Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[aj2k77]

A massive positive that only Liverpool gained a single point on us this weekend really. Is the structure hindering us?

[SamTheMouse]

Hope you're feeling better soon CJ, and the company change goes well.

Thank you very much on all accounts, it’s just a vertical learning curve really. Same role, just a totally different aircraft type - which means relearning a lot.

Could have done with a Villa win though!! Or at least a gutsy performance as opposed to our present “lie down and let them tickle our belly” approach.

What are you going to be flying, Chris?

[pauliewalnuts]

A massive positive that only Liverpool gained a single point on us this weekend really. Is the structure hindering us?

Playing really badly for weeks on end is hindering us far more than anything else.

Nobody is forcing Unai to continue with Ollie when he looks utterly bereft of confidence or ability.

[Villafirst]

For me, the most stupid decision was to let Malen go on loan to Roma. The guy is scoring for fun there! He was a great option in attack.

[eye digress]

Only silver lining was that we got a decision at Old Trafford (though fwiw, it was never a goal, Onana clearly interfering with play in my view).

[ChicagoLion]

For me, the most stupid decision was to let Malen go on loan to Roma. The guy is scoring for fun there! He was a great option in attack.

I have seen the argument that he wanted to go because he wasn’t playing enough, looking at Watkins from all season there was a pretty obvious answer to this problem.
Ridiculous decision.

[SamTheMouse]

Who cares whether he wanted to go. He was playing fine. We could have told him to wait until the end of the season.

[LeeB]

Who cares whether he wanted to go. He was playing fine. We could have told him to wait until the end of the season.

Yep.

It really looks like an act of self sabotage at this point, especially given we barely see the guy that replaced him.

[Rigadon]

Nearly all of our transfer activity this year has been utterly shite for various reasons.  Bailey is a complete disaster.  Sancho is being paid way too much for the end product.  Moving Malen looks weirder the more time passes, and we don't really play Abraham.  Then there's Elliot, which is the most ludicrous transfer situation I can remember.  Guessand... pffft.

The only ones in who look fit to add something are Lindeloff who never plays and Luiz who is OK.

I suppose we are shopping in the bargain basement relative to the teams around us in the league, but still, it's been an awful run transfer wise.

[The Edge]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Both Villa and Man United needed to buy about three attackers this summer. They went and spent, what, 200m+? We were left scraping the barrel. One club is in chronic debt, the other isn't. One has 50p negative net spend over the last five years. The other doesn't.

Alrighty then.

Was talking about this yesterday with some villa fans and a united fan we met. Even the United fan admitted it's a ludicrous situation designed to keep the same clubs happy that were threatening to join a European super league. It's massively unfair on ambitious owners like ours and I wouldn't be surprised if some wealthy owners were to walk away from the PL because of it. We need to get way smarter in the transfer market. Yes the likes of Yanited can hoover up the best players like Cunha and Mbueno but Wolves and Brentford recruited them in the first place and that's what we must do.

[Meanwood Villa]

Who cares whether he wanted to go. He was playing fine. We could have told him to wait until the end of the season.

Yep.

It really looks like an act of self sabotage at this point, especially given we barely see the guy that replaced him.

It looked stupid at the time and it looks even more stupid now. Tammy is well liked and not getting much game time so isn't in the firing line at the moment but really not sure he's a good enough replacement.

[PaulWinch again]

Tammy is entirely the wrong type of player to replace Malen anyway - he’s a poacher brought into a team that is really poor at creating chances.

[brontebilly]

Tammy is entirely the wrong type of player to replace Malen anyway - he’s a poacher brought into a team that is really poor at creating chances.

Ironically enough we created plenty yesterday, two of which Tammy flunked. Mings missed header was a sitter and Onana maybe could have done better.

[Rigadon]

The most annoying thing about this latest defeat there is that they are still a bit shit.  Each of their 3 goals came from our players making mistakes.  The first, Rogers losing the ball in midfield and then a brainless clearance out for a corner from Digne.  The second, Bailey not doing what he's been told to do.  The third Bogarde passing the ball back into our 6 year area.  I can't remember them creating any other significant chances and 3-1 flattered them.

I thought the game would be settled on which team made mistakes, and so it turned out.  It wasn't about structure.

[Villa Lew]

Can't, at the moment, think of a league season quite like this, started crap, then went on a brilliant run, then went back to crap, let's hope it can finish on, well a another brilliant run is perhaps asking for too much, but a better run than Liverpool and Chelsea.