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3 minutes ago, villa89 said:

Man city in the cup, Leicester away and then Chelsea at home. Lose all of those and it would be six defeats in a row. That would be make the away game at cabbage a must win. Given our appalling away form I wouldnt be confident of getting anything out of that game. 

I'd probably recommend taking the point of view that we're ****!

He was nowhere near Long for Southampton's opener. It was basic defending. He was great against Leicester in the cup though, so hopefully, if he plays this weekend, he's somehow amazing.

1 hour ago, villalad21 said:

Playing against 10 men may be our downfall and is disgraceful.

Against Arsenal ( Under Unai Emery...) lost the game

Against West Ham at home, drew the game

Against Brighton at home, won the game, but highly unconvincingly.

Against Watford, lost the game

Against Bournemouth, lost the game

This Brighton game you talk about isn't a good one to support your point. We were awful against 11 men and we dominated against 10 men (they did get some counter-attack chances though).

The word disgraceful is hyperbole anyway. Your prejudice would be less obvious if you toned it down a bit. That's not me defending anything, just suggesting that using ott words undermines things. I ultimately agree that it's a shame that we didn't manage to capitalise on a lot of those opportunities. How we could have done with those points now—but as has been pointed out in another thread, those teams are full of expensive players and have had years upon years of constant investment in maintaining Premier League quality. Playing against ten men against good teams is often, as we all know if we take off our angry glasses, a challenge—especially when you are one of the weakest teams in the league. For example, Arsenal have players on another level of quality to 90% of our team—in fact, they all do. 

So, yeah, it's not disgraceful, but it's a massive **** shame we couldn't get more from those games. I wish we had more points so much—I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about our chances.

29 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

He shouldn't be. He offers much more than drinkwater. 

I really disagree with this. You know Drinkwater is there, and he wants the ball.

He's one of our two best fit CMs. I'm actually surprised at the hate on here—I thought he was OK on Sunday. He got badly outpaced one time for sure, but who was that against?

His calmness is on another level to Nakamba's.

17 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Engels or any other defender shouldn't be in the position having to make last ditch tackles all the time. If our midfield offered more protection and we had a actual defensive midfielder, I think we would be  a lot more solid regardless who is playing in defence.

To be fair to Spurs they have very dangerous and quick wingers. It's their strength. I'm not sure a DM could have done much to stop them there (apart from obviously hassling away some through balls).

15 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Only one of those transfers is from a Championship club, which is what we are in this scenario. If we go with £40m, say, that's about half as much again as Sessegnon. 

£30m has only been received by a Championship club once, for Moussa Sissoko. Pickford, Wijnaldum, Maddison, Sessegnon, all under that level. Sure, Grealish is worth more than those, but he's not going to be worth more than double, I don't think. 

Jack has stats better this season than some of the best players in the world—and he's doing it in the Prem at a struggling team. I think you're being negative for no reason.

1 hour ago, MaVilla said:

If spurs haven't won an away game for two months, and only won 2 out of 12 away games, its perfect timing for villa to do a villa and give them the win.

May as well find their only striker who hasn't scored for over 9000 years as well and play him, whomever it is they will probably score the winning goal.

Such is the villa way.

Haha this genuinely always seems to be the way. **** sake, let's just get a win.

1 hour ago, nick76 said:

Honestly that was not a dig at Keinan at all, it was a joke about me.  If it came across as a dig at Keinan it was never meant that way.  You know me, I dont hide my feelings about Davis.

Ha ok.

4 hours ago, nick76 said:

Knew that was the reason I didn’t get to be a world class footballer, my school gym teacher overplayed me through injury

That’s my story, my excuse and I’m sticking to it

Your obsession with Davis is weird.

55 minutes ago, sne said:

Celebrated the Sheffield goal almost like I would a Villa one  

Pretty embarrassing really but who cares.

I'm sure there are loads of us doing it. It's nice to get behind more effective teams for a change  

48 minutes ago, supermon said:

any information on how bad his injury is?  Was it just a tight hamstring?

Nah it's just been Nick no here for a week telling everyone Davis can't score.

18 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

We barely take any pts against the top half teams and we've got a bunch of them coming up. That's where most of the concern lies.

The myth that we beat the teams around us is a lie. We've gifted Bournemouth 6 pts and we lost to Watford. We drew to Brighton.

We have to start getting some pts where it's not expected.

 

I have similar concerns. Other teams have taken points off top-half teams and we're going to have to start doing it ourselves now. It is a tragedy we gave Bomo 6 points. They didn't deserve it either (based on the first game and Heaton's moment of utter madness). We need to play like we played against Leicester in the cup in every game now. 

Once again **** Real Madrid. No Jack. If you see someone in Madrid who looks like a dick it's guaranteed they're a Real supporter. Because they're a dickhead club. The stadium is literally named after one of Franco's favourite fascists.

4 minutes ago, TRO said:

Well, it wasn't entirely scratch, we still had 2 very good midfielders, who can be expensive to buy.

I still think we could have bought better...albeit we had to get squad fillers too, which in the main we have.

we wouldn't go without a striker or a goal keeper......so why do we go with such inexperience at CDM......its the engine room of the team....its a crucial position.

when teams with good ones, miss them through injury, it affects them badly, and its noticable.

I think we could have spent more prudently, but thats just my opinion.

We are missing McGinn to be fair. I think back to when we were linked to Kalvin Phillips—I think we would have been in a much better position with him. I agree that the inexperience at CM has put us in a bit of a bleak position. Nakamba and Luiz have both had good games, but they're inconsistent.

Just now, nick76 said:

Nope

Lol. Ok take the thread again mate. It's alllll yours.

We're a better team when he plays. That's been true since he first came through.

Play him and give him a new contract. He's got a big future at the club.

My Spanish friend says he's genuinely good. He has more prem experience than our other strikers too. Who knows how it'll pan out but he may be a bit of a surprise. 

Aka the conspiracy thread.

11 minutes ago, villan501 said:

Once this window i dont want to hear anything from smudger about couldnt get deals across the line its total bs whats the betting a last minute big bid so it looks like we were active all way through that gets rejected.

I think I've read your posts on facebook (this is a joke).

13 minutes ago, villan501 said:

Cannot believe she said what she did needs to stop taking whatever it is that makes her mind fuzzy shes just spoke utter garbage.

She spoke garbage?

10 minutes ago, villan501 said:

Just seen ssn were struggling to get a striker for me villa recruitment and management are accountable they knew we needed a striker and backup strikers for well over a month. Leaving it to the last minute you get your fingers burnt.

Do you think maybe that they didn't leave it to the last minute? 

8 minutes ago, Rob182 said:

Don't trust villareport, they're the biggest bullshi**ers out there. I blocked them aaaages ago

That newsnow guy is worse!

8 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said:

Hmm To work or repeatedly press F5 all day. The great biannual debate

Not aimed at you but does anyone know an app that would notify a person when there is actual transfer news? I'm not saying official signings.

If only Villareport had an app.

Oh, or is there something I can do on Twitter? I can deal with a couple of tweets of bullshit. It's better than refreshing villatalk all day.