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It is no secret that Aston Villa are looking for a new goalscorer, this time with Premier League experience. Everton’s Steven Naismith has emerged as a top target for Aston Villa, with the club prepared to offer £6.5 million for…
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Newcastle 1 – 1 Villa; a better performance, but not enough
So there were only two of us who had to work this evening and things were going really well, so I decided we were going to sneak in and watch the game in the office. Unfortunately, the other chap is…
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Newcastle – Villa: another loss?
Picture courtesy of www.nufcblog.co.uk I have to admit to being somewhat bored with trying to drum up some optimism lately, but I’m going to give it another try. Let’s keep things simple. Newcastle have won their last two games, against…
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Aly Cissokho to Return To Villa – Rumour
Aly Cissokho’s brother confirmed yesterday that Cissokho will be returning to Aston Villa in January as Aston Villa look to terminate Cissokho’s loan deal early. Cissokho moved to Porto on loan in August and hasn’t gotten too much playing time.…
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Lose to Newcastle, and It Will Be Game Over for Villa
This is a headline you will be seeing very often this week, not because a lot of football journalists, experts and pundits will be talking about this. But it’s what many Villa fans believe, including myself. Newcastle are a team…
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Garde isn’t messing about with non-comitted players
After hints that there’s been a “disagreement” between Remi Garde and Gabby Agbonlahor, it now seems the manager has taken a tough approach with Charles N’zogbia. I have to say this is music to my ears, as it’s been long…
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Tom Fox Announces a New Chairman is on the Horizon
Tom Fox recently addressed the Aston Villa Supporters Trust yesterday and addressed a few key questions and issues that have risen through media over the past several weeks, or months. Firstly, Fox spoke about Villa’s transfer policy and claimed that…
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Agbonlahor To Be Made Available for Sale
The Telegraph has reported a story, that long-serving Aston Villa forward will be made available for transfer as Garde has not been impressed with Agbonlahor’s effort in training. Another reason, is that Garde is concerned with Agbonlahor’s lack of goals.…
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Thoughts after the Arsenal loss and the news in the aftermath.
Okay, so upon reflection I’ve realised that we never had a hope in hell of getting anything against Arsenal on Sunday, just the same as we haven’t done when playing them at home, for ages. To be honest it wasn’t…
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Villa 0 – 2 Arsenal; another game of two halves
I’ve been awake for about 24 hours straight now after a grueller night shift, having been too scared to go to bed, else I wouldn’t have got up to watch the game. Hence at half time, I’d practically made the…
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Aston Villa – Arsenal; A genuinely scary thought and a poll
Courtesy of Avillafan.com This one has to be a whupping doesn’t it? Yet you never know when it comes to football and anything can happen. Who would have put money on Bournemouth beating Man Utd last night, for instance? Today…
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Lescott and Okore the Surprise Pairing of the Lot
Against Southampton when I saw the starting 11, I was less than optimistic of the central defensive pairing of Lescott and Okore. Lescott had been poor all season for Villa, while Okore hadn’t played football for Aston Villa since May.…
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Top 5 Flops of October & November
It’s been another two months and I have decided to do another top 5 flops of the last two months. In my opinion the whole club flopped the past two months, not only have we failed to win a single…
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Is Kozak Really Not Good Enough?
Last week, Remi Garde made comments in regards to Libor Kozak’s continuous lack of first team football. In summary, Garde stated that Kozak was simply not good enough to play for the first team and the likes of Gestede, Ayew…
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Can Grealish Step Up to the Plate?
Jack Grealish returns to training this week after being banished from the first team the past two weeks ever since Grealish’s night out after Villa’s 4-0 defeat to Everton. But will Grealish actually learn his lesson this time? And more…
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Southampton 1 – 1 Villa; A lucky point?
I don’t really know what to say about this one, but I feel I should emphasise that very few of us thought we’d get anything at all today. So getting a point is a fantastic bonus in my view. I…
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Southampton – Villa; It’s all about the defence
I really wish I could begin a preview with a sentence something along the lines of “I’m well confident we’ll take the three points here”. But you just can’t, can you? While we apparently looked better against Watford (I didn’t…
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Top 4 Players in Novemebr
November hasn’t been a great month either, at least Villa did score their first point since the 2-2 draw against Sunderland way back in August. Nonetheless, I want to go over some of the best players this month and applaud…
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ITK: Cissokho, Training and January Targets
Some more in the know news has come out of Villa Park today and as usual, take it with a grain of salt. But, the last time I did an ITK post, all things became true, minus Kozak going out…
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Given that it looks like we’re going down, who can we get in?
I’ve been having a think about the above question and I think we’re going to struggle come the winter window. To my mind, we have two ways of looking at things. 1) We spend some serious money on some quality…