ChicagoVillan1983

I’d be happy with 6+, with the race for CL going to the last couple of games.

35 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Because one is a good player and the other one is awful! 
 

I guess it’s all about opinions but i will be amazed if we don’t sell Dendonker. Yes he comes in and does a job now and then but surely that’s the bare minimum a Premier League player should do. Such an awkward immobile player. 

Dendo is a perfect starter pack premier league player and we should be able to cash that it and upgrade.

People would pay - 20 mill transfer for him and happily pay 5 mill a season for 4 seasons. It’s the same deal…

Someone’s going to come in with 60 million quid offer for McGinniesta this summer at this rate…

13 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

What would be the most ideal scenario for us with the Pool v Spurs match? Assuming we beat Fulham, do we then want Spurs to win to keep Pool 4 points behind, giving us more breathing room?

At this stage we want one of the challengers to be killed. I’d think another 6-1 Tottenham loss.

1 hour ago, Mantis said:

He's still so underrated in England. He seems to be regarded as nothing more than decent when in reality he's probably closer to one of the top 5 managers in the world.

A couple Champions League with Villa will change that. It’ll come.

LFG Bournemouth.

We can beat anyone above us on today’s form. Let’s win the rest of what we have left and then hope the others f up.

Looking forwards to seeing us do over Real Madrid or Barca next season already.

Bertie for MOM because why not…

Another 30 games of this and we’re gonna win the league.

3 hours ago, Mic09 said:

Revenue for a single night of a sold out VP is around £12-15mil as far as I remember. 

That feels like a factor of 10 off to me. I could buy a number of 1-1.5 million.

6 hours ago, Enda said:

Least exciting Villa match I ever went to was during the Lambert reign when we played a friendly approximately seven thousand miles outside downtown Chicago. I was in America that week so went up to Chicago for it, thinking it would be exotic. I remember the stadium car park had a Shell petrol station and that was about it. At least Witton has a decent Tesco.

Haha - I was also at that game. Chicago Fire just suck ass. That’s the only game I’ve seen them play. They are playing games at the NFL stadium now so the experience is substantially better - even if the product isn’t!

12 hours ago, Enda said:

As I have to fly to BHX to go to every Villa match anyway, I’d like the bit of variety!

Bitta Prague or something more appealing than another stroll around the bullring.

Yeah - but do they have Gregg’s in Prague, m8?

59 minutes ago, Made In Aston said:

My missus is also a big fan of Anel 

Add this guy and both would slip nicely into her (I mean our) back line.

2 minutes ago, duke313 said:

I'm not so sure, he's had a taste with the big boys (PSG and Arsenal) and they both ended badly.  He has excelled at smaller clubs (Sevilla and Villareal), we fall under that category.  I think he'll stay here until he feels he's achieved all he can.

He’s at a sleeping giant now, with a history of smaller club mentality. However we have the resources and the fan base to go a long way (which he didn’t have to anywhere the same degree in Spain).

I think he’s signed on to the idea of full control and full backing and building up. Being parachuted into a pool of extreme talent (Potter) often doesn’t work well.

On 21/01/2023 at 21:19, ChicagoVillan1983 said:

I genuinely think that in 30 years time the Holte will still be singing about what Unai did for the club. Wow. I’ve been envious of other fans and clubs over the years. I’ve never been this fired up to be a Villa fan. What a time to be alive!! I feel like I just loaded a new Football Manager save as Villa manager and downloaded the best tactics and training schedules…

I KNOW I AM, I’M SURE I AM, I’M UNAI TIL I DIE!

 

 

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Anybody ready to join me yet!

Hate how this is going to be about how much Potter is awful.

Unai set us up to park the bus and smash on the counter. We executed incredibly well (Chelsea should have scored at least one).

Hahaha - Chilly, fk that guy. 

Comprehensive. It wasn't pretty at times, but job done. 

WERE GONNA WIN THE LEAGUE.

Dont know if I can take another half...

I’m genuinely astounded at how quickly the project is working. I had pencilled in 18 months for us to really see the difference.

A manager we can all get behind along with an attacking and enjoyable style of football. Couldn’t ask for much more!

Just now, allani said:

We are safe already.  No way that five of West Ham, Everton, Forest, Leeds, Bournemouth, Everton and Southampton are getting to 35 points this season.  They are all averaging less than 1 point per game and if anything getting worse.

Oh yeah. But that 40 points number really makes you feel secure.

We scored two against the top team in the league. We’re very threatening going forwards against anyone. Defense needs work, but we all know that.

I’m seeing progression and we have some winnable games ahead of us now.

Expected 3 points from the last nine, and we got 0. 

So 2-2 with two utterly dumb moments of insanity. Basically gifted them. Albeit the 4th we were basically all out attack.

Wonderful attacking performance just without the finishes. Buendia couldn’t buy one to go in today despite being ridiculously good the entire game.

This one goes down to bad luck for me.

7 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

The panic is ridiculous. All of a sudden we're gonna have mass injuries and everyone is going to start playing badly. 

I really hope these same people don't start moaning when we didn't qualify for Europe in Emery's first season. 

Long term plan. Let's have a little faith in it. 

We still have a strong squad with options. 

Dhuran may also contribute more than some believe right now. 

This. We’re 11th for a start and not 5th. We’re very likely to happily settle into a solid mid table spot and spend the rest of the season planning for the summer and getting the existing squad up to speed with Emery’s approach.

People don’t understand delayed spending and gratification. We care about what Villa do over the next 10 years, not for the rest of this season. It’s so short sided and gives the club and Emery zero credit.

You sell when others are paying premium prices, and you buy when you can get a deal. It’s basic finance.

5 hours ago, messi11 said:

Whilst our rivals in the league are blowing their money on overpriced players (Gakpo, Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, Mudryk, Georginio Rutter etc)
Villa are just chilling and making sensible moves like Moreno and Duran.

No need to panic. Good work.

Mods are going kick you out if you keep speaking logically like a reasonable man of reason…