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That can’t be true, surely. You taking the Michael?
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I’m over Alan.
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People should also remember that we are amongst the few who have actually done business so far. Wait til the big boys get started. I doubt Mings transfer will be within the top 5 even for defenders this year. Maguire for £85 Million. Maguire. Eighty. Five. Freaking. Million.
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Fair. I’d prefer this discussion over self flagellation about money though. I’m just glad he’s here.
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Different circumstances, different test. It was as much Jack’s return to the side which sparked the crazy winning spree as his captainship, and you’d best believe Jack doesn’t need motivation to play for the Villa.
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Fair point. We need leaders throughout obviously. Think we’re short in this regard atm. Need a ball winning midfielder.
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Get what you’re saying but my reasoning is this- we’ve come from the championship where we were winning 3-4 games out of 5. Jack was one of the best technically in the league. We could have the luxury of a ‘lead-by-example’ captain. Now I reckon for the first season in the Prem we’re gonna get battered by 3 out of 5. We need someone as captain who is gonna be able to marshall a team with low morale, and dish out a verbal kicking or two when the time requires. As much as I love Jack, of course.
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Get in! Great news. He’s gotta be captain for me. Plus we can actually field a defence now, which is awesome. Don’t get the negativity with the fee. Crazy or not, that’s what players cost now. We don’t wanna sell the family jewels, but equally we shouldn’t tight-arse our way straight back into the p**sing championship again.
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Yeah that was the only solace in a fairly depressing update.
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What’s John Percy’s history? Anyone know?
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Ach, it’s just business. With Levy just expect douchery and factor it into your dealings with him.
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Hope the Sturridge link is garbage. If true, it means we have learned nothing over the last 5 years. I don’t expect it to be kosher though.
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I think we get that, but the stress is coming from the fact that we’re not just tweaking or adding strength to an established team, we still have to build the spine of the team virtually from scratch. We have hardly any defenders, and no defensive minded midfielders who are gonna be able to cut it in the prem. You mention three players in your post. We still need around SIX first teamers or we’re gonna set all time goals conceded records next year.
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At the minute Kortney is going to have to Mcginn things up a bit and be two centre backs simultaneously for the US tour.
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So if the recent photos are correct, this mockup looks almost exactly like the actual kit? Aside from the sponsor colour. Not sure I liked it from the low res image, but when the diagonal stripes are factored in, very nice. That third kit is wicked too. I had the old Muller away kit, and I think I might have to shake the piggy bank for that one. Awesome.
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I do like this kit and wore it loads back in the day. Thought the quality of the nike stuff was decent. Think the shade of claret was wrong though. Too red, too bright. If it was the kit above with last years colour, I would love it.
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Finally get to say welcome to the big man. Hope he wears No. 9 and bangs in a metric cack-ton of goals.
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I took that to mean that he thought that we were one of the 'more outstanding clubs' tbh. HKP90 likes a bit of third person.
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I quite liked Bannon. I thought he was a little one-dimensional, but thought he could do a job as part of a system. I grew up with Savo, and even though looking back he was a bit pants, I loved him to bits. Talking with my Dad before each game we’d always say ‘today’s the day’ ‘he’s gonna get a hatful today’ and ‘he’ll kick on now he’s scored a lucky shinner from 3 yards’. We were always wrong. Except twice (you’ll remember when). In fairness, I reckon his hold up play was pretty decent, and Yorke was a great foil. Delfouneso, i’m afraid I never had much time for. Never really seemed to excel in any area when I saw him. Wasn’t rubbish, just a bit meh really. Although I never saw him all that much in real life, cos I couldn’t get to games much during his time.
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Agreed. I couldn’t be happier with the business we’ve done so far, it’s just that I’m impatient, and wish we’d done more. To be fair, that’s probably why we’ve done good business. If I was in charge we’d have probably bought the Brentford and Bristol City squads for half a billion. I’m an idiot, but DS/the board are clearly not. Bring on the next few weeks!
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With due respect to all involved I think that if we go into a Premier League season expecting RHM to score the goals that keep us up, we’ll be playing Brentford (with their new starting 11) the following year.
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To be fair most other teams actually already have a defence of some kind.
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Nice one, welcome Matt. Have a good feeling about this one. We might actually have decent fullbacks
