Aston Villa 1-1 Ipswich Post Match Shouting

[baddowvillans]

When Tielemans is playing in advanced role, and we are zipping the ball around, he’s one of the best.

I think luiz at his best  is better than youri  at his best personally.  He does not score enough  goals in the league for me.

Luiz was killing it.

Not in the second half of the season he wasnt , he was a passenger and a burden.

[eamonn]

It wasn't half the season, he was still playing well til March when he had some wobbles.

[andyh]

How much would an upgrade on Ollie cost ?
Who would that be ?

And if it’s that simple, why wouldn’t Arse go for that person rather than Ollie.

[LeonW]

How much would an upgrade on Ollie cost ?
Who would that be ?

And if it’s that simple, why wouldn’t Arse go for that person rather than Ollie.

I don’t think that’s necessarily the only way to look at it.

Firstly, you’re assuming that we’d be looking to buy a like for like player with Ollie’s profile. That may not be ultimately what Emery wants either now or to evolve the side to.

Then, have to consider that in our position, we’re not going to be sinking £60/70 odd million we may get for Ollie on a direct replacement. That’s not how Monchi operates. We’d be looking at a younger player, or someone who is damaged goods elsewhere, probably outside of the EPL that we’d take a chance on becoming as good or better than Watkins. Arsenal are not operating in our market, certainly not in January. They are looking for a guaranteed, EPL experienced striker that can plug straight into their side.

Another thing Emery and co will undoubtedly be considering is when is the right time to sell a player and what other options does selling that player open up? Wenger back in the day use to be the master at selling players when Arsenal had seen the best of them. I think it’s arguably true that we’ve probably already had the best of Watkins.

[ROBBO]

Emery has a point when he says we are still in the building phase, we have come so far so fast, the problem is we have the likes of Rashford joining us because we have the attraction of European football, if we miss this season it will again get harder to attract better players. He took JJ off yesterday which I found puzzling as he seemed to be the one getting past defenders. I know we have big games coming up but three points from yesterday has no less merit on the ladder than beating Liverpool.

[pelty]

What is so irritating is we create all these chances while playing so poorly. Is it that we simply do not have a goo enough strike force?

We need a clinical finisher , like a prime Vardy or Owen. Players who win games with a single chance .

Shoot, if only we had one of those in our squad who was young, pacy, and scored at the same rate per 90 as Erling Haaland! Well, at least those are easy to find.

[Rigadon]

Watkins will definitely be off in the summer and it will suit both him and the club.  But I don’t think we’ll get mega bucks. 

[ChicagoLion]

What is so irritating is we create all these chances while playing so poorly. Is it that we simply do not have a goo enough strike force?

We need a clinical finisher , like a prime Vardy or Owen. Players who win games with a single chance .

Shoot, if only we had one of those in our squad who was young, pacy, and scored at the same rate per 90 as Erling Haaland! Well, at least those are easy to find.

He is now playing in Saudi.

[Dante Lavelli]

It’s worth rephrasing that, he’d prefer to play in Saudi than in the PL.

I missed the last 15 minutes, did we miss any big chances?  Before that, Watkins had one and Rogers had two half chances at the near post.  Generally, however, we didn’t create much.  Is that how it carried on?

[rougegorge]

Well the keeper made some good saves in the last 15 or so..Asensio and then the rebound after Rashford's run right at the end

[N'ZMAV]

we lack a clinical finisher - Watkins scores enough,, but it's a good job we create him 4 good chances a game. We miss a top top level one, but without constant CL football we won't get one.

[Demitri_C]

Watkins will definitely be off in the summer and it will suit both him and the club.  But I don’t think we’ll get mega bucks.

If arsenal bid 50m (which i doubt they will) i would sell him. He scores goals but misses too many chances as well. Far too many. At 29 as well you would imagine he will only start declining.

But the biggest investment  we need to make is some bloody  defenders  that can defeneld. Unpopular  but i would consider selling onana if we can get close to what we paid for him. He is just never fit and we dont need that here

[N'ZMAV]

we either sell Watkins this summer, or he stays till the end.

[Dick Edwards]

I know we weren’t brilliant and they only had ten men but fuck me, their keeper made some unbelievable saves to stop us winning the game comfortably.

[Olneythelonely]

Personally looking forward to us suddenly willing to shell out the £80-100m it’ll take to get a better striker than Watkins.

I also think we’ll sell him for PSR reasons, but it’ll be a backwards step rather than something I’ll be happy about.