Third Generation Villan has submitted the following. Cheers, TGV.
So we were beaten by a much better team on the day, I accept that but was disappointed with the performance and I think that will be most fans view even though we all hoped for a famous victory.
But rather than dwell on today’s disappointment I thought I would try to give an assessment of where we are and what to look forward to.
Its five years in August since MON left us, and Randy Lerner changed his investment strategy in an attempt to get back some of his outlay during the MON years. This period of under investment in the team has shown in the quality of the team and our form and league positions since then, as they say the table does not lie after a 38 game season you are where you deserve to be.
Now it does not matter if you blame MON or Lerner or anyone else over the last 5 years the quality of the team has declined steadily until the last few months of Lamberts time, Villa were the poorest in the premiership on nearly all fronts and we were certain to go down, and when we changed to Tim Sherwood we got the bounce or lift nearly all clubs get with a new manager and managed to stay up by the skin of our teeth, as I think the bounce had worn off after the west ham game and the players thought they were safe, and luckily we were.
So we come to a cup final against one of the premier league’s top teams with the same squad as under Lambert and with the bounce gone, the result was I suspect what we all feared may be the case but all hoped would not happen and we could pull off a shock win.
Now I am not having a go at Tim Sherwood, after all he did keep us up and I think he has earned the chance to build his own side over the coming season and then we can all decide if he is a good manager or not. And seeing some of the comments coming out tonight about changing the mentality of the players and a clear out during the summer etc. gives me some optimism for the season ahead. But time will tell.
But I think we have more reasons to optimistic now, then at any time over the last 5 years.
We are told we are close to being sold and hopefully will get better investment in the team
We are still in the Premier league, and with the money from the new TV deal should be able to cement our place there over the next few years.
We have a manager who likes to play attacking football, what most of us want (to be entertained) and will take the cup competitions seriously.
And has said already he has to rebuild the team and the way we play and the mentality of the players
Which all together means we will have lots to talk about over the next few months, a transfer window where we will probably be more active this year in and out.
if we agree or not with Tim Sherwood’s deals, if we like the new owners, the amount of investment etc.
So I think most of us will be optimistic, excited and hopeful about the future, and put todays result behind us. And hopefully look back in a few years’ time and say today was the end of the wilderness years for the villa
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283 responses to “Looking forward”
Timo Horn
Andrew Robertson
Kieran Trippier
Jores Okore
Virgil van Dijk
Fabian Delph
Stefan Reinartz
Carles Gil
Jack Grealish
Yannick Bolaisie
Charlie Austin
Next years wishful lineup!
Drop Okore for Clark and that would be quality.
Right who’s going to volunteer to post this to Tim? Just tell him that if he’s a few bob short for some of the players we’ll have a whip round:-)
Steve Bruce saying Robertson won’t go cheap (12M), so 6M is out of the question. Are we capable to spend 15M+ for him?
talksport saying gil could be going back to spain with celta vigo. very disapointed hearing this 🙁
Much like Helenius I hope there was something going on behind the scenes which prevented him from playing rather than Sherwood’s disapproval. From the few appearances he looked a great prospect and if he goes I’m glad it is back to Spain rather than someone else in the league.
I’ve got a bad feeling about all this. The buzz about Villa is that players that we’d like to stay (including Cleverley) don’t want to be here. The players we want to get rid of will be hard to shift.
If I was a player with other Premier League options this summer I’d be thinking long and hard about whether Villa was the right option for me.
In Tim I trust though, for now.
Things are at last looking up. One of the papers is saying Vlaar will follow Cleverley out of the door.
Over rated and injury prone.
Does anybody think villa are clearing the decks before a SALE.
Hope so will be the highlight of the year if we get rid of vlaar completely useless
John Percy saying we have offered Vlaar a new contract, but he has other offers and he’s weighing up all the options.
Let’s hope he goes elsewhere knowing our luck he will choose us. Couldn’t beat another season with that injury/error prone lump in the team
You would assume any prospective buyer would be interested in who we buy or sell. For instance I would assume the sell of Vlaar, Benteke, etc (Villa’s larger names with regards to merchandise) would alter any sort of agreement. Really the club can’t move forward until we sort out if the club will be sold or a new chairman appointed this summer. I also suppose Benteke is thinking the same thing, wait now and if there is a new owner ask for twice as much.
Cleverley called up by England………Thank you Aston Villa.
Don’t worry he won’t play in any imp games
Mason injured, so yeah, not surprising he got called up. Who else is there? Colback and such?
What a fuckin joke ,actually its all over the local papers up here on merseyside about cleverley the only thing england and everton dont realise is that hes actually shit .Good riddance to bad rubbish.