Mateu Alemany (with added Alberto Benito and Pablo Rodriguez)

[Tayls_7]

In years to come, the historians of Aston Villa Football Club will remember Mateu Alemany with the same reverence as Joe Bryan and David Unsworth.

Who the fuck is Joe Bryan?

Exactly.

[Footy-Vill]

I don't think we have heard the last of the Alemany appointment or non appointment.
I suspect he may have to do some deals for Barca before he can come here.
I also suspect on Villa side Lange is an obstacle and once these matters get resolved Emery can get his man.

[Steve67]

I don't think we have heard the last of the Alemany appointment or non appointment.
I suspect he may have to do some deals for Barca before he can come here.
I also suspect on Villa side Lange is an obstacle and once these matters get resolved Emery can get his man.

We've probably all read the same Newsnow articles Footy.  Its probably all made up and he's not coming because he's been promised something by Barcelona that made him stay.  Nothing more sinister to it.

[eamonn]

Yeah I hate it so much. If I know the equivalent Italian word I'll usually say it pointedly like my name's Bad Italian (Male Italiano I suppose).

It's especially the educated sort, people who work in marketing (sorry, 'il marketing') in Milan etc, who are virtually speaking some unspeakable, unholy hybrid thing. They genuinely think it makes them sound cooler. I keep telling them it makes them sound really, really, really, really, really naff.

Paninaro, woah-oh-oh.

[Monty]

Ha good god haven't heard that term in a while!

They're not quite paninari though, as literally all of them will have been to university. They're more like fighettini or what have you.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Ha good god haven't heard that term in a while!

They're not quite paninari though, as literally all of them will have been to university. They're more like fighettini or what have you.

Ha! I haven't heard or read that phrase in ages. Now I imagine you with a Jordan Pickford haircut and hollowed face.

[villadelph]

I don't think we have heard the last of the Alemany appointment or non appointment.
I suspect he may have to do some deals for Barca before he can come here.
I also suspect on Villa side Lange is an obstacle and once these matters get resolved Emery can get his man.

Probably not, unfortunately. With Cruyff out of his way, Alemany has gained a lot more control behind the scenes - exactly what he wanted in the first place.

[Monty]

Ha good god haven't heard that term in a while!

They're not quite paninari though, as literally all of them will have been to university. They're more like fighettini or what have you.

Ha! I haven't heard or read that phrase in ages. Now I imagine you with a Jordan Pickford haircut and hollowed face.

I'm going to let my lawyers handle this one.

[Bad English]

I was talking to an Italian friend recently and realised just how much more the English language has polluted italian since i moved back here 25 years ago.

Tsk! It's becoming a lingua franca.

[Bad English]

And if it weren't for the Italians we wouldn't have proper roads, sanitation, and the word villa. And dildo.

[Mister E]

And if it weren't for the Italians we wouldn't have proper roads, sanitation, and the word villa. And dildo.

So, tell me again: what have the Romans ever done for us?

[Footy-Vill]

I don't think we have heard the last of the Alemany appointment or non appointment.
I suspect he may have to do some deals for Barca before he can come here.
I also suspect on Villa side Lange is an obstacle and once these matters get resolved Emery can get his man.

We've probably all read the same Newsnow articles Footy.  Its probably all made up and he's not coming because he's been promised something by Barcelona that made him stay.  Nothing more sinister to it.

Well it seems a strange one announced then deannouced?!

[Brazilian Villain]

I don't think we have heard the last of the Alemany appointment or non appointment.
I suspect he may have to do some deals for Barca before he can come here.
I also suspect on Villa side Lange is an obstacle and once these matters get resolved Emery can get his man.

We've probably all read the same Newsnow articles Footy.  Its probably all made up and he's not coming because he's been promised something by Barcelona that made him stay.  Nothing more sinister to it.

Well it seems a strange one announced then deannouced?!

Well, if you're looking for a strange one to be denounced.....

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think we have heard the last of the Alemany appointment or non appointment.
I suspect he may have to do some deals for Barca before he can come here.
I also suspect on Villa side Lange is an obstacle and once these matters get resolved Emery can get his man.

We've probably all read the same Newsnow articles Footy.  Its probably all made up and he's not coming because he's been promised something by Barcelona that made him stay.  Nothing more sinister to it.

Well it seems a strange one announced then deannouced?!

Except for the fact it was never announced (by us).

Barcelona said he was leaving, that was it.

[Zouch Villa]

I’m not aware that anything was ever announced by the Villa, or have I missed something?  It was all press speculation coupled with Barcelona’s apparent stirring, as far as I can tell.