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This whole who signed who is getting tedious and is quite frankly a load of bollocks. Dean Smith and Christian Purslow have reiterated it many times that we have a system in place now that also consists of many analysts who report to Lange who in conjunction with Dean and Christian will make a calculated decision whether to bring the player in. Just last season I saw a job advert for Villa recruiting analysts who were responsible for player recruitment and a whole lot of other jobs for analysts for player performance analysis. Our recruitment department and data analysis is growing. Edit - to suggest otherwise is doing a disservice to the effort we as a club are making into improving our infrastructure. The integration between first team and youth teams will also hopefully bear fruits in the coming seasons. That is another aspect of our recruitment.

Err I don't think that's correct. One's a regular goalscorer in the hardest league in the world, the other is an average player for a relegated club. He's also become very injury prone.

Rashica has been injury prone this season it seems. Not good enough for us now.

Serves em effing right. Milot for being a knob. And the other guy for also being a knob. Knobs the lot of them. I'd buy him and loan him to a championship club just for pissing us around. Knob!

That sorts us for the next 4/5 seasons. And being Uruguayan you can bet he'll bring strong mentality and will to win too. Not to mention that little bit of shithousery that I think we lack sometimes.

I won't be surprised if we get De Arrascaeta. It's too much of an outlier link for it to be not true.

Them , Barca. , Juve, Real and Manure are in huge debt. Manure can get away with it but from what my Spanish friends are saying that Real might not get the bail outs they usually get from the Spanish government. About time really.

ElGhazi to score a hatrick with plenty of love from the Villans in attendance. A relaxed Villa are a dangerous Villa. I think it might be messy.

Dean Smith thread is that way .

Pretty sure he did some good defensive work also, tracked and cut out a few passes if I remember rightly. I think some posters have predetermined prejudices that makes them see something else.

Better more expensive players are not on Watkins' level. Oh I CBA.

Match sharpness counts for a lot especially in the Premier League. Hause is a dependable defender. £3m and he's solid against Kane and Son. Sheesh!

Agreed and he's worth keeping for that smile. smile marvelous smile...

I can actually see Nakamba being moved on, to accommodate a higher caliber CDM/CM, a better version of himself. Probably not good enough to start all games, but good enough to start somewhere else IMO. Ideally you'd like to keep him around but it will be increasingly difficult to keep everyone happy, and I feel he deserves more playing time. @JAMAICAN-VILLAN sorry I wasn't sure if you were sure you got your point across.

Extend that contract!!!!

Ballsy.

Agreed 100% . It's a disgrace.

Didn't benteke get 19 in one season? Edit - I beg your pardon you're talking about English strikers.

No he doesn't. Luiz this season has had to deal with McGinn's lack of tracking and his huffing and puffing because he hasn't been able to pace himself through a game. Palace's first goal McGinn poor control then brain freeze and they score. Second half he made lots of poor passes gave the ball away cheaply numerous times. McGinn needs too much time and space yesterday he got that so looked effective. On evidence his performance yesterday when compared to his other performances this season was an outlier. 7 good games in 30 odd is not a good return.

I disagree with this he's had about 6/7 good games. Yesterday he was good after about 20 minutes. Nakamba was at fault for the goal yesterday but McGinn also bounced off Bergweijn when he tried to tackle him. Against Chelsea I'd like to see Nakamba and Luiz to see the difference so we can compare. At times this season it would have been nice to see Luiz Nakamba McGinn too as I think Nakamba just makes us more solid and how can you say no to that smile.

It should be £3m and jack's jockstrap.

It's a sort of a free hit game I wouldn't mind seeing Wesley start and one youngster who isn't involved in the fa youth cup.

9 away wins this season. Might not get as many next season as fans will be back in. Hopefully our home form picks up though.