Strog Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 1 hour ago, GlobalVillan said: They have a new "Jude" thread every day. All saying how amazing he is and how proud they are. They have also convinced themselves that he will go back there in a few years when they are in the Champions League. Say what you want about their owners, but you have to give them credit for getting their fans to believe all their bollo*ks. It’s known as gaslighting…. …mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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turnbull Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 52 minutes ago, stewiek2 said: Post of the year. mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 17 hours ago, Demitri_C said: Can you imagine us congratulating grealish for winning premier league or champions league with city. I would be utterly embarrassed I swear bellingham only played two seasons in their first team as well? Its absolutely humiliating the way they going on like he did 10 years service ans did so much for them. Yeah it's very bizarre. Demari Gray was also someone who came through their youth set up and then was in their first team for a 18 months before he moved to Leicester in Jan 2016 and won the premier league. That's a far bigger achievement than Bellingham going to Real Madrid already on 14 Euro cups and winning a 15th. Just let them celebrate their "wins" which really have nothing to do with them while they ignore their losses that have put them in league one. Last 12 months they have quickly gone into denial mode with what we're achieving under Emery and the stuff Wagner is spouting so just let them continue believing it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Somebody said that blues fans were from Royston Vasey and then I took a look at this noses twitter handle... Ironically Jude isn't local. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strog Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 No doubt Bellendingham is a very good player, but the Blose academy was hardly know for its production line of top talent. He would have made it at pretty much any other clubs academy. It just goes to show the state of their club when this is all they have to crow about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 1 hour ago, TreeVillan said: Somebody said that blues fans were from Royston Vasey and then I took a look at this noses twitter handle... Ironically Jude isn't local. If this mug knew his history the first year of the senior cup final was contested by a team from Wednesbury and one from Wolverhampton. Next year Wednesbury and Shrewsbury. Even a team from bloody Long Eaton in Derbyshire won it one year. Leamington, Solihull all recent winners. Methinks he's trying to convince them not to answer as they think Stourbridge would probably beat them, being as Stourbridge are the bigger club 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 1 hour ago, Strog said: No doubt Bellendingham is a very good player, but the Blose academy was hardly know for its production line of top talent. He would have made it at pretty much any other clubs academy. It just goes to show the state of their club when this is all they have to crow about. Mm they have probably had a better academy than us in last 10-15 years. Bellingham, Gray, Redmond, Butland all international and had good careers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 2 minutes ago, Zatman said: Mm they have probably had a better academy than us in last 10-15 years. Bellingham, Gray, Redmond, Butland all international and had good careers Did you pull a muscle while reaching there? Nathan Redmond? I mean, he has one cap, from 2017. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 (edited) 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: Did you pull a muscle while reaching there? Nathan Redmond? I mean, he has one cap, from 2017. Also has 250 Premier League games under his belt Many things to mock them with but not the academy Edited June 2 by Zatman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 To be fair it's easier to bring players through in the Championship, that's our own fault as I feel we never used the loan system well but even Grealish only truly excelled once we were playing there. (Ignoring when he first burst on the scene as many young players do so and are found out). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 9 minutes ago, VillaAlex said: To be fair it's easier to bring players through in the Championship, that's our own fault as I feel we never used the loan system well but even Grealish only truly excelled once we were playing there. (Ignoring when he first burst on the scene as many young players do so and are found out). It's the worst thing we did down there, spunked money on championship players with no foresight as to whether or not they'd be good enough to play PL football, even just taking the £30m we spunked on kodjia and McCormack if we'd have gone shopping for the countries best U21 talents plus then our own guys like green and ohare we'd have been laughing But seemingly most promoted teams are the same and need a complete overhaul 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strog Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 44 minutes ago, Zatman said: Mm they have probably had a better academy than us in last 10-15 years. Bellingham, Gray, Redmond, Butland all international and had good careers I completely forgot about them and I wasn’t trying to compare our academy’s record. All the same it’s still a pathetic bit of grovelling from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 A couple of years ago they became the first club ever to have their academy stripped of it's cateogry 1 status, they only had that status for one year, of course they haven't had a better academy than us over the last ten or fifteen years, over the last five years or since whenever it was that Harrison and co came in we've had one of the best academies in the country If going to say that they've had a better academy than us because of Bellingham, Butland, and Redmond, then it should be qualified with they had a better academy than us because of those players for a spell five or ten years back, but even then I'm not sure it's true, in the same period we produced Grealish, Ramsey, Archer, Albrighton, and countless others who have had very good careers at Championship level They had a spell ten or so years back when Redmond, Gray, and Butland all came through around the same time, but over the last ten years the only two to come through of particular note have been the Bellingham brothers, who of course are very good players, especially Jude, but that in itself doesn't mean their academy has been better than ours, or even a good academy at all 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Should add Jordan James to the Bellingham brothers, but that doesn't change the overall point, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 I personally dont think we gove our youngsters a chance. We had opportunities to start kesler kellyman and timmy last season and we didnt despite injuries and fatigue. So maybe our academy isn't as good as we think. With blose their first team its generally shite so they have no option but to get their youngsters involved . Some work others dont. I think jordan james is one of their better recent ones 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 59 minutes ago, Zatman said: Mm they have probably had a better academy than us in last 10-15 years. Bellingham, Gray, Redmond, Butland all international and had good careers Last 15 years? Not a chance Off the top of my head in the last 15 years: Albrighton Baker Clark Grealish Ramsey brothers Chukwuemeka O'Hare Archer And a lot of others have had solid Championship/League 1 careers, (Graham, Johnson, Robinson) Just because they've had a once in a generational talent come through their academy doesn't mean they've had the better academy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 13 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: We had opportunities to start kesler kellyman 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted June 2 Popular Post Share Posted June 2 The thing that kills me is that as much as I'd love to dislike him, Bellingham seems like a really nice, grounded bloke, even in his interview after winning the CL, it's all about his parents and the sacrifices they made for him. He's a bluenose, but I bloody like him, he's a decent lad. Grealish, on the other hand, although he does a bit of the old charity, seems like an absolute word removed. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 5 minutes ago, Davkaus said: The thing that kills me is that as much as I'd love to dislike him, Bellingham seems like a really nice, grounded bloke, even in his interview after winning the CL, it's all about his parents and the sacrifices they made for him. He's a bluenose, but I bloody like him, he's a decent lad. Grealish, on the other hand, although he does a bit of the old charity, seems like an absolute word removed. Said a few times before his dad played for the same vets team as me, he was obviously a decent semi pro himself but more importantly he was high ranking cop in the west Mercia police, like 2nd or 3rd in charge kind of high up The lads are still in touch with him and make him sound like a great lad, he's had a proper upbringing, lived with his mom in Dortmund, kept his feet on the ground He's going to wind people up because he's a winner and seemingly aggressive with it making him look like a moaner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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