VillaJay

Shakespeare came in during pre-season

Not great today, but spurs just had that bit of extra quality on the pitch. Better players than trez to call on and grealish today and we'd be a better side.

Only ever seems to get 12 mins but always looks strong, good touch and involved, yet somehow gets slated every time. Did more in those 12 mins than watkins.

Can't believe trez stayed on instead of him

I sort of agree, I think he's a little too quick with his thinking sometimes though and feels a bit rushed or frantic as a player, but some of that is what makes him what he is. I like him as a player but he's a top 8/12 player as you say or a decent squad player for a top 6 side

Brighton were turning down 35m+ offers for Ben White who had never played in PL, Tarkowski valued at 40m+, AWB went for 50m+ and had done less than Konsa. Konsa is barely 23 and played over 150+ career games and only getting better. I'd say he's worth around 45/50m right now and id be tempted to cash in on him if a 50m+ offer arrived. We need to get better at selling our best assets for good money and re-investing in the next Konsa/Cash/Watkins types. If we sold one a season it would help us re-invest and build a sustainable team

The bbc needs to move on from Garth Crooks if they have any ambition of being a top broadcaster.

It's a failure from both, Bruce had unprecedented tools at his disposal, the best team in the division, wages and funds yet he still failed. He is part of this whole mess, if we hadn't beaten barnsley 3-0 in September last year, Bruce would have been sacked and rightly so. We need forward thinking and Bruce and Xia aren't part of that. Takeover is the clubs only way forward and I'm not sure if even that is enough.

Statistical look at Villa vs Swansea http://tinyurl.com/8u4ktoz

A great prospect who hopefully will push on this season, been better than bent so far this season i think. Seems to get shots away without having many touches in the game, only had 15 touches against Swansea but got 4 shots off the most of any Villa player that game.

looks like he could be a top player for us, his workrate is brilliant and that will make him a fans favourite alone but needs to do a bit more with the ball when he has it, I think he can offer a lot of the qualities Milner brought to the side except without that added quality Milner has.

The team looked hungry straight from the off against Swansea, we didn't sit back and went at them straight away. Already you can see the influence Lambert has had on the team and their is still much room for improvement which is good.

I think we will bring 2 players in and I really think it's just down to Lambert taking his time and looking to get value for money. If in the unlikely event Lerner is holding back defeat against Everton today will make him notice, but I really don't think Lambert would have come here without assurances over a large budget. The more I think about it, I think Lambert is the reason we have not seen any more signings yet. He is obviously very choosy in the players he buys and this is a good thing as opposed to other sides who just go after name after name. Lambert is trying to build a team and just because some of the names are not household names doesn't mean they won't work for us. We need to look at the bigger picture, a team is far more important than a side full of egos that don't compliment each other. That said we really need at least 2-3 signings.

I think we did, If N'zogbia was kept on the wing and Holman kept further forward out wide we could have been more direct in getting the ball forward. We were far too compact in the middle, we should have triangles of 3 players available each time to play the passing game but at times we had 5 players cluttered together with Bent far too Isolated. The wingers would have dragged their full backs out wide and left Space for Ireland and Bent to run into.

I think we need to adopt the passing game but at the same time be more direct, keep the over passing when we're looking to hold onto a lead. A statistical look at our performance on the weekend http://tinyurl.com/bp9lkc7

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We really need a technical striker who can hold the ball and provide an aerial threat not easy to find but someone like a Dean Ashton type player.

I think there will be 2 more signings but ideally we need 4 more first team players because as good as the style of play was yesterday we never looked like scoring, no width at all and that really needs adressing. I believe there is money to spend but Lambert is just taking his time and it could go down to the last day of the transfer window.

I think he's worth a chance with Gabby out, but I think Weimann will make it he seems to have a real hunger about him.

Starting to think we might be stuck with him, I'd rather see Warnock go first though.

Must be a left back lined up to come in this week, i think Warnock will be sold, has been a liability under every manager so far including MON.

I think Jarvis is a decent player but crazy money to turn down for him, he's a mid table player at best.

Thanks onje! I do think there will be times when things won't go our way this season but with Lambert I think we have arguably the best manager we could have got and I think he'll be very succesful here given time and money.

No chance of Milner going to Sunderland would be a huge drop in wages plus he'd have far better suitors after him.

Rose is not enough of a step up from what we have, Stevens should be given a chance if we don't sign a new lb