Tomaszk Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 8 hours ago, stewiek2 said: Pau Torres obviously. Elite level recruitment. Remains to be seen how he performs in PL though. And where he fits into the side, which is the really interesting thing! Regardless, he's definitely an Emery signing over recruitment at the club IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 7 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Remains to be seen how he performs in PL though. And where he fits into the side, which is the really interesting thing! Regardless, he's definitely an Emery signing over recruitment at the club IMO. Play 4141 formation and have him as the DM. And then play Mings and Kamara in central defence. Not being serious but thats probably how Guardiola would solve the problem . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummybloke Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 My man ure mate genuinely can't understand how we got torres, he says his form must of dropped massively as Madrid Liverpool man ure City were all after him 2 years ago. I have tried to explain he played for his home club and wanted to play for them in the champions league which he got to do but he's having none of it, it must be a drop in form He's also convinced we have just 2 decent players, him and martinez and that martinez will be off to the 1st big club who want him. Again I've explained he has already said he credits villa alot for his chance which got him into the 1st team with Argentina and the ongoing club improvements and he wouldn't have won the 4 triphoes he has ( or 5 ? ) since joining villa. I think his views may change after a few months of the season starting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 32 minutes ago, brummybloke said: My man ure mate genuinely can't understand how we got torres, he says his form must of dropped massively as Madrid Liverpool man ure City were all after him 2 years ago. I have tried to explain he played for his home club and wanted to play for them in the champions league which he got to do but he's having none of it, it must be a drop in form He's also convinced we have just 2 decent players, him and martinez and that martinez will be off to the 1st big club who want him. Again I've explained he has already said he credits villa alot for his chance which got him into the 1st team with Argentina and the ongoing club improvements and he wouldn't have won the 4 triphoes he has ( or 5 ? ) since joining villa. I think his views may change after a few months of the season starting Not rating Kamara among our best players proves he's clueless. Torres was a huge coup for us though. Without Emery, we'd have had no chance. And if City etc were in for him, they would have got him, we're not there yet! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 3 minutes ago, Tom13 said: Not rating Kamara among our best players proves he's clueless. Torres was a huge coup for us though. Without Emery, we'd have had no chance. And if City etc were in for him, they would have got him, we're not there yet! We're knocking on the door as we speak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nick76 Posted July 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2023 48 minutes ago, brummybloke said: My man ure mate That’s where you went wrong! 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummybloke Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tom13 said: Not rating Kamara among our best players proves he's clueless. Torres was a huge coup for us though. Without Emery, we'd have had no chance. And if City etc were in for him, they would have got him, we're not there yet! Not that journos seem to know much but last year it was widely reported city were after him, and a few other teams and he rejected the chance to move. If its not man utd or champions league related he is clueless. Regular slagger off of mount but thinks he's great now they signed him Edited July 23, 2023 by brummybloke 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 I really like the look of him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccfcman Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 7 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: We're knocking on the door as we speak. Foot is in the door. If we went into last season as we do this one, we'd have nailed that CL spot. Chelsea and Liverpool will be back, Spurs stronger. The challenge is exciting. Bring it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reivax_Villa Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Once he finds his feet he will a force.. If he learns the English language quick he will be very vocal in terms of organising the back line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Just now, Reivax_Villa said: Once he finds his feet he will a force.. If he learns the English language quick he will be very vocal in terms of organising the back line. Judging by how quickly the majority of our Spanish speaking players have learnt the language I think he’ll get there quickly, but If he were if 4 of the back 5 were Martienz, Carlos, Pau, Moreno or Dinge they could speak Spanish all game and not have issues, Luiz in front also speaks Spanish and Tielemans has a basic grasp of the language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintpotvilla Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 11 minutes ago, gwi1890 said: Judging by how quickly the majority of our Spanish speaking players have learnt the language I think he’ll get there quickly, but If he were if 4 of the back 5 were Martienz, Carlos, Pau, Moreno or Dinge they could speak Spanish all game and not have issues, Luiz in front also speaks Spanish and Tielemans has a basic grasp of the language. Digne is French of course and Luiz speaks Portuguese, but I get what you mean 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted July 27, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted July 27, 2023 Just now, pintpotvilla said: Digne is French of course and Luiz speaks Portuguese, but I get what you mean Both have played in Spain though - so think he’s thinking down that route as they’ll have a grasp in Spanish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, pintpotvilla said: Digne is French of course and Luiz speaks Portuguese, but I get what you mean Luiz speaks Spanish he played in La Liga and plenty of Brazilians also speak Spanish that and the fact Spanish and Portuguese share a similar vocabulary in-fact more than Spanish and Basque do. Dinge played for Barcelona and learned Spanish. I didn’t say they were all Spanish I said they all spoke Spanish. Edited July 27, 2023 by gwi1890 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete101 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Poor guy has played 94mins for us so far and 90 of them minutes were Infront of Olsen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 1 hour ago, pete101 said: Poor guy has played 94mins for us so far and 90 of them minutes were Infront of Olsen shows his resilience for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reivax_Villa Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 3 hours ago, gwi1890 said: Judging by how quickly the majority of our Spanish speaking players have learnt the language I think he’ll get there quickly, but If he were if 4 of the back 5 were Martienz, Carlos, Pau, Moreno or Dinge they could speak Spanish all game and not have issues, Luiz in front also speaks Spanish and Tielemans has a basic grasp of the language. That makes sense hence the pairing with Carlos in the last two matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Watching Pau rampage into the final third while Unai sat passively by suggests this is whats intended, and maybe why Konza was at RB in order to deputise while he roams in a more advanced role, and man mountain Carlos holds the back line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Pretty steady display against Fulham... Won three headers too which was often a point made that he bad in the air. Still not sure if he starts that first game though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 On 24/07/2023 at 02:02, lexicon said: I really like the look of him. ..........easy tiger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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