Peter Griffin

I think we are underachieving if we don't finish top 10 this season. If we look at it on the 9 games so far I would also say we are underachieving as 1.1 points per game is not good enough. So to get back on track we need to do some overachieving imo

What game have we not used 5 at the back?

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CP symbolised the man that managed to sell Liverpool at a profit to the sellers while getting great new buyers. The job of a CEO!

IMO, that was inspired. Purslow was tasked with selling Liverpool. What better manager could you get that would keep the ship afloat and not ask for money to spend

He would get a statue at Watford if he lasted 134 games there

The concern is that it is not just that game though. We are 9 games into the season and still flogging the same dead horse. Yes, 5 at the back is the right choice for some games but not for all of them.

Agreed, he was a much bigger loss than Raul

Oh to have been born with a footballing talent. Jack earns in a week about the same as Purslow in a year

https://www.spotrac.com/Premier League/payroll/ Not sure how reliable it is but it has us 11th, ahead of Wolves and Toon and the others to be expected. Palace appear have a high wage bill

If NSWE wanted him to help build Vegas Villans I would think it more likely that he keeps his role at Villa and would have the CEO of Vegas Villans report into him. AVFC is the more important brand and club and I would think he would be kept were it is most important. I would think Newcastle would love him but he has golden handcuffs on. He 'only' earns about 440k a year in salary (as of 2019) but he has an equity in Aston Villa. It would be reasonable to assume that he didn't buy into the club and that he was awarded shares. These shares are most likely time based before he can realise their value and you normally need to be still an employee to get your annual allotment of shares. I would think it would take an awful lot to tempt him away from Villa

I don't think anyone is suggesting he gets the sack after 3 losses

I would hope that relegation is not something for Villa fans to be concerning themselves with this season

A few things Purslow has done that haven't been mentioned - Successfully and in a compliant way sold Villa Park to an NSWE holding company - Agreed with and persuaded NSWE to invest the funds they have done since acquisition, NSWE would have had to be sold on the plan and strategy - Managed the dilution of Xia's shares to the extent that he is no longer a shareholder - Managed the reorganisation of the company structure and ownership (which has been extensive) - Completely changed the senior management team - Increased non footballing commercial revenue

I would think a good CEO should be fairly quiet, if he is in the media a lot there is something wrong. I think Purslow has been outstanding as CEO of Villa. What is it that he has failed to deliver and even under delivered on?

CEO is the most important position at the club imo

You really can't help yourself with the narrative and twisting of my comments. The addition of 'focus', that is just BS and another attempt by you to misrepresent. Show me where I have said I wasn't pleased with the improvement last year (you won't be able to find this as I never said it).

This. 100%

DC Would you not be better putting the effort into something else than stalking my comments looking for something to try and push your agenda and what's worse is if you can't find anything you just make it up.

I agree it will take a bit of time to get right, I didn't expect it to happen overnight. I also like the players we have recruited but the jury is still out on whether we have a bit of imbalance between our attacking and defensive players. I can't help but think we could be better off swapping an attacking player for a more defensive player. The closer to top 6 as opposed to relegation is always going to be tight at this stage in the season. The max points any team can have is 27 so the 6 teams haven't pulled away yet. But we are only returning 1.1 per game and I am not happy with that, I would want to see us at about 1.4 points per game. I agree DS has credit in the bank but that credit won't last too long and tbh I don't want us to get to a situation where his job is safe because of the credit he has in the bank as that means we are doing badly. I think he is feeling the pressure and his persistence with a back 5 in every game is just giving people a stick to beat him with. I hope he can fix this and I hope he starts picking up some points but the big thing for me is to see Smith look tactically astute with team selection and very importantly during a game. We should not be playing the same formation in every game. This is wrong and an error Smith keeps making. We need to be able to adapt to the team we are playing and he is not doing this.

There is a big range in results giving a top half finish and results that are in or about relegation form. I said I expected results to dip without Jack, but not to the extent that they did. I said I believed we should have picked up more points without him. The concern is that the team couldn't work as a team without him, we looked clueless and it was a repeat of when we lost Jack during the promotion season. It is concerning that Dean was not able to put out a team in a system that got us more points and an even bigger concern that it wasn't the first time. I appreciate that it is difficult to Deano. You have a 100m player and u want to utilise him as much as you can. Everything was directed via Jack and there was no plan B for what happens without Jack. I feel we are going through this challenging period for a 3rd time now with Smith and the signs of improvement are not too evident. We do not have a system, we do not play with cohesion and we don't know how to play Ollie and Ings and our current points tally is close to relegation points.

I assume you are referring to last season? If so, no, I don't think we would be top half without Jack. He was definitely a big player for us.

If our points tally for the 2nd half of last season was predictable then we have very different expectation for Villa. We were dire and imo we scored fewer points that we should have. I will concede that we were consistent but we were consistently very poor, that is not the type of consistency I am looking for

It is not that I am looking for a theoretical pattern, I am looking for consistency from the team and the ability to compete without a single player. I have no problem our performances dipping when we lose our best player but they went off the cliff. Smith wasn't able to get results without Jack in the team. I see that as a concern. Consistency and predictability in performances is far better than being like Jekyll and Hyde

Nobody is was a bad points toll, and as it was me that made the comment can I ask you to please refrain from continuing to make things up that I said. I said getting 55 points with 1 excellent half to the season and one terrible half of the season is not as good than getting the points over the course of the season and particularly so when it looks like we were dependent on one player and that player is not longer at the club. We can have different views and opinions but please try and be honest with what you post