Mazrim Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 3 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: Lille have 3 offers on the table submitted for Leao. We are definately one of the 3. Come on mate, we beed to know. How do you know we have bid for Leao the Loyun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted July 21, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted July 21, 2019 1 hour ago, DCJonah said: I'm not sure it was just team work and morale. Part of it was they were able to sign top class players before the rest of the world realised. Mahrez, Vardy and Kante were amazing that season. Kante especially was key, I know the goals were important but Kante was the heart and soul of that side ,take him out and Mahrez and Vardy don't score all those goals for me, keep Kante and have a different pair of good strikers up top and they might have been close... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted July 21, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted July 21, 2019 20 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said: I always thought the mirror was ok, my one only ever says the same thing as me though, so no exclusives as such. Just confirmation then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allani Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 15 minutes ago, Mazrim said: Come on mate, we beed to know. How do you know we have bid for Leao the Loyun? My gran told me. Mind you she then said that Elvis was painting her kitchen so I am not sure that she is a very reliable witness..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, romavillan said: Kante especially was key, I know the goals were important but Kante was the heart and soul of that side ,take him out and Mahrez and Vardy don't score all those goals for me, keep Kante and have a different pair of good strikers up top and they might have been close... Kanté was/is pretty much 2 players. Play him in a 2 man midfield and it actually works. Without him it doesn't. He's like having 12 players. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 This is the guy we want then if we want to replicate Leicester's success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Made In Aston Posted July 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2019 (edited) If we hadn't any money in the summer everyone would say we were going to get relegated. Now we have spent money everyone is saying we are going to do a Fulham and get relegated. Can't win! Edited July 21, 2019 by Made In Aston 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cizzler Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 (edited) 33 minutes ago, romavillan said: Kante especially was key, I know the goals were important but Kante was the heart and soul of that side ,take him out and Mahrez and Vardy don't score all those goals for me, keep Kante and have a different pair of good strikers up top and they might have been close... Kante was their best player, yes - but you're doing Vardy a disservice. Kante left in 2016. Yet in the 2017-18 season Vardy scored 20 goals (4th best in the Prem behind Salah, Kane and Aguero) and last season he scored 18 (5th best in the Prem behind Salah, Mane, Aubameyang and Aguero). I think we can all agree Vardy's Leicester team is way behind the quality of Liverpool, City and Spurs. He's clearly not reliant on Kante to score "all those goals". It's not a case of just putting a "pair of good strikers" up there and getting the same results. He's an excellent player. It was a freak season, anyway. Arsenal and United were in decline, City and Liverpool in full rebuild mode and Spurs just not good enough. 81 points won it. City and Liverpool both lost 10 times, it's just a different league now. The point that was originally made that "why can't this Villa team win the league because that Leicester team did" is a little ridiculous. Admittedly, I've never seen Wesley, Luiz or Hassan play - they could be the next Vardy, Kante and Mahrez. I just doubt it very much. Edited July 21, 2019 by Cizzler 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarroki Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 4 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said: He’s a natural born goalscorer, I’m trying to name back up options for Wesley, can you name any? I'd be interested in Welbeck as a viable option. I think he's more similar to Wesley/Abraham and younger 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 12 minutes ago, Cizzler said: Kante was their best player, yes - but you're doing Vardy a disservice. Kante left in 2016. Yet in the 2017-18 season Vardy scored 20 goals (4th best in the Prem behind Salah, Kane and Aguero) and last season he scored 18 (5th best in the Prem behind Salah, Mane, Aubameyang and Aguero). I think we can all agree Vardy's Leicester team is way behind the quality of Liverpool, City and Spurs. He's clearly not reliant on Kante to score "all those goals". It's not a case of just putting a "pair of good strikers" up there and getting the same results. He's an excellent player. It was a freak season, anyway. Arsenal and United were in decline, City and Liverpool in full rebuild mode and Spurs just not good enough. 81 points won it. City and Liverpool both lost 10 times, it's just a different league now. The point that was originally made that "why can't this Villa team win the league because that Leicester team did" is a little ridiculous. Admittedly, I've never seen Wesley, Luiz or Hassan play - they could be the next Vardy, Kante and Mahrez. I just doubt it very much. I don’t think anyone has said Villa can win it, but have said if Leicester rose from relegation fodder to Champions there’s no reason we can’t achieve a top half finish next season. Nothing guaranteed, but it’s hardly a huge leap of faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 (edited) Catch players on the way up not down. Sturridge, Welbeck and Austin are all big no’s from me. Edited July 21, 2019 by meregreen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 We need Douglas Luiz, Trezeguet, Heaton, another striker and another dm. Do that and i'm happy with the squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted July 21, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted July 21, 2019 28 minutes ago, Made In Aston said: If we hadn't any money in the summer everyone would say we were going to get relegated. Now we have spent money everyone is saying we are going to do a Fulham and get relegated. Can't win! You’re right. There is no secret recipe to securing PL status, otherwise everyone would do it. We just have to make the best we can with what we had. We needed a lot of players, to not sign any would’ve been suicide, at least we’ve got a fighting chance with the players we’ve signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 17 hours ago, Jonsi77 said: Pissing suggesting, i have been fan of Sturridge since i saw him first for many years ago and hes me for one of the best goalscorer in this league if hes fit. I like this club and i want theme to do well in this league and big part of it is to have proven PL goalscorer in the squad. There are none at the moment. There were none at Bournemouth when they got promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 19 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: I’m all for people believing as long as they don’t cry about it not happening. In such circumstances, you keep trying until you succeed.....like we have just done in phase 1 of our rennaisance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villadodo Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 21 minutes ago, skarroki said: I'd be interested in Welbeck as a viable option. I think he's more similar to Wesley/Abraham and younger It's funny that because I was under the impression he was younger as well but looked him up and he is actually 28 which is only 1 year younger than Sturridge. They are both very injury prone but I would say Sturridge is a much better player with a better goalscoring record if we had to choose one. To be honest I wouldn't be keen on either of them and I don't think the club is even considering these type of players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TrentVilla Posted July 21, 2019 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2019 Three things I’m absolutely sick of this window; 1. Darren Bent offering his opinions on all things Villa. Just shut up Darren we don’t care what you think. Same applies to you Noel Whelan 2. Any reference to Fulham in comparison to Villa 3. Alan Nixon and his absolute BS about Villa, honestly a stopped clock is right more often than that guy, it’s absolute tripe that he puts out 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, TrentVilla said: 3. Alan Nixon and his absolute BS about Villa, honestly a stopped clock is right more often than that guy, it’s absolute tripe that he puts out I think he has taken over from James Nursery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 34 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: I don’t think anyone has said Villa can win it, but have said if Leicester rose from relegation fodder to Champions there’s no reason we can’t achieve a top half finish next season. Nothing guaranteed, but it’s hardly a huge leap of faith. Well I've put a quid on us to win the league at 1500/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted July 21, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted July 21, 2019 10 minutes ago, TrentVilla said: Three things I’m absolutely sick of this window; 1. Darren Bent offering his opinions on all things Villa. Just shut Darren we don’t care what you think. Same applies to you Noel Whelan 2. Any reference to Fulham in comparison to Villa 3. Alan Nixon and his absolute BS about Villa, honestly a stopped clock is right more often than that guy, it’s absolute tripe that he puts out On a slightly different note, I also hate it when Sky Sports or other broadcasters wheel out some nobody who had 6 months on loan with us to offer their opinion on all things Villa. Like Jermaine Jenas, BBC’s resident villa expert after 3 appearances for us on loan 5 years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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