January Transfer Window - The Verdict.

[kippaxvilla2]

I keep hearing this word gaslighting am I missing something?

[aj2k77]

Rubbish. One injury away from the season being over.

[Malandro]

Rubbish. One injury away from the season being over.

I better put some salt on my path.

[kippaxvilla2]

You watch Watkins will get a Vassell drill through his own foot injury at home.

[Beard82]

Outgoings - B.  Would have liked to keep Ings or Archer given what happened
Incomings - D.  Too light, and leaves us exposed

Overall - 2 years ago we blow a chance to push on due to Joes injury and no backup, and we lost 18 months because of it - hope it's not the same this time. 

I trust Unai, and really hopes it works out because I really want to see the Villa be good again!

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

On the bright side (clutching at straws), we could be Everton: don't think they've got anyone at all!

Just don't get injured, Ollie. Pretty please? And score loads of goals.

Just hope our manager has a plan.

[edgysatsuma89]

Just looked at Ings stats for this season and he has 6 goals for 833 minutes play time in the league. So a goal every 139 minutes, which is decent. Even if you include Watkin's assists it's a still only a goal involvement every 192 minutes. I have no doubt we will amble on but not replacing that Ings contribution with a senior striker, whatever you thought of him, is a bit criminal. 4/10 for me.

[Flin5tone]

Absolutely awful

Feels like we have just given up

Offloading Ings our top scorer for a big risk with a young MLS player.

Boring

[Mellin]

Martinez/Olsen
Cash/Young
Konsa/Carlos
Mings/Chambers
Moreno/Digne
Luiz/McGinn
Kamara/Dendoncker
Buendia/Coutinho
Ramsey/Traore/McGinn
Watkins/Duran
Bailey/Traore

There's enough there barring a crisis with Traore and McGinn both able to play further forward. We're one short on numbers, so have had to stretch those two across two positions.

Centre forward and wide attackers need an injection of quality. Base is strong and would be happy to run with it. Those attacking signings have to be the right ones. Benefit of the doubt for now. If the rationale is 'we don't need to this season and the right player isn't available', I'm fine with that. If it's 'fuck it, they're established, let's milk the cow' then I'm not. We'll find out in the summer.

Really happy with the outs. Squad was becoming bloated and full of shit. Ings goes to VAR, but I think we're just onside and understand the reasoning.

[pauliewalnuts]

Absolutely awful

Feels like we have just given up

Offloading Ings our top scorer for a big risk with a young MLS player.

Boring

Fucking hell. I find myself agreeing with you.

[pauliewalnuts]

You watch Watkins will get a Vassell drill through his own foot injury at home.

Knowing our luck he'll be like Unlucky Alf in the Fast Show and step into what he thinks is a puddle but turns out to be a 40ft sink hole full of water.

[Villa Lew]

No doubt about it disappointing, was hoping for a top half end to the season, now I have my doubts, particularly if Watkins is out injured for a few weeks.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

It is what it is. Unai has already shown he can get performances out of the current squad, so my faith remains in him.
Bringing Traore back is a better option imo than relying on someone like Dembele to settle.
Ings shouldn’t have been sold until the summer unless a proven replacement was lined up.
It’s fine saying that we stand a better chance of getting our targets in the summer, but my concern is that in waiting to get them we may also lose Emi M or Kamara depending on where we end up this season and whether they believe our ambitions match theirs.
Anyway 16 points from the last 7 games under Unai with the players he inherited means I’m remaining positive. UTV!

[Beard82]

Looking forward to AV twitter account tweeting - "he's here and he's perfect" with a picture of Bert

[Ger Regan]

Unnecessarily risky. Time will tell how it actually pans out, but next summer needs to be a massive step up for me to retain faith in those running the club