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Exactly. When the kids played for ManUre, they weren't brilliant. They had some talent and showed some glimpses but they were far from the finished product. In fact, I'd argue that at the end of the season they were still not a finished product. But they were coached in a system by a good manager. He gave them the tactical role, the structure and - evenutally - the confidence to be able to play their position week after week and improve. And they responded. Our kids have talent and show glimpses, but 4 managers in 18 months with a tactically inept one now in charge is hardly helping them develop. Wenger, on the other hand, would do wonders. You make the point about Fergurson being good with tactics. I disagree. At the very highest level he has always been outplayed. Bayern Munich in the final they were bossed about the park a lot. Two well taken goals at the end bailed them out. Against Chelsea in the CL final they hardly dominated the game, not to mention the game against Barca last year, He played Park and Giggs in centre midfield. United got pumped and outplayed again. For the best ever manager who some claim - to have 25 years in charge at United and to not get your team playing football like Barcelona and Arsenal....! If you take a look at the Barcelona team only 2 of there players were not home grown in that final David Villa and Danni Alves. The rest of the team Xavi, Pique, Inesta, Messi, Busquestes ect ect ect. Now What is harder to do - Build a team of young players at youth players and bring them through to being one if the best teams the world has ever seen or go out anf buy 15 indilviduals spening 250 million...? Also the PL is no where near at tactical as LL check out Cesc Fabregas Comments. "In Spain, it's tactically much stronger than the Premier League. But in England there is this passion. You are always trying to attack because the fans don't want you to keep possession for long. They want you to go forward – so that makes it interesting because you create lots of opportunities. A very different kind of football is played in Spain and England". Villa are 57 million in debt - I think it would be difficult to escualte a system 1/20 as good as the one in Barca, but its the future.

yes I agree I did not say anywhere that you dont need experince. I think the spine of your team needs to be experinced. I guess would it be a better way to run the club financially as we did make a loss of 57 million this year. I would get rid off the likes of Heskey, Makou , Beye, this year and gradual over a transitional period relesae players like Petrov ( Who I rate highly) Dunne ect and bring in the Younger players as mentioned above. Would these players be good enough though...?!!

In recent weeks we have seen the unfortunate finacial demise of Rangers and Pompey as well as Villa reporting loses of of 57 million. Now arguably one of the best financially shrewdly run clubs in the PL is Arsenal. They have paid off their debts for their stadium as well as recording healthy Profits. They have some of the best youngstes around and play superb football. They do not use money to by sucess like Fergurson and City have done. Arsenal fans would argue that they have not won a trophy for years - blah blah blah. Could Arsenals Finacial model be one that Villa could look at..? Villa have one of the best acadamieS in the League and have produced some good players down the years. Today with 3 mins to play Gardner came on to the pitch and made a superb 30 yard pass with his first touches. 2 mins later he pick up the ball from bannan who did well and unleashed a left footed pile drived which Wienman picked up nicely. It was great to see Villas youngsters producing the potential which we know they are all capable of on the pitch. The way they celebrated was awsome. The point is this Villa have some promising youngster in the squad. Clarke, Albrighton, Gardner, Weinman The Fonz Bannan Lichaj Gabby (Product from Youth academy) I think Villa genuinly have to re stragtise there finacial game plan as it does not look likely that we will be overtaken any time soon - I could be wrong. Arsenal Are a great role model club - Villa could learn a lot from wenger. I have more respect for Wenger than Ferguson and Wenger nearly always spends less on transfers and wages and they play much better football. Ferguson attitude has been :- Veron we will have him - 35 million. Ferdinand - yep him to - 27 million Rooney - Sorry Everton we need him 35 million Nani - 18 million - him to Young - 20 million - we need a winger. How much did Wenger spend on Fabregas, Nasri, Vermalin, RVP ect...? Are these players good enough to take Villa to the next level..?

I have always rated Cuellar - even at right back. Clean sheet today speaks for itself.

Rooney did not get a red card in 2004. As has been pointed out, every team that gets knocked out of a tournament has a reason behind it. The only times where England were unlucky was 2004 where a late campbell header was wrongly disallowed and 2010 with the Lampard goal even though Germany were much better on the day anyway. True. - Did Rooney not get sent off against Portugal in 2006 though. England do suffer a lot on injuries before Tournaments - although I do think that this is more to do with the PL Season. Check out a blog I wrote on it. http://inoffthebar.org/2011/11/15/england-ant-dec-and-failure-co-uk-part-1/ http://inoffthebar.org/2011/11/22/england-the-coaching-conundrum/ It would be interesting to hear people views on it.

Question - What is the worst thing you can do to a player playing with no confidence who has bags of potential when you need to win a game. Answer. - Dont let AM makes substitutes.

he has not got a clue...?!

Whats he doing - why is he coming off....!

The atmosphere is terrible...! We are shocking...!

Def Agree we don't seem to get the rub of the green. Also to add to the above. 98 - Sol Cambells goal in ET when we were down to 10 men was disallowed - Do people think this should have been disiaslowed genuinely. can any one find a link...?! Although what we cant blame on luck was Bechams kick..! was he already on a yellow..? 04 - He did exacly the same thing down to 10 men against Portugal in ET. It was disalowed.

Hmmm I like to think so. But we are fourth favourite at the moments...?! Low expectancy is good it takes pressure of the players. Look at the Spain game for example. When we played Argentina with 10 men and Portugal. England always play better when they are up against it.

The Metros - A little gem..!

I think we are screwed any way. To progress in a Touranment you have got to be able to pass the ball to each other and be able to trap it. This was clearly lacking 2 years ago. After you have learnt how to pass a ball you then need to be able to do this along the floor more than twice.. You then need to keep a clean sheet and 11 players on the pitch - and if possible avoid injuries to ure best players. PS scoring more that one goal helps.. - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey...!

Thats Right Rio Ferdinand was injured - I had forgotten that. So far we have Bent out, Rooney suspended, Wiltshire unfit. Still another 2-3 months to go..!

He seems similar to Salifou..!

How many games did Makoun play for Villa. I seem to remember he had one good game at United - the rest he was inconsistant!

A lot of it will come down to wages. If Arsenal offer him a big enough wage package 150 k that would be a good offer. Although you only have to look as Cesc and Nasri - what happend to them..?

I think he might have been told by the board - he needs to reduce wages and get the squad numbers down and look to the youth as the future. Hence why he chose Delph as RL did fork out 8 million for. Plus I am not sure IF Makoun settled and blended in to the squad well. He was a GH signing.

Which captain did he injure

Ha ha - thats a beauty. How did Capello not pick DB. I thought DB was out due to injury.

What are growth rates likely to be at the end of the month..? Any one know..?

Its a tricky one - I agree Heskey has never been a talented player. However - England breezed to the qualification with him in the team and were undefeated only drawing one game and winning the rest. With regards to Owen - he claimed that Heskey was the best strikeing partner he has ever played with as he made half the goals. There was no way you were going to succeed with Emile Heskey in the team. Was Darren Bent injured for the last world cup..?

Are we paying part of his his wages...?!

Are you sure - He scored 9 goals in total that season and got a boat load of assists. He had a solid season There were lots of England players that had a awful season - half the quad. Are you really saying SWP was better #nochance

Walcott - Would be a squad player buy would not make my starting XI. Incidently for the last World cup squad - how on earth did Cappelo think that Shaun Wright Phillips was more fitting than Ashley Young down the wing. Infact all the pundits did not say a thing. Now Young is at united he is in a lot of people starting XI.