Aston Villa Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours/Champions League Thread 2024/25

Jesus they’ve had to work really hard to deny us that goal. Absolute joke of a decision.

No way. Obvious planned obstruction by Ramsey.

That’s it though isn’t it. Couldn’t give offside, couldn’t give handball. Give it for obstruction so.

I’d like to see Emi off and Cairney on.

It's been a robbery if we go out.

Our fbs have been poor again, thankfully Digne should improve things on the left.

Hopefully that's his last game for us.

ACoNs could be keeping him at the club with Traore and Trez both at it and Bailey out injured.

BBC read out the law and sounds like it may have been the correct decision based on current wording. Certainly not a foul as no obligation to get out of the way, but by being in an offside position he then interferes with a player who could win the ball.

Very harsh though and reminds me a little bit of the Mings one from last year when an obscure interpretation of the defender ‘intentionally’ playing the ball rules an attacker inside.

Yeah despite understanding why it was disallowed in the end, it still seemed to be a case of VAR trying to find any way to not give the goal. Funny thing is, the first issue they looked at … I’m pretty sure Ings is offside as Watkins gets a little touch on the ball.

If Man U got relegated with 2 wins both of them would have been against us and with some controversial decision.

We played really well though. Thought Ings and Watkins had their best game together so far.

It wasn’t disallowed for a foul. Was disallowed for Ramsey being adjudged offside when he was deemed to have blocked off Cavani. Confused? That’s probably because it’s not something I can really remember seeing given before.

That’s what I think everyone thought. Instead, it was given for Ramsey being in an offside position when he blocked Cavani. The implication being that if he was onside it would have been fine; which is strange.

Digne discussing personal terms. Kerr Smith (young CB) signing agreed.

El Ghazi possibly heading to Everton too.

We're having a busy window so far.

He will come off the bench I’d say

I laughed at this

Harsh but funny. I love Mings. When we were in the Championship he looked like our answer to VVD. At this level he gets caught out way too often but he’s a leader and we’re much less of a team without him.

Agree with you on Luiz. Thought he looked interesting when played in a more attacking role recently but he really doesn’t have the focus and bite to be a proper DM. If we don’t bring someone in for that position in the window, it’ll be a disappointing window. Digne and Coutinho are interesting signings but they’re opportunistic rather than essential.

Yeah, Mings isn’t bad. He isn’t great either.

Option to buy of 8.5m. Seems a bit low, but we would re-coup pretty much what we paid for him.

Interesting to see how the attack works if we can everyone fit. At is stands we would have

Watkins/Ings

Coutinho/Bailey Bundiea/Traore

That allows for a number of different styles of play, depending on what we want. More trickery / guile with Coutinho and Bundiea or more direct / traditional wingers with Bailey / Traore.

El Ghazi is awful. He scores goals sometimes because he shoots nearly every time he receives the ball. Won’t be missed in spite of the fact that he should be remembered fondly for some of his goals.

Spot on. And dont worry we wont even get 8 million for him from Everton as they wont be take the option of buying him after they have him there for the next few months.

You’d miss the days when they were spunking 30m on Iwobi. We could have taken them to the cleaners 😂

Just realized mcginn is out today. He'll be a big loss. Sanson is ok but doesn't have the same energy