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I take him! Always looked quite a natural finisher when given game time.

Maybe I'm being niave, but who the hell is Mariano?

Rip Dalian Atkinson, one of my first ever VP heroes

Is Paddy Riley still with us? If so, what work is he actually doing?! Steve Round, has potential to be good appointment.

I really rate what I've seen of Adama, very exciting attacking player, could potentially tear this division apart on his own in some games, when did we last have a player with that possible potential?

I would love that! Bring that back Tone!

Like the tweet said, don't believe the media...

From what I gather, it was a joint decision, no one to feel sorry for, well except Bennett, and that's if he even wanted to leave.

Spot on.

Big tone is a breathe of fresh air, so what if he tweets, who cares, he seems to care and that's a damn sight better then Lerner. Maybe it's the way ownership of clubs is going, instead of getting regurgitated stuff from media, we get actual news from the boss, that's pretty good imo.

Can only assume that Dr Tony is going to be just as embarrassed by that as the rest of us, and hopefully he won't stand for it, gets his cheque book out and is prepared to pay and possibly over pay for the type of signings that will sort this mess of a squad out. Who do we have that's even any good?!

What is his official position? I'm sure it was striker?

Benteke!!!

I really thought he was going to be a good signing....

Safe to say I'm quite excited for this season, and it looks like we'll actually feature on tv more then when we were in the premier league, weird.

Come on then, whose next?! I'm too excited

Well now things are getting exciting. Welcome, feel free to reach the status of JPA or Carew

Lol fixed

Some completely unrealistic posts on this forum sometimes. Dr Tony for me is doing a brilliant job so far, tweets aren't embarrassing, just passionate, it's refreshing! I'm sure he has more concerns about the upcoming season then the rest of us and will be doing his upmost in trying to get back to the premier league, he is a business man first and foremost, and there's huge money to be made if Villa are back in the top flight, not just tv money, but the extra revenue and interest it would garner his other business 's, for example the academy in India. Keep the faith! Stop being a bunch of Holloways.

Really not fussed, think for Newcastle this is a poor signing, sooner Clark isn't near the Villa first team the better for me.

Ahh love a bit of pre-season optimism

Is this what paddy O'reilly uses?

Gets Gestede off the books at the same time, makes offer possibly more appealing to selling club, free's up a squad number, one less player to manage, makes sense to me.

But Bacuna is champions league quality! Jokes aside, these players obviously have something about them, Hutton is an international and played for Tottenham, Cissokho was deemed good enough for Liverpool at one point, even Gabby got into the England squad at one point, so our squad collectively might be shit at the moment, but maybe RDM has a point, good players, poor management, obviously their attitudes are appalling and that would be reason enough to get rid of them, however, if RDM thinks with a clean slate they can challenge for promotion, then they all have my support and I can forgive the shambles of last season. New start, new season, new era.

The way I see it, last season we all for the most part thought the team would be mid table-ish, however after the Leicester game confidence was shot and the team never recovered, maybe there's enough about this team when playing confidently to actual be a strong championship side, hence why no panic buying. Like Dr Tony said, have faith in the manager.