The Emi Buendia Thread

[Villan57]

Deflated me a bit , I thought we'd save the 10 for Lionel or Li as I call I'm

 

[JuanPabloAngel]

I hope that was tongue in cheek! Perfect choice. The king is dead, long live the king…

It was.

 

[Villa 4 Ever]

Buendia’s quietly confident of smashing that N10 and being one of the most feared in the league, lads going to be quality, he’ll be our new guy of get the ball to him and make things happen, he’ll get 15+ assists this season.

 

[ironside]

Danny Murphy really praising him up. One interesting stat he put in was the fact that he created 29 chances for his Norwich team mates in 2019. And that was just in December.

 

[Silhillvilla]

How long is he out injured for ?

 

[Fulford]

If he's out injured for a while we are in the brown stuff.

 

[Silhillvilla]

If he's out injured for a while we are in the brown stuff.

Very little creativity in the midfield

 

[overlookedvillan]

Our strikers are going to need to be ruthless with him out (bailey not even in Birmingham yet and Traore not at full fitness too)

 

[Fulford]

Our strikers are going to need to be ruthless with him out (bailey not even in Birmingham yet and Traore not at full fitness too)

To be ruthless they need someone to feed them.

 

[sirdennis]

Well he trained yesterday at Villa Park so if he has a knock it must be just a precaution he isn't playing.

 

[McParlandTheGreat]

Certainly looked OK yesterday.

 

[Silhillvilla]

That's good news hopefully he's available for Saturday

 

[Bonker]

Evening.

We got my man then - I did assume as soon as I heard the news that it meant Jack was off and so it was but so be it.

Really hopeful that Buendia can replicate the PL form he showed a couple of years back when Norwich were relegated - a couple of terrific passes in a recent friendly showing why I thought he would instantly be the best passer of the ball at the club.

That's not a particularly high bar to reach IMO but nevertheless, with the added firepower/nouse of Ings (GREAT signing IMO) and Bailey ahead of him then hopefully our build-up play can be a bit less tortuous than it was at times last season.

 

[Silhillvilla]

Hopefully he is fit enough to start on Saturday

 

[GreensladeUTV]

Hopefully he is fit enough to start on Saturday

I hope so, he's in my FPL team

 

[Stephen Jay Hawkings]

I hope so, he's in my FPL team

Me too, and Watkins, and both are in the yellow on FF but I'd imagine they'll be ok.

 

[McParlandTheGreat]

Dean said they'd have bought Buendia whether or not *! was leaving.

 

[Silhillvilla]

Well as debuts go, that is up there with Ugo Ehiougs debut . What an absolute car crash performance from Buendia , looked like a competition winner was on the pitch. His lack of physicality was the most worrying for me , he is so easily brushed off the ball its untrue. Shocked that he is our record signing.

 

[AV Dave]

Buendia was bought because what he did at Norwich would benefit us, why would you want to play him any different? i have no doubts we have bought a good player in him, just play to his strengths.

 

[Silhillvilla]

Buendia was bought because what he did at Norwich would benefit us, why would you want to play him any different? i have no doubts we have bought a good player in him, just play to his strengths.

agree, whatever his strengths are then play to them. I honestly never watched Norwich games other than when we did the double over them 5-1 and 2-1 and i dont even remember Buendia playing, or Cantwell