Monkeypuzzle

31 minutes ago, villan95 said:

Had to Google

I haven't bothered yet. I'm picturing Sweeney Todd on holiday in Australia!

Edit* have now looked and can't see what the fuss is about, but hey, good luck!

And yet he is playing really well for us at the same time.

10 hours ago, DJBOB said:

I don’t think that was the intention against Newcastle. Matter of circumstance gone awry. 
 
But in possession, it allows for a lot of control with 3 ball confident center backs, 2 holding mids (I think Chambers was coming on for Kamara), and then two wingbacks. Spreads the width of the formation and allows striker isolation if the opponent presses. 
 
Out of possession, you have 3 CB’s, two fullbacks, two center mids that can form a myriad of back line shapes as well as two or one strikers. 
  

Cash - Konsa - Diego - Pau - LB

Kamara - Luiz

McGinn - Watkins

That’s going to be a tough nut to break.

Only nine outfield players?

The club has a duty of care to academy players as well. Keeping him, just in case, could have a negative affect on his whole career, compared to letting him go and play regularly. He may develop into a much better player that we can buy back cheaply, compared to if he stayed here in case five other players get injured all at once in the same position.

Also, and just hear me out, you don't have to look directly at something to see it. Bailey is so close to McGinn in that situation that he can almost certainly see a claret shirt out of the corner of his eye. Looking directly at something to see it is only necessary with mirrors during your driving test.

We play with one winger, just one in the first team, the other side plays more centrally in order to let the fullback run past. We have Diaby, Zaniolo, Bailey, Traore and even McGinn potentially ahead of him in the first team. He was never going to get significant playing time this season, which won't help him develop. Leaving to get more minutes was vital for him. Hopefully there is a buy back clause but either way he will bring in a seven figure sum for us to invest in the squad.

Apart from Acuna, which presumably would mean Digne leaving, I haven't heard of any other rumours regarding us. This makes me surprisingly positive as we have yet to pull off the "RKO outta nowhere" signing that we have had in the last few windows. Unforeseen incoming perhaps in the final part of the window?

@Jas10 just promise me that you are getting enough sleep. You must be on here nearly 24/7. Even when I couldn't sleep in the early hours, I popped on here and you were still posting. You must be a robot!

32 minutes ago, brummybloke said:

I thought Saville were in big debt and needed to sell their highest paid players ?

A quick 10 mill and a player off their wages should help, bearing in mind he's now 30 ish and not considered to be one of the very best left backs in the world ?

Does your autocorrect change Sevilla to Saville? What have you been typing in your search bar?

On 14/08/2023 at 08:53, Demitri_C said:

If caicedo is worth 110m how much is luiz worth?

No seriously how much?

Because i think luiz is a better player

You think he's better? Absolutely he is better. Far better. But if that is just Villa's little secret....fine by me!

Can we move this thread now he's gone to Bournemouth? Was never happy with this link.

1 minute ago, lexicon said:

 

I find his name funny. It's the same with Bobby Thomas, they just sound like 50s footballers to me. I can't help but say their names like an elderly cockney reminiscing about players from his youth. 

Jumpers for goalposts? Marvelous isn't it.

5 minutes ago, sne said:

Would Benjamin Pavard be a totally unrealistic target? Bayern want about €40m apparently and the move to Inter has fallen through as they only want to pay €30m.

RB/CB. hybrid. 27 y.o. He's pretty tall so works for the posters on here with a fetish for that. 

I'd love him here, but that does seem a bit much for him. If we want him I'm sure we will have a go though. He has to want to come here too though.

1 hour ago, CVByrne said:

Really don't know why we are not signing Adams. It's probably down to Dendoncker being injured so we can't sell him.

Maybe Dendoncker can be used in defence. Possibly at RB? 

Or because Emery (and many on here) rate Dendoncker, the Belgian international, higher than Adams?

1 minute ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

A mate just said he only has one leg but we signed anyway. That can’t be true!

WWE signed a one legged wrestler a few years back. Anything is possible!

10 minutes ago, Jareth said:

Tielemans

Pau

Diaby

Zaniolo

This is a pretty good frickin window

We said that we needed to add quality not quantity this window. We have done just that.

15 minutes ago, villan95 said:

Don't see why we'd want to let him go?

 

 

£10 million plus and I'd consider it.

12 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

 

£6-8.5million?! It's a steal, it's a deal, it's sale of the f***in' century! Now do we want him or not?

23 minutes ago, useless said:

Here's a really good tip on puns and how to be humourous with them, they aren't funny when everyone is saying them as they quickly become tedious, they can only have a chance to be funny when there's an element of surprise to them, when they aren't expected, something about the non sequitur in it's delivery, like if I was to make a pun now after all that it would actually be quite funny, but I don't wish to.

Sorry to say there's also a lot of unfunny pictures and gifs getting posted recently too, I always find the best way to be funny is to try not to be funny.

I can't think of anything to say about Acuna except for good luck to him if he does sign, from descriptions, reading up on his pedigree, and highlights, looks a fantastic player.

To be fair to @useless, he hasn't eggsactly been himself ever since the Ramsey to Burnley news hit. I think he's starting to crack!

1 hour ago, M_Afro said:

What’s her/his view?  

She still seems quite happy about it too 

19 minutes ago, Made In Aston said:

I've got footage from the event... 

 

Lol, except, if you didn't already know, a monkeypuzzle is a tree!

Just now, romavillan said:

That's not our fault.

Lol, not complaining! 12 years on and still the best decision of my life, thank you!