lexicon Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 32 minutes ago, Lord Willard said: Squad has improved but the first 11 hasnt Grealish, Barkley and Traore - or - Bailey, Buendia and Ings I think the latter is better. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Lord Willard said: Squad has improved but the first 11 hasnt agree and now we get to see if smiths subs policy really is due to lack of confidence in his bench, he will have talent on there this year for sure edit - he still wont be making 3 subs at half time whilst drawing 0-0 and looking ok tomorrow so cant wait for that suggestion in the match thread Edited August 13, 2021 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsky_11 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 9 minutes ago, Pez1974 said: Quote from Deano in his press conference.... Obviously Jack going was a big loss - we wanted to keep him but we would have added more creativity and have added more creativity with Buendia whether Jack stayed or not So - Buendia might be part of the Jack replacement plan - but he was also part of the plan if we kept him. So he's not bought using the Jack money. Doesn't mean we're gonna spend another £40m - in the current financial climate, having money available so that we can take advantage of bargains is always wise. I trust the owners. Don't think there's much doubt Buendia was brought in to play with Grealish. Fixed the overrealiance on Grealish and playing to one side of the pitch straight away. I think Bailey signed either way as well. We could afford him without the Grealish money it would seem, and would have also allowed Grealish to move to his preferred 10 role. Front line of Bailey, Watkins, Buendia and Grealish would've been silly. Shame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 4 minutes ago, lexicon said: Grealish, Barkley and Traore - or - Bailey, Buendia and Ings I think the latter is better. *youregoddamnright.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJay Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Jack is an unbelievable player, but everything was setup to go through him. I believe we have a better "team" now and another addition in the middle will strengthen that further. JWP would be a perfect signing, it would allow us even more flexibility to play Buendia and Bailey wide, Tuanzabe gives us the flexibility to play 5 at the back and Ollie and Ings up front too. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 21 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said: Emi emi Cash cash Targett targett Konsa konsa Mings mings Doug doug Mcginn mcginn Traore bailey Barkley buendia Grealish ollie Ollie ings We could rob Fort knox with that line up, we couldn't last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Think it's difficult to compare the strength of the starting 11's until we learn how we are in fact intending to line up when everyone is fit and available. On paper, even after losing Grealish I'd say this years 11 looks stronger and especially more direct. But, I'm not 100% certain on how we will fit Ings, Buendia, Bailey and Watkins into the same 11 while allowing them all to play to their strengths. We will see. Looking forward to finding out thou. And the window is still open... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pez1974 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 12 minutes ago, VillaJay said: Jack is an unbelievable player, but everything was setup to go through him. I believe we have a better "team" now and another addition in the middle will strengthen that further. JWP would be a perfect signing, it would allow us even more flexibility to play Buendia and Bailey wide, Tuanzabe gives us the flexibility to play 5 at the back and Ollie and Ings up front too. I also think one of *he who must not be named's* faults is that he could slow play down unnecessarily at times, and this made it possible for teams to regroup at the back We are set up for pace, and I think we'll see that more this season, with Buendia showing vs Walsall how he will thread passes through a defence, which wasn't really *his* strength. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 We won’t know how good we are until we see them on the pitch. Fans usually overhype new signings, we’ll have to see how they go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RichiBoi11 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 4 minutes ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said: This would be an interesting one in that I'm unsure if it would be an Under 23 signing, or a first team squad one. Obviously he's very young, but is older than his brother and older than all our youth team forwards like Barry and Young. I wonder if he'd be essentially taking the spot Wesley or Davis currnetly occupy if one leaves on loan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 7 minutes ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said: Obligatory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 4 minutes ago, RichiBoi11 said: This would be an interesting one in that I'm unsure if it would be an Under 23 signing, or a first team squad one. Obviously he's very young, but is older than his brother and older than all our youth team forwards like Barry and Young. I wonder if he'd be essentially taking the spot Wesley or Davis currnetly occupy if one leaves on loan. Surely couldn’t be anything more than a sweetener to get Carney on a long term contract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Lord Willard said: Squad has improved but the first 11 hasnt I disagree. Grealish is great but he's not better than having Buendia, Bailey and Ings on the pitch at the same time. We're a better team, we just need to be patient as it clicks. Edited August 13, 2021 by DCJonah 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 45 minutes ago, villa4europe said: agree and now we get to see if smiths subs policy really is due to lack of confidence in his bench, he will have talent on there this year for sure edit - he still wont be making 3 subs at half time whilst drawing 0-0 and looking ok tomorrow so cant wait for that suggestion in the match thread Now we have good players on the bench, the fifa/fm crew will be screaming for changes the first time we lose possession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 I've only seen highlights of Caleb but looks a good player... If he does sign it will be the second set of brothers that we've signed from Northampton, we've got the McWilliams brothers in the lower age groups, their elder brother Shaun McWilliams is still at Northampton and a first team player, and there's also another McWilliams brother who plays for Cardiff U23s, he also started at Northampton. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 17 minutes ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said: Obligatory. Had to laugh at one scene where he sent a player flying in almost Bollywood action style with a slight shove. Looks big, strong, languid and fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 The Anel Ahmedhodzic move to Atalanta still hasn't materialized and now Lokomotiv Moscow and Rubin Kazan are sniffing around. Maintain he'd be an excellent signing for us as a long term CB option. I'd be very much up for paying the £6m-£6.5m Malmö are asking and then loaning him back for the rest of the year or season to them considering they will be playing in either the CL or the Europa League group stages during the winter. We have Axel as cover now anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 What we have essentially done is split Grealish up into 3 players instead of one. Obviously we will likely miss him and there are no guarantees Bailey, Buendia and Ings will all be successes, but the risk is spread out. All their combined threats are now spread out too which benefits us hugely if it pays off and all hit the ground running for us. Add to that that we still have our threats from last season in Watkins, AEG and Traore and I think it starts to look really good. Maybe it's only enough to add 1 or to places in the final league table or we don't really move. But I think the most important thing here is that we do not regress after the loss of arguably our best ever player. You could do a lot worse than that. I'm personally pretty optimistic and think that we will have come out of this summer stronger than last year. I still believe Sanson will surprise a lot of people and give us more solidity and tenacity in the center of the pitch. Things aren't looking too bad really imo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 So no more signings by the sound of it. Is everyone confident in the central midfield? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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