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Put everything into beating wolves, then 11 men behind the ball v city

37 minutes ago, david-avfc said:

I don’t think Southgate “hates” villa but it’s abundantly clear he has his biases towards the big clubs, impossible not to see if you watched England for the last 6 or 7 years. It’s always the case that players outside the Sky 6 clubs have to do at least twice as much as those who do play for the chosen clubs To get in the squad or start games.

Mainoo prime example. Ridiculous

Other thing to consider is that most of the top international sides between 08 and 16 (spain, germany, italy, brazil etc to name a few) are now far worse

Clear we arent signing him so hopefully he is motivated to put the performances in so roma do buy him

Doug Ellis once floated the idea of a 'wembley of the midlands' at tge site if the NEC. I wonder... 

A real coup for united if they can appoint him

Hows he played? 

1 hour ago, Panto_Villan said:

Lost one of my aunts to cancer at a similar age about a decade back, she also had a young family. Really horrible situation for everyone involved, turned so many lives upside down.

As controversial as this opinion will be on VT, I hope the royals don’t have to go through that too.

Not sure why thats controversial. Whatever anyones opinions on the royals, i highly doubt anyone on here would want anyone to go through cancer, royal or not

2 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

At the beginning of the season, the Premier league committed to six weeks notice, so March 9th at the latest.

I know.

Ffs

Any idea when the date for this might be confirmed? 

I wonder does this help with plans for summer recruitment? 

Forest want 50 mill for gibbs white. I think unai would work wonders with him

2 hours ago, jackbauer24 said:

We could do with a poll to see how confident people really are of us getting 4th or 5th and whether that'll equal Champions League football! Is it just bravado/ excitement/ hope or do you truly believe?

I will admit that I am definitely a naturally negative person. Practically 40 years of being a Villa fan hasn't exactly helped my outlook. I genuinely just can't see us doing it. Is that based on reality or trauma?!

4th is looking a step too far. Injuries, suspensions and our harder run in than our rivals makes me feel this is beyond us. If we don't get 6 points from our next two home games, it's fairly safe to say we'll be fifth before Spurs hit their tricky triple header. We're not exactly known for taking our chances when opportunities arise.

So holding on to 5th... 9 points and GD ahead of United. But they have a game in hand, a ridiculously easy run in and the fear of being Man Utd, despite what recent years have shown. Teams will always fear Utd more than they worry about us. Maybe we can stay ahead of them, but wouldn't be placing huge money on it given our current team and form.

So even believing we finish 5th, will PL get 5th spot? Man City easily could be knocked out by Real Madrid, Arsenal will struggle with Bayern Munich and West Ham will lose to Leverkusen. That's not doom mongering, think most would agree. Liverpool should walk Europa and I'd hope we might make Final... although we've got hardest route possible basically.

I just can't see it all going for us. We are huffing and puffing, English teams have stuttered in Europe and... We're Villa.

 

I resonate a lot with this. Can't shake the feeling of utter dread. 

We are a different team completely in personnel (injuries), but also in performance from first half of the season. 

We were blowing teams away early on and each win since december seems to be us holding on for dear life (sheff utd aside - big whoop). 

Dunno if its tiredness or something else, it just feels on the edge right now. 

16 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

You missed two zeros from the end of Digne's weekly wage

13 minutes ago, villaglint said:

Joe Gauci cannot be on £100k a week. 

Stick him in the double pivot and make him earn his money, the new Digne! 

41 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Lenglet and Pau had been working perfectly well until today. He changed it when he had to and it worked 

This. A previously tested and solid partnership was picked, it didnt go well first half, so he changed it and we improved. Can't fault unai for that

1 hour ago, ozvilla28 said:

The setup first half was all.over the shop wrong balance. Moreno is no way near better then Digne his a liability. Rogers and Duran are better impact players at the moment. I would have started Tim. The subs changed the game for us.

Completely disagree with this. 

I think Digne is better but Moreno, albeit having lesser performances compared to last year has been fine

27 minutes ago, omariqy said:

Yup but Hwang and Neto out. Hopefully Cunha is rusty. Likewise Dawson.

Dawson turns into franco baresi when he plays us

9 games left for 14 points (4th)/ 9 points (5th)

Wolves (h) - draw

City (a) - loss

Brentford (h) - win

Arse (a) - loss

Bournemouth (h) - win

Chelsea (h) - draw

Brighton (a) - loss

Plop (h) - loss

Palace (a) - win

I think we'll get something like that, enough for 5th and squeaky bum time for 4th

6 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said:

We have to beat wolves at home and I think we will. A task that would be far easier if our captain had not decided to completely **** up our run in.

Think we'll lose to wolves - they have a curse over us

Always feel more confident when he plays ahead of moreno, even though i rate moreno

Easily his poorest game for us