VillanousOne

can't beat a high press playing out the back, shocker

he's had a great start to the season, long may it continue, lets focus on the positives and stop this weird forensic attempt to run down everything he does.

Kenneth Williams gif

Surprised he's still there

where does it say a million?

as they say any Laporte in a storm

and when the brothel door is next door to the gay bar

some mumurings that the Acuna deal is off as Seville want daft money for a 31 year old on his final year of contract. hope we go for Tavares instead

it's in that lovely right wing rag, the Daily Mail, be interesting if we can get an actual eyewitness account rather than gutter journalism

He's awesome, but lets not carried away

he looked completely un-interested, like he was resigned to leaving already, maybe that is just how he is/looks most of the time either way pointless keeping him if he is only going to make occasional pointless cameos

he needs a player to go with him who can interchange/pass with and that player could well be Diaby who he did this well with in Germany

I've literally no idea what your point is anymore. But you clearly think it's correct so I'll let you enjoy it.

I'm sorry i'm just not going to judge someone on one game plus a pre-season where plenty of players shined and plenty just turned up, as pre-seasons are about getting fitness and sharpness. Doug gave away possession plenty of times vs Newcastle, was easily bullied off the ball throughout the match, but he had a superb pre-season.... No one is saying Kamara hasn't had poor games, there were times last season where he was dispossessed on the edge of the area, along with Luiz, Dendoncker, Cash, Mings, Konsa and so on.

Newcastle where everyone was awful and was a bit of the pace in preseason and that is enough for some on here to write him off. Frankly comedy.

even if it's 'not enough' as you're own opinion states, the debate was is he the worse signing ever, which most would say he isn't. The transfer fee is nothing to do with the player. Even the wage is based on the fact we were stupid enough to pay it, probably because he was already on stupid money at Everton and we had to match/improve slightly. There is not a player alive anymore who ever takes a pay cut or ever would consider losing one penny in the face of game time, form, injury any factor that might impact their career/profile - its all about the money and nothing else is important anymore. Players didn't know what to spend their millions on, now they won't know what to spend their billions on at the end of the career, i'm sure all the cash will definitely go to Charities.... the days of 'i bought me mum a house' gone, now it's 'i bought me mum an island'. I digress, i'd love to look beyond the Villa bubble and see how many fans feel about each individual player at their clubs and how many feel those players are doing a good job.

He's done ok, he's not set the world alight but I never thought he was going to. By no means a bad signing, he's done a job and even improved under Emery. If he leaves I certainly wouldn't place him even on the Top 100 worst signings for us. I feel like him and Cash aren't bad players but sometimes lack a defensive footballing brain, not even sure Moreno has that, he's better regarded as he is so good at that attacking part.

I personally don't like statements like 'don't worry weren't not signing X' 'he'll never play for us again' 'we won't pay X for X' etc often definitive statements that imply some specialist insider knowledge or knowing better than anyone else on a forum full of fans who have the same information access as everyone else. again possibly just me...

Opinions are fine, we all over react and sometimes go to far, it's human nature Sweeping generalisations, presenting opinions as facts also But if someone vents and spits negativity without much balance, consideration/facts/proof it will get questioned, reactionary bile or endless repetitive criticism of the same player over and over will always just read like some weird agenda, like someone who voted Trump or Brexit and now has to go all in and never wheel back without damaging their fragile ego. No one is beyond criticism, but I don't feel we have any players who don't care, who don't try or give their best, we don't have bad apples in this squad that I feel need to be called out, even if we have players whose form and ability can be rightly questioned People seem to wildy differ in how they approach different players and some of it just feels utterly irrational. Kamara is one of the best signings we have made in decades, i couldn't believe we pulled off that signing - considering it was Stevie G that helped make it happen... he is still young and new to the league, he clearly has shown he can perform like a star and also make some bad mistakes but i think he will get better just like Doug did, just my opinion though.

He called him Rodney after Dave

I love Doug but he has given the ball away in stupid areas a lot and a fair number of penalties in his time with us. I lost count of how many times he's been bullied off the ball and fallen over with no foul given. I still think he's class but we've been generally forgiving because he was young and new to the Premiership and at first at least part of a struggling team. Kamara is young also and its only his second season, people were hailing him as world class and our best midfielder last season at times. The issue for me is we don't have a true sh*t house midfielder willing to foul/bend the rules as much as possible like most teams. Doug and Kamara are way to soft and it really counts against us at times. Only thing we have that can do that kind of damage is McGinn's arse. Either way he's worth stupid money for anyone stupid enough to try and take him from us. We need more class players not less.

Mine is also an opinion that counters yours, what's the problem?

Christ one bad game where everyone played mostly toilet and then comments like this....

You say that but who have we sold since promotion aside from Grealish? I honestly expected to lose Luiz and Martinez but we haven't. If Watkins doesn't sign a new contract maybe that could be the case. I get you mean that if any Champs league club came in for any of players and they wanted to go we would be hard pushed to stop them. Now we have the spectre that any player who wants to earn stupid wages can go to Saudi.

I agree but I don't think Unai will drop them - but I hope i am wrong