Pau Torres

[kippaxvilla2]

Mings can step in.  Obviously.

[Smithy]

Barcelona linked.  What valuation would tempt us? 

more than Barcelona could afford I suspect.

The numbers quoted are about what we paid for him, which surely has to be nonsense?  He's thrived in the best league in the world, and is surely now worth a lot more than we paid?

I hope to God he's not sold, but he's Spanish, and this is Barcelona, so you have to think such a move would be quite attractive to him.  Particularly if he still harbours serious international ambitions.

[PaulWinch again]

Mings can step in.  Obviously.

Not as a long term replacement he can’t. It’s not a coincidence our resurgence has coincided with having an in form Torres playing. He makes us a much better side. Ty is a good player, but we’re not as good a team with Torres.

[Ian.]

Mings can step in.  Obviously.

Not as a long term replacement he can’t. It’s not a coincidence our resurgence has coincided with having an in form Torres playing. He makes us a much better side. Ty is a good player, but we’re not as good a team with Torres.

As much as I really like Mings, he’s isn’t really a true replacement for Torres. It means we have to play a different way.

[Smithy]

Mings can step in.  Obviously.

Not as a long term replacement he can’t. It’s not a coincidence our resurgence has coincided with having an in form Torres playing. He makes us a much better side. Ty is a good player, but we’re not as good a team with Torres.

As much as I really like Mings, he’s isn’t really a true replacement for Torres. It means we have to play a different way.

How hard can it be to replace him? Press-resistant quarter-back-capable left-footed centre-backs surely grow on trees, right?

Right?

[London Villan]

Do we know when he is back?

[Sexual Ealing]

I hope it’s not a loading injury.

[eamonn]

Think it was caused from setting too many traps.

[LeeB]

It's fine, we have Prince Victor of Lindelof, 13th Duke of Being Surprisingly Quick and Useful on the Ball.

[Brazilian Villain]

I hope it’s not a loading injury.

They're very common during the Xmas period.

[Villafirst]

Emery said one more week last Friday, so hopefully Pau will be back against Chelsea. Mings might well be fit by then as well. Be good to have both left footed CB's fit and available. We got through it yesterday - Lindelof did well, but he's right footed.

[ROBBO]

But we never hear of our injury problems, commentators were quick to say Man U were a weakened side from the off not a mention of ours.

[dcdavecollett]

Remember when we beat Arsenal and MoTD drew up a list of Arse players who had been injured this season, though many of them had been available for the Villa game?

[FatSam]

Remember when we beat Arsenal and MoTD drew up a list of Arse players who had been injured this season, though many of them had been available for the Villa game?

Yes, that was bizarre. There was also lots of talk about Arsenal having 3 centre backs unavailable through injury (Saliba, Gabriel and Mosquera), and therefore a makeshift defence, but little mention of the fact that 3 of their back 4 were still centre backs (White, Hincapie and Calafiori), or that these players together with Timber cost them EUR195M (according to Transfermarkt) - nearly twice as much as Villa’s back 4.

[Dave]

Timber cost them about the same as Maatsen cost us.