Nicho

Is there a Villa Talk Chess group on an app somewhere? I play every so often against mates and people around who might play. Only get beaten by one mate who plays alot and in turn Im the only one to beat him in 10 years or so. Im far worse on the apps than on a board for some reason.

It was January if she fell in the water would be freezing. They say to relax if you fall in cold water as the first thing you do is take involuntary deep breaths. Even a cold shower makes you do it . potentially taking in water causing more panic and then drowning. Leaving the phone is the dodgy bit.

I really don’t want Rice to go to City, not because he’ll help them win the league as they probably will anyway. But because it weakens their potential rivals. Straight out of the 90s United and 2000s Chelsea play book. An uncompetitive league is a shit league.

Watched Alt J instead of Elton John and they were great. Caught the end of Elton and seemed a fan pleasing set. Just watched Queens of the Stone Age who absolutely smashed it.

I do agree that Buendia is a better footballer as in he’s better spotting a pass, effectiveness Bailey should be because of where he plays. Bailey probably is more effective but both are erratic. I think it’s why Goncalves and Williams seemed to be our top targets, immediate replacements for both.

I want to give him the benefit of the doubt in that Emi Martinez is that good we shouldnt expect him to be anywhere near as the 2nd choice, but hes **** shit

I reckon if you were to ask most non Villa fans would they take Mitoma or Grealish they would say Mitoma at the moment. Hes not being the exciting player he was at Villa. Pep demands certain things from players and Grealish is now doing what hes told, its what Southgate uses as his excuse. Hes a better team player than he was but hes lost so much due to it and I think the teams he plays for have lost so much because of it. Amazing to say when his team just won the treble. On his celebrations, by all means get smashed but I think hes making a fool of himself.

I see it more as strategic split to specialise and focus on the footballing side and business side separately. I always enjoyed hearing Purslow speak and I think he’s done a great job. Although I could never ignore he was a bit slimey and no doubt cut throat/false as you have to be in those positions. I see it as a bold step taken by our highly successful experienced business operators of chairmen. Thanks Christian, good luck in the next role.

For our first signing of the window this is a statement. He’s a top quality footballer. I think this is a great bit of business but I do have my concerns. He did look like he’d given up for Leicester and played a lot of games for someone who is 26.

Its taking dump in the shower. But he wasnt that bad. "shadow"

Most Villa fans I know didnt want him signed full time. He had some good games on loan but looked an absolute showder of himself physically. He was an expensive punt by Gerrard. The greatest thing now is we wont be taking punts on players hoping it comes off, we may sign people that are expensive but Emery wont allow passengers in hope. Letting Young go is massive show of where Emery is at. For some of the above Pau Torres isnt that marquee signing however highly rated he is, it would be an attacker, could be Williams, could be Goncalves for the Premier League it would be Maddison.

Why wasnt the pen a red card? and how the **** has fabinho not had a yellow?

I can accept this point of view to be fair. Buendias problem is he’s so close to being consistently good. His movement in the spaces is great then his passing let’s him down, so he gets the ball a lot which highlights him when he’s poor. Bailey on the other hand looks like he’s never played professional football sometimes.

Levy had taken a team from perineal bottom 10 to constant top 6 and actually fault regular top 4 with the best stadium in the world. Their hatred of him is so unjustified its delightful.

Biden running until he’s 86 is absolutely nuts, if he seemed to have all his senses/able to talk then fine but he’s clearly too old to do it. A sad indictment of the American system that there is no one available and capable of putting up an opposition.

I am so excited for the transfer window. I like us signing people I haven’t heard of, Moreno and Duran are far more interesting than Digne and Coutinho. Would love us to sign a mix of youth from the championship and big European signings, so some of these please, I know it’s football manager dream land. Youth: CM Alex Scott (Bristol) £25 mil LB Dennis Cirkin (Sunderland) £15 mil ST Miles Leaburn (Charlton) £8 mil CB Jacob Greaves (Hull) £10 mil Total: £58 mil Europe: MD Matteo Gunedouzi (Marseille) £30 mil WI Nico Williams (Bilbao) £40 mil AM Pedro Goncalves (Sporting) £40 mil CB Facundo Medina (Lens) £30 mil RB Aaron Wan-Bissaka (United) £30 mil Total: £170 mil Overall Total: £228 mil Obviously that isn’t happening but I can dream. I do think the Europe set of positions is what we will sign though. On the outs I think we’ll get about £40 mil from some of these: Sanson Wesley Hause Davis Traore or Bailey Coutinho? Chambers? Philogene-Bidace?

After watching him today id love Dennis Cirkin from Sunderland. Digne out Cirkin in.

I think we will have the budget for one or two punts. Kang-In for £18 mil sits in that range for me, he’s got good stats but not extortionate, if it works we’ve got a young Korean winger who will attract fans if not we’d get close to that amount back and still have had some Koreans take notice of us.

Jermaine Defoe is that you?

From the quotes from Emery and the players especially McGinnis after the game I have the feeling they’ve discussed top 4. The confidence and belief is sky high, they want it all. Its a step too far and a couple of games too late. But I have full faith that this group will be aiming to win every game. Id snap you hand off for the Europe now, I don’t know what I’d give you to finish top 4.

Played himself out of the club. Only himself to blame.

I think we’ll win atleast 6 of the next 10 games. Will that be enough for Europe

Both and that is the point isnt it. People needs guns to protect themselves from other people with guns. Only takes a stray bullet to kill you let alone a lunatic walking into a school.

My Spurs supporting mates slate Levy, theyve just all convinced themselves its Levys fault. In the Premier League before Levy arrived they had never finished above 7th and 6 of the 9 preceding years were 10th or below. Levy became Chairman in December 2001 and in the full 21 seasons he has been there they have: Top 6 14 times (7 of those top 4) Not finished below 8th since 2009. That consistency has bread the expecation to challenge, they are closer than most but to blame Levy for not is ridiculous. Even simple stuff like them wanting to spend more money, based on income alone they have been punching above their weight.

Went to the game with some free tickets. I want to find it hard to criticise 2 wins but… Game was done at half time and the opportunity to experiment was there. Whether that be dropping Kane into the 10 and bringing Toney on or putting Maddison in there. Ramsdale for Pickford would have been nice. But nope same old same old, breeze through these and don’t know whether we can play another formation if we ever need to. Oh and it’s so boring. Jude is the standout quality even with players like Saka producing the winning moments today.