Good that's one waster less.Wesley most likely won't be here next season in the second division. Whatever we think of him, he sees himself as a Brazilian international.
Good that's one waster less.Wesley most likely won't be here next season in the second division. Whatever we think of him, he sees himself as a Brazilian international.
Good that's one waster less.Wesley most likely won't be here next season in the second division. Whatever we think of him, he sees himself as a Brazilian international.
Pretty good summing up of a sad situation.Hello Gentlemen,
Been a while since I have commented on here, but I still check in every now and then to get a feeling for thoughts and opinions from fellow Villans,
So much has happened since I last posted which I think was last time we got relegated, that pathetic team that whimpered to relegation under Eric Black after the Remi Garde debacle. I wanted Tim Sherwood to be the man to restore the glory days, then I so wanted it to be Dean Smith. Bruce in my opinion was always there to serve a purpose, settle us down after a succession of failed Managers and upheval.
That final whistle at Wembley last May felt like a new beginning and a wave of optimism followed throughout an exciting summer. Unfortunately life as a Villa fan is never that simple. All we crave or the vast majority of fans I associate with crave, is a team we can be proud of. Win, Lose or Draw a team that gives its all. I don't hold Smith completely accountable for this season, I think the man has been hamstrung by another 'new way' that stinks of Tom Fox and Paddy Reilly. That being said decisions tactically have been weak and I do believe he needs to reinvent himself.
We were promised a 'go for it' brand of football but for that you need players completely bought into a Managers philosophy. You need fit players and players that are hungry, we haven't got that. What we got is more lads who think they've made it the minute they sign on the dotted line at Bodymoor. How many of these have we seen in the last decade?
For me it was simple, lose Tammy and Axel you replace them with someone capable of banging in 15-20 goals a and someone quick alongside Mings who is a pure defender. We did neither.
I don't think a LB was a priority, Hause for the money we got him for competing with Taylor and Hutton, who I'd of kept for a season would have been fine. In my opinion it was criminal not signing the two Brentford lads Maupay and Benrahma. They were so key to the aggressive attacking style Smith wanted. So much money wasted, Again I shudder.
We are a team bereft of ideas other than give the ball to Jack. I think last night the fact that we were depending on Norwich to get us a result tells us everything we need to know.
So frustrating and so disappointing the ''GO'' we've had at it. These 5 games we have left in my opinion are the biggest 5 games in our recent history and the worst thing is we can't be there to support. I just pray we somehow get a divine intervention. Sorry for babbling... :)
Current form suggests Grealish will be sat alongside him next year. ..if United bother with either of them..Says it all really, someone we wanted to keep, United wanted him as a bench warmer. Not made the starting eleven once, but in fairness to him missed fifteen games with hip and hamstring injuries, and now not even in the match day squad.
I am assuming that if Jack goes there he will be mentally rejuvinated playing in a team where he is not expected to do it all, and win most weeks as opposed to losing.Current form suggests Grealish will be sat alongside him next year. ..if United bother with either of them..
Lets not get too down, all we have to do to survive is win three of the last four games. Simple.
It was poor showing once we went behind. I do think though we have one more chance, against Palace, to get back into it, but that will be tough a game, I said before they are a solid side and we are a shambles. We have to go for it, no playing it safe we need to throw the kitchen sink at it for 90 minutes, it’s do or die.I know,after the Manure mauling that we're no further away from safety (Ha!} but to me that's it...... DONE AND DUSTED.
There's no belief, no fight, nothing. It's all over bar the shouting.
Burrito - unless you can name other players available for the same fees or explain where the extra would come from - it's definitely hindsight mate.
El Ghazi, love or loath the glove wearing wimp is our 3rd highest goalscorer and our second highest assister.
Or spent the Mings and Trezeguet money on Cahill, Benrahma, Gayle and Maupay? (and probably still have some money left over).I love this deluded idea from some Villa fans I've spoken that we'll sack Dean Smith and hire some unicorn of a manager who is essentially the Championship version of Pep Guardiola but doesn't exist.
I'd like to think we put a run together to save our skins, but to be honest, there isn't any fight left in this team, and I can't see us scoring again let alone win another game. I've pretty much accepted our fate now.
I think probably the 2 biggest mistakes we've made this season was signing Trezeguet, that money plus a bit more should have gone into getting Benharma, but easy to say in hindsight. I think El Ghazi was also a mistake, we should have signed someone better, I think emotion of his goal in the final probably played more of a part there, but you could see he was too inconsistent in the Championship to make an impact in the PL for us. If only we had 2 wingers who could score and create something that would have been amazing!
I like Trez and Anwar. I think they'll do a job for us next year.