GENTLEMAN Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) God. I cannot wait for the season to start. Edited June 21, 2021 by GENTLEMAN In a massively excited way 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Sign all the Argies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 33 minutes ago, Adam2003 said: Don’t know if it affects your view on this or not but both Grealish or Buendia will play central before JJ or Carney in any league game so you could say getting another body on the wing is just the same as getting one there. Personally I’m actually a step the other way and think Grealish - Buendia - Traore will be our starting line-up, and ESR won’t happen - if it did then I too might be moving on AEG but I think we are still one short as things stand. So we end up at the same conclusion using different workings. That’s why it’s so important to show your workings out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted June 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2021 Think this guy has been speaking to David Cameron? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 With rumour control blowing up, let’s pretend for a minute we signed some of these links. You could put together this ridiculously attacking team: ESR—————Watkins————Alvarez Grealish————JWP—————Buendia ———————Back 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 13 minutes ago, Awol said: With rumour control blowing up, let’s pretend for a minute we signed some of these links. You could put together this ridiculously attacking team: ESR—————Watkins————Alvarez Grealish————JWP—————Buendia ———————Back 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Watching vids of Alvarez and he appears to have the assets of a number 10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) Of course in videos like the above you’re usually watching the “best of” a player, but regardless he bloody loves a through ball and a perfectly weighted dink over the top or out into the channel. Nice technique on him, just depends how repeatable it is. Edited June 21, 2021 by dont_do_it_doug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 10 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Watching vids of Alvarez and he appears to have the assets of a number 10. Holy hell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 12 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Watching vids of Alvarez and he appears to have the assets of a number 10. In parts he definitely does yeah. When he starts putting through balls on the counter - yeah you can see it for sure. For me the majority of the time he reminds me as a potentially more versatile AEG. A lot of confidence, very direct and is happy to try a shot or run at a player. But also has the rawness - some of the shooting in particular reminds me of AEGs Burnley game. That said, he's 5 Years younger. So he should be raw. If he becomes a more versatile, better passing range version of AEG that actually fulfils his potential. It would be a hell of a find. Based on a 9min Youtube video of a guy I heard about 12 minutes ago, I'm in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarroki Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 31 minutes ago, Awol said: With rumour control blowing up, let’s pretend for a minute we signed some of these links. You could put together this ridiculously attacking team: ESR—————Watkins————Alvarez Grealish————JWP—————Buendia ———————Back 4 That's a lovely little rectangle of surnames you've put together there. God help that unnamed back 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Awol said: What does what say about the player? The fact that their in dreamland for the amount of money we are looking at buying him for...it doesn’t sound like he's that much of a valuable asset, he's still young mind you maybe we see a lot of potential in this young chap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 1 hour ago, villaglint said: Given the squad it’s needs and the club stating we are making a small number of moves I really don’t see us buying another RW. I think he will be used as a striker too so competing with Watkins id imagine and can play out wide if needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 20 minutes ago, skarroki said: That's a lovely little rectangle of surnames you've put together there. God help that unnamed back 4 Not really. We used to play a 3 of Jack, Hourihane and SJM. Jack does his share when sitting deeper, JWP is an amazing DCM and Buendia is very good defensively. ESR known for his aggressive pressing, as is Ollie - no idea about Alvarez. Not saying we’d ever set up like that, just that you could do it without committing suicide defensively and still have an unbelievable attacking threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 7 minutes ago, RicRic said: The fact that their in dreamland for the amount of money we are looking at buying him for...it doesn’t sound like he's that much of a valuable asset, he's still young mind you maybe we see a lot of potential in this young chap If you believe the fans at his club he’s one of the best young attacking talents in S America. They haven’t had the crazy price inflation seen in Europe (and especially the PL) yet. Madrid had him on trial years ago but were blocked from signing him by some rule on age restrictions - I don’t know the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wes Posted June 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2021 I can write up something longer on Alvarez tomorrow if there's interest but thought I'd mention that he is on the bench for Argentina's game against Paraguay tonight in the Copa America (which you can watch on the BBC Sport website). 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Get Juan Pablo to grease the tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 24 minutes ago, maqroll said: Get Juan Pablo to grease the tracks. We've got agents everywhere! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayk Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Quite excited by the link to Alvarez. Never heard of him until yesterday but from what I’ve seen on YooTube he looks exactly what we need which is a ST/RW. Funnily enough his style of play kind of reminds me of that Scottish play called Raschica…… Really hope this isn’t agents talk and that Beundia and Martinez do their part and persuade him to come to Villa over Ajax. Edited June 22, 2021 by rayk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 17 minutes ago, rayk said: Funnily enough his style of play kind of reminds me of that Scottish play called Raschica…… It's about time you paid more attention to geography in school lad. Scotland is nowhere near Kosovo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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