MattVillaPortsmouth

Morelos, Benrahma and a leader in midfield (happy with loan) gonna cost 45m ish but is minimum what we need.

Giroud, only on loan and as last resort, at 33 is not mobile enough (or has he ever been) for what we need although he is lethal in box (but we don’t cross enough) so yes but not as the one to save us!

3 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Grealish is on £70k+ a week.

Wes can't play football. Yes, he will improve, but so would I training with Smith every day. He's starting from a disastrously low level.

The worst signing we've ever made and it's likely going to cost us our Premier League spot. We should be much higher in the table going into these crunch games. With any old average Joe we would have been halfway up the league.

Maybe slightly over the top, I am sure 22m pounds of our owners money, DS and The Brazil Manager beg to differ on your expert opinion

yes he has not been great, but jeez a little bit of realism please

He is doing what he was when we brought him, he is not (and won’t) be a teams top scorer as to me he is more of a forward than a striker.  So needs to either play as a front 2 or have runners off him (playing further up the field, ahead of him). It’s too easy for people to sit back and go ohh look a forward who doesn’t score, he is rubbish it’s his fault we are dropping like a lead balloon - others have said he is by a long shot not our biggest problem.

His strike rate at Brugge was 1 in 3.4, here it is 1 in 3.8, so if he wasn’t scoring bucket loads in a weaker league was never going to do it in a new prem team.

I am by no means saying he is playing well or anything, but our tactics make him (and others) look bad,  smith must be telling him to be so deep (or if not why hasn’t he stopped him). Our players don’t play to his strengths, and that is tactics we are too 1 dimensional and only look for jack.

Hi, long time reader of villatalk thought it about time I posted.

Villa fan born and bred in Acocks Green, but moved to Portsmouth at an early age and have stayed here since (job), still have famalam in brim so get up when I can and try to swing by villa park for a game or two a season.

cheers