Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[john e]

May as well stick it here as well

Our local paper, accurate as ever an hour ago. You'd expect better of Kendrick.

They have sold out their full allocation for today's Championship encounter at the DW Stadium, taking around 1,000 supporters.

you couldn't write this stuff, brilliant.

he probably didn't it looks like a printing error

[PeterWithesShin]

Hard to see how it's a typo. You'd also think it would be proof read before being published online.

[john e]

Hard to see how it's a typo. You'd also think it would be proof read before being published online.

yeah but he would defo know that everyone takes more than 1000 to most places, surely he can't be that thick

[Toronto Villa]

what kind of typo would it be? Like did he mean to hit 2 and accidentally typed 1? Is one of the zeros out of place, or did mean to add a zero? Or was he just lazy and got it wrong? I'll go for the last one seeing as most of the Mail staff, even Kendrick gave up on the club a while back.

[Jimbo]

They gave up on the Mail a while back.

[kippaxvilla2]

As supportive as ever.  With some 2 plus 2 nonsense writing.

Jonathan Kodjia: This is where Everton stand on a potential transfer

Everton and Stoke City are said to be interested in the Villa striker

11:55, 12 APR 2017Updated11:56, 12 APR 2017
Video thumbnail, Alex Dicken on those Kodjia rumours
Everton and Stoke City are weighing up an offer for Aston Villa striker Jonathan Kodjia, according to our sister paper The Mirror.

Kodjia has been the shining light in a mediocre season for the claret and blues and bagged his 19th goal of the season against Burton Albion on Saturday.

The striker suffered injury during the 1-1 draw with the Brewers but it is hoped that he will be fit and raring to go for Villa’s Easter double header at the weekend.

Kodjia is bidding to become Villa’s first player to score 20 league goals since Peter Withe in the First Division title-winning season of 1980/81.

Jonathan Kodjia of Aston Villa scores
Jonathan Kodjia
Due to his goalscoring prowess, Kodjia will undoubtedly have interest this summer. While Steve Bruce is adamant the club are under no pressure to sell, he won’t stand in Kodjia’s way if one of the Premier League big boys comes calling.

Of the clubs linked with Kodjia so far, Everton are the biggest name. The Toffees are currently trying to turn the top flight’s ‘big six’ into a big seven and recently announced plans to leave Goodison Park to continue their growth.

Star striker Romelu Lukaku’s refusal to sign a new deal has seen Everton scour Europe in preparation for the worst case scenario.

However, we are told that Everton are likely to seek a more proven option than Villa’s Ivory Coast international if they do lose Lukaku this summer.

With Everton keen to make a return to Champions League football, a more adequate replacement would need to be found than Kodjia, who has just two seasons in English football's second tier under his belt.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Just this week alone the Mail have reported that Villa have now gone 9 games unbeaten, and also that Bruce's points per game average would have us in 3rd place now, had he been here all season. 

Both of these "facts" are complete bollocks.

[GarTomas]

They are really covering themselves in glory in their coverage of the current situation.

Rehashing what’s been posted on random Twitter feeds. ‘Stories’ about how Wolves and West Brom are revelling in our situation.

[kippaxvilla2]

It really is a horrrrrrrrrrible excuse for a newspaper - the Wolves fan outside the training ground is the lowest of the low and I thought they had already sunk as low as they could.

[Towser]

The torn badge has made an appearance today

[Steve67]

Absolute shite. Supposed to be a Birmingham paper and yet seems to enjoy trying fuck over its biggest football club. Sad and pathetic.