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  1. Leeroy
    Yes but it just makes you want the season to end. We’re stumbling through games and you just can’t get excited about watching us because we’re offering nothing.
  2. Leeroy
    What has happened to this team? The last 4 games we just look clueless. Dopey defensively and brainless going forward with the wrong pass time and time again. Injuries explain no depth but we’ve still got 11 senior pros out there. Three defeats on the bounce if we lose this, I’m not sure when that last happened under Unai. They need to get a grip because we could feasibly end the season with 5 defeats on the bounce which would be such a comedown on a very good season.
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    Well we may as well just hand them the game and rest for Liverpool. No chance now. Once again we just can’t defend. Been our problem all season. It’s literally just one counter attack and they score, so ****ing easy.
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    I think we should carry out an investigation, these injuries aren’t normal. Still Newcastle would probably say the same. Zaniolo being out annoys me most when his agent came out a few days ago saying he wants the end the season as strong as possible with us. He needs to get fit quickly then you muppet as there’s only a couple of games left!
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    Christ, why can’t Tielemans and Zaniolo just get themselves fit At least Emi is back but no Tielemans, Rogers or Zaniolo is just ass. And god knows where the hell Moreno is.
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    Yeah that's fair. Although I'd counter that by saying Edouard was pretty cheap for a striker and they seem to have pulled off a good deal in Mateta if he keeps up his recent form. Henderson very early days too. Franca I'd agree with, seems a waste of money, although he's been injured and still very young so still time.
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    Lol, thanks for that. I must admit I got Rogers totally wrong, he hadn't looked that impressive in the Championship, but he was a great find by Unai and Monchi. He's been an excellent signing. I still thought that a holding midfielder was more priority though and think I've actually been proven right on that given how lacking we are in CM now. We obviously have to go for high profile players as well as hidden gems, but when we do spend big money on players we have to get them right is all I'm saying. Diaby still has time though.
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    Not at all. We have done some very good business ourselves but 1-2 we have yet to get what we paid for. Palace's business over the last 3 years has been really good, can't think of a bad deal. Just feel they should be acknowledged for that.
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    That's because Eze and Olise have since signed new bumper contracts I think. To be fair Nick I said this myself just now that it is too premature to say whether Diaby has been a failure so you're agreeing with me. I think so far for the money we spent he has underwhelmed and we would struggle to get our money back for him, whereas Palace would get potentially 10 times what they paid for Olise if they sold him. Of course Diaby's value may have skyrocketed this time next season and I agree it is too early to make a judgement one way or the other.
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    Lol, I only praised Palace's business which is perfectly reasonable given how some of their players are performing right now and suddenly in typical Villatalk fashion everyone goes on the defensive. I never even mentioned Brennan Johnson, said at the time Spurs were spending too much on him and didn't want us going near him. No one seems to know what price we paid for Diaby given no one can say an exact price but my point was it was significantly more than Olise and many outlets have suggested he was our record signing.
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    If that's true it's a bit narrow minded of them, I get they might want to be near home but this is their career. Eze was one I was hoping we might look at this summer if not too expensive but if he's not up for moving outside his comfort zone then he can jog on.
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    Tim? He'll be gone next season, clearly not good enough as he's barely played. Not a patch on Wharton. Fair point on the others and I don't disagree, our business has been good too. One caveat is we paid Tielemans and Kamara £150K per week to come here, but both freebies so certainly we can't complain. We've also overspent at times on players like Buendia and Diaby as mentioned who haven't had the impact we were hoping for given the large transfer fees.
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    Oh I get that, not sure Olise was an unknown quantity as he was considered the best young player in the Championship but he was raw, they have developed him over three seasons and he has been quite injury prone too. But considering the outlay on Diaby he has been underwhelming, he surprisingly got himself back in the France squad in March but since then he's been playing himself out of the squad rather than into it when he had a great chance to go to a major tournament. I realise we can't just buy players with potential, we do have to buy some proven quality, that's what top teams do, but we need to get those signings right because they don't come cheap. Diaby may come good next season though so this discussion may be premature.
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    Palace have made some very astute signings from the Championship - Eze, Olise and Wharton for a combined £40-45m is only slightly more than we paid for Buendia. I actually think they might be one of the best clubs for signing players, Guehi and Anderson were also really clever signings and Munoz their new right back looks good too. Olise for £8m compared to £50m for Diaby is ridiculous, Olise much more likely to get in that France squad for the Euros than Diaby and he's three years younger too. Given our issues in midfield right now it's such a shame we didn't go for Wharton, Blackburn fans were raving about him 2 years ago.
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    We were in title contending form first half of the season without Ramsey and Luiz was probably our most important player to achieving that. We are in the top 4 this season despite Ramsey playing very little due to injuries. Luiz has been poo in the last couple of months but that doesn’t take away how important he is to this team when he’s on form which he has been the majority of the time in the last 18 months. I don’t think fans will agree on this though so it will come down to opinion.
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    I don’t know what will happen, it seems to be if we have to sell one key player based on the rumours in the press it’s either Ramsey or Dougie. As much as Dougie has been poor recently, and as much as Jacob is one of our own, if we had to sacrifice one I have to choose Ramsey. I think Dougie is more important to us, but I obviously hope we keep both.
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    Well said. Although be careful, most on here have already used tiredness as the reason why we're not going to pick up another point this season and accepted that even if it means finishing 5th. We're Aston **** Villa, we need to show some fight in these last 2 games and not rely on what Spurs do or don't do. I'll be devastated if we miss out on 4th from here on in.
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    Fine we have limited options and we're tired etc etc etc but we still had a front three with 35 goals between them and a midfield with 15 goals between them and could only muster one shot on goal the entire game. I don't deny we need Tielemans, Martinez, Zaniolo back to boost the options but even so the whole performance today was well, well below what we should be capable of.
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    Wow, ridiculous take.
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    No one is saying it hasn't been. It's more we are ending the season not with a bang but rather a whimper which is a bit of an anticlimax really even if we end up finishing 4th.
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    Don't disagree with the bolded bit.
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    We are so very lucky that it's Spurs on our heals, they look truly abject. We may not need another point this season after all but it all hinges on that Spurs-City game, I hope it doesn't go to the last day as that will be agony.
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    Unai Emery

    Leeroy replied to PeterSw's topic in Villa Talk

    When everyone's fit (or most of the squad is at least) he's an absolute magician of a manager, but when injuries pile up like they have done he has really struggled to get his ideas across. Not saying Howe has done a better job necessarily but look at the injuries they have had, yet they are still putting 4 or 5 goals past teams and playing great football. Meanwhile with a similar number of players out we look a shadow of the team we were and don't seem to have any idea of what it is we're supposed to be doing.
  24. Leeroy
    Essentially it is what you said though. I am guessing by revise my expectations you mean I should be happy finishing 5th and going out of the semis of the Conference, which is practically giving up given we are in pole position to get 4th even after today. I won't be told to grow up so if you say that to me one more time you're going on ignore. Or actually why don't you put me on ignore and save me the hassle.
  25. Leeroy
    See, you've got personal and I haven't. So instead of reproaching me for being frustrated, disappointed, angry for us not turning up at a crucial stage of the season, maybe you should work on your own way of dealing with some people's negative emotions. And no, I won't revise my expectations. I still maintain that if we finish 5th from here on in, we have bottled it just like so many other seasons we have been in this position and failed to get over the line.
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