Aston Villa Banter

09 Jan 2026 10:15:31
Unless we can move Elliott back to Liverpool or off our books I'm not sure we'll be making any first team additions.
I would like to think we're negotiating with Liverpool on a number of scenarios that would benefit all parties otherwise we could be left without any significant additions.

09 Jan 2026 08:23:10
SKY Sports reporting that Villa are unlikely to make first-team additions in January.
If this is true it's a blow.
If we have all squad available for 90% of remainder of the season we should be OK, but if we have a lot of injuries we may struggle without a couple of additions.


Does anyone know if signing this 'kid' impacts our financial situation in terms of PSR? I heard because he's under 21 it doesn't.

09 Jan 2026 09:41:04
There’s talk of another, Xavier Gozo, plays in the MLS, 18 y/o, might be the way forward 🤔

UTV

08 Jan 2026 19:50:16
Games like last night are the difference between us being title contenders and not. I was glad not to lose but we were missing a little bit of spark in the attacking third, the subs didn't have a big impact like usual, they helped settle us down when palace looked like they were going up a gear and starting to dominate but they didn't give us enough to grab a winner, in my opinion we are 2 players away from being proper contenders this year, I think if we had Bailey from 2 seasons back and Duran or a similar shoot on sight young striker we could be top of the league, can't see us being lucky enough to find 2 good loan players in January so I reckon we will have to be happy with top 4 or 5, we have a good lead on spurs, Chelsea, United and Newcastle, with Brentford I can't see them sustaining their current position, you would expect Liverpool to improve but we do have a decent lead on them, rather than catch arsenal it's probably more of a priority to match the teams behind us week in week out.

08 Jan 2026 21:27:26
Spot on Whack .Emery has turned let's say good players into elite players the man is a genuis and I will not have a bad word said against him.

08 Jan 2026 23:42:46
Call a spade a spade here, it might of being a missed opportunity but every result apart from Newcastle went our way, lots of draws so no harm done in what has being a terrible fixture for us in recent years. looking at the next round of premier league fixtures there are some tricky games again for most of our rivals so lots of opportunity to close the gap above and widen the gap below.

much more positive than negatives, we are flying, UTV💪

08 Jan 2026 12:33:44
Afternoon all

Mixed feelings about last night. A sense of an opportunity missed given our form and Palace's form vs relief that we didn't get tonked by them again. We're clearly learning something and I think I air on the side of a good point well earned against a tough opponent (for us). Konsa's post match interview on the Villa website is pretty much to that effect.

Good to see Torres back on the bench as well. Mings nearly ready as well I think.

Still 23 days of Jan left to do some business - hopeful that something is possible. History tells us to ignore rumours as whatever Villa do will come as a complete surprise to everyone.

Another FA Cup run would be nice - so on to Saturday

07 Jan 2026 22:50:14
Emery was going barmy at the end about the Teilamens pen, Johnson two arms round him . The part that angers, is VAR checked the Johnson pen, but never even looked at ours . How many times are these idiots, going to be allowed to stuff us . UTV

08 Jan 2026 00:48:30
I share your general frustration but I think part of the problem is communication. As things stand, fans are reliant on either stadium screens (or commentators if watching on tv) to pass on the message that an incident is being checked. Commentators don't always relay everything that is being checked and I suspect that in-stadium updates are only announced for 'ongoing' checks.but in reality there are probably more checks than we realise.

Definitely room to improve the process and comms to fans.
As a side note, one thing I've noticed a lot of in recent weeks that VAR haven't picked up on is keepers launching throws from the edge of their box and clearly handling it outside the box.it happened against Chelsea in the 50 something minute.mind boggling how VAR can miss them, some of them.