Aston Villa banter 2

23 Jul 2024 20:44:23
How about Pedro Goncalves instead of Félix I feel his younger less salary better long term investment . I also like Matt Oreilly of Celtic

23 Jul 2024 21:38:54
Felix is 23 or 24 raj

23 Jul 2024 21:39:25
And matt oreily is a cm

24 Jul 2024 09:42:00
Brilliant. Goncalves aged 26 is younger than Joao Felix aged 24.

24 Jul 2024 10:01:25
Goncalves has being top of my list for 2 years now I’d much prefer him to Felix, I fear Felix would be another Couthinho.

23 Jul 2024 12:49:06
Just been and got my shirt, from JD, only customer in there . They reckon the queues down the Villa are massive. %10 off at the Villa but by the time you've paid post and package no difference UTV

23 Jul 2024 14:54:22
I've just got my shirt from the club shop. No queue at all.

23 Jul 2024 05:25:31
Joao Félix seems the most popular replacement name being thrown in for Diaby when and if he leaves, but with Duran also likely to go very shortly surely Félix is a player who could also share the work load with Ollie and provide cover/rotation for him too. this would make him a very useful addition to the squad if we could get him but his wage demands may be an issue.

25 Jul 2024 08:01:02
If Duran goes then we could really do with looking for another striker in his mould.
Archer is never going to cut it as our main centre forward in the system we play.
Rodgers could fill in that area as he is the closest to Ollie we have but then we're relying on them not picking up knocks, fatigue or suspensions at the same time.

22 Jul 2024 19:30:09
It seems to me that profit and sustainability issues are going to be with us season upon season until we significantly increase our revenue streams or unless our transfer business results in a overall profit for the club. With that in mind I am going to make a controversial suggestion sell Ollie at £80 million plus and Diaby at £50 million. Buy Toney who is allegedly available at circa £45 million and Raphina supposedly £42 million, would we be any weaker? Not sure we would. This would result in a profit of circa £45 million on those deals, and any future sales of the likes of Duran, Carlos, Digne, Archer etc would still give us plenty of money to look to add a goalkeeper, right back and back up striker, plus I would imagine remove any potential PSR issues for the 25/26 season. I know most of us on here like to see us purchasing quality players but we can't continue to rely on our owners to continually fund large scale spending, we have to generate income and as Emery has said be smart in-the Transfer market.

22 Jul 2024 20:00:37
We don't need to sell ollie others can go before him lord

22 Jul 2024 22:15:22
Watkins offers so much more than goals he works his socks off for the team and runs defenders ragged giving our wide players more space would not sell him at any cost

23 Jul 2024 03:00:10
If Watkins go’s it would want to be over 100 million in my book, him and Toney are very different strikers also, I couldn’t see Emery going for Toney.

23 Jul 2024 08:03:43
Fair enough, however I imagine we will be in the same position next season ie having to sell players to meet profit and sustainability rules particularly if we don’t match our achievements from last season.

24 Jul 2024 12:31:08
Won’t be exactly the same lord, if we don’t qualify for the champions league it won’t effect our finances until July of next year, so while we might have to sell someone over the summer there won’t be the big pressure to have deals done before the 30th of June like we had this year.
I can’t see us not getting a European position, it’s just which position I wonder about.

22 Jul 2024 19:12:05
Have you ever seen so much crap all over sky sports app about this Yoro that united have signed, he's a decent player but the way they are going on you would think he had just won the euros playing every minute and had just bagged the Ball'on Dor, he's young fair enough but has achieved nothing yet

22 Jul 2024 20:05:17
They love manu whack there constantly saying there the biggest club in the world and that they should be top4, even on talksport there constantly going on about manu its annoying as hell wish villa had they own channel on sky for matches and news transfers and stuff i'd watch that instead

22 Jul 2024 21:36:35
I agree he hasn’t achieved anything yet, but he did look good against us and in fairness he is only 18.

22 Jul 2024 23:38:34
I'm not sure media 'love' accounts for the hype around Yoro.it's likely more to do with the fact the the clubs with the biggest followings attract a greater audience, so they'll try and attract that audience with ang hype'd up comme try they can.it's the same reason Villa get more coverage than other smaller clubs.
Yoro is potentially a very good player, so they have every right to hype him up, let's just hope it goes the same way the hype around Anthony and Casemiro went. Let them get on with it, it doesn't effect us. We've got our own very exciting season to focus on.
Not sure top 4 is a realistic expectation, but that certainly won't stop us trying and enjoying Champions League nights at Villa Park along the way.

23 Jul 2024 19:16:31
While I don't think we should expect top 4, I don't see how it would be an unrealistic target.
Other than City and Arsenal, the door is wide open for us.
United have made a couple of big signings but most of their squad are still pretty gash.
Liverpool are going to be an unknown quantity playing under a new regime for the first time in a long time.
Chelsea went on a good run late last season but have a new manager and will probably still be vulnerable defensively.
If Newcastle keep Howe they will do better without Europe. They could easily lose Howe or he could carry on running his players into the ground.
Spurs are Spurs. Their squad isn't all that great, they'll compete well in spurts though and could finish anywhere from 3rd to 8th.

22 Jul 2024 18:06:46
I thought I'd let the dust settle before posting about selling Luiz and Diaby between them they both had over 20+ goals and assists this is going to be a great loss and hopefully with the new signings made they can make the same contributions.So far I'd give this window a solid 8/10 with recuperating over 100 million in sales thus far.Personally I think there is going to be at least another 4 departing especially those who have 1 year left on their contracts.On another note I drove past VP yesterday and saw a new mural being done I took a photo and posted it on Twitter I have to say the club has done magnificent this pre season and the new kit looks amazing too I'm going to stick my neck on the line here and I truly believe this that we will finish top 3 this season fingers crossed.UTV

22 Jul 2024 19:06:57
Good window so far, yeh we are losing goals and assists but if we take those into account we then have to take into account the goals and assists scored by the players we have bought in, I think rogers will have a huge contribution this season with goals and assists, mattsen has decent assist stats aswel, digne and Moreno haven’t had to many.
not sure about top 3 but very confident that we will get top 4 💪

22 Jul 2024 20:10:06
Yep iam aswell top2 places city, n gooners,3rd lpool, 4th is villa i reckon i think the squad is better in my opinion aslong as we replace diaby, our lb is an upgrade on the other 2, onnana is better than dougie by that i mean he will work harder in games, and in biddace he could replace diaby his talent is class

22 Jul 2024 09:33:40
What's everyone's thoughts on the Diaby transfer seems like a decent deal to me

22 Jul 2024 10:36:56
I'd say 'decent' is about right. We're not being robbed but we're not making a great deal of profit either. Still, if we get a strong replacement in and manage to improve the books, then so be it.
Personally I think it's a shame as he showed real potential considering it was his first season, but guess we'll never know.
Feels like there's 3 or 4 more to come in and a couple could be marquee.

22 Jul 2024 11:12:48
Little bit gutted because i thought he'd do well this season but 450thou a week going to turn your head, we will get big name signing to replace him anyway

22 Jul 2024 11:41:23
Everytime I saw him play he never seemed interested to me but neither did Bailey a few years back

22 Jul 2024 12:21:36
If we get nico willams, felux, or raphinna il be happy

21 Jul 2024 10:10:20
Media at again trying to sell our players watkins to, chelsea, lpool
Spurs, ncastle, manu also you jj who they are trying to sell to spurs aswell, they really don't like it that we got top 4 last season, all the media talkabout is the so called big 6 and there favs manu

21 Jul 2024 17:11:55
Most clubs are getting several reports a week about players leaving and joining. I very much doubt there's a media conspiracy going on mate. City, Forest, Utd, Everton, Newcastle and others are already claiming that.any more conspiracies and everyone will be back on an equal footing again whilst claiming they want to 'Make the Premiership great again'.

20 Jul 2024 17:23:26
Who's that midfielder, looks like the Donk, but controlled midfield first half . Another decent workout, mins in legs . Rogers looked the part again, Haden played well down the right, Barkley never looked rushed . Glad to see Archer get a goal, shows he need to play off somebody, but certainly a finisher,
Now on to America UTV

20 Jul 2024 13:23:49
You don’t need a pin just tell what club u support and it adds u automatically at the start of the season

20 Jul 2024 15:56:14
Think we are on about one for people on this site?