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De Vrij is available for just £17 mill! I'm sure Spurs will be interested as well, but I wouldn't mind him at that price.

Ah that's a shame, wouldn't mind considering him as well!

Yeah they are pretty much the same thing I believe. Also any suggestions IF we were to replace Lange? Luis Campos? Campos at Monaco signed Fabinho, Martial, Bernardo Silva, Thomas Lemar and unfortunately the predator that now plays for Man City. At Lille he signed Leao, Pepe, Gabriel and Osimhen. That's a decent lot of players he's picked up and also that were sold for a good profit. I don't want us becoming a selling club (even though majority of the teams in the prem are), however I would like us to maximise our sales.

Yeah tbh for the last couple transfer windows I've seen that they do hint towards things happening, not in a speculative way either almost as a definitive. They have had stuff right sometimes I guess, but just like most 'ITK' they guess 100 different things and get 20 right then delete the remaining 80 tweets. From my end, I do trust the board however I have a bit of PTSD from the Lerner era. Nothing from NSWE has suggested that things will be the same, because we are well run right now. I hope that continues, I would hope that if we are replacing Lange then we go after a DOF similar to Dan Ashworth.

That is my fear, I would really hate for us to change everything that can hamstring us in the future. We have come so far for us to p*ss it away for short term gain. I'm not saying Lange is a saint, we do need to review his position in my opinion. However I would want to make sure if we are replacing him, it would be for a quality DOF that can compliment our set up. Our owners are savvy which helps so if this rumour is true and the worst happens, hopefully they can intervene.

https://twitter.com/villamole1/status/1510691474236661770?s=21&t=AtEWEw_TJKG8J01MSloW9A Apologies if this did not embed properly, I saw this tweet not from the best source tbh. However they did get the Coutinho news spot on and the Gerrard announcement. I’m a bit worried if they give Gerrard free reign on what transfers we bring in and who we sell. I know questions need to be asked of Lange, but I would not be surprised if Purslow had his say in our dealings. If this is true it does feel like Lange is the fall guy.

What a half!! Also the ref for once hasn’t been that much of a pain in this match. Hopefully he can keep it up

Haha nothing bothers me to be fair all the sports teams I support have dramatic supporters so I’m used to it lol.

Haha thank you!

Long time lurker but new to the site. I hope you guys are well, despite that horrid half. We seem to be having the same issues mentally. We have been so poor this half and dare I say apart from the scoreline this is the worst I’ve seen us play since Arsenal this season. Luiz seems checked out for me he’s been so poor at protecting the back line and at times still thinks he has loads of time on the ball. Mcginn has been poor also he’s been hitting aimless passes that set up their attack. He looks pissed as well and due to his card I’d look at swapping him for Sanson, who would be better suited for this fixture anyway. Watkins well he’s been poor for a while now. I think Gerrard has to make tweaks to this formation, we need more out of our midfield and this formation doesn’t really help. Here’s to a better half of football and hopefully we can pull a result.

Hi guys, I’m a long time lurker and lifelong villa fan looking for some interesting discussions. UPTV