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Think he'll go to West Ham personally as I have a feeling Rice will go to Chelsea or United. If the Boubacar Kamara links are genuine then that seems a potentially better option.

I've yet to really be 100% convinced by Coutinho so far...BUT at that price, it's a gamble you'd be mental not to take. Excellent value for the potential upside of him rediscovering that £140m form!

Sure I've seen that Gaz Williams around on twitter - think he is undergoing treatment for a fairly severe illness atm so even if the club is still a joke, it's nice they've done something like that for him. I lost my dad to cancer last year, and pre-Covid the Villa Foundation got him and my mum tickets in one of the executive boxes for the home game against Burnley. Nice to acknowledge long-term fans going through a tough time, even if their choice in club is questionable

Pretty pedestrian affair. We were poor, Norwich were worse. It is what it is, we're safe and I can't wait for the season to end TBF.

Yep absolutely, I don't mind them generally but when they are commentating on Liverpool or United games it is Fanzone all over again. And even when United or Liverpool aren't playing, for example on a Monday night, they'll spend from 7 till 7:50pm talking about either of them. Then 5 mins about the teams actually involved, full of poorly researched cliches, another 5 mins of adverts then bam, kick off.

The hyperbolic pity-party that Neville conjures up every time they lose a game on TV does my nut in. "It's a disgrace, it's as bad as it gets, they're a nothing team." Gary mate, you're sixth. You've spent a billion quid. You were still in the Champions League a fortnight or so ago. Have some perspective.

Really pleased for him, top lad.

Is that for real? Jesus Christ

Keeping it tight for the first twenty minutes would be lovely. Anything after that is a bonus.

And with this being such a crucial summer for us, I feel very unsure about giving the funds for a rebuild to a manager who's pretty much a rookie with only a middling job in the SPL on his CV.

Sorry, I'm really yet to be convinced that he's "not stupid". Thoroughly underwhelming first 6 months here for him.

Just a gut feeling, a rookie manager bringing in players he knows. Not exactly an off the wall prediction, I would've said.

We 100% are not going down this year, but on current form will probably finish 15th or 16th. My worry is for next season after Gerrard has had the chance to bring in some former Liverpool journeymen. Edit - we are now below **** Newcastle

Yup, season ticket holder here. And in all the home games so far, I’ve really yet to see a great deal to get excited about, or to make me confident that Gerrard spending £100m this summer is miraculously going to fix all our problems. As others have said, the real fear behind this “success now” approach is that we end up exactly where we were back in 2010/11 with Habib Beye and Steven Warnock picking up mega wages despite being **** useless. Smith was beaten with the stick of this squad being good enough for Europe, so why now is 4 wins since the turn of year deemed sufficient? At some point before this season is over, Gerrard is going to have to get something resembling a tune out of what he’s already got without just shrugging and saying “check back after I’ve spent another £100m”

Exactly this. There’s no basis, proven pedigree or track record of him doing what we need this summer in a competitive league. If our players are as bad as he says they are (which I don’t necessarily believe) then it’s going to be a huge job, and I think it’s fair to question his credentials for it.

Agree with all these points. I’m really not comfortable with giving a bloke, who did a pretty average job in Scotland, the reins for yet another rebuild at this club.

Easy to write it before the match started because it panned out exactly the way we all knew it would, to be fair.

Absolute shite. Gerrard once again sat on the bench with his finger up his arse as the pendulum swung very obviously away from us. Glad that a) we have to wait two **** weeks to play again to wash the taste of this out of our mouths and b) the costs for next season are going up. Love my club.

Think we're going to get absolutely slapped.

I don't want Gerrard sacked at all, but I'd be lying if I said I was enthralled by his tenure thus far as Villa boss. Pretty underwhelming for me, on the whole.

Would very much like to beat these "European giants"

This, but they turn around on big chairs like on The Voice.

The amount of United fans crying about the ref last night, now they know how the rest of us felt for 30 odd years!

I knew we'd signed a world class flair player in January, I just didn't think it was Calum Chambers!

I can forgive just about anything as long as Glorfindel is featured in some capacity, I was gutted that he didn't get included in the films. They will 100% turn Galadriel into Xena though, despite the fact she's already a perfectly badass character in her own right.