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Monchi really does roll with players he's already signed doesn't he.
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22 years old though. Irritatingly young.
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HLTCO seems a good egg, has always come across well on Twitter and has started making more of a go of it on YouTube. He did a nice piece on Villa earlier, nothing that anyone on here that follows the club religiously wouldn't already know, but still and all it's nice to have such a complimentary video from an informed neutral.
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I think Arteta doesn't fancy him but even beyond that he just doesn't fit the way they're trying to play now. Arteta has essentially carbon-copied what Pep did last season and isn't using full backs at all now, or at least not attacking ones, so there's no real place for Tavares anyway.
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I think it's more so two goalkeepers + not filling the rest of the bench that people are saying is an indicator that we're a bit short, not simply that there's two keepers there.
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If you look at the average positions from today we more or less played the usual shape. Konsa is making up a sort-of back three, but ultimately is wide enough to really be a defensive right back (where Torres and Carlos are positioned as a CB pairing usually would be) while Digne is bombing up the opposite side. McGinn is therefore tucking more into midfield while Cash is holding the width as a wide midfielder on the right.
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There was a few occasions today where he was narrowly denied what could have been incredible assists. A couple in particular to Watkins and Diaby respectively where he threaded through balls that a Burnley defender just got their toe onto at the last second.
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There's a couple of times where he turns incredibly slowly and I get worried that he's not the same post-injury, but I think that's just my own worst fears about it playing tricks on me because he's otherwise looked great as I always expected him to back when he signed. In a weird way missing last season has meant he's been able to go about his work quietly now as there's no real expectation on him.
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A nutmeg directly into a no-look pass is all I needed to see. Count me in.
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He was a bit soft at best for their goal but thought it was a lovely performance otherwise. He's just a pure Rolls Royce of a player and gives us such a new dimension out from the back with his distribution.
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Feel like without having scored or assisted he still essentially won us the game today. He - like the rest of the team - was having a quiet start to the second half but once he came to life just before the hour mark he ran the show and things suddenly felt a lot more comfortable. What a player he's become under Emery.
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You get some amount of people talking shite in the pre-match thread eh? (Well done Matty!)
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Not an enormous fan of Cash playing in front of Konsa (assuming that's what is happening!). Feels like we'll be quite limited down that side. Ultimately we should be winning this game though.
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It'll be tough considering they were already likely to go down before then proceeding to lose arguably their two best players this window, but really hope it clicks for him and he if nothing else can have a great individual season. If they can get him chances then I've faith he'll score, and then who knows he could end up back at Villa anyway in an ideal world.
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As keepers go he does seem to get a few of these niggly kind of injuries where he's at least playing in discomfort if not outright missing games.
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Alvarez has predominantly played as a striker in his career whereas the number of senior appearances Diaby has made there can be counted on one hand.
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Ornstein reporting that Chelsea can't get Lukaku out on a permanent deal so are resigned to just loaning him out. I know Dan Bardell said previously that he thought or heard Villa were interested, makes you think...
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I don't think it's that bad at all to be honest, third kits generally are a bit wacky and/or based on a template and this ticks both boxes. Nothing to really be up in arms about in either direction. The state of them on the players during games in ridiculous though. How can a Premier League them be having an issue with a kit soaking through like that.
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I think as back-up strikers go Iheanacho is a good shout. His ratio of minutes to goals is actually quite impressive, he's just been stuck for too long behind an increasingly past it Vardy in the pecking order, for which I'd probably blame Leicester for more than him. There's talk of Palace getting him in as a starter for £8-10 million, they could do a lot worse and so could Villa.
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Generally agree. I don't think any issue Emery may have with Digne is his quality, more just the type of player that he is. In terms of his technical ability, delivery, ability to take a set-piece etc he's largely better than Moreno, but Moreno is much faster and is a great dribbler from full back which Digne just can't really do. Moreno just suits the role of the marauding full back that almost plays as a winger at times more than Digne does, the gulf between them is more suitability to the system rather than overall ability.
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I think he's a quality player and as possible back-ups go when Moreno returns you're not getting much better than him anywhere. Equally you can't really be of the mind of "I trust Emery" and blame the fans that he might leave because he played great against Hibs. Personally though I'd question letting him go on loan and then paying a fee for a player like Acuña.
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I'm sufficiently soaked here.
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Going to be a tough job making a huge impact with this SU side this season but I'd love to see him do it. Much like the Ramsey deal it seems like a good one for all involved, all the best to him and hopefully he'll only end up playing his way back to Villa.
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I think "as if he's done nothing in his career outside of Villa" is along the same lines as he's "crap" and people only like the idea of signing him due to the sentimentality of what he did in the Championship to be fair man Like I said, it's a moot point with the injury anyway but I personally don't love the idea of signing him for the reasons stated. However some of the stick he gets is way over the top for me, he's shown himself to be capable of being at least a good striker at some of the highest levels of the game so I don't think it's fair to any folk that do or did like the idea of signing him to suggest they can't see past pure sentiment.
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I'm not saying I think we should sign Tammy considering the likely fee, injury, and him not being any kind of definite upgrade on Watkins, but people talk about sentimentality with him as if he's done nothing in his career outside of Villa. The guy has put up double figures in both the Premier League and Serie A - probably the best two leagues in Europe these days for overall quality - as well as scoring 20+ with us in the Championship. It's not like he's some unproven player that people just have an affinity for, he's done more than, say, Zaniolo who folk are generally excited to have signed. I don't get it.
