Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 11 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Felt sorry for him tonight, thankless task vs that defence and especially that ref, can't remember ever seeing so much pushing and pulling hit away with and more than that so many sly late off the ball treading on toes and trying to rake his achilles, they battered him with no protection Should have done better with his big chance, wildly smashed at it looked very low on confidence, great header to set up the equaliser You would wonder what did he do to piss off Stuart Attwell so much? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said: You would wonder what did he do to piss off Stuart Attwell so much? Might be worth going back through his social media account to see if he called him a word removed after the ghost goal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Poor tonight. In the first half Traore put over a great cross and he didnt move. Then missed that one on one. Had a part in the second goal but thought that was one of his worst games for us. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTTERDAM1982 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Do you think he holds the ball up well enough to play in the middle, or would he be better wide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich192 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 I thought he was excellent last night. Very surprised to see some of the comments in here today. We all see it differently though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 I’m certain he’s a better striker than he is a wide player but ultimately, the team is more important and right now, with Davis’ form and the poor form of every winger at the club, I’d play him on the left with Davis through the middle. Long term, he’s our no.9, I have no doubt about that, but right now, we need to shuffle around to accommodate the players in and out of form. That’s just my opinion anyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted April 27, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 27, 2021 euros squads expanded to 26 players from 23. gives him a chance of being on the plane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 27, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 27, 2021 Liverpool allegedly interested according to some journal or other. I look forward to the papers reporting comical prices that completely ignore that we payd £27m for him. Market value? I'd go for £70m. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 27, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 27, 2021 It's come from Football Insider - who write stuff as though somebody took the brain out of a football journalist and instead put a football inside her. I think we can safely ignore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 No chance Liverpool would be interested. And if they come knocking yes I would imagine £70m or so would be the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Surprised there isn't more posts on his one on one miss. I thought it was poor, he simply has to go across the keeper there with all the time he had to look up, see Johnstone's position and assess things. Wood scored from an even tighter angle for his first v Wolves by smashing the ball across the keeper into the far corner so that's simply one area where Ollie has to improve as he had a similar one v Newcastle he didn't score from either although that may have been called offside in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 5 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: Liverpool allegedly interested according to some journal or other. I look forward to the papers reporting comical prices that completely ignore that we payd £27m for him. Market value? I'd go for £70m. Would you exchange him for, Tammy for example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxfordVillan Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Would you exchange him for, Tammy for example? No 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, OxfordVillan said: No I wouldn't either... lol, just want to get the general concensus, and people on here love Tammy. What i'm wondering is if, the club would accept say 40 - 45 mill for him, if they feel they could get a more " finished article " for the 27 - 33 mill we got him for. Edited April 27, 2021 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Ollie Watkins is too important to us to sell at any price. I think he took an early knock on Sunday hopefully he'll be fully fit for Everton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, useless said: Along with 12 goals, that’s a very impressive first season. When you think of some of the chances he has missed and the disallowed goals. He could have been close to 20 goals. Great signing. Edited April 28, 2021 by Vive_La_Villa Losing the plot 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 We've paid thirty million plus for him, we aren't going to sell for ten or fifteen million more, proving himself in the premier league and becoming an England international is worth much more than that. His price tag will have at least doubled, not that we will be interested in selling him. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WooJung Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 On 26/04/2021 at 20:29, Delphinho123 said: I’m certain he’s a better striker than he is a wide player but ultimately, the team is more important and right now, with Davis’ form and the poor form of every winger at the club, I’d play him on the left with Davis through the middle. Long term, he’s our no.9, I have no doubt about that, but right now, we need to shuffle around to accommodate the players in and out of form. That’s just my opinion anyway. I would tend to agree, based on who's currently both available and on form I would also go for a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 with Davis up front and Watkins out wide. In the long run I don't see that being too sustainable though, especially against team that defend with a low block, I can't see him unlocking defenses or providing consistently good crosses. It can work quite well if we play more on the counter though, we would significantly increase our success rate of long balls with both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 I think Watkins is a great all-round striker who lacks a little bit of that killer instinct in front of goal. So we'll have to get used to him missing the odd chance, but he makes up for it with the rest of his game. Until we're in the market for a £100m Champions League striker, Watkins is the sort of level we should be looking at, and he's exceeded expectations IMO. A bit more luck with VAR and his stats would have looked very impressive for a first season in the PL, and they're still nothing to sniff at given he's not the main penalty taker. Be interesting to see what happens when Louie Barry starts featuring more often, which surely isn't too far away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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