Quote from: Stinkin_Thinkin on July 11, 2020, 03:32:02 PMQuote from: TonyD on July 11, 2020, 02:56:38 PMBeen as our owners are filthy rich and we will get a parachute payment. Why would we be looking to sell all our best players?Exactly! the biggest issue this season was failing to gel a host of new players. sell the spine again and we are faced with 2016 transition season again. Really we just need one more centre half and a striker.Keep all the big names and walk the championship without losing a game.And a new manager.
Quote from: TonyD on July 11, 2020, 02:56:38 PMBeen as our owners are filthy rich and we will get a parachute payment. Why would we be looking to sell all our best players?Exactly! the biggest issue this season was failing to gel a host of new players. sell the spine again and we are faced with 2016 transition season again. Really we just need one more centre half and a striker.Keep all the big names and walk the championship without losing a game.
Been as our owners are filthy rich and we will get a parachute payment. Why would we be looking to sell all our best players?
Get someone like Dwight Gayle-type and that Brewster on loan and it wouldn't take a genius to get us promoted as champions. Obviously depending on how many players we lose.
For me the owners need to make a big statement by ditching Smith and bringing in a manager who will make everyone sit up and think "Christ, the Villa mean business with that appointment".As much as it hurts me to say it but are we really still considered to be a "big club" ? - Not beating Manure at home for 25 years is patheticNot winning the FA Cup for 63 years is pathetic (Even Coventry and Wigan have managed to do it ), not being able to outpoint Bournemouth, Burnley, Brighton , Watford is pathetic, recruitment this season path.... you know the restIts been said numerous times on here … why the hell did we not go out and buy a forward line that can actually score goals I'm trying hard to be optimistic but I'm beginning to question some of the decisions and appointments by our owners...… whilst we may have been promoted "too soon" the least expected was for the club to hang onto its top flight status ….. the attempt to do so has been ……..yes, you've guessed - Fucking Pathetic UTV
You won't attract the required standard of striker in the Championship on a permanent deal. Any permanent deal therefore creates the problem of having to get rid once you get promoted. The problem wasn't getting Abraham on loan, it was replacing him with someone who was not good enough. It is impossible to get a good enough squad together within the limits of Championship FFP without loaning players. That's why every promotion hopeful loans players.The good news is we shouldn't need to loan nearly so many players next time. Getting a new Abraham on loan would be a no-brainer, though, if such a player was available.
Once we're (mathematically) down, I want the owners to release an official statement of their future intentions regarding Aston Villa and their plan to deal with this unmitigated disaster of a season for the club.
We could still win 3 or 4 of our next fixtures. Miracles do happen.
I'm not convinced anyone will pay 50m for McGinn, based on both form and financial climate.
Quote from: levico on July 11, 2020, 03:20:36 PMFuture depends on so many things. Still a lot of support for Smith but keeping him would just extend the losing mentality IMO. We have rich owners but FFP somewhat neutralises that advantage.Ok, I give up, no idea. We could become another Sunderland but my gut says we’ll hover around mid table in the Championship for a few years or until at last, at long last, we appoint a really good manager.Building a solid team can take time. It's easy to say, maybe we came up a year too early. And yes, we had to rely on loan players, but that doesn't help the promoted team gel in the new league.At least we won't be playing Leeds next year.
Future depends on so many things. Still a lot of support for Smith but keeping him would just extend the losing mentality IMO. We have rich owners but FFP somewhat neutralises that advantage.Ok, I give up, no idea. We could become another Sunderland but my gut says we’ll hover around mid table in the Championship for a few years or until at last, at long last, we appoint a really good manager.