Yeah not ideal is it. I suppose the thing is he has 3 years on a contract rumoured to be between £120,000 and £160,000 PW. That means he'll be costing the club £18-25M if he sees out his contract here. Maybe the club think it's just best to cut their losses?
I think so
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Looking at their squad they only have 3 CBs so Hause is a good shout. As @useless says they already have good attacking players so not likely to be Davis or Archer
I still don't really get why they ripped up a team that finished top 4 and recently won a CL to replace it with a load of gambles. Sure the likes of Kante were getting older and probably needed replacing but they pretty much have a new squad. I understand they're going for young players with potential but they're not guaranteed to reach it and there doesn't seem enough experience around them (Silva excepted). For £1BN I would have expected a much higher calibre of player too. Now it might all come good eventually but you can't say it isn't a huge gamble.
Count me in as another who'd stop supporting Villa if they had owners like Newcastle. I know it wouldn't make a difference but at least my conscience would be clear and I wouldn't be complicit in the sports washing.
I think at Newcastle we did go something like this for the last half hour:
Konsa - Carlos - Pau
Cash Kamara Luiz Digne
It looks like it's something Unai is going to change to in certain situations considering we have seen it already in both matches. I wonder if he decided to do it v Everton once the game was won just to try and build some confidence and understanding with the shape rather than it being specifically for that situation.
I had McGinn and Digne as the better performers in the first half. The trip/slip I was referring to was by the halfway line so sounds like we might be thinking of different incidents.
Yeah against Newcastle they arguably got most of their joy after the switch. Today it made us look a bit disjointed too although that could have been all the substitutions.
Still it's obviously something Unai wants to work on considering he's trying it and hopefully it's just a case of the players getting to grips with it.
So it looks like plan B is a sort of 3-4-3 then? The last 2 matches we seem to have gone to 3 central defenders and wingbacks for the last 20-30 minutes.