gwi1890 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 23 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: The early days of Xia were super exciting though after the last days of Lerner but between them they almost killed us, thank God for NWSE. Yes poaching all the top talent in the championship, and management had us all convinced that buying the best championship players and throwing them together like a mediocre all star team was the way to get us out, things panned out well in the end though it very nearly killed us for good but was worth it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted May 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 7, 2021 45 minutes ago, gwi1890 said: Yes me to lol, I thought he was a genius, he’s probably the worst owner we ever had and we’ve had some bad ones That’s a bold statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, HKP90 said: That’s a bold statement. How so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 I remember watching Ciaran Clark (or Kieran Clarke for old times sake) in his debut against Fulham at Villa Park. We won 2-0 and Clark looked solid alongside Cuellar. I turned to my wife and said you see him there? He’s going to be the best defender we’ve had since McGrath. Yeah. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 I thought Ashley Young was no better than Luke Moore. I was convinced Ashley Westwood would be capped for England. I thought after beating Bournemouth in 2015 we would have a half decent season.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Raver50032 Posted May 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2021 11 hours ago, DCJonah said: Thinking Luke Moore was the next world's wonderkid. Convinced Sherwood would build us up and move us away from ever worrying about relegation. To be fair to Sherwood, at the end of the 2014-15 season, he did say that Villa would never need to battle against relegation again... He was partly correct, we didn't battle at all in the following season. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted May 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, gwi1890 said: How so? Some of our owners over the years have made Donald Trump look like a genius businessman. Edited May 7, 2021 by HKP90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, Raver50032 said: To be fair to Sherwood, at the end of the 2014-15 season, he did say that Villa would never need to battle against relegation again... He was partly correct, we didn't battle at all in the following season. Three league wins, 3 wins all season! So the next time we moan about things are not going our way just remember 15-16. The horror, the horror..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Thinking we'd be really good in the 13/14 season following the strong end to the previous one and opening day win against Arsenal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Oh yeah, and thinking we'd be good in the 15/16 season too after our summer signings! Lolzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted May 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 7, 2021 The one that first jumps to mind is Adama traore......damn you adama traore, you were going to become a phenomenon! Well I was right about him leaving after one season....just not about everything else! Remi garde was also going to be a legend. ....As was houllier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted May 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, KentVillan said: Own up. What’s the wrongest thing you’ve said will happen at this club? I’ve a few: Fully backing Dwight Yorke to stay out of loyalty to the club (I was young and naive) Thinking we’d win the league under John Gregory (see above) Backing Milner to stay because MON was shaping him into one of the best CAMs in England and he wouldn’t want to be a bench warmer at City Expecting RDM to walk the Championship in his first season Being impressed by Samatta, and thinking he was the answer to our goal drought last season. I saw it as a turning point in our season. Samatta is probably the worst in hindsight. The others were heart over head, but that was just silly. i definitely said this a year ago. i said his goals would be the difference i wrote targett off before he'd kicked a ball i said the moore brothers would play together for england one day too i can also be quoted as saying when we were flying earlier this season that i was 100% convinced we're getting europe this season Edited May 7, 2021 by tomav84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, HKP90 said: Some of our owners over the years have made Donald Trump look like a genius businessman. But only one very very nearly put us completely out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Phil Silvers said: Thought Tony Xia would achieve everything he said he would I know. Gutted about the theme park. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 8 hours ago, ciggiesnbeer said: My journey with him and Nzogbia followed a similar trajectory curve. I so wanted them to work out. Yep and same with Barkley this season too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) I think my biggest predictive failure was not immediately bailing on being a Villa fan when we signed Jordan Bowery. Edited May 7, 2021 by Panto_Villan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Edit: okay that didn't work Edited May 7, 2021 by Wainy316 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 11 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Thinking we'd be really good in the 13/14 season following the strong end to the previous one and opening day win against Arsenal. Tony, Tony Moon! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: I know. Gutted about the theme park. Well we have certainly had some ups and downs on the emotional rollercoaster since them. Ahem. Edited May 7, 2021 by The Fun Factory 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 The thing with xia is that he had this urban planning degree or whatever from harvard, he was making noises about wanting to get involved with the commonwealth games and taking over the athletes village afterwards (which now isn't being built) we had the HS2 stuff in our doorstep, he was coming up with all these infrastructure plans, the city at the time were kicking off the next phase of the big plan and looking for huge sums of investment, they'd just signed over the city's biggest ever housing development to a Chinese company, baggies, wolves and blues also had Chinese owners... I bought in to something really big coming not just to villa but that they were eying up development growth in the region as a whole 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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