ChicagoVillan1983

Feels like we are playing like a League 2 side against City in the FA Cup

Anyone secretly hoping we lose 9-0 today? Seems to be the magic number...

To win over the last 0.3% of Villa fans who think he needs more time??

Gerrard shortened from 6/1 to 5/2 overnight to be next manager to go. Rogers is 5/4. Frank 8/1.

I want to be supportive… And if we’d had a good end to the season then I might have been. But I’ve seen nothing to show that he knows what he is doing. My only real hesitancy is over who we’d get to replace him… Brighton would want a stupid amount for Potter even if he wants to come (not clear) - I think they are guaranteed to drop if he leaves…

He’d make a good head of recruitment - I’ll allow him that…

This… At least the highlight of our last 10 years isn’t selling a player for 25 million. So much so that we had to retire his short!

Damn… Purslow should’ve been on the phone to United and offered them McGinn for 50 plus add ons…

Or because we have players coming through the ranks that we believe will fill gaps, in which case filling that gap now versus saving the cash for a future upgrade is a consideration.

I swear Wolves are going to turn out to be a big money laundering scheme.

We’re in this weird landscape given the rest of Europe is basically broke where the only players you can sell are players that would be nailed on starters elsewhere in the league, or your best players going to a better team than you. None of our players that are surplus to requirements are likely to be nailed on starters elsewhere in the league. The model most clubs are following is to just acquire as many “good bets” as possible - meaning buying plays with potential that can come good. Problem is you will be left with a lot of players that don’t pan out and that you can’t sell on. Particularly anyone over 25. So it feels like you are blowing a bunch of money, when really you have 1/3 players that you gambled on that become a rock solid nailed on starter and 2/3 (maybe) with a residual value of close to zero. At our level, those ones that do come good we can’t sell on for a profit without weakening the side.

Agreed. The probablem with the strikers right now is the service, nothing more. They can’t score if they aren’t given goal scoring opportunities…

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could chuck wood? As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood. About 20 f’ing MILLYUN

Epic win. Clearly the kid is easily swayed and is 100% focused on money now rather than what’s necessarily best for his career. Sure he might be a 100 million player, but he absolutely is not ever going to stay at Villa. His attitude seems poor and there’s a very good chance he’ll suffocate on the Chelsea bench. This is hands down an excellent piece of business, and I praise Purslow for getting this over the line. This is just sensible business management.

Thought we’d grind out a draw at best. We looked real quality. No complaints going forwards. Might start that Chambers kid up front next week if it were me - looking like a class attacking player… We were lucky to keep a clean sheet I thought. But any more than 4-1 would have flattered Southampton. Onwards and upwards - love to see him tweaking the side to figure out what works.

Chambers entire transfer fee paid off with that one pass. Seems like we got ourselves a bit of a bargain!

WTF was that Chambers pass… Worldie!

I think the ref could have done a bit of a better job of keeping a lid on that one. I’m shocked there wasn’t a second yellow in the game. It felt like it was going that way. We didn’t look like world beaters, but we created and scored. Nice to see Ollie doing what he does best - why are we not threading those kind of balls for him all the time. Defense was solid. Midfield bossed by my MOTM McGinn. Coutinho great. Ings just isn’t a fit for how we seem to want to play, unfortunately.

I wanted a front three with Bailey in it today. Just something different!

We don’t, I repeat don’t need a RB… DM yes please. CB yes please.

Smith Out

Why the heck do we need a RB… Cash + KKH is golden…

Amazing when you play someone in a position that suits their game how much better they look…

I’m going to make an extreme prediction that For the second half of the season table (ONLY - ie league table for the last 19 games), Villa finish 4th. I think that’ll be enough for us to scrape into Euro spots - barely.

Just look at Everton! Although I have more confidence in our team than theirs.