Tbf coming from Juve, most clubs in the prem are going to look average
but to put Palace as high as that is an outrage. They’re the Burnley of the London teams
As far as being used as "pawns" is a bit weak really.. We never had a bid accepted from the clubs to be "used". If anything, all our bids for JWP and ESR were real light weight (to their own valuation) and were hardly going to be accepted by the Arse and Southampton.
If we had the bids accepted and then the players turn around and signed the extensions then i would feel "used". As things stand, we bid low and both clubs panic and gave the players their desired extensions. Villa are not winners in this situation, but we ain't lost anything... We barely tried
We rattled our tiktaks and Arse and Southampton gave out contracts they didn't really want to.
I genuinely believe that our current crop of youngsters could be a golden like generation for Villa
I bloody hope so, we’re way over due a generation of top talented kids to come out of our academy
Nice run out for our second squad and youngsters.
AEG easy MOTM, easy to see why he gets picked for the first team over JPB.
no slite on JPB tho, he had a great game too
Archer, brilliant hat trick. 2nd best player tonight.
Carney, Ramsey and Caleb looked tidy too.
Can’t wait for all these youngsters to develop. I think our academy is due a golden generation… these kids could be it