I genuinely think it’s not about the players - or at least in terms of individual performance ability. There are far too many playing badly for it to be anything other than a wider issue. That might be a morale thing, a tactical thing, or a combination but players going away for international duty and showing what they can do shows Villa aren’t enabling them to do that at the moment.
My personal view is there’s a bit of feeling sorry for ourselves, which has fed into excessively negative and muddled thing in Unai and his coaching staff. They need to start being much more proactive and stop being so pathetic and meek - if we keep worrying about what might happen, it’s increasingly likely to happen.
