Popular Post Delphinho123 Posted August 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rightdm00 said: Ings is superior to Watkins. Buendia much better than Traore. So we suffered a downgrade on the left but improved 2 other positions. Not to mention the added depth at on the bench to allow for more rotation. Not sure how you can argue the overall quality of the squad hasn't improved. Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMitch Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) Wrong Thread Edited August 8, 2021 by KMitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightdm00 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Just now, Delphinho123 said: Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. By that statement then unless we sign another world class player we can't improve. Just as Purslow stated Jack can be replaced by improving the other attacking positions around the team. Also, just from the simple fact our star player isn't injured for a 3rd of the season every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. Can’t wait until Wednesday and you cheer up again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. I know where you're coming from but let them have a few games to convince you. I just want to see us making short sweet crisp accurate passes and be better off the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Rightdm00 said: By that statement then unless we sign another world class player we can't improve. Just as Purslow stated Jack can be replaced by improving the other attacking positions around the team. Also, just from the simple fact our star player isn't injured for a 3rd of the season every year. I see his point though. We have 3 new attackers and probably a new formation that haven't played together yet. It's not a huge jump to say that we haven't improved as a team just yet. I'm hopeful that by October/November we'll look a better team than we did February-April last season but it's going to take a hell of an effort to get: A) That brand new attack firing and playing together cohesively B ) Lose Terry and maintain our record 15 Cleansheets from last season. C) lose Luiz for first few games, Nakamba in January and (so far) have no new bodies in CM to improve it to link the Defense and said New Attack effectively. It's a lot of pieces to put together and whilst I'm very optimistic and excited about our new team...I don't believe we are stronger than we were 2 weeks ago. Edited August 8, 2021 by HalfTimePost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, KMitch said: Or maybe they just like The Villa and we're reading too much into this, like the Sarr incident... True, but it's no coincidence that they are linked, then start liking. Whether the links are Bollox or not, is a other thing You genuinely think it's coincidence that they start " liking " around the time of links? I think not. Also, Sarr was reported by credible sources, just because the links don't happen, don't necessarily make them Bollox. Interest often goes no further than that. Edited August 8, 2021 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 17 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. Got to disagree, at minimum we have stood still. You are in essence saying, Jack is better than all 3 of the attackers we have signed combined . ( Or carries as much or more threat on the pitch than the 3 players combined ). It's a disservice to them IMO. He's ONE player. When Jack was out, the WHOLE team dropped, now if one of the new attackers are out, we have multiple others 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightdm00 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said: I see his point though. We haven 3 new attackers and probably a new formation that haven't played together yet. It's not a huge jump to say that we haven't improved as a team just yet. I'm hopeful that by October/November we'll look a better team than we did February-April last season but it's going to take a hell of an effort to get: A) That brand new attack firing and playing together cohesively B ) Lose Terry and maintain our record 15 Cleansheets from last season. C) lose Luiz for first few games, Nakamba in January and (so far) have no new bodies in CM to improve it to link the Defense and said New Attack effectively. It's a lot of pieces to put together and whilst I'm.very optimistic and excited about our new team. I don't believe we are stronger than we were 2 weeks ago. Whether everything meshes is absolutely a question but that is always the case with incorporating new signings. I'm actually okay with not bringing in a midfielder. Carney looks ready to make the step up. Bringing in another senior player there and he would lose that opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Joe David has a decent goal scoring record for Canada. However I suspect most of the opposition is rubbish central american teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 What we have lost with Jack is the fear factor, he was the leader , the conductor, director of play so to speak. He took the game by the scruff of the neck and raised everyone around him. To replace that is going to be very hard. I understand what @Delphinho123 is saying. Jonathan David is starting for Lille btw. However for me to replace Jack we might have tried for Kamada. Shirt sales and the playmaker, conductor director of play so on and so forth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 I think well balanced 11s tend to outperform teams with one or two standout players. It’s just much easier to come up with tactics to nullify a star player than it is to counter an entire team. We will lose Jack’s ability to create things out of nothing, and dictate the tempo of the play when he’s on the ball. We won’t be as threatening down the left as when we had the Targett/Grealish linkup. We’ll gain a better press, better shape, more defensive solidity from front to back (Buendia in, Barkley & Grealish out). We’ll be more dangerous on set pieces (Bailey & Ings in). We’ll be more dangerous on the counter with two out and out strikers linking up, and Bailey’s pace. We’ll move the ball more quickly. Overall I think we should do slightly better. That’s not to say Jack isn’t a massive loss, just that there’s only so much one star man can do, and we’ve strengthened in several positions elsewhere. Plus the defence will keep improving as they get used to playing together week in week out, and grow more experienced as players. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Unless we sort out or central midfield, we are going to have a very frustrating season. It is so laboured at times and utterly predictable. Dynamism required. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvonVillain Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Still not feeling it for the new season. In fact, if someone had of told me two months back that Ashley Young would be in the team and Jack Grealish wouldn't, I'd have checked out of football for the whole summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 We will go from being an inconsistent mid table team to being an inconsistent mid table team with slightly more predictable results, beat Brighton lose to Liverpool type stuff We'll be in and around Everton, wolves and Leeds trying to crack the top 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, villa4europe said: We will go from being an inconsistent mid table team to being an inconsistent mid table team with slightly more predictable results, beat Brighton lose to Liverpool type stuff We'll be in and around Everton, wolves and Leeds trying to crack the top 10 Tbf, I’d take that, if there is signs of improvement across the board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 I'd say we have a much stronger squad currently than last year but a weaker starting 11. The trick imo will be to bring in an solid physical enforcer/playmaker. If we do that I think we'll be better off. Currently we look off keel due to the fragmented nature of the staring 11. Once Bailey and Emi come in it will look much better but I think if McGinn is to start he needs more than Marv or Doug along side him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said: Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. We'll have to see how Buendia and Bailey gets on before making such a statement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: Tbf, I’d take that, if there is signs of improvement across the board Yeah, having lost Grealish, I don't think anyone can be upset about that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintpotvilla Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said: Because we lost a world class player. As things stand, I don’t think we’re better than a team with Grealish in it. Losing Jack was obviously not something any Villa fan would have wanted. However we must remember that absolutely every attack went through him. The day he got injured we suddenly lost almost all of our creative intent. We stopped scoring goals. I f we have the intention of Europe then that simply can't be the way forward. We have now signed players to remedy that and give us a more balanced team. If Jack could have been a part of it great but he didn't want to be. I think we are stronger now even without Jack. Let the season begin UTV Edited August 8, 2021 by pintpotvilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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