Karim El Ahmadi CONFIRMED (Reply #278)

[Karl Bridges]

He looked very tidy in the Burton game. Always looking for the ball and getting forward as well. Looks like he could be a bargain.

[villastikz]

KEA talking about his role model in interview with the SundayMercury/Mat Kendrick

http://www.sundaymercury.net/midlands-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-fc-news/2012/07/15/aston-villa-new-boy-s-role-model-was-moustapha-hadji-66331-31395944/

[Billy Walker]

""You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland"

Oh thank christ.

In full:

"The gaffer hopes to play good football with Villa and has told us to be scared of nobody, especially at home.

"I hope the fans are going to support us and help us do everything to take Villa to a good level, back where it belongs.

"You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland.

"There are a lot of precision games with the ball, so compared to Holland it's the same.

"It's about always wanting to play football. That's what I like and it's like how the Dutch teams play.

"I think with this coach we're going to play some good football."

It's a comment which as made me as happy as I have been to be a Villa fan in quite a long time.

I'm glad to hear Lambert is trying to instill into the players the belief that they should fear nobody.  They genuinely shouldn't.  Same goes for the Villa Park crowd, by the way, we have absolutely nobody to fear on any given day. The amount of times I have been to games where we have faced the media darling clubs and you can just sense the fear in the air.  Aston Villa is a club that can - and should - beat all comers. 

I'm going to throw a little prediction in here that this season will see a return to the days of Villa sending man utd home battered, bruised and bewildered. 

[Ian.]

This is how it should be in any level of football. Whether it is on a Sunday Park or in the Premiership. Every day can bring an upset and sometimes the team who is not as good as the other can cause a upset. If you go out without any fear I am sure you will have more of those underdog days than a team which has a mentality of keeping the score down.

[Astral Weeks]

""You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland"

Oh thank christ.

In full:

"The gaffer hopes to play good football with Villa and has told us to be scared of nobody, especially at home.

"I hope the fans are going to support us and help us do everything to take Villa to a good level, back where it belongs.

"You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland.

"There are a lot of precision games with the ball, so compared to Holland it's the same.

"It's about always wanting to play football. That's what I like and it's like how the Dutch teams play.

"I think with this coach we're going to play some good football."

It's a comment which as made me as happy as I have been to be a Villa fan in quite a long time.

I'm glad to hear Lambert is trying to instill into the players the belief that they should fear nobody.  They genuinely shouldn't.  Same goes for the Villa Park crowd, by the way, we have absolutely nobody to fear on any given day. The amount of times I have been to games where we have faced the media darling clubs and you can just sense the fear in the air.  Aston Villa is a club that can - and should - beat all comers. 

I'm going to throw a little prediction in here that this season will see a return to the days of Villa sending man utd home battered, bruised and bewildered. 

Oh, I do hope so!

[not3bad]

""You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland"

Oh thank christ.

This is a quote from Paul Lambert apparently:

    “We’ll try and play football – I don’t like long ball.”

[Legion]

Stretchered off whilst playing for Morocco v Mozambique last night I believe.

[silhillvilla]

Do we know how bad it is ?

[Legion]

Can't find any other follow-up information.

[Pete3206]

Oh great

[Irish villain]

Lady Luck really has it in for us.

[robbo1874]

""You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland"

Oh thank christ.

In full:

"The gaffer hopes to play good football with Villa and has told us to be scared of nobody, especially at home.

"I hope the fans are going to support us and help us do everything to take Villa to a good level, back where it belongs.

"You can see that there is more speed here but the training and what we do with the coach is similar to the training that we do in Holland.

"There are a lot of precision games with the ball, so compared to Holland it's the same.

"It's about always wanting to play football. That's what I like and it's like how the Dutch teams play.

"I think with this coach we're going to play some good football."

It's a comment which as made me as happy as I have been to be a Villa fan in quite a long time.

I'm glad to hear Lambert is trying to instill into the players the belief that they should fear nobody.  They genuinely shouldn't.  Same goes for the Villa Park crowd, by the way, we have absolutely nobody to fear on any given day. The amount of times I have been to games where we have faced the media darling clubs and you can just sense the fear in the air.  Aston Villa is a club that can - and should - beat all comers. 

I'm going to throw a little prediction in here that this season will see a return to the days of Villa sending man utd home battered, bruised and bewildered. 

I think you could be right with your prediction, I know there's a few people flapping because we've only won once, but I think we could claim a few top four scalps this season....

[silhillvilla]

Looks like Westwood may have to be thrown in at the deep end.

[PaulWinch again]

Hope it's not too bad.

[mrastonvilla]

Morocco also won the match and have qualified for next years cup of nations