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Is the Bamford deal close ? Cracking signing if true.

Here's a thought. How about we get up first ?

Jedinak would be a good addition. Never gets bossed in midfield. His passing comes in for criticism but ive seen worse. His positional play and anticipation of where the ball is going is also vastly underrated.

No need to over react just yet. Again, we were relegated from the premier league, one of the worst, pathetic relegations ever and we still have some of those players remaining. Every time though on these pages after every game we keep giving out about the lack of effort etc from Richards, Hutton, Bacuna but what's blatantly obvious besides that is just how poor these guys are on a technical level. They do the basics so badly. How did we let this go on for so long.

Lot of unofficial villa twitter feeds gathering serious pace in the last hour saying Morrison medical on thursday, signing by Friday at the earliest. How credible they are, I dunno.

I'd like Morrison at villa. Yes we are potentially getting the baggage that goes with him but he has tremendous footballing ability, create something out of nothing.. Haven't had a midfielder like that in a long long while.

Jedinak committed his future to palace today. So maybe it is Morrison then.

His latest tweet says we are very close to signing another midfielder. Should be in before Saturday. Unless villa have been keeping it very quiet, it's gonna be Jedinak or Morrison.

Ok you said he would not look out of place. Alan Hutton makes dreadful decisions on the ball. He makes them. His passing is poor, his positional sense poor, his delivery which btw he would still be expected to do as all FB'S get forward is shocking. He won't get better. I just fail to understand how having someone "better" in front of him makes Hutton more clever upstairs. Wouldn't it be a better idea to get a more competent RB to go compliment a natural, gifted bags of potential to improve and already at a good level, Andre Green.

So having someone not good enough in front of him is justification for Hutton playing poorly up to now. Poor logic really.

I think we are fine at RM. Andre Green will be good enough. IMO he is our most talented in that position, i include traore. We can't get bogged down by how young he is. The other crowd put demari gray in. Good enough, old enough. Green is plenty good enough. I don't like the term holding midfielder to be honest. Too vague. Someone who can tackle, anticipate and break up play, technically very very good and not just sit for the sake of it, get forward when the opportunity arises. No good just holding if you can't do all the above. Then you'd have a luxury player. If we could bring Jedinak and Morrison in I'd be happy with it and a replacement for Hutton.

See here is the thing. You say Morrison won't do enough without the ball. Well for 5 years now we haven't been able to do anything with the ball. We can get ball. We aren't good enough on it.

I hope if Green starts tomorrow night and plays well that he is given a start on Saturday. Bacuna, ive seen enough. Not for me.

I don't get this. Possession retention is totally subjective. If you get the ball off your defender whilst facing him, don't turn around to see what's on and play a first time ball back to said defender despite being in space yourself then yes this is retaining possession. It's stat friendly. It's also utterly useless. It's a cop out. It's cowardly. Talented midfielders can play it simple - when needs be, if it's not on. But have the bravery to look up and make a forward pass. I wouldn't of called the Reading team that went with sidewall, Doyle, and long a possession team, still technically adept.. but they were absolutely ruthless. Hungry to win games, score goals. I'd take a bit of that right now.

Would give me great pleasure if you refreshed this quote on Saturday at around 5 but i have a feeling we are going to make the Rotherham game much tougher than it ought to be.

We need to sort out our midfield. It's blatantly obvious. We won't make a dent in this league if we stick with what we have. Jedinak and Morrison would be a statement of intent. I'm not fussed about Hernandez, that's not the problem for us. I think we are well equipped to score goals. I just think we get overrun in midfield and dominated far too easily. No intelligence on the ball.

Seriously piss off. We don't bash him for the sake of it, i take no pleasure in slating anyone in a villa shirt but i also trust what my eyes see and i see a player who is woefully out of his depth. He offers nothing. Safe nothing stat friendly passes is. Can't tackle. Directs traffic during a game of football. We will get utterly dominated in midfield this season if we stick with this charlatan. Ashley you seem like a lovely fella, the kind of lad someone would enjoy a pint with but you ain't what we need in our team anymore.

I kid you not when i see id of kept young easah suliman at the club and started him at right full over this lad. Only 18 but more tactical and technical nous than Hutton even at RB. Oh jeez bring in de laet even!

Good with the ball. Quite listless without it

My thoughts on the game, first half we weren't at it. Second was much improved. Midfield throughout was absent and it's worryingly going forward. No bravery on the ball from either Westwood or Gardner. Both full backs are weak, known this for some time. I personally don't see the need or point of buying Abel Hernandez. McCormack and Ayew will score goals, plenty of them. Centre midfield needs serious quality. I'd even toy with the idea of starting grealish there against Luton. Something different.

He talked about buying a house in Birmingham once the takeover was ratified. He probably thought if witton is like the rest of Birmingham I'd sooner commute from China.

I think tomorrow is as tough an opener as we could of got. They are at home. They have only ever got better under carvahal. Lost nobody, added pudil, abdi and fletcher. I'd love us to go out there and just **** boss them, be a real statement. Wednesday could go the other way too, how many times have you seen beaten play off finalists have a hangover the following season. Also, let's not see this place descend into anarchy tomorrow evening should we be beaten. Perspective. We were relegated with a woeful showing last year. Assembling a new team. Takes time but we are doing the right things i feel.

Let him off the leash on sunday, he'd cause Wednesday no end of problem down the right. Real end product to his game, creates chances on the ball. If he's good enough, he's old enough.

Surely I'm not the only one worried about how really poor we are in midfield and void of a creative spark. Gardner ? I really don't know to be honest. Westwood is just rubbish, a nothing player. Doesn't influence ... At all. Tshibola, a talent we are told but won't expect him to hit the ground running. Our problem last year was around the middle our passing and movement was shocking. All well and good having McCormack and Ayew but they are only as good as the ball they get.

Can't knock the man. He's spending decent coin for a championship club and he's not finished yet he says, Even though most of our squad last year was crap, it's clear we do not need to sell if we do not want to. Clark and Gana he could do sweet f all about. He's clearly not a fan of clauses either judging by his tweets :-)