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12 Jan 2026 15:47:09
Really surprised we are prepared to let Malen go he is really unfortunate he has done nothing wrong and usually makes a difference whenever he comes on he is really unlucky in my view.
If he is going we must be confident that an established forward will be joining.
1.) 12 Jan 2026 16:03:35
I think your thoughts are echoed by many Villa fans.
It seems a strange decision to move a player on when he appears settled at the club and within the system and, as you say, does have a positive impact when he plays, particularly off the bench.
We'll see what the wise men at Villa have planned I guess.
2.) 12 Jan 2026 17:02:09
If true, I suspect this is at least partly motivated by the PSR and Uefa constraints following the ruling last year. I think most fans would agree that Malen has been a useful addition, but assessing him with finances in mind might mean we should be aiming for a greater return on such a significant earner. Building a squad is just as much an art as it is science, but in the current climate I don't think we can afford to have some of our top earners not genuinely competing for our first 11.
So I'd imagine players like Malen, Barkley, Elliott, Sancho and possibly even Buendia/Digne will all be the most likely to depart either in Jan or the summer, depending on who's available and how that salary allocation could be better used in the eyes of Emery.
3.) 12 Jan 2026 17:48:56
The issue for me is we’re selling a player who clearly has settled in. Fits the system and is useful either from the start or off the bench. Then realistically lacing him with an unknown quantity in terms of playing in this team.
A risk.
Not saying Gallagher isn’t a good player but will he fit in.
PSR is screwing is royally every transfer window from what I can see.
4.) 14 Jan 2026 12:41:50
Have you sat back and thought Malen wants to leave to gain minutes playing when there's a World Cup on the horizon?
03 Jan 2026 23:09:34
Every player has a price and according to the Spanish outlet Fichajes Chelsea are prepared to offer £130.6 million offer for Rogers. If it's true we have a decision to make it's a hell of a lot of money.
1.) 04 Jan 2026 10:06:15
They can offer what they want in the summer, till then they can do 1.
UTV
2.) 04 Jan 2026 18:29:44
Why would he currently go to a team that are 12 points adrift of us, have no manager and are in turmoil with regard to their ownership/ management relationship? Obviously money is a factor but he strikes me as more intelligent than that. Also, who would you replace him with - and I mean someone of equal or better quality for less money (otherwise there’s no point in selling) who is available and immediately willing to come to VP (i.e.
not on someones fantasy wish-list) . I can’t think of a better midfielder that could replace him frankly.
3.) 04 Jan 2026 20:19:41
I get what your saying Menace but money talks, so if Chelsea offer him a salary of say £250k a week, we can’t match that given the SCR issues we currently face. Add to that the fact that allegedly Cole Palmer is his best mate, plus the bright lights of London it may sway him, and as I say if £130.6 million is an opening bid we will obviously look to push that figure to nearer £150 million and as I said in my previous post every player has a price and whether it’s £130 or £150 million that’s a hell of a lot of money to turn down.
Whether we like it or not Rogers will go at some point so the question is do we maximise his value at the end of the season when we could totally remould the squad with that type of money or do we wait for him to push to go when in all likelihood his value will be less? In an ideal world I would keep him all day long but we don’t live in an ideal world unfortunately.
4.) 04 Jan 2026 20:32:42
That’s serious cash Lotm, I’d imagine it would be very hard for the board to turn down, it would set us up for a few years I’d say, that said I couldn’t see us getting champions league without him so we would lose out on prize money and end up no better off in 2 years. I couldn’t see him wanting to go to Chelsea right now, like menace says they are in turmoil and not guaranteed any euro spot for next year.
if they want him that bad tell them Palmer and 100 million.
Hard to know who we could get to replace him at a reasonable price, there won’t be much value in the premier league at this time of year.
if we did have money to spend I’d imagine it would be a good time to try attract players considering our position and form and having the master at the helm.
5.) 04 Jan 2026 20:59:28
We don’t have a need to sell him (right now) and we have 2 shots at getting Champions League by finishing top 4 or winning the Europa League. He’s going to be a starter for England at the World Cup where we could go far which would add to his value, would make no sense at all to sell him now, personally I think he could do better than Chelsea, maybe even someone like Real would want him, and he’d go with my best wishes
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07 Dec 2025 17:25:31
Allegedly we have no money to spend in January we have to sell and/or free up salary space before we can add to the squad. If that's right then I hope we don't sell Martinez that would be a mistake in my view.
28 Jul 2025 10:08:34
Looks like Chelsea interest in Rogers is being stepped up, apparently they have offered Jackson, Aderabayo plus cash. I am sure we will reject the offer however as Palmer is allegedly one of his best mates I wonder if he will eventually have his head turned.
1.) 28 Jul 2025 11:02:06
Chelsea want £100M for Jackson, other guy I’m going to guess £30M+, and cash? Why don’t we make an offer for Palmer, we need a left footed attacking mid, and he’s mates with Rogers so even better, they can carpool to training too and save the planet ??
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01 Jul 2025 20:52:51
Looks like Asensio is off to Fenerbache sadly
1.) 03 Jul 2025 01:21:31
I saw that… but with Duran coming in and them paying 3/4 of his wages I would’ve thought it was one or the other! That’s a significant outlay otherwise
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18 Jan 2026 18:25:32
It's going to be fun on here tonight!
1.) 18 Jan 2026 18:37:49
Soon as maginn went off we started looking vulnerable in midfield, luckily my pager went off after 25 mins so I missed the rest of the game,
2.) 18 Jan 2026 18:41:23
Not going to get too low as we are in the main having a superb season.
It just frustrates me when Watkins comes out having a dig at the fans recently on behalf of the squad yet they churn that out tiday.
I personally am perplexed regarding our recruitment strategy, I understand we can't just spend what we want when we want but as a club we have got our recruitment horrendously wrong this season and I think it may start to tell the deeper we go into the season.
Monchi will get the blame and don't get me wrong he's got to shoulder responsibility for sure but Unai runs the show and has final say on all football related matters and between them signing Elliot, Sancho and Guessand we've self harmed with PSR massively.
Then this window up to now we've signed shall we say prospects for the years ahead but seem to have no sense of urgency to assist us in the here and now.
3.) 18 Jan 2026 20:22:51
Sorry you know UE has the final say on everything, how? What's the based on?
When Monchi was sacked it was written in a number of places that Emery was provided a list of players and he'd mark next to the ones he liked the best/ wanted the most? Didn't suggest anything like him having the final say kind of actually implies the opposite.
There's a list of targets and who we get in is almost a lottery based on finances and other deals.
Guessand could've been 9th on a list of 10 for all we know, it seems baseless and wild to imply he was managers choice.
4.) 18 Jan 2026 21:18:22
I know because our structure was released fairly recently and Monchi and now Olabe report into Emery not the other way round.
When Emery is linked elsewhere by the media a sizeable chunk of our fanbase including yourself I'd imagine use the excuse "why would he go when he has full control of everything"
When there's a recruitment issue that doesn't work out the narrative changes to "Monchis fault"
Can't have it both ways unfortunately.
The guys been absolutely unreal for us and we wouldn't be where we are without him but he makes mistakes.
Emery paid crazy money at Arsenal for Pepe so let's not act like he gets everything right.
14 Jan 2026 13:16:06
You can't help wondering if we weren't so badly constrained by PSR/SCR issues whether we would be genuine title challengers.??♂️
1.) 14 Jan 2026 19:22:37
Was talking about this with a Cov fan today, Will Arsenal do their anual bottle it, and will Citeh get docked a load of points eventually, gone a bit quiet on that ain’t it?
UTV
03 Jan 2026 16:28:08
Great result paitence was the key in breaking them down. Listening to the match the commentary the pundits were praising the performance of match referee Simon Hooper personally I thought he was poor in fact very poor, whilst in this case it didn't impact the result he was glaringly inconsistent. In the first half Milenkovic pushes Tielemans in the box and he goes over so the argument was Tielemans made a meal over it and that's an argument to be had but in the second half Williams under pressure from Rogers falls over handles the ball in the box (any contact from Rogers is miniml) certainly less than the shove Milenkovic gave Tielemans and yet that's a foul! So either both are fouls or neither is, and it's that level of inconsistency that drives players, managers and fans mad.
A totally bizarre decision by a poor official and yet more evidence that officiating in this country is shockingly poor.
1.) 04 Jan 2026 00:16:17
Taught the very same thing when Williams went down
31 Dec 2025 10:12:04
If someone had said at the start of December we would have beaten Arsenal, Chelsea, and Man Utd I would have snapped your hand off. Ideally I wouldn't have wanted the nature of the defeat we suffered last night but we just need to dust ourselves off and go again. If we maintain our home form that should be enough to maintain a top 4 spot. Usually 66-68 points will suffice for CL qualification and that's well within our compass. I think the problem we face will be financial, we are going to continue to have to be creative in the transfer market so I think maybe 1-2 big money signings supplemented by loans and free transfers that's why in my view Emery is currently the best manager in the premiership as the likes of Arteta, Slot, and Pep aren't operating with such restrictions and yet we continue to get better as a team. UTV.
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27 Dec 2025 21:08:40
It will be interesting how we set up against Arsenal with both Cash and Kamara missing. I presume Onana will be a straight replacement for Kamara but who replaces Cash? particularly as both Mings and Torres are expected to still be out. Not sure if Garcia is available if not that leaves us with Bogarde I presume.
1.) 27 Dec 2025 21:22:57
Garcia has been on the bench the last few games. I am expecting Bogarde at right back though.
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17 Jan 2026 19:17:48
Apparently Brentford don’t want to sell and if they did the price would be north of £50 million and we habitat that type of money at the moment. It’s just click bait I’m afraid.
04 Jan 2026 20:19:41
I get what your saying Menace but money talks, so if Chelsea offer him a salary of say £250k a week, we can’t match that given the SCR issues we currently face. Add to that the fact that allegedly Cole Palmer is his best mate, plus the bright lights of London it may sway him, and as I say if £130.6 million is an opening bid we will obviously look to push that figure to nearer £150 million and as I said in my previous post every player has a price and whether it’s £130 or £150 million that’s a hell of a lot of money to turn down.
Whether we like it or not Rogers will go at some point so the question is do we maximise his value at the end of the season when we could totally remould the squad with that type of money or do we wait for him to push to go when in all likelihood his value will be less? In an ideal world I would keep him all day long but we don’t live in an ideal world unfortunately.
05 Dec 2025 15:45:36
I’d keep him, apart from the fee they were suggesting being low (£25 million) his salary costs aren’t that high and his ability to play several positions are a plus. Having said the fee for Bogarde is too low that’s in the context of the £100 million Brighton want for Baleba.
He is a decent player but £100 million never, if he is worth £100 million what price Rogers?
22 Sep 2025 13:51:52
If it true then we move on but I hope it doesn’t turn into Billy McNeill chapter 2.
22 Sep 2025 13:25:51
Not sure how true these rumours are, Emery has pretty much total control of the football operation at Villa, he won’t get that at any other club and I’m not sure having to work with InEOS and the Glazers would be that attractive. However time will tell and as Alain these kind of things money talks. If he does go I am sure we will live to regret it in the long term
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19 Jan 2026 07:45:42
We need to be realistic re managers and transfers, so no manager can get every transfer right, and some players take time to adjust not only to a new league but also a new country. On the face of it Guessand does at the moment look like a fish out of water but even if that transfer looks poor let’s not forget Emery also signed off on Tielemans, Duran, Diaby, and Rogers so I would argue he has got more right than wrong.
18 Jan 2026 22:13:20
Scotty remind me how many games have we lost recently? we can’t be 100% every game this result was bound to happen sometime. Re Torres, whatever you or I think Torres will be Emery’s first choice at left centre back for his ability to bring the ball out from the back.
18 Jan 2026 19:16:07
I’m with you 100% Daz how we are competing with the big boys is beyond me to be honest. I read an article the other day which says that our net transfer outlay since Emery took charge is circa £40 million which is next to nothing compared with most other clubs, but our salary costs have gone through the roof and with SCR that’s what’s killing us and will for a while I fear.
13 Jan 2026 21:49:24
Apparently Gallagher wants Spurs over us because he thinks he will get more minutes at Spurs and therefore have a better chance of getting into the World Cup squad.
12 Jan 2026 19:58:57
Looks that way. To be honest although he’s a good player we are well stocked in the middle of the park so we shouldn’t feel the loss too keenly.