Popular Post nick76 Posted December 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2022 13 minutes ago, Pinebro said: I was 3 years old when we last won a trophy. So you are 3 years old, we won a trophy yesterday 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 5 minutes ago, Pinebro said: We've not won stuff for a long time. I was 3 years old when we last won a trophy. Non Villa fans won't see us as a big club. To stay relevant you need recent success. Hopefully we will get that under Unai and grow our brand. I agree....and the reason is we have made poor decisions of managers and players. I remember the wilderness, before Ron Saunders and I remember distinctly how he turned us around....with modest funding. For decades before Ron, we simply bumped along, making the same mistakes and feeling thats that where our destiny lay, as "also rans"......It was similar at Liverpool, Leeds and Nottingham Forest, and Man U had a 25 year barren spell, before Managers who came along and defied the status quo. Chelsea and Man City have simply bought their way to success, but the common denominator, is an Elite Manager. I am with you, even though I thought SG could have defied the logic, but it wasn't to be......I too am confident with UE, but we still have to wait and see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Just now, nick76 said: So you are 3 years old, we won a trophy yesterday Quality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) 32 minutes ago, danceoftheshamen said: This is exactly the issue. People tend to look at stuff before they were born as "ancient" & somewhat irrelevant (Even though it really isn't of course). You are bang on though Pinebro, to shut these people up we simply have to start winning trophies & titles again. What history does show however is that the potential for this club to be among the elite is there, We just have to fulfill it now after a pause which has gone on for far too long now. There is a reason though that AVFC os the only English club to have reached a major final in every decade since football began! As for this Felix fella? Personally I am unsure as he's hardly pulled up trees at Atletico now has he!? We can be anything we want to be, if we get our decisions right. We have a unique feature in our life as Villa fans....We have the financial wherewithal to make good decisions a success. We have been Hit and Miss, with our decisions, in the past.....Hopefully, if we get him Joao, he will be a success.....Like you, I am unsure. If he can replicate his form at Benfica as opposed to Athletico, we may have a player....Sounds like a Loan with an option to buy. Edited December 12, 2022 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo71 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 20 minutes ago, nick76 said: So you are 3 years old, we won a trophy yesterday *Might* have turned 4 today /pedantmodeoff 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Follyfoot Posted December 12, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, Stevo71 said: *Might* have turned 4 today /pedantmodeoff 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sne Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: So Wolves then? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 14 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: Is David Medina his agent or a journalist or somebody of note? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 No surprise there then... Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, TRO said: We can be anything we want to be, if we get our decisions right. We have a unique feature in our life as Villa fans....We have the financial wherewithal to make good decisions a success. We have been Hit and Miss, with our decisions, in the past.....Hopefully, if we get him Joao, he will be a success.....Like you, I am unsure. If he can replicate his form at Benfica as opposed to Athletico, we may have a player....Sounds like a Loan with an option to buy. I dont believe we will sign a player of that stature at this present time. If Arsenal or Liverpool come in for him surely he will pick one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosopher Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Manchester or Newcastle it is then!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, nick76 said: An unattractive option* Fify, David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 An agent like Mendes has a ridiculous amount of power and influence. There could be something in this. It will probably blow our wage structure out of the water though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Keyblade Posted December 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2022 As good of a player he is, I'd rather we didn't sign him. Doesn't seem like he'd fit our team. We could potentially play him as a striker but that's not his best position, so what's the point? He'll completely break our wage structure too. He's on about double what Coutinho is on right now. It's not worth it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) Over rated. Rather have one of those Moroccans that made him look completely ordinary for about 1/50th of the cost. My real point is that there’s probably about 100 players like him out there that will be considered better than him in a year or two. Edited December 12, 2022 by Thug 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 I think I’d probably share the reservations of a few on here. I think it’s probably because it’s such a similar buy to the Coutinho one. The whole wow he’d never come here, the “next level” name stuff. He certainly looks like he has tonnes of ability but I’d like to see it in a Villa shirt before I get too excited. Seems like it is very unlikely to happen and if it does it’s a big risk. But maybe that’s my post Coutinho syndrome talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) I don't think it's a player we should put £100m into. He's brilliant, but when you sign from the big clubs, big wages come with it. We need to sign players from outside the elite, who can take us up to it. Amine Gouiri for example is a similar player, not at the same level just yet, who we could probably sign for a third of the wages. Edited December 12, 2022 by Tomaszk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Coutinho comparisons are a bit lazy and ridiculous. Coutinho has been finished for about 2 years while this guy is about 3 years from his prime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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