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5 hours ago, WallisFrizz said:

“Not a big injury” for Aston Villa at this point in time means not out for 9+ months. He could still be out for a number of games with a hamstring.

Just a flesh wound imo

Looks a bit mental.  Might get more bookings and sending offs than goals.  Hope there's a player in there

3 minutes ago, UpTheVilla26 said:

Schmeichel calling out the 1st goal saying a player in an offside position is blocking Emis view. 

Yes, as offside as it gets for me

1 minute ago, sheepyvillian said:

It's not much different to last season's game except we were much more incisive on the counter. This is where we miss Ramsey, he has that ability to break with strength and pace.

Agreed, when's he back again?

5 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

I don’t think Emery will make any changes at HT, but I hope he’s making some tactical tweaks.

For a start McGinn needs to sit on Trent and stop him passing. 

I'd rather get mcginn more central and stick diaby and bailey out wide and spring some diagonals at them 

9 hours ago, MWARLEY2 said:

My personal belief is that there will be an avalanche of quality in the coming years. Our owners have restructured the academy top to bottom .  And every time a parent watches players like Cam AJ and Philogene getting good moves to good clubs they will be more likely to push their kids towards our academy.  This years academy intake has 8 current youth internationals out of the 14 or 15 we have taken on. And now our academy is rated so highly again i expect another 2 or 3 of the 15 to get capped while on our books. 

Progressively better players in our academy getting better coaching will mean more make it and be more valuable,  and then hopefully one or 2 will be that good they make it at Villa despite our ultra high aims as a club  

Agreed.  And the higher the collective quality of the academy, the higher the probability that the cream that rises to the top will have first team potential

56 minutes ago, TRO said:

Have you been watching our games in Pre-season?....didn't you notice yourself, that he hasn't been quite the authority has has been for us?

 

 

Ill be honest...he looks like a naturally gifted footballer - a real class act.  But...out of luiz, mcginn, Ramsey and Kamara, I'm selling him first.  I'm hoping I've not seen the best of him yet 

8 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

Just to hammer this home. 

When my son was a few days old, in the mere 4 or 5 second window where I took him out of the bath to place him on the towel he produced a liquid shit tornado which managed to fill a decent proportion of my pocket with shit. 

I had shit all over my phone and it wouldn't charge. 

Because of shit. 

#kids

My daughter shit so hard it went in her hair.  She was clothed too

Newcastle were excellent all over the pitch and have shown the league how to shut down our passing movements, bypass the midfield and exploit our defence in the first game of the season...two of our best players out for the season....brill

The inverse relationship between the hope I have and the impending doom of our results and performances is quite remarkable.  Back to fearing the worst

30 minutes ago, theboyangel said:

The Dog Heads are one of my tips for relegation and Lopetegui the first managerial casualty of the season 

They look to be in utter turmoil off the pitch and losing their better players without suitable replacements.

I'd be delighted

For how much?

50 minutes ago, thabucks said:

Yawn … God we need solid links so to stop the OTT Olsen bashing and non stop shit gifs spamming the thread. obviously Emery knows more than any poster on here so if he thinks Olsen is a good enough back up to Martinez then that’s good enough for me and y’all need to maybe go out more and trust the guy… 

Exactly. It takes much more time for a reeserve keeper to get into any kind of form or confidence due to the lack of game time and opportunity.  There's no reason a replacement wouldn't come in and be "shit".  

He should be good enough in the early rounds of cups and against weaker opposition imo

Going down

We are blessed that our "shit" players are full internationals

23 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

This is why Chelsea's new contract model is very smart. They are putting players on lowish basic salaries with lots of incentives based on playing time, league finishing position etc. It incentivises players to fight for mins on the pitch.

What this does is when a player is no longer being played their salary isn't prohibitive in moving them on. It makes loaning them out is less costly to Chelsea too.

Doesn't it also cause a lot of pressure and infighting in the dressing room if you're sitting on the bench not getting a chance to earn?

I think he could be our player of the season.

Release Claus incoming imo.  Him signing a new deal when his contract was running down, when he was open to leaving us for arsenal made no sense at the time - unless we've persuaded him with whatever we could.  Big salary and an exit option seems likely to me.  Hope not obviously 

It's the hope that kills you.

2nd

2 hours ago, tomav84 said:

 

newcastle are one of the richest teams in the world now and could circumvent FFP by signing players via the saudi league - the scale is quite different

Man city have set the precident that you can repeatedly cheat and lie your way to success.  They will bog the charges down for years in the legal system until everyone involved has moved on or died and noone will remember what they did in the first place.  They will have won 10 league titles by then.  it should now be considered mismanagement of Newcastle and other petrostate owned clubs not to do the same.

I can't imagine I'll ever give a singular s**t about Saudi football regardless of who plays there.  However, I'm an old school fan that supports a club as opposed to the youngsters who support "Ronaldo" or whatever so maybe over time someone might give a sh*t

Baffles me how you can play at the highest level, practice every day and still have the touch of a rhino

3 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

He’s also a Muslim so if he does go to Ibn Saud’s land then there’s that too. 

I think I've seen a Muslim in Birmingham he could buddy up with too tho

I think we might be waiting on our top target to make up their mind - it would make.sense if it was Felix.  If the chatter is correct I'd imagine we could get the diaby and Johnson deals done quickly if we wanted to.  Felix is waiting for a better offer

3 hours ago, Awol said:

I think we’re building a squad to do both. People outside the club will be scratching their heads by the end of the window, wondering where the hell this version of Aston Villa appeared from. 

Also we're not pursuing the headless chicken tactics of the previous regime so hopefully won't be run ragged