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19 May 2022 22:19:52
Despite the penalty Beundia head and shoulders above everyone as man of the match but he'll be dropped again Sunday.

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27 Sep 2020 13:33:17
Apparently Alli is available and Chris Sutton has suggested he could come to us.
I know we were linked to him when he was at MK Dons but for me he is by far the most overrated player in the league.

He had one good season as an unknown but has been found out regularly ever since. Plays like a beemer/ merc/ audi driver who thinks they're all that because they've "made it".

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1.) 27 Sep 2020 13:46:50
Alli is a good player had a poor season last year but before that I think his stats since he joined Spurs stand comparison with anyone playing in that type of role. I think he struggles with how Mourinho wants him to play, however I am not sure he is what we need right now, I would rather we bought a wide man and moved Jack into a more central position where I think he can create more havoc.

Just as an aside, I drive a Mercedes but I certainly don’t think I have “made it“ lol 😊.


2.) 27 Sep 2020 15:30:33
We want footballers not Boxers. 😊.


3.) 27 Sep 2020 15:31:57
Joking aside, totally agree John.


4.) 27 Sep 2020 16:09:49
Agree John, no doubt he improves us, but it’s one of the last positions we need improving in.

I rate Alli, just think he’s only really played in his position for two seasons. Did pretty well, and because of that success he just kept getting pushed further forward and then out wide which just never worked. He’s a number 8, old school, box to box, from a time when centre mids were expected to do both, go forwards and backwards, that’s how he made his name and needs to get back to it to see the best of him.

There are big questions about his attitude, seems pretty childish on the all or nothing documentary.


 

 

27 Sep 2020 13:32:09
The Sun obviously have their biases but are normally clued in on transfers. The Scottish Sun claim Brighton have expressed an interest in Edouard. Maybe that makes him available for less than we thought? No way they pay the expected £40mill on a player.

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12 Sep 2020 10:15:28
I see Noel Whelan is up to his old tricks again. Claims Wilson not happening meant we panic bought our second choice.
Obviously does zero research before spouting off when Watkins was clearly our main transfer target from day 1.

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1.) 12 Sep 2020 10:36:54
The guy is an irrelevant cretin. The man is robbing a living. Every man and his dog knew Watkins was Smith’s number one target.


2.) 12 Sep 2020 11:47:43
Agree ant, the Watkins deal took at least 2 weeks to thrash out it was almost there before any bid went in for Wilson, isn’t whelan a Leeds fan? Nothing but jealousy they couldn’t even convince their manager to stay on for more than 1 year cause he knows they going to do a Norwich and go straight back down😂😂.


3.) 12 Sep 2020 12:04:46
Just for clarity Whackattack Bielsa only ever signs 1 year contracts so it’s nothing to do with his lack of faith in his team, and I for one don’t think they will go down in fact I think they are more likely to do a Wolves or Sheffield Utd. Bielsa is a class act.


4.) 12 Sep 2020 12:07:02
I can never understand why ex-pros are considered experts in the transfer market. I don’t think they have any more idea than the rest of us and clearly don’t research much, if anything.

Kevin Phillips suggests we made a massive mistake in missing out on Callum Wilson. Well, firstly the guy didn’t want to move to Villa and, secondly, he has a paltry scoring record in the EPL, managing double figures once. All the Sky and Talk Sport place the guy on a pedestal as some phenomenal goal scorer. Complete tosh.


5.) 12 Sep 2020 12:35:42
If Wilson had stayed with Bournemouth for this season, I doubt that he would have scored half the number of goals Watkins scored last season.


6.) 12 Sep 2020 14:06:06
I do agree villajohn he is a good manager I was just having a pop at Leeds, wasn’t his last contract for 2 years with option to extend by 1 year, well so say the article about him signing the extension anyways, honestly I can’t see them doing a Sheffield or wolves he’s not as good a man manager as wilder or nuno, they threw away automatic promotion last year then rubbish themselves in the playoffs, and started to slip a bit this year also into the new year, bilic was also a good manager with Fulham but it didn’t save him, 1 thing for sure I think this year’s premier league will be tougher than last years, looking through the fixtures there’s none looking to easy, my money is on West Ham Fulham Brighton West Brom and Leeds to slug it out down the bottom, what u guys think who will be in the relegation battle?


7.) 12 Sep 2020 18:32:15
Look at Bielsa’s record, wherever he has been he has had success and he plays a brand of entertaining football which is why he is such a sought after manager. I have even heard Klopp refer to him as world class so that’s good enough for me. Time will tell whether Leeds tsurvive or not it I think they will even if it’s only because there are 3 worse teams which I think will be West Ham, Fulham and Albion I also have a sneaking feeling Brighton might struggle as well.


 

 

17 May 2020 09:06:06
If we stay up and get the reported £80mill asking price for Jack who do we think we could realistically bring in?
I think our starting lineup could look like this (Dunk being less likely with the owners strategy of younger players but best option within budget imo) .
Heaton
Guilbert Dunk Mings Targett
Phillips
Rashica Mcginn Benrahma
Samatta Wesley

Subs
Nyland
Konsa
Engels
Nakamba
Trezeguet
El Ghazi
Davis

Only one cm on bench as both starting wingers could slot into that central position.

We could stick with Konsa who has been decent and look at right back instead but I'm struggling to think of any great options available less than £20mill who are significant upgrades.

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1.) 19 May 2020 14:27:37
Not a bad line up however I would take a couple of players from Utd for Jack so I would ask for Axel and Chris Smalling.

I like you I know he is outside the age bracket but it gives us some premier league experience which we have been crying out for at the back, and ask for £55 million I would also ditch Wesley Engels Trezeguet Taylor and El Ghazi And I would look to bring in Harry Wilson, Benrahma Barkley Mitrovic and Batshuayi and go 4 4 2.

I am sure there are lots of other ways we could go and it’s great to indulge in a bit of Fatasy football, but I think we can all agree that whatever we do we need to do something different next season.


2.) 19 May 2020 17:34:57
I think Wesley will grow and he has shown at times that coming short to bring people into play is his strength. Wesley deeper with Samatta running the channels could work.

Utd wouldn't give Axel and Smalling for a combined £25mill valuation and Smalling is even worse than what we have imo.
I don't think we'd get enough for the players you listed to buy all of your wish list and ditching both wingers for Benrahma and Wilson would still leave us short in that department.

While his defensive work is poor you can't argue with the fact El Ghazi has won us points at the other end so should keep him for backup/ rotation.


3.) 20 May 2020 14:25:50
Smalling available for £15 mill apparently he has had a decent season with Roma and he certainly isn’t as error strewn as Engels. In terms of cover for the wingers I would use Louie Barry and Green as cover after extending his contract . I don’t think el ghazi or tres does enough at either end of the pitch although tres works hard that isn’t enough in the prem imo. However that’s the beauty of this is it’s all about opinions.


4.) 20 May 2020 18:19:55
With you on that John.


5.) 21 May 2020 06:19:53
Barry isn't really a winger, he can play on the outside of a 3 at a push but he's a number 9 through and through.
I liked Green for us at times in the championship but it worries me he can't even get into a struggling Preston team now. May be a case of just not the right fit and his pace works better for our counter attacks but you'd have thought if he was that good they'd play him.


 

 

 

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01 Feb 2025 19:50:35
The PGMOL mafia are at it again. I have no idea how they turned Rogers running around a player into blocking him from defending.
Yet another mark against a group that seem to be more interested in media coverage than overseeing a fair game.

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26 Jan 2025 19:10:46
If that was the way to stop Duran moving then let him go.
Watkins was controlling that game and then a nothing shot from Duran leads to the opponents scoring and he does nothing to help the team after that.
Let's also hope this new right back is as good as they make out. I'm really getting fed up of Cash moving into the middle to mark absolutely nobody and giving the back post a free run.

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10 Jan 2025 22:16:50
The Jekyll and Hyde that is Morgan Rogers. If he's on it, everything goes through him, when he's off it, he's absolutely awful. There seems to be no in between with him.

I thought Ned was excellent during his time on the pitch, if we can get him playing like that regularly then I'm not sure we need another right back.
All 3 subs gave us something we were missing so hopefully they can contribute to a good second half of the season.

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04 Jan 2025 16:28:18
Why on earth is Cash trying to mark his own goalkeeper on that cross? He's just a pure idiot of a footballer whose only attribute is running and even then he decides to constantly put the brakes on when attacking.

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1.) 04 Jan 2025 17:16:48
I can’t disagree there RK, for me he is the weakest link. He just doesn’t seem to be up to the physical challenge either. Bailey has been inconsistent this season but we saw last season that he can turn in top drawer performances. I think one of the reasons we haven’t seen it much lately is due to us lacking the quality at right back. Hopefully this problem will be addressed in the current transfer window.


 

 

14 Dec 2024 19:45:46
VAR clearly scared of Forest these days. A "fleeting" drag back on Rogers (a foul is a foul if it stops a player) but I'd have accepted an excuse of Rogers pulling the shirt first.
How the second one isn't a foul on Cash though is beyond me, didn't come close to touching the ball.
Some of the passing could have been better and we need the midfielders to stop the first ball before the cross.
I think it was an OK but not amazing away performance that probably deserved either the 1-0 or 1-1. Officials completely bottled it on several occasions.

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24 Jan 2025 20:48:49
I'm not sure replacing one hothead who is prone to sulking with another is the right move.
Only advantage I see is that Cunha is more versatile so can play with Watkins without occupying the same positions.

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11 Jan 2025 14:06:35
Even if PSG accepted that, where are we getting the money to turn £70k a week in wages to £3-400k?

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24 Aug 2024 06:16:40
We've got into a better habit of buying the better players from teams with offers they can't refuse, however, 2 words destroy the 'not wanted by his club' argument and they are Emi Martinez.
There has to be some hint of availability for clubs to come sniffing. I think most expected the likes of Mudryk to be available first until Sterling was left out of the squad.
I don't think we're actually interested, the bedroom journalist's are just looking at us as the only Champions League team who have a space up there and have had to move on from the Felix links. All I'm saying is that he's better than he gets credit for and we could do a lot worse.

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23 Aug 2024 20:29:40
Devil's advocate. Diaby was on nowhere near as much per week as Sterling so better value for money. FYI though that I thought other than end product against lesser teams Diaby didn't bring much to the party.
I will use the same argument for Sterling as I did for Felix though, rating his time at Chelsea when most of the team around him were terrible is not indicative of his quality.
Sterling proved with City that he can be a difference maker, turning controlled possession into meaningful attacks.
I think he'd get good numbers for us but at the same time stifle Rogers. I also wouldn't want to lose Duran to gain Sterling just because our team doesn't work with a false 9.

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07 Aug 2024 17:22:53
Nobody has to tell Digne anything until the offer is accepted.
Someone forgot to tell the reporter that a letter from Galatasary asking if Digne is available means nothing. There isn't even a guarantee that it was actually sent to Villa, it could easily just be a draft.

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04 Feb 2025 15:43:39
That means Garcia will be the only one left out then which isn't too bad.

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03 Feb 2025 20:49:31
Jonny, every scouting team probably has 10-15 potentials for any position, but you'll only ever hear about the ones that progressed any distance or that "journalists" (hobbyist bloggers) just threw out there for reactions.
Either through injuries, price or just not being for sale/loan at a point in time, a lot of those potentials were not options right now.
Unlike FM, it's not professional to reach a full agreement with 2 players if you can only buy 1. We tried Bade and then moved to Disasi, it's just taken a while to resolve as Chelsea really didn't want to help us out but he really didn't want to go to an absolutely awful Spurs team.

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02 Feb 2025 15:16:42
My only concern is that Rashford and Asensio will eat up nearly a quarter of the base Duran fee for less than half a season. We could have easily had 3 or 4 players for the wages we will pay those 2.
I get the feeling we are looking for short term fixes to force our way back into the European places. Perhaps there is a deeper issue where losing out on Europe could push us outside PSR with wages or promises have been made to players who can leave if we miss out?

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01 Feb 2025 23:35:13
Tactics go out of the window when players stand around like statues.
I don't think Emery wanted that ball to keep going to the full backs but when everyone else is hiding there weren't many options for Kamara and Konsa.
Emery wants us to maintain possession and goes mad if we give it away, but he also praises the risks when they work out.
Unfortunately, a lot of the players at the moment don't want to take risks and the ones who do are doing it too often at the wrong time.
There have been moans about both squad quality and squad depth. We just don't have the budget for both, we either have a high quality 12 or 13 and try to avoid fatigue or injuries or we have fairly decent 18 or 19 but not be competitive at the top.

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01 Feb 2025 17:38:04
No worries, that's why we were desperate to sell Diaby and Dougie when we did, got that money in just before the deadline for last year's accounts.

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