Emiliano Buendía

[jim]

34 minutes ago, Made In Aston said:

Bit over the top. They attended a tourist attraction, indirectly contributing to animal cruelty. It's not like they were filmed beating the shit out of the lion. They seem like decent lads who made an error of judgement.  

Nah, **** the cretins

[Tomaszk]

2 minutes ago, jim said:

Nah, **** the cretins

I like it when you have enemies at the club.

Usually means they go on to do really well.

Up the South American lads.

[gwi1890]

On 10/12/2022 at 22:36, jim said:

Another **** word removed. 
Him, Carlos, Luiz and Coutinho can get ****. 
Smiley Cretin.

Did they chain the lion up? Nope 

[Mazrim]

With the Villans, the latin Villans.
A Lion's sleepy, right.
With the Villans, the cretin Villans.
A Lion's chains are tight.

Wee heeheehee Buendia Jims outraged
Wee heeheehee Buendia Jims outraged

Edited December 13, 2022 by Mazrim

[Steero113]

1 hour ago, jim said:

Nah, **** the cretins

Christ, you must be absolutely raging all the time with all of the injustice in the world. 

[TRO]

6 hours ago, Steero113 said:

The overwhelming negative being that we had a cataclysmically s**t 'manager' for the first dozen games of the season. 

That maybe so, so we should expect by that deduction a marked improvement in each player.....so is there a need to buy?

I would suspect, UE thinks there is.

 

 

[TRO]

4 hours ago, Tom13 said:

This is true tbh, and I was desperate for us to sign Emi for ages, so I'm one of his biggest fans. He needs to calm down a bit on the ball, he has been guilty of giving it away stupidly for us.

But yeah, if it's a through ball, there are fewer in world football I'd want to spot it/execute it.

I love the boy....seems to try a bit too hard at times, needs to find some composure.

[icouldtelltheworld]

Hope none of the people going apoplectic about those pictures with the lion have ever eaten factory farmed food, consumed mass produced dairy or eggs from battery hens.

As a vegan of 15 years, I see no difference between what they've done here and any other form of animal cruelty. You either care about all of it or none of it, making a big song and dance about this one ill-judged decision by some of our players comes across as performative outrage IMO. 

Don't hate the player, hate the game

[jim]

3 hours ago, gwi1890 said:

Did they chain the lion up? Nope 

Did they contribute to the pain and suffering of the lion by paying the owner of the “zoo” an extortionate amount of money, so they could walk it for Instagram likes? Yes. Cretins.

[Zatman]

17 hours ago, Tomaszk said:

I like it when you have enemies at the club.

Usually means they go on to do really well.

Up the South American lads.

They probably called the lion Dean Smith

[Zatman]

13 hours ago, jim said:

Did they contribute to the pain and suffering of the lion by paying the owner of the “zoo” an extortionate amount of money, so they could walk it for Instagram likes? Yes. Cretins.

Its funny you never called out the biggest cretin associated with our club this season when he was hanging out with gangsters

[Villan_of_oz]

You know when the PL has been gone too long when you read the last page of this thread

[Powehi]

I actually think it's a really interesting debate, in line with the larger conversation around players' ever-growing social media presence.

People obviously have a right to do things in their private life and for those things to remain private. However, these four men went as part of essentially a work outing, and then posted these controversial images on social media, on the same "channels" that they use for Aston Villa content. Therefore, I feel it is a reasonable link to then complain that Villa are now being associated with an unseemly topic such as private zoos for chained up exotic animals.

Although I wouldn't go as far as jim, I'd agree it's pretty awful behaviour and doesn't reflect well on them at all and I'd hope that someone at the club responsible for public image would be having stern words at some point in the near future.

[Vive_La_Villa]

It’s not a good look tbh but I had no idea there were so many vegetarians in On topic! Good on ya. 

[duke313]

I’m sure it will all be forgotten when he sets up the winner on boxing day

[Condimentalist]

1 hour ago, duke313 said:

I’m sure it will all be forgotten when he sets up the winner on boxing day

#Part of the pride

[Philosopher]

His performance yesterday was a little worrying. Kept trying to make things happen, but it just wasn't coming off for him. I feel like he is always going to be rather inconsistent.

[Tom13]

Thought that scrolling was never gonna end

[messi11]

Buendia can see the pass, can see the picture but just doesn't have the ability to pull them off. I don't think he's good enough for the top 8

[Laughable Chimp]

I noticed something whilst going through Buendia's stats on fbref.

Its often stated how high Buendia's creation numbers were back in his first season in the PL with Norwich, rivaling the likes of Grealish and KDB. And whilst yes his SCA(Shot-Creation actions) were very high that season, it wasn't just from open play. The PassLive column shows how many shots were created by Buendia from passes in open play. The PassDead column shows how many shots were created from passes in deadball situations. Whilst both categories show a drop off, over the seasons, its the PassDead column that shows by far the biggest drop off. The question is, why?

This also suggests that Buendia's ability to create in open play has not actually diminished that much since he joined us. Last season, he was only creating 10 percent less in open play than he was with Norwich in the PL. This season, its 20 percent less. Whilst that is concerning, the bigger issue to unlocking his full potential is to find out why he isn't creating as much in dead ball situations anymore. Because if its simply a case of he was literally on every dead ball situation whilst he was at Norwich, that's not exactly something we can improve on here. Putting him on every deadball situation might help his own creation numbers, but doesn't necessarily help the team;s.

 

Edit: I probably should've included this in the original post too. But yeah, you can see the stats here.

The Dead column shows the amount of dead-ball ball passes he took per 90. You can already see the big drop off here but just looking at dead ball situations might mask the true extent of the drop off as dead ball passes can include all sorts of situations. I kept the free kick and corner kick columns because they're the deadball situation where you would expect a chance to be created from. As you can see, he took an even bigger hit in these columns. He was averaging 4 corners taken per game. This season, he's averaging 1 corner every 2 games. No wonder his dead ball creation numbers have dropped so much.

Edited December 16, 2022 by Laughable Chimp