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Words. 10 mins of game time. Snippets as always. If he gets a solid run then we’ll see.

I get that but that’s what teammates do - if they all played for themselves we’d get nowhere. Swings and roundabouts. Porous midfield for that chance in the first half where Adams went through, Young last ditched tackle.

He’s the unluckiest or most persecuted player to ever pull on the claret and blue. Smith, Gerrard, Emery. None of them taken to him. Odd.

He was just on. When he got to Gnonto he made a complete hash at trying to tackle him . Surely you agree with that ?

Leeds do their homework to be fair. They get more right than wrong. It’s annoying that they can out smart us in this department especially with someone like this kid. I feel we can outmuscle them financially all day long but they put in the hours scouting properly where as we can kind of be a bit lazy and hurried at times.

Based on what ? Where’s the evidence to suggest this ? His best bits v Lorient and St Etienne on YouTube ? Yeah, Guilbert has those videos too. And Engels. And Wesley.

The Leeds goal was why he never made it here and won’t. There’s no conspiracy. There’s nobody not wanting to give a him a chance. He’s not even close to the most persecuted player ( subjective opinion to who that is ) to play for this club. Sanson isn’t that good. Stop looking for something that ain’t there and move on folks.

I actually thought Sanson was dogshit for the goal. Made a token “ look I’m tackling someone “ motion without actually tackling Gnonto. Sanson hadn’t a bead of sweat on him. Was just on. Young was immense tonight i thought.

Getting Diego back will be huge for us. It helps that we are going relatively well. There will be no rush to get him back and his recovery can proceed in a careful and considered fashion.

Remember the days when they had no money and no history in the early to mid 90s. Pub team. We’d regularly turn them over. Home and away.

Guys can be coached , to a point. And you can’t recreate game scenarios to an exact science in training. I think Mings and Konsa have an absolute desire and want to carry out the blueprint Emery wants. It’s just not going to look as effortless for them as is it is to say Kamara.

These cretins at Sky will be pushing the narrative now of Kamara to City or Liverpool in a few months. You just know it.

I think we’ll beat Southampton and Leicester and have a right **** swing at City and Arsenal.

How he receives the ball and opens his body - i mean since 92/93 im following Villa. Townsend, Draper, Barry, Taylor, Petrov, Gueye ( to name a few ) ive never seen a midfielder at this club in my living memory, receive a ball like he does and nonchalantly leave the bloke pressing him for dust - and he’s not even that fast !! They say the first 5 yards are in a players head. This guy is testament to that.

If he even has an off day i don’t care - he’s 37!! He’s doing what Ronaldo can’t. I know it’s said flippantly at times when players retire “ get him a role at the club “ Young stays at our club in some capacity for the rest of his working life. I really hope.

Exactly. Villa fans want to go places but wanna stay stuck at the same time. The push pull technique. Make noises about Europe and kicking on but we only have living memory of mediocrity that it’s a sort of comfortable place to stay. Mings has a great attitude but he isn’t good enough ( just to confirm I’ve not yet gone to hell for writing and posting that )

In an almost ironically weird way Gerrard will attain iconic status at this club incrementally as time goes on. Not for his managerial stint here. That was awful. He got this guy to sign . Gonna get popular by association basically

Gareth was a fine player but if im putting him up alongside this guy the key and major thing that stands out is - balance. Barry was very left sided orientated. Not just passing, he had to receive the ball onto his left. Kamara’s balance is another level to Barry’s.

It’s what our MO should be now though. Villa should be proud of themselves, garner confidence at board level to be able to acquire a player like Kamara and be constantly going over the fine print and contract of every talent in Europe. Don’t rest on our laurels. Go do work like the work they did to get a player like Boubacar.

I thought it looked quite poor from us. Like i said earlier, it’s not something id want us to incorporate in our game consistently. We were deliberately keeping the ball out of play at times - huge chunks of time. I don’t like it. Running the ball into corners is completely different, balls in play - tough shit if you can’t get it off us. What we did tonight was unsporting. Look, we won and i never seen us do it to that scale before and hope not to again.

Lot of fans get in a tizzy about his wages. Who gives a **** . Are you paying it ? He wouldn’t of been signed if we couldn’t finance it. Enjoy him while we have him - a very long time hopefully.

They are really starting to become that fat lad who pulled a very inebriated fit bird on a Saturday night and is bragging about it non stop to his mates.

My thoughts : The win can dilute how you feel about the performance. We won, on the whole we were nervy and edgy. Mings drops out when Carlos is fully fit i think. He has a great attitude but too error prone and his ball delivery to his LB and midfielders is simply too slow and laboured. I don’t think he makes the pass early because he simply can’t see it. Kamara is class. Jury still out on JJ. Might he have been given too much before he actually earned it ? He’s at an age where he can learn if he wants to. He could drive on or it could completely go the other way and he could be playing championship in 12 months. Really. We need Guendouzi. He’ll improve is. Dougie is too flighty. He’s a good player but has he honestly put 3-4 7/8 performances together consistently since he came here.

He’s going to create a serious amount of chances if our midfielders can arrive into the box. He’s not just launching it, he’s picking a man out. Mings did ( and will ) make him look worse at times because his feet are too slow and he gave it Moreno too slow and late , like he has Digne. Moreno at times got caught in in a 3 v 1 press because the ball is too late. The best LB in the world 9/10 won’t get out of those situations. I personally can’t wait for Carlos to come back.

You know what bugs me the most ? Leeds can scout, do their homework and get a lad like him. More like him out there.