Lord Willard Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 No interesting links at all this week. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, est1874 said: Messi is now officially a free agent. Start the thread, he's coming. That would get messy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DakotaVilla Posted July 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2021 It’s amazing how short memories are. Go back to the Pre COVID outbreak and pretty much the main topic of conversation was how were we going to keep him with such a Low buyout clause after he had started so well. He had a poor end to the season which was undoubtedly linked to the COVID outbreak but is now set to start for Brazil in the Copa America instead of household names that we’d lose our minds if they joined us. Guy’s a baller. Give he time and he’ll become one of the best midfielders in the league. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted July 1, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2021 31 minutes ago, Lord Willard said: No interesting links at all this week. Pathetic. This one has very angular chamfered edges which is interesting. 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Rosk Posted July 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2021 2 hours ago, striker said: Luiz is absolutely useless. Villa’s midfield has always looked much better with Marvellous and Luiz on the bench. If Roma or anyone else are prepared to pay 25m-30m for Luiz then I’d snap their hands off and I’m sure Smith would too. There were several points over the last year when everyone was crying over the threat of the buyback clause from Man City. The lad has just turned 23 so still has years before his peak, and is a starter for Brazil's national side. How on Earth would Aston Villa snapping for £25m make any sense? Who on Earth would we replace him with for that amount of money that would be better than him/his potential? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 8 minutes ago, The Rosk said: There were several points over the last year when everyone was crying over the threat of the buyback clause from Man City. The lad has just turned 23 so still has years before his peak, and is a starter for Brazil's national side. How on Earth would Aston Villa snapping for £25m make any sense? Who on Earth would we replace him with for that amount of money that would be better than him/his potential? Personally, I had no worries, whatsoever of his buy back clause being triggered. his potential is what it is......a notion he will come good. I hope you are right, I'm not convinced, but hope I am wrong to be in doubt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMitch Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 When was the last defensive midfielder we had where the overwhelming majority of Villa supporters actually liked them? As far back as I can remember, every single one of our DMs had a very vocal contingent of fans who didn't rate them. Even Petrov was pretty divisive before his cancer announcement. It's almost as if some are expecting a midfielder built like YaYa Toure, with the motor/tenacity of Gattuso, positioning/tackling ability of Makelele, and passing range/ability of Pirlo. Anything less than a combination of all of those and they're being written off as being not good enough for us. Personally, I see a defensive midfielder near the bottom of our needs list... Our midfield problems last season were largely attributed to Barkley's lackluster performances, putting excessive pressure on McGinn/Dougie. We need a much more consistent number 10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 17 minutes ago, TRO said: Personally, I had no worries, whatsoever of his buy back clause being triggered. his potential is what it is......a notion he will come good. I hope you are right, I'm not convinced, but hope I am wrong to be in doubt. I agree,in my opinion Man City have no need for a player at his level right now. I hope he can improve and for fill his potential with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KangarooVillan Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, DakotaVilla said: It’s amazing how short memories are. Go back to the Pre COVID outbreak and pretty much the main topic of conversation was how were we going to keep him with such a Low buyout clause after he had started so well. He had a poor end to the season which was undoubtedly linked to the COVID outbreak but is now set to start for Brazil in the Copa America instead of household names that we’d lose our minds if they joined us. Guy’s a baller. Give he time and he’ll become one of the best midfielders in the league. If we were linked to a 23 year old Brazilian international starter who was originally handpicked by Man City and Pep people would be losing their minds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steero113 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, DakotaVilla said: It’s amazing how short memories are. Go back to the Pre COVID outbreak and pretty much the main topic of conversation was how were we going to keep him with such a Low buyout clause after he had started so well. He had a poor end to the season which was undoubtedly linked to the COVID outbreak but is now set to start for Brazil in the Copa America instead of household names that we’d lose our minds if they joined us. Guy’s a baller. Give he time and he’ll become one of the best midfielders in the league. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 minute ago, Jas10 said: Agent EMI… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, Jas10 said: Won’t believe it until they follow each other on Instagram. I want their friendship to be instagram official before I get gushy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Tommo_b said: Agent EMI… Correra is wanted by Arsenal … let’s put in a bid of cash plus Wesley just to piss them off a bit more …. Edited July 1, 2021 by thabucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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est1874 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, sidcow said: This one has very angular chamfered edges which is interesting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMitch Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 10 minutes ago, Jas10 said: TBH, KEA wasn't a bad player for us, it's just some had unrealistic expectations for him. Lowton needed more time to get up to speed in the Premier League and eventually came good after we flipped him. Probably would have come good for us in another season or two. Holman was shit... Ran a lot, did nothing else for us, though... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Just now, KMitch said: TBH, KEA wasn't a bad player for us, it's just some had unrealistic expectations for him. Lowton needed more time to get up to speed in the Premier League and eventually came good after we flipped him. Probably would have come good for us in another season or two. Holman was shit... Ran a lot, did nothing else for us, though... I agree--however, I think I remember him scoring a couple of decent long range goals for us, one against Norwich perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosopher Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 5 hours ago, rayk said: Agree with everything you say but if his talent trajectory continue I see him as being as good as Pogba potentially. I don't dare to make that kind of comparison. Seen too many exciting prospects fall be the way side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2021 45 minutes ago, Tommo_b said: Agent EMI… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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