Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo (AKA Monchi)

[aj2k77]

Monchi, rhymes with Donkey. That's how he's performed over the last 2 windows. Emery's magic is holding this all together. Heck, Corner routine man, Monchi, the lot of them. They're all relying on the brilliance of Emery. Without him they'd be floundering and found wanting.

That 'Donkey' has just got us £70m for a player who has had one good half season.

Haven't most people on here been saying he's a £100m player? He's a donkey. Duran sold himself. It hasn't been some kind of expert wrangling that has gotten us over the odds.

Good to see you know the in's and out's of our contract negotiations.

Ok, you're right. Duran's worth £20m but Monchi haggled them up....

What about the money for Kellyman, Archer, Chucky, Philogene etc or was that all down to them as well? Its as if psr doesnt exist.

Chucky was sold before Monchi ever set foot in Villa Park. The others were just an example of us doing what all the other top clubs have been doing for years. Which is not to knock him because we hadn't. PSR is hampering us, that's clear. We need maximum value for our signings and I'm not seeing it from this guy. We are still mostly playing a first team that is Dean Smiths/Gerrards.

[andyh]

Hmmm. So we are playing with a team mostly built on Smith and Gerrard signings ?
That is a very fair comment.

However, what has led to those same players performing and operating at the levels they are now ?

What we have achieved under this  management TEAM is nothing short of miraculous.
And that includes the donkies in that management team.

[Clampy]

Ive just seen a tweet showing two pictures. One of the players looking at the phone at West Ham to see if we had stayed up and one from the other night waiting to see if we had qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League.

And some of Emery's staff are donkeys.

[aj2k77]

How many of the signings we've made under Monchi for £200m get in the team?

[Ian.]

How many of the signings we've made under Monchi for £200m get in the team?

Haven’t you noticed a very serious factor in transfer restrictions over the last 18 months or so? Maybe this is one of the main reasons he’s been brought in. For years and years we’ve floundered with our transfers, we’ve waisted millions of pounds on contracts and players we can’t shift. We’ve bought players at the end of their career.

Now we’re in the Champions League, we’re buying young players and they are either out on loan or being sold for profit, or sniffing around the first team. We’re slowly adding potential and established players to our ranks and we are working within the rules.

I’ve been jealous for years with how other teams operate, especially Brighton, compared to what we’ve done previously so I’m very happy trusting people Emery want bring in and work with.

[Goldenballs]

How many of the signings we've made under Monchi for £200m get in the team?

For years and years we’ve floundered with our transfers, we’ve waisted millions of pounds on contracts and players we can’t shift.

Definitely needed to tighten our belts.

[PeterWithe]

The sales have been very good business, well done.

The buys, not so much.

[Toronto Villa]

The sales have been very good business, well done.

The buys, not so much.

Many of the buys are done with future PSR business in mind. All young players who can be sold on. Rogers has been outstanding. Barkley has done well. Onana hasn't been a flop and he's very young. Maatsen samne thing and he came really as part of the Kellyman deal. I don't think it's been that given the financial bollocks we've had to deal with.

[PeterWithe]

I expected him to bring in sub £20m players who would be quickly ready for the first team. Rogers and to an extent Moreno have been good, after that pretty underwhelming.

[Villan82]

Very disappointed we haven't had a new defender in the door. A defender should have been in the door the minute Carlos went out the door. We could be regretting this if we finish a couple of points outside European places.

[SoccerHQ]

Unacceptable to me we've messed about for two weeks trying to get a CB in.

I don't think too many were fussed with Carlos leaving. However I think most assumed we'd have someone ready at Bodymoor to sign once his move to Turkey was confirmed.

The Bade U turn clearly surprised us and you can understand Chelsea taking their time to give us Disasi given we're only three points off them.

The problem though is we're losing crucial points to bottom 6/7 teams with makeshift backlines. If we miss out on Europe by a couple of points we'll look back at this period of the season as the crucial moment I suspect.

[Villan82]

nailed on. I didn't expect this sort of mucking around from this regime.

[itbrvilla]

I'm not remotely convinced having thought about it. The CB issue has been pathetic.

[VillaTim]

What does Monchi do all week

[pauliewalnuts]

He needs to get his fucking act together because as things stand, we've got a significantly weaker squad than we had at the start of the window.

It's not good enough.