SirSteveUK

Nce to see Celtic knocked out of the CL.  Only as much as it might change the Edouard situation.

No offence to our Irish lads...

11 hours ago, dubbs said:

11 hours ago, The Fun Factory said:

Zlatan has yet to sign a new contract at Milan. Just saying...

I'm sure even he would struggle if his lines of supply are AEG and Trez!

"I am Zlatan - I supply my own crosses" 

I still see Rashica mentioned here - thought that was dead??

He's a well known Villa blogger - respected among his peers when he was blogging - working for the Mail won't do his rep @ny good.

Having read as many pages of this thread as my eyes can stand, , I think I can aggregate all the views as follows:

"We need about 10/11new players !!!"

37 minutes ago, omariqy said:

Rashica will be going to RB Leipzig

So far they have refused to pay the 25mill fee

23 minutes ago, TRO said:

He signed in 1968 only played for the central league team.

I know - I meant he never played in that half back line

2 minutes ago, TRO said:

but we did sign him, didn't we?

Yep - but that infamous line up never occurred.  Saw hia amateur brother Hector play one game for the reserves once - far more skilfiul

Oscar died 2017 in Casablanca

27 minutes ago, TRO said:

wasn't Oscar Arce an Argentinian, who played for us?

He played in the team with Barrie Hole and jimmy Brown.....I'll leave you to work out the gag of the day.

Except he didnt. Anbtw he passed away 2017 in Casablanca

Apparently DS is looking at 4 incomings with a budget of £100 M

oops - already posted

3 minutes ago, thunderball said:

Just listening to views on Buendia and he isnt rated as highly as I thought. I also thought he was a left sided player, hence the suggestion he could be a Grealish replacement. The consensus was that he has disappointed this season and his limitations exposed, and he is only 5’8”

Haven’t watched him closely this season but he was a star of Norwich’s promotion season (along with Pukki).

Any one seen enough of him for an opinion? Where would he fit in - competition fo the 3rd midfield berth with Hourihane? Winger competition? Starting 11 or squad player?

In the same graph that confirmed Grealish as 2nd most chances created, EB was 5th

Sorry if already posted - interesting article on Belotti

https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/from-100m-man-utd-target-to-west-ham-washout-the-steep/mczps7rdglzv145eapc0a85ha

4 hours ago, MaVilla said:

interesting stats here:

 

for our current wage bill (65m), we have the 4th most efficient point to wage bill average.

Our point per million pounds spent on wages is 0.54.

Interesting for sure.

Amazing to see that Palace have double our wage bill, Everton nearly triple, Southampton almost double.

Now with our second season in the Prem secured, should allow us to increase our wages a fair bit, i remember Purslow saying due to FFP etc, it really limited our available wages due to only being in the Prem for 1 season. (now 2)

I saw a different version  - the points are 2019/20 but the wage bills are 2018/19

Emiliano Buendia

age 23

Anyone think he might be a bargain ?

2 hours ago, thunderball said:

Citing Wesley is a cheap shot. The same voices were condemning Luiz as a failure in March. David Platt was a slow burn.

So slow in fact that SGT worried whether he had overpaid for him

£200,000 

Dear God

He has  signed a long term contract  

1 hour ago, Tomaszk said:

I'm thinking about Grealish as well. If he's moving on, it makes sense this is the time to change manager as well IMO. How the hell do you adjust to losing a player that good? It's going to be very very tough. A new man can come in with fresh ideas and doesn't have it hanging over him.

 

I disagree - vehemently 

D ont want to have to read all 1500 pages - can someone cfm what Jack is on perweek ??

The intent is to have both the U23 and U18 teams stocked with 16-18 yr olds. 

1 hour ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Jacob Ramsey?

Yep - hopefully the first of a few.

3 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

We very rarely give young players chances, even Grealish was 18 when he made his debut with us

He was 18 when he was sent on his short  term loan to County. When was the last time we loaned out anyone at 18 ?  Hopefully - and I think the policy will be so - we will start to loan out players at that age 

Cameron Archer has now signed a pro contract - he was noted as "offer" on the retained list

2 minutes ago, OxfordVillan said:

Dubravka is better than Nyland or Reina, Lascelles is better than Hause or Konsa, Danny Rose is better than Targett or Taylor, Saint Maximin is better than ElGhazi or Trezeguet, Almiron is better than Samatta or Davis. Those are just off the top of my head. From the Villa squad I’d imagine only Grealish, Mings, and McGinn would improve the Newcastle starting 11. At least 5 of the Newcastle team could improve the Villa starting 11. 

Almiron is a striker ??