Gestede will score 20 in the championship
Amavi will be back. What a cross that bloke has on him.
In my 60+ years of working for large and small organisations, when consultants are brought in, they have to justify their large fees by recommending change, whether necessary or not.There can be no doubt Aston Villa need change in the management of the club and those responsible for the situation that has developed over the last five years need to be held to account.Will the consultants however, be football industry savvy, or be the sort our new board members have used in their past business lives, because if so, I can't be confident things will be improved on the football front. Football clubs thrive on the back of pitch performance and we haven't had a consistent season for a long time. Get the squad right with the right manager, then start worrying about the business aspects of the club.
Quote from: aj2k77 on February 21, 2016, 09:51:23 AMQuote from: PeterWithesShin on February 21, 2016, 09:24:23 AMQuote from: aj2k77 on February 21, 2016, 09:15:08 AMSpot on. In theory there is nothing wrong with Sporting directors and Head of player recruitment and a CEO but when they are useless that's a problem. I know the player recruitment was quite popular this summer on here but to me it was terrible. The midfielders signed at a cost of over £15m look bit part players, they lack strength or speed apart from Traore who seems the rawest of raw materials. For the money we paid and the needs we had the players signed are a poor selection. They could be decent soldiers but we needed a couple of generals too. We must have the slowest, weakest team in the division.Quote from: aj2k77 on September 01, 2015, 07:34:48 PMA good window. Now we need to get them to gel asap. If one of Ayew or Gestede adapts then we will surprise people.Sorry I never spent the 6 months prior to summer scouting the players we we're buying. Don't worry, lots of posters have got stuff wrong on here over the last 6 seasons, and I'm not gonna deny I thought Gestede could have been a cult hero at Villa. What a disaster that was.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on February 21, 2016, 09:24:23 AMQuote from: aj2k77 on February 21, 2016, 09:15:08 AMSpot on. In theory there is nothing wrong with Sporting directors and Head of player recruitment and a CEO but when they are useless that's a problem. I know the player recruitment was quite popular this summer on here but to me it was terrible. The midfielders signed at a cost of over £15m look bit part players, they lack strength or speed apart from Traore who seems the rawest of raw materials. For the money we paid and the needs we had the players signed are a poor selection. They could be decent soldiers but we needed a couple of generals too. We must have the slowest, weakest team in the division.Quote from: aj2k77 on September 01, 2015, 07:34:48 PMA good window. Now we need to get them to gel asap. If one of Ayew or Gestede adapts then we will surprise people.Sorry I never spent the 6 months prior to summer scouting the players we we're buying.
Quote from: aj2k77 on February 21, 2016, 09:15:08 AMSpot on. In theory there is nothing wrong with Sporting directors and Head of player recruitment and a CEO but when they are useless that's a problem. I know the player recruitment was quite popular this summer on here but to me it was terrible. The midfielders signed at a cost of over £15m look bit part players, they lack strength or speed apart from Traore who seems the rawest of raw materials. For the money we paid and the needs we had the players signed are a poor selection. They could be decent soldiers but we needed a couple of generals too. We must have the slowest, weakest team in the division.Quote from: aj2k77 on September 01, 2015, 07:34:48 PMA good window. Now we need to get them to gel asap. If one of Ayew or Gestede adapts then we will surprise people.
Spot on. In theory there is nothing wrong with Sporting directors and Head of player recruitment and a CEO but when they are useless that's a problem. I know the player recruitment was quite popular this summer on here but to me it was terrible. The midfielders signed at a cost of over £15m look bit part players, they lack strength or speed apart from Traore who seems the rawest of raw materials. For the money we paid and the needs we had the players signed are a poor selection. They could be decent soldiers but we needed a couple of generals too. We must have the slowest, weakest team in the division.
A good window. Now we need to get them to gel asap. If one of Ayew or Gestede adapts then we will surprise people.
Quote from: kippaxvilla2 on February 21, 2016, 01:50:45 PMGestede will score 20 in the championship I don't think Gestede would score 20 on a pinball machine. Unless we shape the whole team around him.
Quote from: aj2k77 on February 21, 2016, 02:07:37 PMQuote from: kippaxvilla2 on February 21, 2016, 01:50:45 PMGestede will score 20 in the championship I don't think Gestede would score 20 on a pinball machine. Unless we shape the whole team around him.He scored 20 in it last season.
Quote from: Ads on February 21, 2016, 01:55:48 PMAmavi will be back. What a cross that bloke has on him.I think Amavi will tear that division up. Throw in Traore, a fresh start for Grealish. Players will leave, but I don't think it will be a mass exodus at all. What some of these players need is a fresh start away from this season. The majority of the teams in the Championship are bollocks. There's going to th sides who come down with us plus 3 or 4 others that will cause any significant challenge. We desperately need two good forwards coming in with mobility and you'll fine our midfield suddenly looking better, wingers finding targets and less pressure on the defence. Add in a better keeper it won't look so bad at that level. Then all of a sudden we will look like Hull did yesterday at Arsenal. Not much different to side that went down but so much more confidence and belief. The manager as much as the players needs the season to end, the purge to begin and then get a clean slate moving forward.
Quote from: Toronto Villa on February 21, 2016, 02:02:30 PMQuote from: Ads on February 21, 2016, 01:55:48 PMAmavi will be back. What a cross that bloke has on him.I think Amavi will tear that division up. Throw in Traore, a fresh start for Grealish. Players will leave, but I don't think it will be a mass exodus at all. What some of these players need is a fresh start away from this season. The majority of the teams in the Championship are bollocks. There's going to th sides who come down with us plus 3 or 4 others that will cause any significant challenge. We desperately need two good forwards coming in with mobility and you'll fine our midfield suddenly looking better, wingers finding targets and less pressure on the defence. Add in a better keeper it won't look so bad at that level. Then all of a sudden we will look like Hull did yesterday at Arsenal. Not much different to side that went down but so much more confidence and belief. The manager as much as the players needs the season to end, the purge to begin and then get a clean slate moving forward.I applaud the optimism, but we will probably need more physicality than we currently have, especially in midfield and defence. Some of our lightweight players like Gil will be subject to a shellacking in the Championship.
I assume the guy with the X-box is Paddy Reilly, the guy who turned up Veretout, Ayew, Amavi and Gueye? The better signings from the summer.Where consensus seems to have been that Richards, Lescott and Gestede were Sherwood's own picks?
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