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9 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said:

I like the media to think that way right now. Let’s keep winning and let them think what they want. 
A Liverpool fan wrote something yesterday and said (to know how bad Liverpool is doing, look at Villa who sacked their manager for being bad and they’re only a point to Liverpool). 
Most of people just look at the table, they don’t look into details. No one look at our position before Gerrard was sacked. No one think about how a lot of easy points were lost because of Gerrard. But if we can hopefully beat Leicester, we’ll most likely get above one or two teams, they’ll start considering us. 

Yeah I agree, it's just hilarious. Obv still sore we turned over Man Utd and Spurs

3 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said:

There is a chance in catching Spurs, why don’t we take it? If it’s top 10 Brentford would be enough to overtake them. But as long as we have a chance for Europe we should play for it. 
Fulham will lose points, but we need Spurs to continue their bad form. 

We need to make sure we don't get relegated first according to Sky Sports!

25 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

Barely played a game all season in fact I don't think he's played any minutes at all apart from a few sub minutes.

A boro team that are flying and people think Archer should rock up there and immediately start.

The arrogance of the PL.

 

I guess it’s more that we could’ve picked a better club where he was more likely to get minutes 

21 minutes ago, Rustibrooks said:

 

There has been no discussion between the two clubs since the start of the transfer window … it is not relevant for the moment
 

I’m sure this journalist is very reliable, sounds like it’s not that close unfortunately

Sounds like something a club trying to find a replacement would say

I think the target will be for him to debut towards the end of the season, no rush

Dembele has a record of 29 scored and 6 missed so I imagine he would step up if we bring him in

13 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Villatalk unaited backing a manager  is great to see 

I see what you did there. Emeryone supporting Unai!

Just can't believe we've got him after all the shit we've been through over the last few years

I think if he's in the squad for Palace that'd be a huge win for us

18 minutes ago, DJBOB said:

Carried the ball well and got stuck in defensively. Bailey should have finished the ball from him and he missed some other passes. 
 
Still getting up to speed from his layoff but much needed in the side. 

yeah he's definitely still shaking off some rust 

9 minutes ago, TRO said:

about time, are we getting all benevolent, when we have had some howlers go against us, in the past.

exactly this, VAR is awful all round so gotta take the good with the bad

1 hour ago, est1874 said:

And what stops someone else stealing him?

I maintain selling Ings first was not smart.

Yeah that’s a fair point, wasn’t sure that was the angle you were initially coming at it from 

23 minutes ago, Xela said:

If we can get in Dembele, Deulofeu and Guendouzi in, it would be a success. 

Summer can then be reserved for bigger ticket purchases - Torres maybe? Or a statement centre forward. 

Would we still look at Merino? Or is Guendouzi the alternative?

Can’t imagine we’d go for both Guendouzi and Merino unless we are targeting incredible depth

4 minutes ago, est1874 said:

That's fair. My only issue is that we should have done the business before agreeing to sell Ings. Not exactly leaving ourselves in a strong bargaining position right now. I actually have no clue why Lyon would agree to £3m if true that Emery wants him so much. 

They lose him for nothing in 6 months so they don’t really have a leg to stand on.

we can agree a contract with him now so it’s basically free money for them, they also get his wages off the books

23 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Why are we all making up salaries for players. It's rife on here and everyone is incorrect. Everyone because it's non public data

Did you miss it where all the players forked over their payslips?

5 minutes ago, nick76 said:

It’s not unreasonable, to have trust in Emery but question the acquisition of certain players. 

Nah I get that, and I understand it’s a forum for discussion.

Its the more ‘outraged’ reactions I can’t understand, the man knows how to build a squad. 

Just now, The_Steve said:

I just find it odd that sections of the fan base were so keen on Danjuma despite Unai not being keen. Yet, we are seemingly keen on Dembele and that’s somehow bad?! Hard to keep up. 

Seeing a lot of ‘Trust Unai implicitly but why is he signing X and Y’ 

31 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Lucas Digne	fr FRA	DF	29	£ 160,000 (€ 181,166, $192,482)	£ 8,320,000 (€ 9,420,655, $10,009,038)

It's £160k and $192k which is verified on fbref.

Aston Villa Wage Details, All Competitions | FBref.com

this isn’t a dig but what does verified mean? Did Digne send in a wage slip?

His goals per 90 is actually pretty good for reference, devils advocate and all that…

The only journalists who may know what we are doing are Percy and Collomosse

Andy Grays son hinting at an incoming transfer 

3 minutes ago, Indigo said:

To be fair I'm seeing more people reference people panicking than I am seeing any actual panicking.

Most of the panicking was done in the Danny Ings thread tbf 

2 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

He is 30 people. 

Stop putting that he's 31 to try and further emphasize your points. He's 30. 

He’s quite clearly 38 and has been lying about his age this whole time in my opinion 

Weighing up the sale of Ings is all a bit pointless until we have the full picture I.e who we may or may not replace him with

Just now, WallisFrizz said:

West Ham buying both seemingly.

Bournemouth owners also own 33% of Lorient so they’d be absolutely nuts to sell Moffi to a relegation rival