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VillaJay

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  1. Agreed, they beat us well in the FA Cup and are a decent side despite all the noise, but we have a TEAM and a talented one at that, no easy games in this league, but for what feels like the first time in decades we will be going up vs Chelsea as the favourites and stronger team.
  2. First time seeing the new badge, I work in branding and don't usually get too worked up about visual identities as there is hopefully usually some thought process or political aspect to the reasoning behind it, but must say that looks like a very USA centric sports logo and doesn't fit the Villa at all. The drop shadow doesn't work either. Less is more, really poor logo.
  3. We need both and possibly more, it's a squad game and very few of the starting 11 should be guaranteed to start every game. Unai has rotated the team quite well and I could imagine McGinn, Tielemans, Luiz, Kamara and another easily playing 30/35+ games in all comps. The days of a starting 11 are gone of we're to compete in as many competitions as we want to.
  4. Involved in all our goals and setup Pau in the first half for a decent opportunity. Played well today.
  5. Top class performance 19g 12a in the league alone, all round striker and some of his hold up play and technique today was brilliant.
  6. He's not been brilliant and his form overall had been quite poor but he has been contributed fairly significantly this season with goals and assists. He's also been unlucky that a couple of his goals/assists ended up as og's and he's setup a number of good opportunities that should have been assists too. Bailey was the same last season, his overall play wasn't great but he was involved in a lot of goals either through goals, assists or in the build up to the goals. There's definitely a player in there and he can strike a ball well.
  7. Still time, performance has been very poor, we just need to grind it out and grab a goal.
  8. The co-efficient is the only reason I had any interest in CL, until we get there next season.
  9. Definitely, would prefer if we're the only english team left in Europe and all focus on us to win it. 4th is in our hands, win the next 2 and we're nearly there.
  10. Listened to the James Collins one and confirmed MON gave them most of the week off, put no emphasis on fitness or training and had zero tactical input other than head the ball you C*nts when questioned by Dunne/Collins. The players obviously loved him because of all the time off and Milner questioned the training methods numerous times and was told by MON there's a f*king exercise bike over there use it. I believe MON did as much harm to the club's progress as anyone, with the right manager and our financial power at the time we should have cemented that top 4 position. He helped cultivate that lazy dressing room that Gabby and Co led and rebelled against any type of professionalism.
  11. He played quite a bit during our good early season form, he has great physicality, a brilliant touch and technique and he has something about him that if it's harnessed correctly he could genuinely be a top level player. A frustrating player at times, but has that Gareth Bale like build and still quite young and new to the PL. I'm still undecided if I'd buy him but if he can show some consistency and contribute some goals/assists to the end of the season he would be worth the punt.
  12. His best game for us vs Arsenal, it can't be underestimated how instrumental he was to us controlling that second half, it was a truly world class performance and we wouldn't have won that game without him dictating that game. I'm not sure I've seen an as assured performance from a villa midfielder vs that quality of opposition. Absolutely brilliant.
  13. He's been very good this season, showing why he's played for Barca and has 40+ french caps. Moreno coming in on the left side of the midfield for Zaniolo also added some solidity and got Moreno further up the pitch where his strengths are better utilised.
  14. The constant work he's put into improving his game is really showing and he's moved up a level again this season.
  15. Interesting listening to JJ Watt on the overlap that the thing that surprised him most about football vs NFL was the agents fees and it's like the wild wild West vs NFL. Agents had a big anti competitive legal win in the summer led by the same legal team taking on FFP, technically they shouldn't be capped but they are definitely feeding off the huge amounts of money available in the PL and holding so much power on where a player moves. Money has ruined football, and agents are a by-product of that. The horse has bolted.
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