VillaChris Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Nketieh is sharp in the box but dosen't offer a huge amount yet elsewhere. Think Mason Greenwood has more potential but interesting to see how both develop over next two years. Just good to see young English players getting chances at the top clubs this season, it's been one positive of the premier league for me. Seems only Poch has seriously done it in last five years and even now you still have Pep hardly giving Phil Foden any starts in serious games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Silva is going in the summer On paper City replace him with foden but we'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Silva is going in the summer On paper City replace him with foden but we'll see It's scary how good Jack would fit in that team. Really hope Pep seriously sees Foden as the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Keyblade said: It's scary how good Jack would fit in that team. Really hope Pep seriously sees Foden as the answer. If we’re losing Jack anyway I’d be happy with cash and Foden. Doubt we could convince him to move to us though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 David Silva has started three premier league games since December 7th so not sure it's as simple as that. Ultimately Foden played a decent amount last season (remember he started and scored the winner v Spurs in the league) but really hasn't kicked on this season. Don't understand why he didn't go on loan in January but seems a bit too much of a City fanboy atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Reece James has impressed me over the last few games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Spurs have been shit since Moussa Dembele left and never got a replacement. He had everything in that midfield and his presence is hugely missed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 5 hours ago, Zatman said: Spurs have been shit since Moussa Dembele left and never got a replacement. He had everything in that midfield and his presence is hugely missed. So rare to see a centre mid go round people as often as players like him. As we know from Grealish, it opens the game up so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Said him before but Isak. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51720624 Really surprised Dortmund didn't give him more of a chance bu seems Tuchel didn't rate him. Mad they sold him for 6m, thought Real Sociedad signed him for about 12m! Shows how premier league clubs like us regularly get their pants pulled down on deals, Wesley costing over three times as much as he did ffs. Quote And yet, even last season's brilliant spell in the Netherlands didn't change Dortmund's mind. The German club didn't plan on using Isak, so they sold him to Real Sociedad in the summer for a reported 7.5m euros (£6.4m) - a lower fee than the 8.6m euros (£7.4m) they paid AIK in 2017. With newly signed Norwegian wonderkid Erling Braut Haaland becoming a sensation, the Bundesliga side are unlikely to have regrets, but they missed out on a superb player who could have become a major star at Westfalenstadion, and failed to make a profit on him. Isak signed a five-year contract at Real Sociedad with a release clause of 70m euros (£60m). That is likely to reflect his market value if current progress continues. Dortmund have a buy-back option - set at 30m euros (£25.7m) - starting in June 2021, but such a scenario is irrelevant as far as Isak is concerned. La Real into their first cup final since I think John Toshack managed them in the 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 I think simply being a Premier League club, and everyone knowing you have money, is part of the problem, rather than a lack of thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Tomaszk said: So rare to see a centre mid go round people as often as players like him. As we know from Grealish, it opens the game up so much. Yep, thing with Dembele is he dribbled like Jack but had the size of Matic and the passing range of a No.10 . They are sadly difficult to find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Think he was mentioned the other week but Josip Ilicic scored hat trick for Atalanta in CL tonight. Nearly got a 1 in 2 scoring record and he's an attacking midfielder. Been a good player in Serie A for years tbf, was previously at Palermo and Fiorentina. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 8 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Think he was mentioned the other week but Josip Ilicic scored hat trick for Atalanta in CL tonight. Nearly got a 1 in 2 scoring record and he's an attacking midfielder. Been a good player in Serie A for years tbf, was previously at Palermo and Fiorentina. He actually scored 4 tonight. To go with the 1 in the first leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 On 05/03/2020 at 14:12, Zatman said: Yep, thing with Dembele is he dribbled like Jack but had the size of Matic and the passing range of a No.10 . They are sadly difficult to find Pretty sure Dembele was a right winger when Fulham signed him. Got converted to CM in his last year there before Spurs signed him. Nearly signed for SHA when McLeish was there, would've probably been converted into a RB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) Tim Sherwood tried to lumber us with another poor crock like Micah Richards. Luckily, this one had a conscience... Quote Michu turned down a multi-million pound deal at another Premier League club in 2015 because he felt that he wouldn’t be able to do himself justice, even though he would have passed a medical. “I remember in the last year of my contract with Swansea, I had an offer from Aston Villa when Tim Sherwood was manager. They offered me a three-year contract, so much money,” Michu says. “But I said no because of the pain.” Although Michu had been to Madrid to see a specialist, undergone a scan and received the all-clear — “They said it was a normal injury and many players can have it” — he knew that his ankle wasn’t right and that made him feel uneasy about signing for Villa. “I think, as a person, you have to be honest and honourable,” he says. “And also, if I’d wanted to stay playing in the Premier League, I’d have done it at Swansea, not Aston Villa.” It was not quite that simple, though, because the decision wasn’t like-for-like. Michu’s contract at Swansea had less than 12 months to run and the Welsh club were never going to extend his stay after he had barely kicked a ball during a season-long loan at Napoli. Villa, in contrast, were backing Michu to put his injury problems behind him and placing a deal in front of him that would have lasted for another two years on top of what he had left at Swansea. On the face of it, signing for Villa was a no-brainer. “I could go to Aston Villa and play for three years, two years, whatever. I could play,” Michu says, nodding. “But I could not play at my highest level.” Michu smiles when told that plenty of players wouldn’t have worried about that. “Sure, sure, sure. But you have your conscience,” he says. Selling that decision to his family would have been a lot easier than knocking back Aston Villa, which went down badly. “They felt that I was crazy, they thought that I didn’t want to play,” Michu says. “I remember a lunch with my father, my mother and my brother, and they said, ‘You can play. The doctor saw the scan and said that you are OK. He said it’s a normal injury’. I said, ‘It’s impossible. I’m in pain walking and running’. “When you go training, you normally do a couple of laps to warm up. For me, that was the worst moment of training. Those two laps… I was in so much pain. But what was frustrating was that nobody trusted what I said. I told my wife a couple of times when I argued with her, ‘If you had my pain, you’d be finished!’” Deep down, Michu knows that his family only had his best interests at heart. “They saw me happy when I was scoring goals,” he says. “But do you know what is also a problem? My mum is a teacher. I have a three-year contract offer with Aston Villa and she thinks, ‘I can’t earn this money in two lifetimes. Go and do it!’ I said, ‘But I have pain’. She said, ‘But the doctor said that you’re OK!’. I said, ‘No, mum, I’m going to play in Langreo in the third division, with my brother as coach, and I’m not going to earn any money!’” Michu laughs at the absurdity of that decision from a financial perspective. “But money is not everything in life,” he says. “I had money to play for Swansea and Napoli. Happiness is important for me. And I was playing for love at Langreo.” Edited March 11, 2020 by Tomaszk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) Respect his honesty and his willingness not to steal a living Edited March 11, 2020 by Zatman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 For some time Jan Oblak has been the best goalkeeper in the world. Its a pity for Slovenia that they only produce top goalkeepers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Gimenez on the bench for atleti last night, FM beast for a few years now, anyone know if he's a back up? would have thought a PL club would come sniffing savic was immense saying that, head or foot thrown at everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 9 hours ago, Zatman said: For some time Jan Oblak has been the best goalkeeper in the world. Its a pity for Slovenia that they only produce top goalkeepers I would definitely take Allison over him. But he is the next best IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Allison can do more with his feet and is a more important role in the way Liverpool set up He's a better all round footballer not just a keeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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