Aston Villa Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2019/2020

CSF

Think it might have been a bit more useful to keep in reserve until after we won a game I do not suspect the extent of Hourihane’s delight is merely to play in the Premier League but the tweet kind of reads that way.

Here’s hoping there are plenty more milestones to come in Conor proving people wrong.

artanevilla

I think he'd be better off not remembering negative tweets from 2014.

Brussels Sprout

Any word on why Guilbert wasn't in the squad?

LeBash

Purslow is on sky sports news now if anyone is interested

Esse85

LeBash wrote: »

Purslow is on sky sports news now if anyone is interested

Missed it, what did he say?

LeBash

Esse85 wrote: »

Missed it, what did he say?

Quite a lot as usual.

When asked about the money spent, he said it was 120 million, average of 10 million per player is what he kept stressing but did say there was add ons.

Was asked where he expected to see Villa at the end of the season and when pressed he responded "I'd be delighted to see us finish just outside the top 6".

Talked about why he brought in a sporting director etc.

Always comes across as a shrewd bloke but he knows it and likes to rub it is. Every answer started with "that's a very good question" except when asked was he involved in McGinn signing where he said "that's not a good question at all".

Said hes not happy with the timing of the window because it big Spanish teams can still poach players.

sc86

Surprised tammy is getting so much game time at chelsea

Bounty Hunter

sc86 wrote: »

Surprised tammy is getting so much game time at chelsea

I think a CF will be the first signing Chelsea will look to make when they can make signings but until then Lampard is hanging his hat on youth development so Tammy will see plenty of game time, especially with them having European games too.

From the pool thread

citytillidie wrote: »

Last 3 English winners of the Super cup are ............

2001 Liverpool
2005 Liverpool
2019 Liverpool

Total number of English winners 8, 4 of them from Liverpool

1 of those, Aston Villa defeating Barcelona 3-1 over two legs!

Corholio

Chester, Hause and Kodjia all out of Bournemouth game. Kodjia out for 10-12 days.

CSF

Corholio wrote: »

Chester, Hause and Kodjia all out of Bournemouth game. Kodjia out for 10-12 days.

None of them would have started anyway I think.

Panrich

CSF wrote: »

None of them would have started anyway I think.

So Davis on the bench then. It shows we’re short of genuine quality up front. Wesley has a lot to prove and the others were not doing it last season in the championship. Do we have any youth players waiting to come in for even a cameo role?

CSF

Panrich wrote: »

So Davis on the bench then. It shows we’re short of genuine quality up front. Wesley has a lot to prove and the others were not doing it last season in the championship. Do we have any youth players waiting to come in for even a cameo role?

Not sure there is, no. I’d have Davis ahead of Kodjia in the pecking order, personally. Think there’s a player there if given a chance. Obviously the Premier League is tougher for him to get that chance.

GHOST MGG

Kodjia is out injured for 5 weeks with a high up ankle strain,Leaves us very tight up front,not signing maupay is really coming back to bite us.
Off topic a bit but the abuse poor tammy is getting both verbal and racist is a disgrace on social media,kick it out is investigating

remoteboy

Rumours of Kodjia off to Besiktas floating around. Would be madness to sell him at this point.

Ronan Raver77

remoteboy wrote: »

Rumours of Kodjia off to Besiktas floating around. Would be madness to sell him at this point.

Yea madness to sell him.. too tight up front and window closed. Nobody decent free agent either.

pavb2

Tomorrow's game should be a better measure of where we are compared to last week's game against Spurs.

To stay and succeed in this division we need to have a strong home form so I'm hoping we show more attacking intent and performance and hopefully a 3 -1 win.

POKERKING

Ronan Raver77 wrote: »

Yea madness to sell him.. too tight up front and window closed. Nobody decent free agent either.

Sturridge llorente?

Esse85

POKERKING wrote: »

Ronan Raver77 wrote: »

Yea madness to sell him.. too tight up front and window closed. Nobody decent free agent either.

Sturridge llorente?

I'd say both would want over €100k weekly, and they've no hunger.
Both are likely behind in terms of fitness.

I'd say no thanks.

LeBash

Esse85 wrote: »

I'd say both would want over €100k weekly, and they've no hunger.
Both are likely behind in terms of fitness.

I'd say no thanks.

Any club signing either on anything other than a pay as you play contract would be nuts and or desperate.

I'd like to see a count on how many games Sturridge was unavailable for at liverpool.

Doodee

LeBash wrote: »

Esse85 wrote: »

I'd say both would want over €100k weekly, and they've no hunger.
Both are likely behind in terms of fitness.

I'd say no thanks.

Any club signing either on anything other than a pay as you play contract would be nuts and or desperate.

I'd like to see a count on how many games Sturridge was unavailable for at liverpool.

Balotelli so

LeBash

Doodee wrote: »

Balotelli so

Nah, Duffys circus have him in for a medical.

matrim

Luiz in for Hourihane but otherwise same as last week

Bounty Hunter

Soo much easier to get streams for Premiership games


Cmon lads time for the first (home) win of the season! Expecting a big game from Grealish & Wesley and hopefully Luiz can impress on his full debut

JPA

1 down.

Bounty Hunter

Well that wasn’t ideal

davycc

Spurs fan here hopefully you can destroy Bournemouth today and get your season up flying!
As an Irish fan I'm praying hourihan keeps up his more than impressive couple of seasons with Ye. ...

JPA

2 down, this is not going well.

Patser

Starting to miss championship

Corholio

Luiz at fault unfortunately for the 2nd. Rough start. Wilson shot took a big deflection.

Bounty Hunter

2 mistakes, a penalty and a deflection and 2 down, not how I was expecting this to start... Next goal has to be a Villa one

Panrich

We'll see which players are up for the fight now.

JPA

I'd say the team is setup wrong. The management were going for an attacking lineup but Luiz is being left with too much work to do with Grealish and Mcginn pushing on.

Working fairly well on the attack but can be opened too easily in the counter.

Corholio

Billing should be off for that. 2nd yellow for sure.

Pity about the nightmare start, grown into it the last 15 min or so.

JPA

Corholio wrote: »

Billing should be off for that. 2nd yellow for sure.

In a world of VAR I'm not sure how that wasn't a 2nd yellow.

CSF

JPA wrote: »

In a world of VAR I'm not sure how that wasn't a 2nd yellow.

VAR doesn’t cover 2nd yellows unfortunately

Corholio

Ridiculous Billing isn't off. Has had 2 fouls since the one he should have been booked for.

He'll just get subbed at half time and the ref will get away with it.

Half time will probably be good for Villa. Just reset after a nightmare start.

JPA

CSF wrote: »

VAR doesn’t cover 2nd yellows unfortunately

Ok. Does it cover 1st yellows?

LeBash

Free and corners have been really poor.

rebelomar

Our set pieces once again a farce without Hourihane.

Can't believe we haven't addressed it

Corholio

The ref checked VAR after the foul so it definitely covers something with it.

Trezeguet nearly scored after great work from Wes. Half time. Just need a bit of flow to Villa's game and settle down a bit.

basillarkin

rebelomar wrote: »

Our set pieces once again a farce without Hourihane.

Can't believe we haven't addressed it

You start him simple.

Bounty Hunter

McGinn has had a few decent long distance chances, Trezeguet had a great chance. Billings on a yellow keeps fouling and is a risk of a red... but it's still 2-0 to Bournemouth and the worry is that they might try to pick Villa off on the counter in the second half.

Heaton won't make many mistakes like the 1st minute pen this season. Douglas Luiz who made the second mistake 10m later hasn't really impressed me either but I'm going to try to remember that I wasn't expecting a huge amount form the early season (despite decent fixtures) as the team gelled. This is one of those games where you do worry about the lack of attacking options off the bench too

Bounty Hunter

basillarkin wrote: »

You start him simple.

Instead of who though ? he's not a DM. Drop Grealish or McGinn. As much as I like Hourihane I wouldn't be starting him ahead of either of them.

Corholio

Surman on for Billing. Crazy he wasn't off in that half.

Corholio

So close from Jack. Just wide of the post.

Should be 1 back. Taylor shot blocked.

Villa well on top now. Luiz looking much better this half. Would like to see Targett on to stretch Bournemouth bit more, Taylor tentative going forward.

Grealish misses sitter of a header. Not sure how he misses.

Corholio

What a goal from Luiz!!

Bent an unbelievable shot into the top corner. Beauty!

Bounty Hunter

Well that makes up for his 1st half mistake, nice finish. 20m left , 70% possession this half gotta keep pushing forward now

JPA

Fantastic goal. Hopefully we can get at least a point here.

Corholio

Jota on for El Ghazi.

Corholio

Full time. 2-1.

Frustrating after that very good 2nd half, the nightmare start was costly. Had plenty of chances in 2nd half. I think the midfield needs to get closer to Wesley at times, left him bit isolated with passes into him and no follow up.

Lot to build on though. Luiz had a very good second half. I think Targett should be in for Taylor next game, especially for going forward. McGinn was superb again. Engels looks a real find too.