann. Especially if we go shopping overseas. Instead we get cleverley. 

Probably nothing. 

My recommendation would be Teofilo Gutierrez nonetheless. Available for just under 10m usd. Absolutely demolishing the scene with River Plate in Argentina at the start of the season. With Carlos Sanchez you have the pull to get him over here. But it wouldn't even happen if we had the time. We won't put out the money to invest in a top goalscorer. We're going to be screwed over with some mediocre has been from the championship. 

No player coming from any other league has ever not had a struggle to get into the pace of the Premiership. Especially at a defensive position of all things. 

We should of sold Benteke way back when for 30m and bought two or three decent strikers with the money. Now were stuck with one whose consistently injured and may never be worth half as much as that. 

Turns out he isn't this god we all seemed to assume he was. Awful tonight

What everyone kept saying he was the best player and he got MOTM ratings over in that thread?

I mean he's a very defensive minded midfielder. He's not a pivot defensive midfielder like say Xabi Alonso. 

Now I didn't see the goal or any of the chances that occured so I can't particularly say how well he did on those individual attempts and so forth so I can not say whether or not he failed today or made any big mistakes. But I would expect it from him. He's playing with a bunch of players who don't speak the same language as him and he's playing a completely different style of football. But it's Aston Villa. We should all be used to that by now. What I do expect is that by mid-season he'll have transformed his performances and have become a vital and very important solid piece of the midfield and defensive lines. 

Todays loss is definitely on the attacking players. Yes we got scored on. Yes someone in the defense probably screwed up. Nonetheless we should of been up 2 anyways against this kind of team. I mean it's not exactly as if we are playing all our starters on the defensive line. 

Well my recommendation would be 3-5m and out of our price range. Probably wouldn't come to a team struggling against relegation anyways.

Facts our with our budget and our reputation we can't really attract the kind of player we need. If we had the money at least we might be able to get someone who's not utter shit and can at least score against other relegation fodder teams. 

I don't see how Lambert is at fault for the players failures...

We obviously need another striker. And a quality one at that. 

So this isn't being televised or streamed in any way shape or form?

Kinda sucks. Really gonna be no way to know how anyone performs outside of goals scored. 

I'm a longtime Villa supporter from Colombia who has been supporting the team ever since Juan Pablo Angel played for it.