fightoffyour Posted August 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 10, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, messi11 said: Couldn't sell bottles of water in a dessert, Would loan the bottles tho. I have spotted a dick Edited August 10, 2022 by fightoffyour 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Christ! Nobody is safe from the wrath at the moment. Everyone out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 22 minutes ago, jim said: Christ! Nobody is safe from the aimless witterings (on every single god dammed pixel of every gif dammed thread) of Messi11 at the moment. Everyone out! Fixed this for you sir 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Still hope Lange has a direct line to owners, bypassing Purslow. We're in a relegation battle under this idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 GET HIM OUT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Gets off lightly. Not sure what his job is to be honest anymore other than just randomly choosing well known players and giving them astronomical wage packets. What is he doing that we all couldn’t? Genuinely? I see more scouting in our transfer thread than what goes on at Villa. Has it honestly taken 3 months of enquiries, negotiation, scouting etc. to land on Watfords Ismailia Sarr? Laughable. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Gets off lightly. Not sure what his job is to be honest anymore other than just randomly choosing well known players and giving them astronomical wage packets. What is he doing that we all couldn’t? Genuinely? I see more scouting in our transfer thread than what goes on at Villa. Has it honestly taken 3 months of enquiries, negotiation, scouting etc. to land on Watfords Ismailia Sarr? Laughable. It's easy to not sign shit players. It's easy to not sign players who don't fit your formation. It's easy not to sign players who we'll be releasing for nothing at the end of their contract. What the hell we've been doing suddenly buying 29 and 30 year olds is mad. Absolutely mad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) How has he managed to not land any Danish players despite his contacts and missed opportunities to land the likes of Damsgaard? What is he actually being paid to do? Edited August 21, 2022 by Tayls 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, Tayls said: How has he managed to not land any Danish players despite his contacts and missed opportunities to land the likes of Damsgaard? What is he actually being paid to do? Sign footballers we've all heard of for inflated prices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By the arse of McGinn Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 This guy has me seriously concerned. The shift in transfer policy to older players is not a good one. I think we do our scouting on FIFA 22. Now we go after a winger when we don’t play with wingers, I kind of hoped we’d learned to actually buy players that we need by now. It’s as silly as a bum full of Smarties. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaParkAvenue Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 23 minutes ago, By the arse of McGinn said: This guy has me seriously concerned. The shift in transfer policy to older players is not a good one. I think we do our scouting on FIFA 22. Now we go after a winger when we don’t play with wingers, I kind of hoped we’d learned to actually buy players that we need by now. It’s as silly as a bum full of Smarties. The shift in the policy to sign more older players is hardly Lange’s choice though. Purslow has been quoted saying Gerrard asked him to ”take the age structure up a bit” (something like that). Gerrard wanted quick fixes and older players on high wages are seen as that. Purslow gave his blessings. My view of Lange is that he keeps out of the way as much as possible, does whatever someone tells him to do and is happy to hold down a well paying job. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, VillaParkAvenue said: The shift in the policy to sign more older players is hardly Lange’s choice though. Purslow has been quoted saying Gerrard asked him to ”take the age structure up a bit” (something like that). Gerrard wanted quick fixes and older players on high wages are seen as that. Purslow gave his blessings. My view of Lange is that he keeps out of the way as much as possible, does whatever someone tells him to do and is happy to hold down a well paying job. If we had bought a load of young players you could swallow it. They're young, they'll develop, we will get our money back, or they'll kick on. There is something to buy into. We've bought way too many players, on the biggest deal of their career who won't kick on, we won't sell and they aren't going to improve no matter what. I'm so angry we've binned all that good work. Edited August 21, 2022 by rodders0223 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Gets off lightly. Not sure what his job is to be honest anymore other than just randomly choosing well known players and giving them astronomical wage packets. What is he doing that we all couldn’t? Genuinely? I see more scouting in our transfer thread than what goes on at Villa. Has it honestly taken 3 months of enquiries, negotiation, scouting etc. to land on Watfords Ismailia Sarr? Laughable. I think generally he has cut some decent deals. But from a squad building strategy and recruitment perspective it's not been cohesive. From buying random players that don't fit a system to revamping a stats-based recruitment team which we don't appear to be utilising, as anyone could call those signing. Where are the diamonds in the rough that other clubs seem to make?! It just seems a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Gets off lightly. Not sure what his job is to be honest anymore other than just randomly choosing well known players and giving them astronomical wage packets. What is he doing that we all couldn’t? Genuinely? I see more scouting in our transfer thread than what goes on at Villa. Has it honestly taken 3 months of enquiries, negotiation, scouting etc. to land on Watfords Ismailia Sarr? Laughable. Spot on. Where is Lange's eye for talent. Time for him to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By the arse of McGinn Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, VillaParkAvenue said: The shift in the policy to sign more older players is hardly Lange’s choice though. Purslow has been quoted saying Gerrard asked him to ”take the age structure up a bit” (something like that). Gerrard wanted quick fixes and older players on high wages are seen as that. Purslow gave his blessings. My view of Lange is that he keeps out of the way as much as possible, does whatever someone tells him to do and is happy to hold down a well paying job. In that case, we should’ve brought in a manager that fitted the club policy of buying talent with a potential to improve and in turn, sell without loss if they didn’t work out. The irony is that the position we needed the most (CDM) is where we’ve signed the youngest player. Tearing up the rule book to suit a relatively untested manager is commercial suicide…..and on this evidence doesn’t work. Edited August 21, 2022 by By the arse of McGinn Spelling correction 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Is all of our signings Lange's targets though? Im not so sure anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 4 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Is all of our signings Lange's targets though? Im not so sure anymore. Same here mate. I think Coutinho and Digne were Gerrard choices. Probably Chambers too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Out of the £200m odd we’ve spent under his guidance, is Buendia the only “success” (and even then he’s inconsistent as ****)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 My avatar may have to change! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 45 minutes ago, Spoony said: Out of the £200m odd we’ve spent under his guidance, is Buendia the only “success” (and even then he’s inconsistent as ****)? The youth set up is also under his guidance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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