villaglint

Agree with all of that especially the bit about the coaching role. Someone we really need to be keeping around the club but Unai gets what he wants.

Personally I dont see the point in buying Torres when Mings has been outstanding this season and Diego Carlos can also play that position. I'd buy a younger prospect type player there or even keep Chambers as fourth choice. Think we need to go big on a striker this summer, not Dembele on a free.

Mad to think that holding out for a few more mins against Liverpool would have seen us finish 6th and get Europa League.

I think competition/upgrade whatever you want to call but I'd agree. I think Guendouzi will come in to provide competition across midfield. I'd also add Watkins in bold. Think we will go big in a striker this summer in way Barcodes did for Isak last year. Getting Asensio for free rather than spending 45m on Williams just adds to the pot for that striker position.

Just to balance the enthusiasm the last time I saw a YT reel like this was Tonev.

So happy for JJ to cap this birthday with a performance like that. Deserved to cap it off with a goal. Would have have calmed my heart rate a few hundred beats as well! He just gets better and better year on year. No idea what his ceiling is right now.

You’re not wrong but still made me laugh.

Exactly where I am. We were miles better than Derby and had spanked them twice that season already. We were up the minute Leeds dropped the ball. This time it’s all there for us but we are playing against a very very good side. So dunno. Felt like that all the way through this run though and we’ve done OK! Turns out Unai doesn’t need our magical thinking. He’s already taken care of it.

Give it a week and he’ll have been to Birmingham to sign his contract extension with Madrid. Seems to be the Spanish way.

Christ man relax, given everything you know about Emery, given all the power he is being given to shape the club as he needs, given how hard the man works and how much football he watches. Do you really think we'll sign a single player this summer where Emery hasn't watched every match the guy has ever played in full. If he's happy thats plenty good enough for me. For whats its worth I've always rated Barnes but mainly because he rips us to pieces every time we play them. LW is odd but seems like we want a squad of options not being forced into playing a certain way by the players we have. Crazy stuff.

My thoughts exactly added to the fact its clearly a bad one to be out that long and he's not exactly young either. Very bad news. Guess we will be keeping Digne around now.

Loads of kids at training these days wearing City shirts pretending they are Haaland. Not sure they are too bothered about FFP to be honest. It's worked and unless they get some kind of huge punishment which will never happen to will continue to work.

Fixed for you.

Lopetegui will get offers, done himself no harm at all with this little stint.

One possible solution would be to ban them from transfers for every year they broke FFP rules.

We’ve all spent a lot of time watching Emi time wasting is it just me that thinks he wasn’t that bad on Sat? They booked him with about half an hour to go so he couldn’t take the piss like he usually does.

Would take another eye watering offer and we won’t be the first to knock on his door with a bag of gold but don’t ask don’t get.

19 minutes of extra time. Corruption in our league could not be any clearer.

Likewise didn’t know a thing about him 2 weeks ago so won’t she’s a tear. The only annoying thing is it seems several clubs are looking to fill this position and it was nice to know we’d stolen a march on them and got a key appointment sorted early. I work in recruitment and this type of thing happens all the time. Humans are very annoying.

Pretty sure it’s about £500.

No lack of nuance from this Villa fan just some misreading of my post from you but no worries. "If" was the key word there. I was just saying Unai has earned capital to do whatever he wants and I'd agree that Mings will likely be a central player for him.

Agree with all of that which is what I was trying to say above. Only caveat is that Unai Emery' shoes know more about football than me. So for all we know he might want an attacking CB to help us create more chances and dominate possession thereby conceding fewer chances and goals anyway. If Unai wants this man and to throw Tyronne Mings in the bomb squad I will think its harsh but he has my trust to do whatever the hell he likes with this team.

I know we are being linked with everyone at the moment so who knows what actually ends up happening. However what I will say is without Europe its difficult to see how the likes of Pau Torres and Ugarte make too much sense. Mings and Luiz both have an excellent shout of being player of season. You dont bring in someone on big money to replace that player without them being seriously pissed off. If we have loads of games and its about competition then great but heavily contingent on Europe in my book. Our defense and midfield has been very very good under Emery, its attacking positions which need addressing.

I think the high line works because Konsa and Mings are both very quick so are able to recover if needed. Only team I've seen really exploit it is Utd and even they only had 1 or 2 chances of the back of it.

He obviously isn’t shit. He’s a very solid PL player but not someone who would get into a top 6 side which is why none of them have tried to buy him despite his impressive numbers over the years.