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

Yeah I watched it.

Salah would do that to lots of players, overall I thought Targett had a decent game.

Bailey off injured in the first half, dunno is he built for this league at all, seems to be made of glass like Sanson. Ings replaced him.

Average performance, we didn't dominate the game.

Buendia made a good impact when he came on, Ings got the second.

Positives are a start for Tim, clean sheet and 3 points.

We gave them far too much room and time on the ball. Didn’t feel like we ever got a good tempo. Felt Coutinho pressed better today but his passing was out by a fraction. Emi made a huge difference - seemed to find the gaps better.

If we had any kind of form, it's an interesting end to the season. 3 winnable games and a chance to impact the title race.

Not sure are we playing 5 at the back or is Chambers in midfield?

Buendia in for Coutinho. Hope he starts the remaining 4 games too.

Recent bad memories at Turf Moor, hoping that'll be overturned today.

It didn’t. You might want to have a look at the table again. We’re 9 off West Ham at the moment with 12 left to play for. No chance of Europe this year but a strong finish to the season would be great and hopefully bring some momentum into next season.

Nakamba and Coutinho start for Chambers and Buendia.

Surprised at Chambers being dropped, expected the Coutinho change.

How long is his contract? His wages are huge (presumably). He hasn't been that impressive in the last few games. Personally I'd rather just see us make Buendia the main man

The details of the contract are still to be worked out, the news so far is that a price has been agreed. Other stuff about wages, image rights etc is speculation but seeing the image rights mentioned a bit on twitter (and it's an unusual detail to be part of negotiations so probably true)

Jon Moss will decide this game.

All that from Luiz not expecting a 2 yard pass, and panicing

I'm just not seeing it from Coutinho, I'd say fair enough sign if we'd no one else, but it's criminal that he's now blocking the way of our best attacking player Buendia.

Big time. Buendia has been far better imo.

Its official. Not particularly jumping for joy, but we have him so hopefully a good pre season will stand to him

https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1524815057955192836?t=2DiiMjxYx6yUwB963L-paA&s=19

As someone else said, he's younger than De Bruyne.

Also find it funny that official Villa tweet has undisclosed fee, but official Barcelona happily announce €20 million

Yeah, I think the money is reasonable. I definitely didn’t want us stretching or reaching to get him with Buendia there, but at those figures, I don’t think that has happened.

I guess Barca are publicly owned so have to share financials with their stakeholders, so it’s difficult to keep secrets - especially now when their financials are under so much scrutiny.

I can’t see why he’d sign. Coutinho, Buendia and Ramsey will make life difficult for him whichever system we play.

I know he isn’t the same style of player as those 2, but he’s still unlikely to often get fielded as part of a midfield 2, so those 2 are still heavily relevant to him in terms of the system we’ll play.

As in, we’re unlikely to play a proper midfield 3 with both Buendia and Coutinho available to us.

Way too much long passing, aiming for players heads/chests with no control of the ball.

No wonder Palace are controlling the game opening 20 mins. Makes no sense at all with Ings, Coutinho and Watkins in the side.

Watkins gets a flukey goal, we definitely don't deserve to be leading but happy to take it.

Ramsey came on.

Do you think the manager will out of curiosity?