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

Reading on Villatalk (for what its worth!) and sounds like Emery has been trialling Bogarde at RB, so the thinking is that he will play there.

Ollie really should have scored there after great work from rodgers, confidence must be on the floor, well on top now. Baileys didn't look to bad.

Reckon he could be back after international break

Onana may go at HT, because I doubt he’s too far off a 2nd yellow.

Watkins definitely hasn’t found his scoring boots yet that he misplaced over the summer.

watkins pulled again at the 60 min mark

might lose the starting berth to duran

Duran's all round play looks much better. He was an inch off a perfect through ball to Rogers and he's not been afraid to pass the ball back either.

mcginn booked now aswell been poor imo

Ya I've mentioned the RB situation on here before, bizarre to say the least.

Leicester are a decent side as seen by 2nd half performance Vs Spurs, they have dominated possession here and we can't get on the ball at all.

Got the W in the end, worries around Ollie and the injuries to bailey and onana. Bundeia an unused substitute again today, thought he might have got minutes for either mcginn or Rogers. Maybe the early substitutions had a bearing on this.

It won’t be Bogarde after the international break anyway. If Carlos is fit, he probably starts with Konsa out at RB. If not, he will surely place more trust in Nedeljkovic at home.

Either way, it was a tactical decision that didn’t really work out for Emery today. But ultimately it’s 3 points, so I think he will sleep ok about it.

Dendoncker gone to Anderlecht on loan yesterday. Reading we are paying 50% of his wages.

Theres reports we turned down offers for Duran on deadline day from West Ham and Chelsea from Total Villa on Twitter and he names the source. I can see Chelsea being that crazy but West Ham have plenty up front now.

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Not my place to jump in as a Newcastle fan.

But in contrast we charged £55-£60 per game ( it was a £165 3 game package for season ticket holders)

No doubt they will sell out, but interesting to see what you think? personally that pricing is a disgrace

the £30-35 extra is only getting an extra 6m from what we made last year over your 4 games, but surely a sponser would have covered that.

Very unfair to the fans.

They’ll have anticipated the reaction. There will be a PSR element to it for sure, but that won’t stop it being unaffordable to many.

Honestly, I think they should have had 2 price tiers split between the 2 categories of games. With the pricing more reasonable for Bologna and Celtic to allow people who might not be able to afford the increased prices, to still experience the big CL occasion.

Emi nominated for Ballon D’or

Am I mad for expecting that the Bayern and Juve games were gonna be around the price of the season ticket ones?

The bit that I’m most stunned by is the lack of a discounted ticket for going to all 4 games, and the fact that Bologna and Celtic are in that exact same bracket in spite of them being the same kind of games we watched in Europe last year.

You wouldn’t, but I don’t think there are comparisons to be made with Germany at the moment.

Given how massive revenue is now to compete at all in the Premier League, in this PSR era, the relevant comparison is with the other teams who compete in Europe, and unfortunately Villa still seem to be falling short in this regard.

I think it’s becoming more and more clearly defined that he is.

Looks to me like some ex of Emi must have made a comment in the past, and its still stuck in his head!

Anyone else give in and pay the crazy prices for Bayern tickets?

I think the short term hit on finances for footballing growth is the reason the club isn’t working on an increased capacity.