Laughable Chimp

But the thing is, he isn't even showing up half the time. Tell me, how many PL games do you think Wesley has actually done at least decent in? For me, its only been the 3 games so far, the games he's scored in(I'm just gonna take people's word on the Everton game since I didn't see it myself). I'm not saying he needs to score to have a decent game, but the rest of his contribution has been generally so poor in games where he doesn't score that he just doesn't have decent games when he doesn't score. Maybe at a stretch the Liverpool match although I'm not entirely convinced since despite being pretty dominant in the air for once, he had 0 shots and was generally ineffective, albeit I don't think its entirely his fault considering how hard it was for our team in general to hold on to the ball in that match. But its basically 3 or 4 out of 11. That's not even half the time.

Man, its good to finally be able to post on this site instead of just lurking and all. Anyway, I looked up Wesley's expected goals stats for the past 3 games, and he's actually number 7 in the list of Villa players. Grealish, Mcginn, El Ghazi, Trezeguet, Hourihane and even Davis have a higher expected goals talley in the past 3 games than our current top man. Davis has somehow accrued a higher expected goals talley in a total of 30 minutes of time in the last 3 games than Wesley has had in 241 minutes of the last 3 games. Now, that's not to say Davis would actually meet that expected goal talley since his finishing is crap but its still pretty interesting how low it has been and highlights how unlikely Wes was to score in those 3 games even compared to other Villa players. If you include the last 5 games, which includes the famous Norwich game, then his stats jump up considerably, so much so that Wesley is number 1 in terms of expected goals which really highlights how much that Norwich game did to improve his stats in general. If you increase the scope to include the last 10 games and all games in the PL so far, Wesley is shown to still be comfortably number 1 in terms of expected goals too. I checked his expected goal talley in that individual Norwich match, he was expected to have 2.62 goals in that one match, which makes sense when you consider how many goals he actually got and the missed penalty. But his actual expected goals talley throughout the whole season aside from this match has actually been at around 2.4. In short, Wesley's expected goal talley in the last 10 games if you discount the Norwich(but including the Everton match where he also performed admirably) is less than the expected goals he accrued in that one singular game, giving him a goals per game talley of less than 1 out of 4 without the Norwich match and 1 out of 2 with the Norwich match. What I'm trying to essentially say is that whilst Wesley can be amazing for one game, he tends to have many poor games in between. I do think he is very wildly inconsistent in terms of how good he can be in a game but he is far more likely to be poor in a game than to be great in one. Now I know this is generally the consensus of him anyway, but I just wanted to analyze this from mostly a stats perspective. Are we really in a position where we can afford to place a striker who is going to score loads of goals in 1 every 5 matches(this is already a pretty generous ratio in my book considering he probably isn't going to be up against a backline as poor as Norwich's every 5 games) but be largely crap in those other 4 matches? And this is mostly from a goal scoring perspective as well, which is the main argument for Wesley, I too agree with the notion that he generally doesn't seem to do the other parts of the game all that well either.

Ok, I've got to make an introduction to post apparently so finally motivated myself enough to do it. Been lurking on this forum for years now, just reading the opinions and stuff. Relatively new villa fan, I started supporting the club during Houllier's time. Couldn't have chosen a more awful time tbh considering the shit that's happened to this club since then. But was a loyal supporter the whole way and tried to watch villa matches whenever I could.(except all those times we were shit in the Championship but hey, that's all in the past). Making this account so I can finally post some stuff and argue against people. On the top of my head, things I've wanted to say. Micah Richards was a great signing at the time considering his pedigree and someone even said that he would be Sherwood's best and most important signing. Its really easy to say in hindsight he would've been a bad signing at the time. I admit I was on the Dean Smith out bandwagon which is pretty embarassing considering how much Smith has taken us. But we were pretty shite without Grealish tbh. I feel like we signed a lot of players that had great potential and should've turned out better for us but for some reason just never did. Its really a shame tbh and when we got relegated, they were off. Some ended up fulfilling their potential and lighting it up at their new clubs while others seemed like they were broken by a stay with us and never recovered. Honestly, wth was happening with the club. I'm not as close to the club or as knowledgeable about it ever since we dropped down to the championship as you can see since it got harder to watch games. Guess that's not gonna be an issue anymore. I didn't realize how close we were to get **** by the tax man. Remarkable turn around all things considered. I do think Xia is a questionable character but I think he's more incompetent and delusional than actually malicious. At the very least he seems to truly love the club so I'll give him that credit at least. Anyway, yeah. That's all I can think of right now. Pretty random collection of thoughts. Maybe I should give some info about myself now. I'm an international student from outside the UK. Just about to finish my first year. Was a villa fan all the way back when I was in my home country though and believe me, no one and I repeat no one was a Villa fan back then. Everyone loved the big succesful clubs, you know, the top 6 right now. So I never got this idea of Aston Villa being a "big" club like I've seen many people here claim because back there, no one cared for Villa, there were just another team outside the top 6 and all those teams were irrelevent. But I did enjoy bragging to my friends when we did win a game against one of their teams very much. I remember the win over Man City with Weimann with the winning goal, the win over Liverpool where Benteke waltz into the Liverpool box win, the week one win over Arsenal where Antonio Luna, in stoppage time and being ridiculously out of position scored a goal. Shame he wouldn't amount to much after that. I think we beat Liverpool one more time as well in the FA cup and the whole stuff about ruining Gerrard's birthday? Oh, that was amazing. We really did have a good record against top teams we really shouldn't have had considering our league record. I ended up studying and living relatively close to Villa Park lol. Haven't been to a match or the stadium yet, will probably do so one day. Okay, that's about it. All I have to say..