Genie Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 21 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Just curious how those injuries at City suddenly stopped. He has missed quite a few games at City through injury 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 Grealish was good for Villa, in terms of technique up there with the best. However for output, people like David Platt, Gareth Barry and Ashley Young were better. It is a difficult question as everyone has their opinions... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 Wonder how much game time he will get this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 14 minutes ago, Tommo_b said: Wonder how much game time he will get this season A lot of the Twitter fans(assume most are bots) have been saying they are sick of him so wonder have they soured on him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 What a Gentleman and a proper Brummie. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 "Gimme a sec, let me sort this barnet out" Proper brummie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 3 hours ago, villa4europe said: its how city dominate, they can rotate like no other team, don't rush anyone back, don't over play anyone as well as probably having better facilities and staff than us That’s fair enough and probably have the resources to invest in the absolute best conditioning for players (and maybe extras haha). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 6 hours ago, Zatman said: Promotion was the 2nd tier. Its an achievement but a lower standard. Be like City fans comparing Goater to Aguero Well it wouldn't be anything like that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 6 hours ago, bobzy said: Baller. Well that's all very impressive, but have you considered Shaun Goater for some reason? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 6 hours ago, Zatman said: Promotion was the 2nd tier. Its an achievement but a lower standard. Be like City fans comparing Goater to Aguero He was good in the first half of Premier League season but wasn't world class that season Well it wouldn't be like that because he continued that form into the PL all the way until it earned him a record move to the best team in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 1 minute ago, Keyblade said: Well it wouldn't be like that because he continued that form into the PL all the way until it earned him a record move to the best team in the world. Again he wasnt good the second half of the first season. It was spun that Smith only worked because of Grealish but it was Trezeguet, Hourihane, Luiz, Mings even Elmo who stood up the back end of that season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 6 minutes ago, Zatman said: Again he wasnt good the second half of the first season. It was spun that Smith only worked because of Grealish but it was Trezeguet, Hourihane, Luiz, Mings even Elmo who stood up the back end of that season Yeah, you're right. Grealish definitely not in the conversation of best Villa player ever - it was **** Trezeguet propping him up. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 I've supported Villa since around 1992 and I'm not just saying it cos he left, but in terms of ability, I'd not have him in my top 5 in that time. McGrath, Yorke, Merson, Barry & Benteke for me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 8 minutes ago, bobzy said: Yeah, you're right. Grealish definitely not in the conversation of best Villa player ever - it was **** Trezeguet propping him up. I am happy you made that up from my point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 15 minutes ago, Zatman said: Again he wasnt good the second half of the first season. It was spun that Smith only worked because of Grealish but it was Trezeguet, Hourihane, Luiz, Mings even Elmo who stood up the back end of that season He was still running the show. Any goal scored by the likes of Trezeguet or Hourihane, he was involved in. Not to mention, he literally scored the goal that kept us up on the final day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 2 minutes ago, Keyblade said: He was still running the show. Any goal scored by the likes of Trezeguet or Hourihane, he was involved in. Not to mention, he literally scored the goal that kept us up on the final day. We had a sort of overlapping period where we went from depending on Benteke to depending on Grealish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Keyblade said: He was still running the show. Any goal scored by the likes of Trezeguet or Hourihane, he was involved in. Not to mention, he literally scored the goal that kept us up on the final day. He had very little hand in the 3 goals Trezeguet scored that brought us out of the relegation zone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 1 minute ago, bobzy said: We had a sort of overlapping period where we went from depending on Benteke to depending on Grealish. It wasn't so much that he was scoring or assisting every week, but that his ability to bring the ball up the pitch, alleviate pressure and draw defenders just couldn't be replicated by anyone else in our team and it was crucial to the way we played. Thankfully now we have a system that doesn't rely on any one player's attributes (or at least not to that extent), so we're seeing that we're not completely capitulating despite injuries to Mings, Buendia, Ramsey and Moreno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 6 minutes ago, Zatman said: I am happy you made that up from my point If your point is that Trezeguet was a more important player in the second half 19/20 than Grealish I'm happy to clarify that that's also wrong, and indeed laughable, though you're going to struggle to top 'Grealish is Villa's Shaun Goater' as a take. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: If your point is that Trezeguet was a more important player in the second half 19/20 than Grealish I'm happy to clarify that that's also wrong, and indeed laughable, though you're going to struggle to top 'Grealish is Villa's Shaun Goater' as a take. No my point was that Grealish in 19/20 was not very good in the back end of the season. It was the so called lesser players that stood up to be counted after lockdown not Grealish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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