Emi Buendia

[PeterWithe]

Buendia struggles because he has zero competition for his place, that will change.

[wittonwarrior]

Buendia struggles because he has zero competition for his place, that will change.

No he struggles because against the best teams as he is given less space and his distribution is questionable most of the time

[Risso]

And his small stature means he can't compete physically, and he's too slow.

[N'ZMAV]

he'll be warming the bench next season.

[Richard E]

he'll be warming the bench next season.

At Middlesbrough.

[algy]

he'll be warming the bench next season.

Hope not.

I like Buendia personally, but if he's not what we need I'd rather try and move him on this summer - probably for a bit more than we paid for him - rather than let him get splinters in his arse for 12 months and us being happy if we get half of what we paid for him back again.

Like with El Ghazi - he's the sort of player we need to sell whilst his stock's fairly high.

[PaulWinch again]

He’s a good player and performs an important role.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

He's been shite for weeks now. I look forward to him either not being here next season, or at best being an occasional sub.

I seem to remember you looking forward to us replacing Watkins too. Players have periods of poor form. Buendia will come good again.

Buendia hasn't been consistently good since he's been here, so not sure where the word 'again' belongs there to be honest. And anyway, that's such a facile argument to make. If every player was going to come good because Watkins happened to improve for a spell we'd have a team of world beaters, instead of still having to watch the likes of Bailey do the square root of bugger all for the umpteenth time in two years.

This.
Massively this!

[Taylor]

He's been shite for weeks now. I look forward to him either not being here next season, or at best being an occasional sub.

I seem to remember you looking forward to us replacing Watkins too. Players have periods of poor form. Buendia will come good again.

Buendia hasn't been consistently good since he's been here, so not sure where the word 'again' belongs there to be honest. And anyway, that's such a facile argument to make. If every player was going to come good because Watkins happened to improve for a spell we'd have a team of world beaters, instead of still having to watch the likes of Bailey do the square root of bugger all for the umpteenth time in two years.

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Massively this!

I wasn’t talking about Bailey, the thread is about Buendia, who in my view has done enough in his time at Villa to warrant a place in the squad.

[Risso]

Well the thread wasn’t about Watkins either but you implied that because he’d improved then everybody else was capable of improving too.

[brontebilly]

And his small stature means he can't compete physically, and he's too slow.

Plenty of small players compete physically. The likes of Hazard in the past or even Grealish weren't big lumps but had great core strength and protected the ball so well. The only way to stop them was by fouling. There was another small Argie who wasn't bad either. Buendia just doesn't do that, the ball is always a touch too far ahead of him so it gets pinched off him. As a team we are at our best in transition through the lines quickly so I don't think we can afford to have such a player coughing up the ball so often at key moments.

[Smirker]

he'll be warming the bench next season.

Hope not.

I like Buendia personally, but if he's not what we need I'd rather try and move him on this summer - probably for a bit more than we paid for him - rather than let him get splinters in his arse for 12 months and us being happy if we get half of what we paid for him back again.

Like with El Ghazi - he's the sort of player we need to sell whilst his stock's fairly high.

I'd be stunned if we got close to what we paid for him.

[eamonn]

Yeah...he was what, £35m? £20m-£25m at best recouped.

[algy]

He's a first team regular at a top 8 side. £35m is the going rate for those.

[Smirker]

Not in Buendia's case imo.