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Match Thread: Villa vs Villarreal
Chicken Field replied to fightoffyour's topic in F: Villa v Villarreal
Watkins has 4 competitive games since Gerrad left, 2 goals and an assist, I think it's a bit early to be saying "persisting with" and "clearly not working". 1 goal and 1 assist in two Emery games (against manure) -
I think the point made was kind of what you are alluding to without knowing it. When fans stop supporting players, the players tend to lose confidence, resulting in them at best stagnating their development. Our fanbase would not allow for players like caicedo, mitoma, trossard and mac callister the time and support that they need in order to develop.
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Dud you know he has outscored all of them in the prem the past two and a half years (toney will most likely overtake him) and assisted more that any of then except for antonio? Impressive stuff
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Signing backs-ups with equal quality can also affect players confidence, for example signing ings when we had watkins seems to only have caused issues for both of them, one is not match fit, neither seem comfortable. Augustinsson was a cheap gamble who doesnt seem the have worked out, the situation is by no means a catastrophe
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And there were a bunch of people on here calling this guy slow... He's going to be a big player for us
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This (and the brentford game) shows that the idea that we needed a total rebuild was BS, we need some fixes here and there but not a total rebuild
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The Players: Plenty of Blame to Go Around?
Chicken Field replied to Marka Ragnos's topic in Villa Talk
I dont personally agree with this, i do feel like a majority of our players are putting in shits every game and are really trying. Its just they have no idea how to play in his "system" and are clueless on what to do -
I think the risk in firing Gerrard is that most of our players seemingly really rate him and like him, might create a backlash. I would sack him today though
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By my own calculations, which most likely are not entirely right. Watkins goals per minutes is better than Davis's
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A bit harsh on Watkins, Watkins had a better goal per game record last season in all competitions than Davis did, whilst playing in a much stronger league, for a team that was struggling, whereas Davis played in one of the best teams in their league. I guess it would be interesting to see and compare their xG etc.
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I do to an extent agree that we have a tendency to overrate our players. But the players you mentioned, Watkins has shown he can score goals in the league, Ings is one of the most consistent strikers in the premier league for the past many years before he joined us, (they are both former England internationals too) Buendia was in and around the Argentine national team, Coutinho needs no explanation, Bailey was one of the highest rated young winger in the world before he came here and so on. The players are certainly not blameless but not one player has shown improvements under Gerrard and we should be doing better with the players we have. Not to mention that the more players Gerrard has signed, the worse we have looked.
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I was surprised to see Potter go to chelsea, a squad that is falling apart (for their standards), meddling owner who reportedly wants the team to play with a four back, which they haven't bought players for (their transfer dealings have been abysmal and without any planning whatsoever) whilst Potter seems to prefer 5 backs. Wouldn't be surprised if his time at Chelsea is a total fiasco.
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Wasnt mings just dropped for one game (where they even explained that he had a knock?) Traore got a few opportunities and did nothing With sanson and guilbert i suspect the situation is as simple as they arent good enough, been asked to find new clubs and told they wont feature but havent left because of their wages
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In these situations I often think, what does Gerrard stand to win in this situation. If Guilbert is as good and professional as people on here make him out to be, then what does Gerrard stand to win by isolating him? Not fan a of Gerrard, dont rate him, but he and everyone around him are not complete idiots
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Guilbert didnt play in 8 of the last 10 games, altough this was also injury relatet
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Did this guy not lose his spot to elmohamady in his one season with us, or am I remebering it wrong? Him and Sanson are most likely just simply not good enough, pretty simple stuff
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I would absolutely love Potter here, I believe he has huge potential. But as you are alluding to, there is absolutely no way that our fanbase would be patient enough for Potter ball, he is obsessed with possesion and doesn't mind playing at a really low tempo. He forces poor footballers to play possession based, our fanbase would never be patient enough and accept our players learn and adapt to his style. Let alone accept Potter ball. to let him develop the players, let alone accept his playing style.
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I'm a bit caught up on this part. Since NSWE joined, we have been on an upwards trajectory, it stalled a bit in the last full season under Smith, followed by a horrendous start to the next season. We hit a little bump, but were still progressing overall. Was there need for a quick fix, or any fix at all? We had a young'ish squad with potential, we just needed someone to get us back on track and continue our progression, we did not need a fix. It's worrying, that all though I understand Gerrard's arguement that we needed quality, that with every quality signing he has made, we have actually regressed
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Im worried because of his history with other clubs, as well as it seemed 100% like Henry was his first choice when he hired Smith, and henry is a disaster of a manager
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We knew what we were getting with Purslow, he's proven to be really good at the commercial stuff but useless at footballing stuff. Surely after chelsea and liverpool and now us, he sees that too. Stay with what your good at and let footballing people make footballing decisions
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I seriously struggle to believe that, we have been premier leagues top 5 spenders the past 4 years, whilst only receiving Grealish money. Pretty sure adding digne, ings, coutinho, carlos, Kamara in the past year, all players on easily 100k plus, whilst having a bunch of deadweight we cant get rid of, will definitely be testing our wage limits. I am though no expert and am yet to read a reliable report on our current state
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Right now, we need to replace Carlos, as he'll be our for a long time. I have no idea what our wages are relative to other teams, I'd be surprised if there are many teams outside the top 6 who spend more than us (I found one random list, where we are 8th, surrounded by two clubs that are skint). Doesn't matter though, as our wages spent should be relative to our own income, not what others spend, which most likely isn't the best of the rest yet, I am certainly unaware of any lucrative commercial income or anything other massive incomes we currently have. The amount of money we have spent since promotion has to be in the top 3 in the premier league I'd guess. All well looking at how much we have spent this summer, sadly in the real world, money spent in the past counts too.
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Because if we were to spend another 30m, it would be to replace Mings, when our priority right now is to find a short term solution for Carlos . Also net spend is overrated, our wage structure has exploded. Net spend is a too simplistic way of looking at finances. We are simply in a position where we need to sell first, trim the squad. not to forget signing on fees* free players aren't much cheaper than other players these days
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I feel like dawson is a fine short term replacement til carlos is back. We were never gonna sign another 30m defender this window. Dawson-Mings should be solid enough
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We beat everton, who drew brentford today, who destroyd manu 2 weeks ago, who beat liverpool last week. Real question is how liverpool can bridge the gap to us?
