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

Another absolute dogsh*t half of football. I hate that we got rid of Targett so easy - Young has no place in a premier league team. He’s getting murdered for pace over and over again.

Can’t understand why we’ve gone back to one up top either. Playing against a team that hugs the touchline like Arsenal is not a time to go narrow. One defeat and he throws away all the progress made in the last few weeks.

Playing Ramsey so deep is a problem. He's a great lad but he's not suitable for defensive midfield.

The big problem is the lack of width I think.

As clever and cute as Coutinho and Buendia are, they lack any pace at all, they also need pace to play off them, we lack it big time. In reality I think it's either or, rather than starting both.

Bailey probably the only player we have with that blistering pace and he's rarely fit and generally won't be on the pitch the same time as both Coutinho and Buendia.

Coutinho worst game today.

Luiz and McGinn at nothing too. Ramsey sloppy and badly needs a rest.

Ollie Wasteful Watkins just offers zilch, really hope he's sold in the summer as he's not good enough for a mid table side.

Ashley Young starting as your LB says it all.

I'm disappointed in Gerrard again, between this and the West Ham game, no positives from either and late use of subs again.

At the moment Villa are 9th in the table, so they can compete with the top 10. It's the top 8 that's hard break into.

I honestly thought Villa had a relegation fight earlier in the season, so the position right now is a relief.

I'd like to see the form table since Gerrard took over, I'd say Villa are right up near top 6?

The squad and manager are doing OK IMO, I'd like to see how they do with a full season under Gerrard

Hopefully this works. We’re 8th since Gerrard took over -

Deffo not worth that money, what's his contract situation like?

Hopefully getting rid of two from McGinn/Luiz/Sanson would fund the majority of that transfer fee.

Watkins and Mings scored for England tonight as did McGinn for Scotland.

2 down after 30 mins, Digne gone off after 13 mins, Young replaces him and scores an own goal.

Shocking decision from Gerrard to allow Targett go on loan back on January and be content with Young as back up to Digne.

I would expect a major player overhaul this summer, including 2 from Mings, McGinn and Watkins to leave.

I tend to agree about keeping McGinn based on him always playing out of position, but I don't want him starting.

Mings is 29 and I think it's time to sell him on as he's limited with the ball at his feet.

Watkins missed two 1 on 1s before scoring a penalty. With the system Gerrard wants to play, we need a striker who'll hold the ball up and bring others into play, a young Giroud would be the type.

Bar Martinez/Ramsey, it's really difficult to say who will start the first game next season. Digne seems to be injury prone too which is a concern.

Interesting summer ahead.

Stevie g threw the team under the bus after the game in interview i saw.

Said if they cant play to standard he wants , he will get players that will.

He is not without blame in this

matty cash signs new deal

rules out him getting sold it looks

Jaysus our finishing is shocking.

Bring back Dean Smith. Atrocious

I’m completely unimpressed with Gerrard. He’s had enough games to make an impact but apart from a dead cat bounce there’s been nothing. 4-0 down before he makes a sub and then it’s just like for like. He’s way out of his depth and all this talk of buying his way out of trouble is deeply concerning.

He should have come in and concentrated on the defence. Even if that made us a boring team. I know we don't have a top class DM but the team can be setup in a disciplined way.

Ramsey is being flogged to death and obviously needs a break, which isn't happening, that's mind-blowing to me.

There's more than enough coaches around, in fact too many, maybe that's the problem and he needs to cut down on the entourage and have quality over quantity.