LoughboroughLion

I’m not sure our players have the bottle for this.

Worried about Targett and AEG especially.

Would deffo play Mings if available. Need Hourihane to start. 

Just popped on to say thought he played well - no nonsense. Will be a loss during AFCON.

While I’m here, bloody VillaReport and their fake news. 

Perfect game for him. Burnley don’t really play with attacking wing backs so the pressure he’ll be under is that bit less. Hopefully this lets him attack like he did vs. Brighton.

6 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Hourihane has the problem that he just ain't as good as Grealish or McGinn in general play. His knack for scoring is outrageous, but disappears when the going gets tough.

Although Burnley are rough and tumble, he's up against Ashley Westwood and Jack Cork in CM so he starts on Saturday for me. Grealish out to LW.

Push Grealish to the wing on a 'free float' role and play Hourihane in CM with McGinn. 

Sitting in the spuds end

wish me luck 

16 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

Why the hell is it so quiet. 

I might be forced to start making stuff up soon. 

You're Villareport and I claim my £5

If there's one good thing about the window closing, it's that I don't need to keep reading made up guff from Villareport

Anybody know of an IPTV service that has a free trial? Keen on testing it out ahead of the new season and this is a good opportunity 

If he's signed he'll be given no gaurentees of a start or even a squad place potentially. 

This is the kind of signing a top 6 club would make at their stage in the cycle: buy a very good championship player, bed him in over a season with a couple of starts and let him prove he deserves the shirt.

If we're planning on doing that then it's a statement of intent IMO. If he's planning on coming here to do that, it's also a massive statement of intent from him. 

£8m is peanuts - and anyway it's not my money.

Does he improve the starting 11? Yes
Will he provide competition for places? Yes
Is it that risky? Not really
Will he be good for another couple of seasons, until (hopefully) we do another rebuild to push into to top tier? Yes
Is this the last question? Yes

Welcome Tommy, be a hero
 

Could the delay on Nakamba be that we are waiting to see if the Phillips move develops? 

So, who’s on them do we reckon?

23 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Presume you are doing the modern ironic joke thing of repeating something (again) that others have clearly explained is untrue.

Apologies to those I've offended. Will I do it again? Definitely 

32 minutes ago, il_serpente said:

...and more wrong.

That’s what I’m getting at - if you take enough shots, one kills the turkey!

Bit of a slow day, has Villareport not made anything up in a while?

41 minutes ago, av1 said:

I was worked with a lad whos surname was Perrin. 

His parents must have liked Worcester sauce because his first name was Liam. 

saucey 

What I like about this deal is that should Grealish get injured, our universe probably won't implode as - from what we've seen in preseason - he is a creative link.

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Just checked MorseCodeConverter.com - WE'RE FKN SIGNING LEAO

This ain’t getting to Claret members is it 

Is it possible to track how many tickets have been sold thus far?

Trying to see the likelihood of away tickets reaching claret members

Looks quite physical from the YT videos. Usually the reason wingers fail to settle is because of the physicality of the leagues - think AEG actually said this about his first 6 months?

Good option for under £10m - we’ve clearly been tracking him and scouted the games in AFCON. 

11 minutes ago, pete101 said:

My problem with this Douglas luiz deal is that it is basically a loan deal with that buy back clause , but we are 15 million in red on our ffp from it 

Best case scenario he is great for us and city rob him back from us

Worst case he is crap and we are landed with him

These are mutually exclusive - if it's proven to be a 'loan', we will receive more than £15m so we will be in green. 

Quick check of a Burnley forum suggests they’re sad to see him leave, he was outstanding and influential in the run in last season, he’s their preference for number one next season (Pope backup and bin Hart).

Other points of interest: club captain, model professional, good guy.

For 7-10m seems like a good deal. 

2 hours ago, Keyblade said:

I get depressed on days like today when I'm scrolling through my Twitter feed and not a single villareport tweet to be seen. If something's going down, you can bet they'll be tweeting about it.

Glad to see Villareport not making stuff up again...