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14 minutes ago, Genie said:

What’s the long term vision? Stick with Smith, we go down. “Maybe” he gets us back up, then what?

15 minutes ago, dudevillaisnice said:

What does this long term plan and vision consist of? Grealish is going at the end of the season and you can be damn sure other players are on to the agent about now trying to get out of here sharpish. It looks bleak no matter what way you look at it. 

The long term vision is still the same as it was when the new owners came in and when Smith took over. To play good football, buy and develop young players and move us back up into the top half of the premier league. A year ago we were a million miles off that and Smith has done well to get this far so quickly. Rome wasn't built in a day. It will take time, even if we take a backwards step then so be it. In the modern game, a club has to have a vision and stick to it. All of the small clubs that have done well recently have had that. The ones who have been a bit more hasty haven't done so well.

In the summer when we signed all these players and everyone on here was raving about what an amazing window it was. Now after we've had our first bad month or so of the season we all want him out and have forgotten about our vision. Up to and including the Man Utd game we had played well in all but 2 games. Since then we've lost 2 of our top 3 players to injury, our form was bound to dip.

A short term solution in sacking a manager and replacing him with a fat old dinosaur is not a way to approach a long term project. What is the point in a club having a vision if they just sack it off at the first chance. You have a vision and project and you commit to it, even if you take a backwards step.

You don't do the exact opposite of that and go for another dinosaur. They may as well have kept Bruce.

If we do have to get rid of Smith then we HAVE to go for a manger that fits into our vision, not someone who is the polar opposite like Allardyce. What would our vision be then, bring in a load of old timers who can "do a job" on 5 year contracts and end up like we were when we went down. No thanks, I'd rather go down with Smith and start again.

2 minutes ago, LondonVillian said:

Yes because we would like to not be relegated. Short 6 month deal would be fine. 

And Allardyce would guarantee us not being relegated? I'd rather go down with Smith than stay up with Allardyce. At least we have a long term project and vision at the moment, Allardyce doesn't know the meaning of those words. He'd set us back even further. It would just be repeating old mistakes if we go anywhere near him.

Just read this last page. Are people seriously suggesting Allardyce or having a joke?

To the people saying he has to go; don't you think now might be the worst timing? Surely targets have been lined up by now for January (which we desperately need). If we sack him now, it would probably be 10 days to 3 weeks until a new manager is in, leaving barely any time for transfers. Surely now is not the time?

7 hours ago, KentVillan said:

Yep - scan came back showing no damage to the knee, so they reckon he just jarred it a bit as he landed. Nothing serious to worry about. Great news!

Where did you read/hear that? Really, really hope that is the case because I didn't like the look of how he went over on his knee.

6 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Only one MOTM match - Grealish was head and shoulders above anyone within 100 miles.

He's an absolute joy to watch. Knows he is good enough to play at his own pace and the game will revolve around him. Pure class. That one piece of play in the second half where he picked the ball up on the half way line with about 4 players around him and just played 2 or 3 one touch passes and strolled past them all just summed him up. I could have watched him all night.

5 minutes ago, chappy said:

Poor. Thought Konsa did ok but there weren’t many positives. Nakamba MOTM

Seriously? I thought he was our worst player today. By far his worst game.

15 minutes ago, TRO said:

I think that is the most gauling feature.....its not the score, its the predictability of it.

That's Spurs,Arsenal and Man city all held until half time and then we concede 3 in each game....so we get over the hardest bit and then, bam.

I ask, are we fit enough?.....do we fight enough?....do we stand off too much?.....do we yield space too easily?.....are we carrying some players?.......something is clearly lacking.

Sometimes you're just playing against better players. It's really that simple sometimes. We are a work in progress and to be honest I'm happy we played well in at least 45 mins of all of those games.

Honestly, I've never loved a player as much as I love him. Does he ever have an average game, never mind poor game? I don't say this lightly, but he has the potential to be THE best midfielder in the league.

I still haven't calmed down. It's hands down the worst refereeing decision I've ever seen.

7 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

I can’t say it hasn’t been a good window because we’ve done extremely well bringing in the amount of players we have as early on as we did.

However.

If one or two of our forward players don’t step up, the likes of Wesley/Trezeguet/Jota, we will struggle. 

I still think we’re a couple of forward players light and one or two poor performances early on into the season will have people on edge.

Im excited without being that confident if I’m honest. 

Pretty much sums it up for me. Very impressed with how the club has been run this summer but I just can't shake the feeling we are light up front and may struggle scoring. I was absolutely convinced we'd sign 1 or 2 more players.

We are literally 1/2 players away from this being the perfect window.

Just now, VILLAMARV said:

Davis is loads more useful than Hogan. I really can't see the issue there.

 

Yes, definitely. I really rate Davis. But he's had his injury problems recently and is only young still. Plus we only have 2 other strikers. I really think we need another one in. Hogan is crap but at least him being available is better than no backup option at all. Let's say Kodjia and Davis get injured and Wesley isn't as good as we're hoping. What do we do then?

2 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Probably cos they're both shite.

 

Like I said, they're not very good options but are still options. What if Trezeguet, El Ghazi, Kodjia and Wesley get injured? I'd rather have Green and Hogan available than not.

Why would we let Hogan and Green go on loan if we're not getting a winger or striker in. I know Hogan and Green are not very good options to have but they're still options.

I've got to admit, as good as this window has been, if we don't get a striker in I will be very disappointed. We look so light up front. All the pressure will be on Wesley to be a success.

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Please, please, please!

8 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

It's unbearable all of the time.

They are the fake tits of sports journalism.

If it wasn't so cringeworthy and I didn't detest Sky Sports so much, I'd find it funny how bad it is. 90% of it is so obviously fake news just to get them talking and influence the betting.

It's even funnier when nothing is happening and you can almost see them start to throw out panic stories. "And erm, Gillingham have signed Joe Bloggs for a club record fee of £120,000. Wow, what a busy deadline day this has been". This is the only time they ever cover anyone outside of the "Big 6/7". I mean, why do they need a reporter at all of the so called big teams training grounds? They've literally just left Tottenham's to go to Arsenal's! Do they even know football exists outside of the top end of the Prem!

Oh god, the presenters have started wishing the reporters a "happy deadline day". Make it stop!

I've only had it on for 20 minutes but already had enough of Sky's deadline day coverage. Absolutely cringeworthy!

Surely there is no way we'd let Green and Hogan go on loan without bringing in a striker and/or winger. Surely only a matter of time now...

Ozil to Spurs for £96million. Realistic.

1 minute ago, pintpotvilla said:

I think we are not!!

I agree. I'd be absolutely amazed if we don't bring another 2 in.

3 minutes ago, pintpotvilla said:

I think you might find it is actually, but not for anything like 60m

You heard something?

6 minutes ago, Junxs said:

I think it's the other way around, Bacuna showed great promise in the early days - involved in attacks scored goals, got assists linked play well.

It was all going good for him until a reporter in Holland asked him if he'd like to come back to play in his homeland towards the end of his career, his innocent response of yes it would be nice one day to come home, would be great to play for either PSV or Ajax and experience champions league football before retiring.

That somehow got interpreted into he wants to leave Villa and play for Real Madrid (probably as a joke to start with), but fans turned on him and boo'd him every time he touched the ball, shows how people jump on bandwagons without even checking the facts. It was embarrassing for the Villa fans. Even now you still see comments of him wanting champions league football on here where you'd expect a bit more intelligence. 

To be honest, I'd forgotten about his Champions League comment. I always just hated him for how unbearably crap he was.