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3 minutes ago, Pissflaps said:

No need for the personal insults to him.

He's a shit manger. Surely leave it there 

It's being posted on a forum, not shouted through his letterbox

37 minutes ago, TRO said:

If the majo

Then we need to get one of them, then....what World class manager, would you suggest.

I think, Conte is up there, with the best.....as is Jose......hiw did they get on with Deli Alli or Harry Winks.

I seem to recall, Antonio was making noises to leave, until he found Levy's Wallet.

Managers do many things, its not all coaching, its recruitment too......its all the elements coming together.

We knew, we had a relatively inexperienced manager, maybe we didn't realise, how experienced you have to be in this league......I think he needs time, I don't think he will get.

We might not get a world class one, but we should be able to find one who is better than Gerrard because he's hopeless

24 minutes ago, TRO said:

Not as a balance......who can defend?......who can score?.....who can hold a midfield together?.....who can head the ball, with any competence?.....who has pace?.....who can stay on the ball with the ability of Jack?

Maybe you need to think again.

Its probably the most expensive squad, we have had for years, thats a difference.....They flatter to deceive.

 

Because of the manager.

Look at Spurs. Emerson Royal, Sessegnon, Dier, Hojbjerg etc haven't suddenly got better as individuals by themselves

They have a world class manager who makes everyone better

When players underperform as a collective, it sits with the manager, always has done, always will

McGinn is not cut out for this league, never has been

2 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

He's obviously hinting at that - Dortmund press deny it and now he's recycling TalkSport. He doesn't know anything about our transfer dealings.

Guy who famously knows lots about transfers knows nothing about transfers, you're right...

10 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Romano is talking rubbish - in May he said Carney was off to Dortmund. The £20m figure is rubbish from Talksport. Tap-in merchant.

 

He didn't say that at all.

And it not happening doesn't mean Dortmund didn't want him in May.

2 hours ago, CarryOnVilla said:

Isn’t “Richly” more of a wide attacker, rather than a CF? 

He got moved up front and was excellent there tbf

21 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

I'm excited about the future under Gerrard but I'm the same when it comes to hearing about that stupid table. 

It's the only fair way to judge him

5 minutes ago, Paulie said:

Put me in the camp that thinks it’s good leadership and encouraging that Stevie empowers his assistants to the point where the players respect their impact to the level Emi is describing.  That’s a pro, not a con, to me.

No offence, but that's bollocks.

This is an inexperienced manager who is over reliant on someone, to the point where Beale sounds like the manager and Gerrard merely sounds like a figurehead

1 hour ago, HalfTimePost said:

I'm very unconvinced on this Diego Carlos becomes the ball playing CB.

He plays more passes than Mings but not many progressive passes at all. Koundé was near the top of progressive passes for CBs last season. I get the impression that Carlos played a lot of passes to Koundé who then played the ball out.

Carlos has been said to have been the better defender of the two last year. I buy that. I don't buy that Carlos was the ball playing one.

Flawed logic.

Kounde being the ball playing CB doesn't mean Carlos hasn't been bought to be our ball playing CB

9 hours ago, Robbie09 said:

I’d lay off the class A stuff if I was you

We wouldn't have got promoted without him.

Without promotion we would have been **** financially.

2 hours ago, Mantis said:

We would have had 1/3 more points if we'd have avoided defeat and stopped them winning the title. Obviously was still a mostly meaningless game for us, but I'd like us to get every point we can.

Is he a Villa legend though?

Yes.

We'd be in the championship without him, possibly league 1 and possibly in financial ruin

4 minutes ago, Mantis said:

Thing is his success directly at came at the expense of ours today. If we hadn't thrown that lead away he wouldn't have a PL medal.

Not really. If we'd drawn, we'd have finished 14th. We lost therefore we finished 14th.

23 minutes ago, Mantis said:

Why?

Because he's a Villa legend, from Solihull, and he deserves it

2 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Most definitely if you're an average player. But as a world class player, surely you'd want to contribute more to a title win? All the talent in the world and he's pretty much just a cheerleader that's sometimes used for spare parts in the biggest machine in football. 

World class players don't want to finish 14th either

Jack vindicated.

Winning the title as a squad player>>>finishing 14th

Really happy for him.

What a **** signing!

1 hour ago, Zatman said:

We were 13th when he was fit and playing everyweek under the clown Bruce 

If Bruce stayed the season would it have been as successful with his one crippled centre back

That's got **** all to do with what we're discussing

3 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Thought you were joking earlier. **** sake 

I remember Jack saves in the West Brom shootout and his defensive performance in the Playoff final when Mings got injured and all them goals he scored dressed as Tammy Abraham

Roy of the Rovers for the Tiktok era

Grealish missed 15 games through injury that season

We won 3, drew 7 and lost 5. That's 16 points from 15 games.

Across a season, that would have seen us finish 20th.

With Grealish, we got 17 wins, 9 draws in 31 games. That would have put us 2nd across a season. We also won our play off games with him.

You can pretend it wasn't down to him, but the stats don't lie.

7 minutes ago, Spoony said:

He got us promoted and kept us up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrcEkM2FKQc

Never forget

Dropping Buendia is disgraceful