The Fear
A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Single most impressive thing you've ever posted McParland, totally agree.
The nonsense is what you have spouted here! I never stated the only decent player we have is JG, I stated that we would be in a relegation battle if we hadn't had JG earlier in the season. I also clearly imply that quality should have been purchased ELGhazi, TRez & Traore are not.So even with the benefit of hindsight and not being bound by reality you can only tell us a couple of players you wouldn't have signed, but not any that you would. I put it to you that unless you make a better case for how you'd spend that money to get that Championship squad to mid-table Prem in a year and a half, you might do well to drop the "£250m and our only good player is Jack" nonsense.
Jack being the only good player apart from Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Targett, Luiz, Traore (on his day), most likely Sanson for next season and Ollie Watkins, of course.
No YOU smell.The nonsense is what you have spouted here! I never stated the only decent player we have is JG, I stated that we would be in a relegation battle if we hadn't had JG earlier in the season. I also clearly imply that quality should have been purchased ELGhazi, TRez & Traore are not.
well I wouldn't have bought Elghazi, Trez & Traore that's for sure. I would have spent on quality - we wont recoup near the outlay on any of them.
Funny you should say that, I don't think it worked out well at all.
(yes yes, my sarcasm mode was on, I got your point!)
All credit to Dean for getting the best out of Jack but what about the large chunk of the season he’s missed? Of course we need to be able to play without him.Crikey after reading some of the posts on the last few pages if Villa were to miraculously win the title against all the odds, like Leicester, next season with Jack playing every game, I’m certain there will be one or two who will respond with....’Ah but we’ve only won it because Jack has played all season...Dean has to prove he can manage without us him...’ Can’t we just enjoy and embrace the fact that Jack is a wonderful talent and Dean Smith is the manager who’s managed to get every ounce out of him and more since being at the club?! Don’t think that suits the narrative of one or two perhaps but surely, nobody can argue that Dean Smith hasn’t helped to bring out the very best in Jack. For that alone he deserves a smidgen of credit from his most fiercest of critics.
Please focus on 2020 and ideally the opening 7 games (bar 2 of them)All credit to Dean for getting the best out of Jack but what about the large chunk of the season he’s missed? Of course we need to be able to play without him.
Crikey after reading some of the posts on the last few pages if Villa were to miraculously win the title against all the odds, like Leicester, next season with Jack playing every game, I’m certain there will be one or two who will respond with....’Ah but we’ve only won it because Jack has played all season...Dean has to prove he can manage without us him...’ Can’t we just enjoy and embrace the fact that Jack is a wonderful talent and Dean Smith is the manager who’s managed to get every ounce out of him and more since being at the club?! Don’t think that suits the narrative of one or two perhaps but surely, nobody can argue that Dean Smith hasn’t helped to bring out the very best in Jack. For that alone he deserves a smidgen of credit from his most fiercest of critics.
Ah but what would happen to us without Deano. ? We wouldn't have got promoted or managed to stay up last season.
All credit to Dean for getting the best out of Jack but what about the large chunk of the season he’s missed? Of course we need to be able to play without him.
I can just about defend the purchases of Ghazi and Trez. But not Traore . I draw the line there. Shocking investment.
Ghazi goal at Wembley got us upThe only difference between AEG, Trez and Bert is Bert looks like a 16MM signing every now and then. AEG and Trez always look every bit an 8MM or 9MM signing.
Traore did nothing to get us promoted or keep us up last season, I can't argue with that.Ghazi goal at Wembley got us up
Trez's goals kept us up
We've had good value out of them both in that sense . Traore is yet to pay for himself , not even close
Please focus on 2020 and ideally the opening 7 games (bar 2 of them)
Traore did nothing to get us promoted or keep us up last season, I can't argue with that.