Morgan Rogers

[Hillbilly]

Ok. What was the significance of Morgan Rogers wearing ski goggles during the celebrations for Aston Villa’s victory in the 2026 Europa League?

I always suspected you lot were an AI hallucination.

[Exeter 77]

An answer from AI.

Morgan Rogers wore ski goggles during the victory parade to protect his eyes from flying champagne and alcohol while leaning into his signature "ice-cold" reputation.

[paul_e]

Shorter answer: he was drunk, he thought it would be funny.

[mike]

Shorter answer: he was drunk, he thought it would be funny.

Yes!

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Yeah, I mean, why would any of us really know? He was certainly enjoying himself.

[manic-road]

Can someone explain the ski goggles thing to me?

Spent a night on the piste.

[Ian.]

Shorter answer: he was drunk, he thought it would be funny.

Ha ha, he was very drunk and I love that he showed for McGinn all through the aftermath of the final. Bloody lovely!

[Somniloquism]

From the BBC's get to know the England squad. I suspect the first stat will be out of date by Sunday.

Rogers has started all but one of Villa’s Premier League games over the past two seasons.

Newcastle's Harvey Barnes is the only player in Europe’s top-five leagues to play in more games than Rogers’ 55 this season. Rogers also covered the third most distance in the Premier League in 2025-26.

He’s the youngest Englishman to score in a major European final since Steven Gerrard in 2001.

He has played in all but one England game under Thomas Tuchel (prior to the World Cup warm-ups).

His only international goal to date came against Wales in October 2025. It made him the 34th Aston Villa player to score for England - the joint-most from one club along with Manchester United.

[usav]

Just watching some recent highlights this morning (Forest, Pool and Freiburg) - what a difference with him up top with Ollie.  Defences can't cope with the physicality of both of them, especially when we go long.  This is all predicated on McGinn being fit and Buendia playing like he has recently.  I'm still not convinced Buendia is a starter for a long slog in the Premier League, but if we can figure out a new signing for that side with Buendia as backup and/or starter for certain games then I'll be happy going into next year.

[Dave]

I'm still not convinced Buendia is a starter for a long slog in the Premier League, but if we can figure out a new signing for that side with Buendia as backup and/or starter for certain games then I'll be happy going into next year.

Definitely it's a position to upgrade in the medium-term, but based on how he finished the season I'd be surprised if the budget were being used on trying to push him out of the side.

He's now one of those like Pau / Cash / McGinn / Watkins where we shouldn't be chucking stupid money trying to improve on them, but putting decent money into a younger version and trying to turn the younger version into an improvement on what was there before.

[usav]

I'm still not convinced Buendia is a starter for a long slog in the Premier League, but if we can figure out a new signing for that side with Buendia as backup and/or starter for certain games then I'll be happy going into next year.

Definitely it's a position to upgrade in the medium-term, but based on how he finished the season I'd be surprised if the budget were being used on trying to push him out of the side.

He's now one of those like Pau / Cash / McGinn / Watkins where we shouldn't be chucking stupid money trying to improve on them, but putting decent money into a younger version and trying to turn the younger version into an improvement on what was there before.

That's fair, it just needs to be someone with some physicality.  I don't think it's any secret as to why he has thrived in the European games,