It's nothing to do with the fact that he's black. Literally millions of opposition fans gave exactly the same grief to Grealish whilst he played for us and he's the whitest man on the planet.
He's a word removed. End of story. Nothing to do with his application.
Incredible player though, and you're right, he's shown proper loyalty to Palace during a period where he could have gotten a much much bigger move.
I love the fact that in nearly 3 1/2 years with us, Dougie's situation has come full circle.
Summer 2019 Signs for Villa - fans immediately begin to speculate as to whether his buy back clause will be activated.
Autumn 2022 Signs new contract with Villa - Fans immediately begin to speculate as to whether his buyout clause will be activated.
Ozil was a premadonna, Aubameyang has fallen out with half of Europe since and a back 4 of Bellerin, Pastathopoulos, Kolasinac and Monreal.
Bloke was chucked under the bus if you asked me.
Fully agree with you and I hope we pull off a massive transfer shock this Jan with a player coming in who other fans get right worked up over us signing
Whilst I don't mind us becoming harder to beat by playing a little dirtier, the worry is that we will become known as a dirty team to officials and that will have a subconscious effect on refs when officiating our games in the future.
(They already seem to be dogshit, so its a real worry that it could get worse).
My favourite Villa outfield player.
Absolutely love the passion he shares with the fans when he celebrates goals, wins, big moments.
I'd even begrudgingly accept him knobbing that svelte minx in the women's team, he's that good.
He had an excellent reputation and was rated massively by the Marseille fans. The season before he was being chased by Arsenal among others.
His boss quit over his sale in protest!
We got him "cheap" because the majority of the French league at the time were worse than broke.
Botman yes, Schar no personally.
Would take ASM, Trippier and Bruno. No one else.
Almiron is in the form of his life but showed absolutely completely and utterly nothing to warrant any form of rating prior to the start of this season.
It's actually really good timing.
Allows two things:
1) Wheedle out the underperformers and those he doesn't rate whilst drilling his tactics into the players properly.
2) Identify holes in the squad to improve in the Jan window which comes straight after the break.