sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 What do other posters think is our strongest team? From the current squad, here’s mine: Heaton Guilbert Engels Mings Targett McGinn Nakamba Drinkwater El Ghazi Samatta Grealish Subs: Reina, Elmohamady, Konsa, Taylor, Trezeguet, Wesley, Davis I know I’ll get abuse for putting Drinkwater in but he’s great on the ball and has experience of playing in the Premier League, very few of our squad actually have that. I think that side gives our squad the best balance and a platform from which to build from 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Our strongest team currently doesn't really matter as I doubt we'll be playing any more "real" games this season, if any at all. For next season I think we have 5 starters (Grealish very possibly leaving) and 6 places where at least a few needs upgrading at. Heaton Guilbert Konsa Mings Targett Nakamba McGinn Luiz El Ghazi Grealish Samatta 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, sne said: Our strongest team currently doesn't really matter as I doubt we'll be playing any more "real" games this season, if any at all. For next season I think we have 5 starters (Grealish very possibly leaving) and 6 places where at least a few needs upgrading at. Heaton Guilbert Konsa Mings Targett Nakamba McGinn Luiz El Ghazi Grealish Samatta You’d play Konsa ahead of Engels? I think Konsa is great but he’s young. I also think that this season has shown that Nakamba and Luiz don’t work together in the same midfield. Individually, they are good players though. When Luiz and Nakamba play together in the same midfield, there isn’t enough creativity I don’t think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Just now, sir_gary_cahill said: You’d play Konsa ahead of Engels? I think Konsa is great but he’s young. I also think that this season has shown that Nakamba and Luiz don’t work together in the same midfield. Individually, they are good players though. When Luiz and Nakamba play together in the same midfield, there isn’t enough creativity I don’t think No I'd sign a more experienced CB and rotate with Konsa and Engels as back up. And no Id bring in a new CM and have either Nakamba or Luiz or both on the bench. The color coding is the a hint. Purple is starters, blue is rotation players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, sne said: No I'd sign a more experienced CB and rotate with Konsa and Engels as back up. And no Id bring in a new CM and have either Nakamba or Luiz or both on the bench. The color coding is the a hint. Purple is starters, blue is rotation players. What would happen to Hause? Who would you sign to play at centre back and central defensive midfield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 1 minute ago, sir_gary_cahill said: What would happen to Hause? Who would you sign to play at centre back and central defensive midfield? Don't know on either, remains to be seen. Too much uncertainty currently. Sure some names will pop up in the transfer thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxfordVillan Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 I’m not going to advance a preferred starting 11 as there are too many variables as things currently stand. What I will say is that the break in play came at a good time for us, and should perhaps help us more than other clubs. IF play starts up to finish this season then we have players in McGinniesta & Drinkwater who were/would have been off the pace in March, but they will now be much closer to the levels of match fitness as everyone else. Grealish also has had the time to refresh and shake off the mini slumber that I think he’d gone into. The cup final loss will be well out of the system. I personally would be quite confident of winning the points required to finish 14th or 15th if football starts up again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 45 minutes ago, sne said: Our strongest team currently doesn't really matter as I doubt we'll be playing any more "real" games this season, if any at all. For next season I think we have 5 starters (Grealish very possibly leaving) and 6 places where at least a few needs upgrading at. Heaton Guilbert Konsa Mings Targett Nakamba McGinn Luiz El Ghazi Grealish Samatta I'd prefer to see Wesley and Samatta up top and Grealish in support, El Ghazi on the bench. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: I'd prefer to see Wesley and Samatta up top and Grealish in support, El Ghazi on the bench. From what I've seen of Wesley so far I don't rate him, but even so the last I saw he was still walking with a cane and had just started light jogging so I imagine he's at least 4-6 months away from being considered a starting option. Edited May 5, 2020 by sne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: I'd prefer to see Wesley and Samatta up top and Grealish in support, El Ghazi on the bench. I think this is also an option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 1 minute ago, sne said: From what I've seen of Wesley so far I don't rate him, but even so the last I saw he was still walking with a cane and had just started light jobbing so I imagine he's at least 4-6 months away from being considered a starting option. True, I should've clarified this was a hypothetical. I think if Wesley improves and Samatta too they could be very good upfront. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted May 5, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2020 3 minutes ago, sne said: From what I've seen of Wesley so far I don't rate him, but even so the last I saw he was still walking with a cane and had just started light jobbing so I imagine he's at least 4-6 months away from being considered a starting option. What was he lightly disposing of? And what does it have to do with his fitness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 4 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said: What do other posters think is our strongest team? From the current squad, here’s mine: Heaton Guilbert Engels Mings Targett McGinn Nakamba Drinkwater El Ghazi Samatta Grealish Subs: Reina, Elmohamady, Konsa, Taylor, Trezeguet, Wesley, Davis I know I’ll get abuse for putting Drinkwater in but he’s great on the ball and has experience of playing in the Premier League, very few of our squad actually have that. I think that side gives our squad the best balance and a platform from which to build from Heaton Guilbert Engels Mings Targett McGinn Drinkwater Luiz El Ghazi Samatta Grealish Similar to @sne's team too. FWIW I think Luiz and Guilbert will prove themselves worthy starters, as will Engels. El Ghazi might, but I'm not so confident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 31 minutes ago, A'Villan said: Heaton Guilbert Engels Mings Targett McGinn Drinkwater Luiz El Ghazi Samatta Grealish Similar to @sne's team too. FWIW I think Luiz and Guilbert will prove themselves worthy starters, as will Engels. El Ghazi might, but I'm not so confident. I think we have good options on the bench like Konsa, we’re building a good Premier League squad. Why aren’t you confident about El Ghazi? I think he’ll be a good Premier League player for us. He was relatively cheap at £9m too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said: I think we have good options on the bench like Konsa, we’re building a good Premier League squad. Why aren’t you confident about El Ghazi? I think he’ll be a good Premier League player for us. He was relatively cheap at £9m too As confident in comparison to the other three players mentioned given what they have shown already. I think El Ghazi was an excellent purchase and bit of business. Unfortunately that won't make him a player that we can depend on to fulfill the role required of him to an adequate standard more weeks than not. Do I think he's a 30+ game PL player? Not yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 45 minutes ago, A'Villan said: As confident in comparison to the other three players mentioned given what they have shown already. I think El Ghazi was an excellent purchase and bit of business. Unfortunately that won't make him a player that we can depend on to fulfill the role required of him to an adequate standard more weeks than not. Do I think he's a 30+ game PL player? Not yet. I think we can rely on him to be a regular Premier League starter, he’s got a good pedigree. He’s played in the Champion’s League for Ajax and internationally for Holland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said: I think we can rely on him to be a regular Premier League starter, he’s got a good pedigree. He’s played in the Champion’s League for Ajax and internationally for Holland 2 games, 5 years ago. He has not developed into the player he showed promise to be when he was a kid. Still only 25 so still time to improve but he's supposed to enter his prime and he has a long way to go IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 1 minute ago, sne said: 2 games, 5 years ago. He has not developed into the player he showed promise to be when he was a kid. Still only 25 so still time to improve but he's supposed to enter his prime and he has a long way to go IMO. To play for an esteemed national side like Holland is a great achievement, think of some of the great players that have played for them in the past. Hopefully, he’ll spend his prime years at Villa then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 ............Heaton............ Elmo.Engels.Mings.Targett ...................Luiz................... .........Hourihane.McGinn..... El Ghazi....Samatta...Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 42 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said: To play for an esteemed national side like Holland is a great achievement, think of some of the great players that have played for them in the past. Hopefully, he’ll spend his prime years at Villa then Holland havent played an international tournament since 2014, one of the worst generations they have ever had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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