AngelGabriel

Thats my Villa, SSN say Villa have rejected the bid.

Liverpool I feel sorry for, Man City I don't every time Fergie is interested in a player, along come City just behind him in his shadow.

Fabio Capello said no transfer talks till after the World Cup - so thats probably why.

What Randy Lerner meant by the 30 million comment was he wasnt prepard to buy just one player for 30 million, he also has the future of the club in mind, which in the long run will benefit us. James can make a choice but he is guaranteed first team football at Aston Villa, unlike City, and he had a 24million price tag slapped on him, so it would be in his best interest to stay at Villa, where as he would have to compete with Patrick Viera at Man City who has just been offered a 12 month extension. Plus if he wants to get into the Euro 2012 competition his ideal home would be here and not Citeh, I do not want Aston Villa to become like Arsenal a feeder club.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2010/05/17/1929983/aston-villa-owner-randy-lerner-im-not-worried-about-losing-james- Randy clears it up, he expects James to stay on for next season.

If Jimmy was to leave, I'd figure he'd go to United over Citeh, since they play more as a team and not as individuals - I doubt it, I could see Chelsea being interested.

Yes, Agbonlahor, VERY intelligent...you know Gabby is our pre-slump Steven Gerrard - he's devoted to Villa, as for Young could be tempting for him, but we'll have to wait and see...you know.

We need to test that keeper Nielsen early, no doubt he'll have the butterflies since this is a massive game for both teams.

Kicking in for me as well, we've got to and WILL win this game.

Same team but start with The Fonz and rest Carew, do what we did today, should get a win out of this.

We'll win this one hopefully have a nice number of goals, but right now I'd be happy with 1-0/2-0.

Forget Champions League just concentrate on Europa, we're not ready for that.

We're useless absolutely useless, seasons over for us.

What a load of shite ! You don't win anything for playing tippytoe football but not having a **** shot in 90 mins. We may have had the majority of the game today but sorry but I'd rather have had the minority of the game and won 1-0. Carew was making Chelsea struggle and had at least 3 or 4 chances, I'm I'd rather have MON as the gaffer than anyone else at this point.

Win or Draw would suit us fine, its Everton who face the uphill battle here, I'll go 1-0/2-1 Villa win.

So many bloody gloryhogging plastic fans on here, We were brilliant today, and had the majority of the game in our favour until the last ten minutes. And don't get me started on Howard Webb and the Penalty Incident - he's a disgrace. Terry and Deco should have seen red and Terry had the nerve to complain about the booking after the game? and Mikel eventually got a booking after 3 fouls.

You lost me there, they HATE Chelsea, infact I'm concerned if we'll see a few red cards.

Also met Carew up in Brum, said the same thing! He's a tall bastard too and i'm 6ft2/3 lol

It depends really on how the 2 weeks rest (bar Bolton) have helped out, I'd give him the first half to see how he feels, but definately sub him at half time and probably change formation.

From the Villa site, MON expects Dunne to declare himself fit and work through it.

That is an inspiration in its own right, I was at that game, fantastic moment it was.

I really want the lads to give Chelsea a run for their money, 1-0 2-0 8-0 doesnt matter a win is a win, I really think we can do it, John Terry's comments will have angered them and I can't imagine how much the lads really want to stuff Chelsea, will be a great game either way.

I'd say Chelsea's weakness is vulnerability at the back, it has been a recurring problem all season, plus John Terry has look restricted in his mobility, if Petrov lays a ball off for Gabby or even Ashley Young, he wont catch'em, plus Carew who can just blitz anyone out of nowhere. And like above, if they play Ballack or Deco, we have our pace. The man I'd personally keep an eye on at the back is Zhirkov but thats it. Other than that they are a fine side as the gaffer said.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2010/4/2/1270228326935/Bolton-v-Aston-Villa-001.jpg Squad sheet for tomorrow from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/02/squad-sheets-bolton-wanderers-aston-villa Dunne, Ashley, Milner all feeling good to go, Gabby slight doubt, and Heskey is probably doubtful.

Last week will not happen again, I truly believe we got a wake up call when we were spanked last week, I think it'll be a tougher game for Chelsea, we are very capable of beating them as they fully well know. Last week wasn't Aston Villa that was just a team with schoolboy mentality - we'll give'em something to remember at Wembley, be positive.