villaglint

Agreed. What we need is a dominant CB like Mings but given we won’t be able to throw the money at it that would be required then we really need Torres and Carlos to step up and show their worth.

Watching Rollheiser YT vids was the tonic I needed tonight. He looks like Messi. Thanks VT.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I dont think Archer is used to being the figurehead of an attack. He played up top with Akpom at Middlesborough and pretty sure there was a target man type player alongside him at Preston. At Villa he is playing the Watkins role leading the line and maybe that doesnt get the best out of him. Anyway assuming we bring in another striker I'm happy. Seems to be zero links to strikers though, that is the concerning bit.

Saw a line on BBC text updates in Charity shield saying Rice had been neat and tidy and not much else. I burst out laughing because what else were they expecting him to do, people think because they paid so much he must be Messi.

One thing that I’ve not seen mentioned is that if Archer is going and Dendoncker is able to leave then it suggests Tim Iroegbunam will be kept around as part of 1st team being 4th home grown player and back up to Big Boubs.

I thought that but already done. Wonder if they will think twice on Aaron Ramsey though, don’t think that’s sealed yet.

I think most of us form our opinions on these players we’ve seen little to none of on the first YT video we see. I’ve been underwhelmed from the videos I watched. But then I found this one and he looks very very good indeed. Moral of the story is YT videos like our sharing of opinions are fun but nothing more. What they do in Villa shirt is all that matters.

Or two weeks of Dignes wages. Depends how you look at it.

He was slow as he turned on inside against Lazio too, Kamara bailed him out. Something he’ll need to work on or it’ll get picked up by analysts in PL for sure.

Going to need John Nash to figure out Chelsea’s position with FFP at this rate.

He has no choice if he wants to leave Spurs this summer. He’ll have no shortage of offers next summer.

If he ends up leaving for free he will 100% stay in England, think the scoring record is important to him.

You keep saying this but I'm not sure Pau Torres fits your narrative. Might be that some transfers work one way and some work another. No one sizes fits all rule to this.

Still seems really odd the Saudi's havent come in for him. Given the blue print of players they are targeting he seems like a very obvious target. So either we have made it clear we want to keep him or he has made it clear he doesnt want to live there. Probably the latter. He's looked a little bit quicker to me in pre season. Still not really done anything. Here's hoping Unai can rejuvenate him.

Think that was a different movie involving two girls.

Where have you seen this?

Everyday of the week. What a journey they've had. Pretty sure they will be back before long too.

Agree we should keep them both around but we need to consider how much they will actually play. Only Unai really knows that. No point keeping them just to sit on the bench like Archer did in first part of last season. If we can see them playing then I’m all for keeping them around. On Ramsey I feel like he needs games to grow like JJ did. However JJ came into team at a very different time for the squad. My feeling is Aaron might have to do a lot of his learning on loan.

TBF he’s won the UK lottery and then also won the Euro millions.

How much you want for him?

I get that you have your own foibles so probably think about these things differently to most people. But just to put a slightly different spin on it. I had this same situation but I was the person who had ordered the parcel. The postman never left a note saying itd been delivered so it only occured to me a few weeks later, what happened to that thing I ordered. I then contacted the company and found out it had been at our neighbours all that time and duely went and picked it up. So the person might have no idea where the parcel is at this stage and might not for a few weeks yet. So the only way out of your current frustration might be to take control of the situation. Could you not just leave it on the doorstep or behind the bins with a note or something?

Want to see more of him, hope we keep him around the squad this year.

Yeah that’s true but Palace offered him big money too. Think CL must have been the winning factor.

No way they can have offered him much more than Palace. Only answer is they were the only Champions League to come in for him and he wanted to experience that before he retires. Got a bit of respect for that tbh doing that rather than going to Saudi. Much easier options for him to take but he’s done the uncomfortable thing in order to tick a box for his career. Losing Olise and Zaha for £35m is going to be painful for a club like Palace. Need to be very careful about their next moves or next season could quickly get difficult for Roy. I’m amazed nobody had a deal done for last day of season if he really had that release clause, that is a real bargain.

I’d agree that the fee doesn’t seem that bad but am surprised there isn’t a rule already in place to stop teams trading players when they are owned by same people. Asking for trouble.