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  1. rubberman
    Go down - Jack goes. Stay up skin of our teeth - I'd say 50:50 Stay up 14th or above - definitely stay. In April Dean and the owners need to sit down with Jack and outline the future - what they will invest, level of players they want to buy and see if they can sell him the dream. As long as Villa are moving up it might be enough. But if we don't keep fast enough progression, then he needs to move on. But when he does, anywhere below City, Liverpool or the top European sides would be disappointing.
  2. rubberman
    Norwich are done. They have to get 2 more wins (+ overcome GD) than everyone above them. While 40 points would be good to get to, I still don't think that much will be needed. A lot of 6 pointers coming up.
  3. rubberman
    But maybe the selling club, if already not that keen on losing their star player, don't want to accept those terms. If we go down and have to sell Jack we're not likely to say to the buyers - sure pay us the £80m in a few years time - we'll need it for our own FFP purposes. Sure, it's possible, but pretty tricky to get through IMO.
  4. rubberman
    I had a go, but there are so many matches that could go either way between the bottom half I ended up giving everyone draws and it was a load of nonsense. Still such a long way to go and plenty that can change through injuries etc.
  5. rubberman
    God, I hope we get him back for the last few games. Will really sooth the nerves as we will no doubt be in full on squeaky-bum time.
  6. rubberman

    Louie Barry

    rubberman replied to Tom13's topic in Villa Talk

    For an English kid?
  7. rubberman
    Given that the simple transfer of a English 16 yr old, for relative peanuts, from a club happy to lose him, to a club where his former coach works and that his family support is still taking over a week to complete, I think it's unsurprising that top class forwards / first team starters have taken a bit longer. IMO.
  8. rubberman
    Think this is most likely. Really need to come out of the blocks fast and ideally score early to put them under pressure. And keep the ball away from Deeney.
  9. rubberman
    That's debatable!
  10. rubberman
    My feeling is he's not that keen and we are last resort, but also the only ones offering the right cash. So it will come down to the last few days and whether others up their offer - might still happen but unlikely.
  11. rubberman
    Terreur is usually accurate I think. From here
  12. rubberman
    Which one knocks the dominos over?
  13. rubberman
    Perhaps not bargain, but not that high relatively these days. And had he not got injured and scored 12-15 goals this season it would have been pretty decent.
  14. rubberman
    Like Wesley?
  15. rubberman
    The water is halfway up the vertical axis of the glass, but due to its increasing diameter as it rises and at the same time, its decreasing glass thickness, volume-wise it is definitely half empty.
  16. rubberman
    It's interesting to look at the performance of other summer signings that make ours look not that bad. Moise Kean, Pepe, Joelinton, Haller, etc- it's not easy to find a bargain - plenty of wasted cash about.
  17. rubberman
    Anyway - good news: it's wednesday tomorrow...#tapsnose.
  18. rubberman
    For the experience to be really valuable, it would have been better for an experienced journo to actually show him how to do an interview. But my point was that stories in clickbait local papers can literally be written by 16 year olds. I might ask him how fans reacted to this surprising transfer link....
  19. rubberman
    Exactly true. My 16 year old son did work experience at one of these and having gone in expecting to be photocopying and making tea, within 3 days he was sent out with a photographer to do an interview and write a story. #csb
  20. rubberman
    I meant in terms of backroom and support staff, which I would reckon still holds true.
  21. rubberman
    There are indeed two ways to look at it. Either the entire management, recruitment and scouting team of one of the biggest football clubs in the world are all useless. Or you're wrong and it's not that simple.
  22. rubberman
    Every window I think it'll be different, but every time the club is criticised for not getting in the best [insert position here] within a week for ££. Do you really think its that easy? Of course targets have been identified, but they all rely on agents, clubs, other players - the whole merry-go-round. We will do our business, but inevitably it is complicated. Having urgent needs makes it harder, not easier.
  23. rubberman
    You know it's 2020 now, right?
  24. rubberman
    We're 10 days into the window and have signed one player. Maybe wait and see how the rest of the month pans out before letting the despair set in.
  25. rubberman
    God, I hope we get some proper news today...
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