Keyblade Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 31 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Digne is absolutely miles better than Targett In a Villa shirt, I'm not seeing it so far. 20/21 Targett was better as it stands. Though that's probably down to Gerrard's ridiculous system than anything. At the time I thought Digne was a huge upgrade. So hopefully he fulfills that under the next manager. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted August 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 30, 2022 Targett has been better for Newcastle than Digne has been for us. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightdm00 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 50 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Targett has been better for Newcastle than Digne has been for us. That's more so down to team performance. Trent and Robertson would look bad with Steven handing out the match day tactics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Keyblade said: In a Villa shirt, I'm not seeing it so far. 20/21 Targett was better as it stands. Though that's probably down to Gerrard's ridiculous system than anything. At the time I thought Digne was a huge upgrade. So hopefully he fulfills that under the next manager. Targett was helped massively by having Grealish in front of him. Once Grealish left his performances dropped massively. Digne is a far better player. He's been an upgrade despite not even playing that well 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 10 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Targett was helped massively by having Grealish in front of him. Once Grealish left his performances dropped massively. Digne is a far better player. He's been an upgrade despite not even playing that well Agree with this Targett was garbage after grealish, as were villa in general, shipping him out made sense How we've had such a drop off mentally after selling grealish is what needs addressing, it's not just Targett it's Watkins and Konsa too, we're still reeling, the worrying thing being the likes of Digne have quite happily dropped off too and they weren't even here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Digne has been crap, probably the worst player for us along with McGinn this calendar year He couldn't get a game at a crap Everton team behind Jonjo Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Zatman said: Digne has been crap, probably the worst player for us along with McGinn this calendar year Just nonsense really 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: Just nonsense really Is it really? He is defensively weak and while slightly better vs West Ham the first 3 games of the season he was pathetic not to mention the Watford/Newcastle crap last season Even our best left back performance in 2022 he was injured and replaced by Young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Digne has clearly been one of worst players this season so far. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 8 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Targett has been better for Newcastle than Digne has been for us. Absolutely. It was not a change we required to make and Digne is also older and likely on higher wages. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 I think he’s a victim of being asked to play in the opposition corner flag 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Targett was helped massively by having Grealish in front of him. Once Grealish left his performances dropped massively. Digne is a far better player. He's been an upgrade despite not even playing that well Like @HanoiVillansaid, Targett is performing better right now, let alone before. I agree he's better on paper but he isn't showing it yet. Could be that he never does and maybe we were wrong about him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Keyblade said: Like @HanoiVillansaid, Targett is performing better right now, let alone before. I agree he's better on paper but he isn't showing it yet. Could be that he never does and maybe we were wrong about him. Digne has been a clear step up from the Matt Targett that left Aston Villa. Digne hasn’t been at his best, but neither has basically the whole squad. He’s been one of the more consistent performers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 30, 2022 1 hour ago, LondonLax said: Absolutely. It was not a change we required to make and Digne is also older and likely on higher wages. Nearly everyone on here was saying we needed a new left back during the first half of that season (along with a proper DM and another CB which to be fair we have got) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Zatman said: Digne has been crap, probably the worst player for us along with McGinn this calendar year He couldn't get a game at a crap Everton team behind Jonjo Kenny That was down to agent Rafa. Everton fans were disgusted that he sold him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, PaulC said: That was down to agent Rafa. Everton fans were disgusted that he sold him. I dont think they were. They were against Rafa at the time but now most have said meh. He wasnt really that good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 12 hours ago, Keyblade said: In a Villa shirt, I'm not seeing it so far. 20/21 Targett was better as it stands. Though that's probably down to Gerrard's ridiculous system than anything. At the time I thought Digne was a huge upgrade. So hopefully he fulfills that under the next manager. Yeah I agree. Digne is doing alright, Targett was also alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 I think Digne has been one of our worst players recently along with Coutinho, McGinn and Konsa to be honest. Been really disappointed with him. I was so happy with his signing too. Ditto Coutinho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Digne and Cash look alright defensively, I think it’s too much to expect them to be quality attacking wingers too imo. I think this is part of our problem at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) Probably better to move this mini discussion to the Digne thread. I’ll reserve judgement on him and others for now until we have someone in charge who hasn’t the brain capacity of a stale chicken nugget. Edited August 30, 2022 by Ingram85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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