Aston Villa Rumours Archive March 01 2017 to March 31 2017

27 Mar 2017 01:57:56
Hey lads. Just want to inform you that if Sheffield Wednesday loses the next four matches and Aston Villa wins the next four matches, then we can be in the play-offs and possibly qualify for the Premier League. There are eight matches left, so technically we can still do this. Let's continue supporting the team. Up the Villa!

27 Mar 2017 11:31:24
Are u forgetting all the teams between villa and Sheffield Wednesday? They aren't all going to lose all their games.

27 Mar 2017 11:32:35
I belive brother I belive! UTV.

27 Mar 2017 11:48:12
Bit misleading mate, we aren't 7th, still relying on Barnsley, Derby, Preston, Norwich, Fulham and then Sheffield Wednesday on top of that.

27 Mar 2017 12:14:17
Jesus christ almighty.

27 Mar 2017 21:29:40
^^^^Pmsl I think that's who we need Mendex.

28 Mar 2017 09:07:28
8 games let and i think we should be dissapointed if we come away with less than 15 points.

29 Mar 2017 18:47:42
I think you're right Villadaz
I'd still only rate our chances as 1 in 10
Not a hope of making the playoffs.

29 Mar 2017 19:30:56
I'm not sure reaching the Prem this season would be a good result.
Another season in championship with positive results, go up as winners, or runners up.

Yeah a good run till end of season to keep momentum going. but to go up now, we would be whipping boys again!
No thanks!

30 Mar 2017 14:36:22
Considering when Bruce took over we were 11 games in with 1 win 3 losses and 7 draws, teetering above the relegation zone, I'd be more than happy finishing in the top 10, with a good run of form coming to the end of the season. One of the best squads in the league, competitive and looking favourites to go up next year. And tanking the blues at home putting them in the relegation zone would be a nice bonus.

30 Mar 2017 16:50:23
We are not making play offs lads, asking a little to much with our current position. love your enthusiasm though. More to the point, How do you think we will fair against Norwich. we have people back from injury and suspension so we should perform well. looking to another win to keep our momentum going in the right direction. It should be a good game think it will be fiercely contested.

31 Mar 2017 09:15:56
norwich and brighton are the only teams i think we can struggle against, now we might not make playoffs but as long as we go down fighting we can improve on this team and easy walk the league next season.

31 Mar 2017 09:50:28
Why would we want to go up this season?
We need to treat the last 8 games as an extended pre season and get everyone fully fit and ready to fight from the first game next time around.
If we play this right we could be unbeaten next season with the best defence and the most creative midfield in the country with two of the hottest strikers in the British isles (If Jimmy Danger starts passing)

It is not beyond the realms of possibility that we go on a good cup run and get more than one Wembley day out of 2018. let's face it the Liverpool game was probably the best feeling since Blues 5-1 and the Arsenal final was a great day apart from 90 minutes where we watched 11 players on the pitch v 11 gnomes fishing for a plastic koi that's already stuck on their poles.

Lets do what Bruce says and get in one or two good players that will help the squad, not whole sale changes as he did in January, but he has learned and admitted that that was the wrong thing to do.

I would have downing back if that would add something but if it doesn't let's blood some of the young and hungry kids that want to play for the shirt and would die for the Lion.
Just look at the youngsters brawl against West Ham that's passion.

Up the Villa
Lets smash the canneries tomorrow.

See you in the Tavern before for a pint.

01 Apr 2017 12:25:08
Not mathematically impossible but most improbable that we reach 6th. As for being too early and why would we want it now, any promotion will need a good rebuild and as we have heard we will need 3 overhauls 1 promotion side, 2 Premier survival side and 3 top four contender side. I would love we could start now but also am realist let's muller Canaries today as need to get a massive win at VP at least once this season! UTV.

02 Apr 2017 09:18:23
Well done villa and my little smirk continues to smirk at all the brucie doubters who wanted him sacked not so long ago (rome)

19 Mar 2017 13:05:45
Went the game as usual i thought the game was very much like rotherham match talk about wining ugly great win tho with the injurys we have. Dare we dream of the playoffs?

19 Mar 2017 14:01:19
Probably relying on other teams to drop points at the moment but it is possible.

17 Mar 2017 11:36:17
So Bruce has confirmed Green and Baker are out tomorrow, Jedinak will start as centre back and Lansbury and Hogan are facing late checks. I'd start the team that we played when baker went off last week.

Hutton as a right mid gives Johnson an out ball to someone who can win a header, Adomah was brilliant in that free role behind kodjia, no need for a defensive mid as we should be playing on the front foot.

Plus playing Amavi, Taylor and Hutton, Bree means they will get very little down our wings so will be forced to try and get through the middle where they'd need quality that their league position suggests they don't have.

Hopefully Hogan can make the bench and if we take our chances and are comfortable Bruce can send him on to experiment with two up top while there's no pressure on him.

13 Mar 2017 22:51:51
Carlos Gill played the other day, my question is can we have him back next year or is he definitely gone? sanchez and verout could do a job as well.

14 Mar 2017 13:38:14
Sanchez' contract runs out this summer from what Wyness has said, but Veretout and Gil are both available. Personally I could see Veretout doing very well in the middle, in January it was said several French clubs and Juventus will move to sign him, if so I think we'd get nearly 20mil just because of the stature of the clubs.

As for Gil, hard to see where he fits in because as a right midfielder in this league you need to be quick, something he's not, and we don't really seem to play with an attacking midfielder all too often, so although we do need a right winger as cover for adomah imo, I can't see him being the answer there, so we'd be keeping him for games against the bottom half/ quarter of the table where he can play attacking mid.

Would be a brilliant option of the bench when we need to change it up however! Either sell the two and your looking at 30/ 35mil plus to spend or keep them both and improve the squad elsewhere.

14 Mar 2017 16:31:14
Would keep Veretout, get rid of Sanchez and Gil.

14 Mar 2017 18:17:10
Veretout's trouble and strife not a big fan of 'le midlands', and also a few european clubs have been watching him this season where he's caught the eye, love to see him back but on balance, me thinks his agent fancies another cut of a transfer fee.

14 Mar 2017 20:46:45
Can't see any of them coming back. I like Gil but the Championship is not the environment where he is going to thrive. Same with Veretout.
Sanchez is living in Florence; he's not really going to want to come back is he.

15 Mar 2017 00:01:14
Seemed to have a good attitude last year but it's hard to perform when everyone around you isn't bothered and losing over the weekend going into training and seeing everyone laughing can't help his performances, in this new squad I think we'd see the best of him.

15 Mar 2017 00:30:33
Not sure there Mendax about Sanchez, i've heard Castle Bromwich is something to behold in the height of summertime!

15 Mar 2017 09:57:23
Sanchez is gone mate.

15 Mar 2017 19:52:58
Gil too light weight for Championship and as said already I don't see the other two being attracted by the lure of Championship football over the winter when could get contracts in sunnier climbes! Plus chance of UEFA or Champions League football. Don't want to see Sanchez miss placed passing game again but although won't stay Veratout would be more of a steady option. Let's look to the future UTV.

15 Mar 2017 21:13:27
Never discount the allure of Castle Bromwich chaps! lol!

16 Mar 2017 12:21:50
Think last year's flops should remain last year's flops. why would we have them back. we got good lads now! Sell the lot of them and buy two or three more.

11 Mar 2017 13:14:23
right I'm being told that we are hoping to sign John Terry in the summer on a 2 year deal and bruce will make him captain. at first you will all say no chance prem teams will come in for him. John said a few weeks back he would not join another prem team. couple of days ago he says want to stay in England for his kids. that in my opinion gives us a good chance of landing him and it is something we are trying to do. terry a keeper and another forward is the only 3 deals that will be done this summer.

11 Mar 2017 13:50:41
said begining season we should have asked them for a loan deal, would easy boss this league and could teach baker so much.

11 Mar 2017 14:05:33
It's going to be another extremely tough game today. what with our injuries an the fact that Wednesday are a really good team. their strike force are beyond good. however we are at home our fortress, and we have to make it just that. so let's get behind the team today guys and roar out our support until we can't roar no more. Come On You Villa supporters.

11 Mar 2017 17:21:38
I am being told you're talking rubbish.

11 Mar 2017 17:45:16
April fools day has come early this year.

12 Mar 2017 12:14:31
My sources tell me that you talk out of your posterior, and although at times you believe what the voices in your head are saying, even you know the fantasy land that you dwell in is called nutsville.

07 Mar 2017 10:18:25
Tonights line up
Johnstone,
Hutton Baker Chester Taylor
Jedanik, Hourihane, Lansbury
Adomah, Kodja, Amavi

Any better thoughts.

07 Mar 2017 12:37:55
Think that's the team that will start, Jedinak in the middle of the 3 and baker next to Taylor for his left foot.

06 Mar 2017 15:58:34
Much as I am grateful for the fact that we have consecutively beaten two of the division's bottom-feeders, tomorrow's game will be the acid-test. If we can put in a good shift against Huddersfield away, then perhaps we can then say that we have turned the corner. Does anyone know if Bjarnason and / or Grealish are likely to have recovered from their knee injuries in time?

06 Mar 2017 16:28:29
Think you are bang on menace. its been very good the last couple of wins, however the true test will come when we play teams at the top end of the division. It will be a tough ask, but hopefully the lads will take the confidence built up from the last couple of wins into the game with Huddersfield. another decent shift needs putting in make no mistake. It can be done look at forest takin out Brighton. their position should not put us off. NO FEAR.

06 Mar 2017 16:41:51
Both Bjarnason and Grealish are still injured and will not play.

06 Mar 2017 19:15:39
Kodjia out on the left and Davies in the centre from the start? Or Amavi left wing. Only options if we keep the formation.

06 Mar 2017 20:32:45
Can't see why he wouldn't start amavi. He is quick and has a good delivery. Surely that left wing position would be ideal for him? Doesn't have to worry too much about defending just get down the wing and get the ball in.

06 Mar 2017 20:41:04
Have we fallen that far that if we put a good shift in tomorrow against Huddersfield we might get something.

Yes I know that they are third, but. Huddersfield. It just makes me sad when a few years ago we were on the cusp if champions league football :- (.

06 Mar 2017 21:00:03
I know what you mean mate but that's the new reality at the moment
We can wallow in self pity and sail down the divisions reminiscing about the glory days or we take the bull by the horns and crack on.

06 Mar 2017 21:36:58
The only place amavi should be is leftback-leftback in the changing rooms is all he's good for now, since his injury he's been going missing in the tackling department, harsh to say maybe;but he's more a liabilty, good going forward, but going back, sad to say he's got a mental block, you might as well play him as a winger only now, a shame, but he ain't no full blooded defender now, sell him in the summer and re-invest, simple as.

06 Mar 2017 22:10:46
We play to full potential we beat Huddersfield, no doubt.

07 Mar 2017 16:35:10
Lets look at this logically. We won't make the play offs, we're pretty safe from relegation looking at the points required in previous seasons, so let's blood some of the youngsters and see how they go. You never know they may save a few million in the long run.

04 Mar 2017 20:30:56
Let us whisper it quietly, but have we managed to turn it round?
No comments about scores, games, opposition, just rejoice in 3 on the trot.

05 Mar 2017 12:58:07
The great thing about 3 wins in a week is that it really takes the pressure off as far as getting relegated again is concerned. The new players can now settle into their new environment and start to form understandings with each other on the pitch. Effectively we have a much extended pre-season with a nice summer break in between. With a few key additions (3-4) in the summer we can hit the ground running next year
Sounds simple as I write it down.

05 Mar 2017 14:19:41
Simple mendax! I agree totally with you about it being an extended preseason. I said to my buddy (Utd fan, I know but we all have friends that are far from perfect) at close of the January window that we had invested wisely for next season. Top two next year without a doubt in my mind with a feeling we top the table.

05 Mar 2017 17:55:23
Bang on mendax, look at Leicester, season before they won the league then won 8 of their last 10, all they did was carry that into the following season. Confidence is huge and once you've got it and building its like a snowball effect. On paper we have one of the best squads in the league, with a bit of confidence they will be one of the best teams in the league on the pitch.

05 Mar 2017 18:32:11
I just hope we're starting to identify targets for the summer for our campaign back in the premiership next season, and before you all (maybe rightly) start telling me to smell the coffee, i want us to make the boys think we still got a chance, don't stop believing and neither will they, if it happens, i'm playing brucey in the movie, if not, well hopefully everyone will want to join us because they see we are indeed lions, and the club to be at! KEEP THE FAITH.

01 Mar 2017 10:24:27
Wow just wow well done bruce and villa, great result loved the game can't wait for Rotherham now. Down side kodjia penalty miss, it's not the 1st penalty he has missed. i say let Jedinak take them, he takes them for his country and he doesn't miss. 1 day it will cost us the game. green was brilliant, everyone great. hutton you legend sets the standard for effort.