Jimmyg

3 hours ago, HalfTimePost said:

How can you hate this window? We are breaking our records, signing young promising players and don't yet seem at any risk of losing our best players. Best window in years.

Put it this way, I’m the kid who looked at his presents every year before Christmas Day. It’s the not knowing that I hate. I’m too excited. 

I hate this transfer window already.... so glad it’s closes earlier this year.

9 hours ago, Spoony said:

Not referring to you specifically but just cos you brought them up: I’m so sick of everyone on twitter mentioning Fulham every time we are linked to someone. Like, are we not allowed to sign anyone then without “doing a Fulham”? It’s almost as tiring as wolves fans hijacking literally every tweet that’s about Villa by comparing X to some Portuguese fella. 

I’m with you, hence the “ “ .....it’s tiring!  From the outside looking in without knowing the clubs philosophy as we do it’s always going to be the comparison cause it’s a lazy one. In the same way any clubs in the championship buying all the best players in the division gambling it on promotion would be tarnished as “doing a villa”. 

Given the £30 odd million we have spent so far, the areas we need to strengthen and who we have been linked with (if they can be believed) it looks like we could well spend close to £100m..... I have every confidence it will be more quality over qty I would expect as to not “do a Fulham”. 

If true this is a great signing and will get us points next season.... although like most I feel really bad for Steer, I hope he gets a number one spot elsewhere if we do sign Butland. 

I cant help feel that there was something fishy going with on with the signing of Kalinic, almost as if there was already an agreement they had to honour since when We tried to get him previous... can’t put my finger on it. 

Ah man so many....most of which people have mentioned already, in particular Hadgi, Kachloul and Baros different times but I was exited to see them sign. 

Steve Sidwell, Steve Warnock, Nicky Shorey and I’m gonna throw it out there Stiliyan Petrov, he did a job for us in the end but he didn’t turn out to be the player we were expecting from Celtic let’s be honest. 

Oh and djemba djemba... although aside from that charity shield game never shown promise at utd, but at the time I thought Alex seen something in him he is gonna be mint for us... how I was wrong. 

29 minutes ago, useless said:

Last season Steve Round said that we would have gone for Hernandez from West Ham and Fellaini if we'd have beaten Fulham in the final.

The scary thing is we probably would have thought they were good signings and what we needed..... it’s like looking back on what could have happened if I stayed with the ex and at the time I thought it would have been ace. **shudders**

I’m finding I hard to get excited cause it’s come out of the blue and I know k’all about him.... but if I knew nothing about him and we were linked and teased with him for a month I’d really want him and think it was the nuts. All reports seem good tho... looking forward to see him action and more importantly who he may be lining up with. 

I like the round one but I think I’m in the few percent that Prefers our current badge. It pops.... I like it. 

1 hour ago, delboy54 said:

With all the excitement of being in the Premiership again following the great win in the play off final, plus new players arriving etc, I think we all need to anticipate that we will go on a poor run in the up-coming season  at some time - we did last season under Dean and there were few moaners on here going on about Dean Smith not right for our club, blah, blah, blah....

Well I know we are fickle (!) but I think us supporters have to show the same "togetherness" we all witnessed towards the last part of last season. No booing at half time,  no getting on to the players if they make a mistake, lets get behind the players - it makes a difference. We supporters can be the difference. We all want Villa to do well, but lets have realistic expectations for next season while we and the players and manager all readjust to life in this new league. 

We have got a far better management structure and set up up, plus players and team spirit, Lets trust them to do their job with our support.

VTID

Derek

Totally agree.. we will have a bad run this season, possibly a spanking or two. I’m just worried what will happen if we are in and around the bottom few come Christmas, what most supporters would think and whether these owners would pull the lever, I don’t think they would....

I wonder if staying up on the last game of the season was on the table right now how many would take it!? Not sure I would. 

I won’t believe he is Brazilian until I see him doing kickups and doing that flick up with his neck. That said... on the video he looks a beast and seems like he has the tools for the prem but 22m seems a lot. I would expect another striker to come in along side....I just really want maupay! Can’t see it now tho.

56 minutes ago, blandy said:

If you follow the advice Jimmy it will help you, or if it doesn't work it'll help with further diagnosis.

 

Hey mate... thanks for reply. I have no idea how but after a couple weeks problems with it for now it’s working. Will see how it goes

I have... how about just helping me out? 

Forget it... I’ll just go back to reading 

Cheers

Hey, everytime I log in whether it be with username or email address the password is incorrect... I then reset password and which lets me in but then when I try to log in using that password in the future it won’t let me. Then the same cycle.... 

Any ideas?

I have never been so glad to see the back of a player since Karim El Ahmedi. 

37 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

I'd love that tbh. Claret body and blue sleeves is the standard of course, but I like these occasional deviations like this season's for example which ended up being my favorite Villa kit ever. Besides, we haven't had a great traditional kit since 09/10 or a decent one since 11/12. Bring on the abominations!

Agree.... in my opinion some of our best kits have been deviations. This seasons being one and I’m gutted I didnt buy it. As long as it’s claret and blue and looks classy I’m all for it. 

It’s worth the money to see Gardner off....with the players we have released this is an instant improvement for not a lot in this market. He has torn us apart on occasions as many have mentioned, and I was jealous when blues singed him. 

Good start and I love that we doing business early. 

Wheelan is worthy of another year for sure. He has proved in the latter stages of this season his value to the squad and seems to get the Smith way of doing things, and he still seems fit. Players like him have a place in the premier league, even if it is for the grinding out of results against teams towards the bottom end of the table. Not a starter, but he stays for me. 

Hey, I have been reading this forum for about ten years and finally decided to contribute rather than talk to myself. 

Exciting summer ahead and all positive at the moment... great time to join.