Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo (AKA Monchi)

[Sexual Ealing]

Monchi staying as an advisor to V Sports. We're still all one big happy family*

*Apart from the players, possibly.

[Chris Smith]

I still want to hear Unai is ok with this, and this isn't the beginning of the end of his reign

According to Tanswell in The Athletic “ Monchi is returning to his native Spain — largely for personal reasons — but is expected to remain in an advisory capacity to Villa’s ownership group, V Sports, as part of plans to restructure the football department.”

If that’s true it all sounds fairly amicable and the fact that they have apparently already found his replacement suggests it has been known for sometime.

[PeterWithe]

According to Talksport we had first dibs on Ascensio who ended up going to Turkey and that pissed off Emery and Monchi. They also said we were in for Rashford but that didn't happen either. Rashford must think Barcelona was a better option than us for some reason.

Who would they have been pissed off with? Who has any real power beyond them when it comes to transfers?

[kippaxvilla2]

If it’s been known for sometime he surely wouldn’t have been given the summer window.

[aj2k77]

It's been known since it took us all summer to sign Lindelof and Sancho and then failed to score a goal for hours on end. The proof of the Monchi failure was laid bare. Thankfully our owners don't fuck about. As soon as there's evidence of shit hitting fans they move.

[Toronto Villa]

There has been nothing to suggest he was fired. More that he’s going back to Spain for personal reasons. But with the terrible start to the season and some of the summer controversy maybe this is the best decision all round. Something had to change in recruitment and maybe a new set of eyes to help Emery is needed. Emery, also needs to play his role in the current set up given how many players we’ve given up on before they’ve started.

[Demitri_C]

What i Would like to know is how to the journalists get big stories  like this before its made official? Is someone from the  club leaking these stories?

[Sexual Ealing]

What i Would like to know is how to the journalists get big stories  like this before its made official? Is someone from the  club leaking these stories?

My understanding is that they guess.

[Monty]

What i Would like to know is how to the journalists get big stories  like this before its made official? Is someone from the  club leaking these stories?

My understanding is that they guess.

In every news HQ there is a room lit only by the ghostly blue light of a large strange aquarium, in whose synthetic amniote solution floats the the newsroom's resident Vatic (a creature sort of like a large axolotl). It communicates what it sees by ultrasonic humming and the occasional emission of ink, that forms itself into suggestive symbols. Journalists then consult the ancient books to piece together what the messages mean ('Yoane Wissa Valued At £40m+', 'Kate Adie buys a duck farm' and so on), from which they assemble what you and I call 'The News'.

[LeeB]

What i Would like to know is how to the journalists get big stories  like this before its made official? Is someone from the  club leaking these stories?

My understanding is that they guess.

In every news HQ there is a room lit only by the ghostly blue light of a large strange aquarium, in whose synthetic amniote solution floats the the newsroom's resident Vatic (a creature sort of like a large axolotl). It communicates what it sees by ultrasonic humming and the occasional emission of ink, that forms itself into suggestive symbols. Journalists then consult the ancient books to piece together what the messages mean ('Yoane Wissa Valued At £40m+', 'Kate Adie buys a duck farm' and so on), from which they assemble what you and I call 'The News'.

I hope it fails miserably, the Brummie hating twat.

[Drummond]

So we back to winning the league now then?

No, there's a bit more wrist-slitting, bed-shitting, pant-wetting, finger-pointing, name-and-shaming and DoF-apologisting  to do yet.

[Legion]