MikeAVFC

This handball rule is bloody ridiculous. The wolves goal should have stood, games going if you're giving handball for that imo. They're trying to maker the game black and white unfortunately, there's no middle ground. I'd be raging if that went against us. It's going to cause problems unfortunately we as fans will have to get used to it

I know it was Spurs but the 2nd half was abysmal, sorry. Couldnt string 2 passes together

Must admit I had reservations about bringing in a lot of players. But to be fair, the ones we've brought in have either worked with Smith before, were here last season or are (by and large) young players with a point to prove. Really pleased with what we've done so far in all fairness, looks like we've brought in the right type of players too. We may need to be patient - it won't all click overnight. Might be a month or two before we really start to see this team click into gear. Hats off to Purslow and the recruitment team so far though - good forward planning and clearly had many of these ready to go for a while.

That would be truly ridiculous. Could easily play for a top club

Welcome

Finally!

This. We can do better imo

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Upgrade on Tammy for sure.

Would be a coup this. Big strong powerful lad up top!

Pleased about this. Hopefully Hause and Mings in the coming days too

Disagree completely but each to their own.

Really hope we can get this one done. Seems to be conflicting reports on Chelsea , whether they'll want/need to keep him or not though.

Delusional. Clearly a wind up merchant

Anyway, has Jota signed yet?

Smith took a side up that was expensively assembled, like Nuno did. Likewise, you could point out that Nuno took a side up consisting of Matt Doherty,Ryan Bennett and Conor Coady, hardly superstars at the time and were deemed useless before Nuno coached them. Yes miles better - Nuno has managed in the champions league at 2 clubs, got a small Portugese club Rio Ave into the europa league and totally transformed Wolves the last 2 years. Deano's worked at Walsall and Brentford. Seriously, get those rose tinted glasses off. I like Smith a lot and he's got potential to be a very good manager for us going forward - and like many others I backed him all season to come through it even through that very patchy spell. But he's nowhere near Nuno's level, or any of the others in that top half like your Marco Silvas etc. Let's be real about this and not look through those Claret and Blue glasses.

Let's be real. As good a job as Deano's done, Nuno is miles better.

Bullshit. Look at their side - likes of Patricio, Boly, Neves, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Jota, Jonny, Jimenez. Seasoned internationals - behave yourself. Absolutely miles apart. Not saying we can't compete with them on the day when we face them obviously, but dominating? Can only assume you've had a few drinks.

Of course, I expect us to make signings and strengthen with the backing we'll have. But assuming in our first year back (where we have work to do squad wise regardless of backing) that we're going to be sat comfortable in the top half and bettering the likes of Wolves and Everton is bordering on insanity and arrogance. Yes we're Aston Villa, yes we're far bigger than Wolves. But on the pitch, we're miles away. This is my worry, our fanbase gets extremely arrogant sometimes away from what the reality is. Our aim next season should be to consolidate.

Sorry but that's total bollocks. They're miles ahead of us in every department bar club size and fanbase. We scraped promotion in 5th place, we're not going to just swot aside the likes of Wolves, Leicester and Everton. Behave

There or thereabouts?

On the face of it doesn't look an exciting signing, however as I said before I don't expect lots of big signings this summer. I expect players like this who come in with a point to prove, with some cheap loans/loan with a view to buy from abroad to supplement the loans we make permanent (Mings, Hause). A player Smith knows well, and let's face it he's been playing in a dog of a blues side who play horrible ugly long ball football. Should suit us better than he did them. Get behind him

Me too, I too got excited still, decent squad player.

This may be a tad unpopular, but my take on it is that although we need to strengthen, we need to be careful not to disrupt the dynamic of the dressing room that got us here. I imagine we'll see mostly young, hungry players with a point to prove from both overseas and here, rather than splashing big sums of money on superstars right away. I'll hazard a guess that 5 or 6 will come in, as well as tying up Mings, El Ghazi, Hause and Tammy (depending on the situation at Chelsea). That'll be more than okay for this window, then we'll review the situation again in January and see where we are. I understand people's concerns, ie that we finished 5th in the championship therefore there's a bit of work to be done, however it can easily go the other way if we splash silly money on a lot of players. Young, hungry with a point to prove plus tying up the loanees seems the sensible option to me.

I understand that, however it wouldn't harm to keep one or two senior pros in the dressing room for another year. Obviously he wouldn't play many games, but don't underestimate big characters like that behind the scenes in what will be a tough season next year. I get the sentiment thing, for me keeping him wouldn't be sentiment. It would be necessity of keeping a good character around the place (short term, just a year) which wouldn't harm anything imo. If anything, the ones we ought to be moving on are the Bjarnasons and the Lansburys.