babyblue

I think it's more a comment on the fact he's been turning down contracts for several years now. We were 2nd in the league and he was turning it down, finishing 5th twice and winning an FA cup and turning it down. To be turning down contracts then, on the presumption you're going to end up at something VASTLY better, it's an odd move to end up somewhere lower than he was when he was turning down his contracts. But... I think it says more about his form in the last few years if he does end up with you. He's been horrendous, a player who can pop up with a bit of magic for sure, but good god he's not been close to he was form wise during his loan.

Is it when he leaves you in such a shambles and worse off than when he took over.

Hoping that's intentional, if you mean unite... he's thrown every player under a bus, they hate him.

We were great for a year and from that point onwards it's been a slow unravelling. He demands control and removed good club men from key positions, installing his own men and everything starts going to shit in those departments. He throws players under the bus left right and centre. We've done well thanks to individual brilliance from players like Maddison, Tielemans and Vardy and not his tactical ability. The football, outside of the first year has been utterly woeful. I hope to god you want him, it will save us £20m.

I'm not a masochist

And all Leicester fans will rejoice. The guy is a Grade A c***, who takes zero blame for anything, throws players under the bus to save himself. Has the tactical nouse of a frog, couldn't sign a good player if it bit him on the arse. Be warned, his shelf life is very very short.

Second we sack the self serving hobbit in charge there will be a big upswing, have no fear. If any of you want him as manager, stay well clear of the poisonous dwarf.

It just needs belief in your plan and the courage to stick to it. That's been one of the most admirable things since winning the league, the owners decided how we wanted to go about things and despite ups and downs they stuck to that blueprint. You look at someone like Everton, huge investment all over the place. But it was as clear as day they didn't have any sort of plan of how they wanted to play or what their recruitment strategy was. Going from passing managers, to counter attacking managers, to long ball managers. Buying young players but not giving them time, buying old names and too many players coming down the football chain (from clubs like Barca) rather than getting hungry players on the up. They've wasted a huge amount of their owners money and money from player sales of their best players, and have nothing to show for it.

It's absolutely possible, you just need the right scouting. I'm sure everyone at Villa can see the weak spots of your team, just as Leicester fans can ours. So whilst you lose a great player, you can get better as a unit by targeting those weak spots. People saying ah but they dropped off after selling players when winning the league. If we'd kept that entire team together there would have been a drop off, there were too many limited players to keep that up indefinitely. We're in a far better place team wise, squad wise and as a club, having sold players and invested smartly to replace the limited players we had.

You know our owners are also mega rich? Unless you are paying people £200,000 / £300,000 a week, I'm afraid players are going to want to go. I can't see you doing that any time soon.

We had Chilwell, Mahrez, Maguire in the same team and finished mid table. The issue is here, players heads get turned and when they do performances drop off. Chelsea made Chilwell their best or second best paid player, silly money. And obviously offered him an opportunity to win stuff on a more regular basis, of course heads will be turned for that. Selling players isn't an issue if you do so smartly, rather than say a Southampton who lost their entire team in the space of two windows. You can't plan for that, we tend to buy a player with an eye on the fact someone in that position will be going a bit down the line. Also, if you hold on to them all, people will just start running down contracts to get out and you end up losing money. Players and agents will see you as awkward and could avoid joining a team who refuses to provide a pathway upwards. We don't want to sell our better players, but we're realistic. The reality of it is, there will always be clubs ahead of Leicester or Villa in the food chain, so you just embrace it and work around it, with the aim of becoming a Dortmund in the premier league I suppose. We can't compete with oil money, so you have to be smart.

We aren’t in a rush to, but ultimately if we get a bid and the player wants out, they are gone.

I appreciate that, but players have left their boyhood clubs before. I mean he’s still young, he could move and win everything and still come back in his prime if he wanted to after 4 years somewhere. It is just his choice, like Kane. Do you stay and not end up with a haul of meddles or go and win things. Of course you can win things, of all fans we should know that. But it’s bloody difficult and far from certain.

If he had two years left I’d take you up. With a long time left, Villa can play hard ball and keep him even if it upsets the player. But it’s just delaying what’s usually the inevitable.

We've been through this enough ourselves recently. No matter how ambitious you are, or what you can offer, players want to play at the very top and win things regularly. We've won the league and FA cup recently, have billionaire owners, great facilities and pay good money... but if a big clubs, bid massive money, players will by eyeing that up. There is only so long you can fend off offers like this, that is the reality. It's down to the player, if he wants out then in the end you are better off just cashing in, because the second he's looking elsewhere they will lose an edge. The key is using that money wisely, it's not about replacing HIM. It's about improving 3 or 4 areas, so that you improve as a team. Losing Kante and Mahrez was massive and we've never replaced them as players. But we replaced Danny Simpson with Ricardo, Okazaki with Maddison etc. Be nice to see a player say no, I want to stay at my boyhood club. But it's a rarity.

We’ve gone back to countering this season due to all of our injuries. We’ve not been a counter attacking team for over two years.

If we don't get a few of these back injury free we're in trouble. Ricardo Ndidi Maddison Praet Evans Soyuncu Fofana Amartey (Getting excuses in early)

Not been fit since end of last season, can play 20 minutes without breaking down again. Be lucky if he plays. We are threadbare so not expecting much!

We have a bundle of injuries, so I wouldn't get carried away.

You remind me of us when we got promoted. Clearly got the makings of a good team, but somehow need to find the right combination of ingredients for it to click. We nearly got relegated with that though, it was only the signing of Huth and going three at the back that made it all click and the rest is history. Finding a mobile striker who can finish would be top of my list a the moment, you created problems (not sure how much of that was our new system, which gave so much space to overload out fullbacks). But without a reliable striker to get on the end of them, I can't remember Wesley even being close to getting on the end of anything.

You wait until Jenas starts talking out of his arse about you and you'll be thinking of the good old days on quest. The standard of pundity on everything but Sky is the absolute pits.

Been very impressed with this lad second half of the season when I've seen you play. Him, Jack and McGin all stood out

Wolves went up with 23 more points and a team clearly far too good for the league, with an agent sending players far too good for them in their direction. You never know, but I wouldn't be looking at Wolves and thinking that could be us next year. It will take a good few years to get your squad up to the right level. Congrats by the way.

That's how most teams survive now sadly. Getting value for money (buy low, sell high) and producing your own talent is top of the agenda as the money keeps people going.

All three you've mentioned were premier league footballers, Young had proven himself at the in a top 6 premier league team. Llorente played for a team who had zero financial worries, it's nigh on impossible to force a premier league team to sell like teams used to, because they don't need the money. Spurs went in to panic mode for Sissoko and bid that on the back of some great performances for France that summer. I just feel the odds are stacked against you in terms of getting the sort of fee you think he's worth selling for.