After last week’s poor show against Newcastle, where I basically spat my dummy out and couldn’t be bothered to write anything, I determined that I’d try to look at today’s game in a more positive light.
I didn’t really need to as it turned out, because straight from the off the Villa were very good to watch.
We took the game to Hull and played with a really high tempo, something that I’ve often said is our best asset.
We were quite simply too sharp and fast for the opponents; so much so, that they looked a bit shell-shocked, in my opinion.
Just when some of us were slating Gabby and Andi Weimann for a lack of goals, so they turned around and proved us wrong.
Gabby took his goal well with a sharp turn and shot, which reminded me of Kenny Dalglish in his heyday and Weimann did well too, after a nice ball in from Richardson.
So two up at half time (it could easily have been three if Westwood’s free kick had been an inch to the right) and we were cruising towards what I thought was going to be a 4 or 5-0 job.
So what on earth happened in the second half?
You might say that Hull massively stepped up their game, but I don’t believe that was the case.
My money says we totally took our foot off the gas and let them back into it.
So much so, that they looked more dangerous than us.
Perhaps it was a case where our lads had just run themselves into the ground, in which case I’ll forgive them.
But I doubt it myself.
I reckon it was down to Lambert wanting to protect the lead; a poor tactic.
Whatever, there were quite a few positives.
The defence looks pretty solid overall.
Cissokho gives me loads more confidence about our left hand side.
And young Grealish just scares the proverbial out of the opposition.
Mr Potato head had obviously done his research and told the players to take him out.
If the kid can stand up to the “treatment”, I see a great future for him.
The biggest positive of all?
That’s 7 points out of 9.
Better than I expected, if I’m honest.
According to the Express Cleverly wants £1m from Man U to come to Villa (or anyone else for that matter) all a little bit too Stephen Irelandish for my liking.
I’m hoping Everton come in as reported & snap him up they’ll pay his wage demands,I hope all our resources today aren’t wasted on this player.
Holteto7500 are saying he wants £60k a week and I can’t see randy having any of that so hopefully that’ll be an end to any Cleverly deal.
Yes mate I’ve red that, obviously he’s got a greedy fucking agent I hope the deal falls flat on its arse.
Mornin all
JD I hope you’ll be surfing the net til the window closes mate as I can’t be arsed too busy at work.
I’m off work today so will do my best to see if I can get info on players in.KEA has moved back to feyenoord on a 3 year deal as you probably know.That makes room for an extra midfielder to come in.UTV
Hallelujah!!!!!
Arnold Oosterveer (Ron Vlaar’s agent)
“There is no truth in any of the rumours. He still has a contract with Villa for one year so he will stay there. There is nothing happening with him today.”
Woo Hoo happy days!
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2014/9/1/6092445/ron-vlaar-aston-villa-transfer-rumours
Vlaar going nowhere whihc is good news and, reading between the lines, there’s probably new contract talks in the near future. Oohah it’s going to be such an awful day for you!!
BWS – just beat me to it but have posted link for others to read. How long can Sky keep spinning the rumour of a move to Arse? 🙂
As long has he’s staying put then who cares mate, let them carry on. Read somewhere he’d be their 4th choice centre back anyway, at 29 would he be happy sitting on the bench? And going by Wenger’s past record with over 30’s it’d be a short contract, again the last thing you’d want at that age.
Apparantly (being reported in several places) Cleverley wants a £1m pay off from manure to take a wage cut in a move to Villa.. Easy to criticise but he’s enttiled to ask for compensation if he has a contract and will lose money if manure ‘break it’ by shifting him out of the club. It’s no different to CEO’s or other senior managers ‘losing their job’. Wasn’t there an example of this in a recnet transfer window – but can’t remember which player it was.
yes there was recent example of it, the player you’re referring to would be Peter Beardsley.
Yea, one Mr Stephen reland the w****r, he wanted £2m and look what a disaster he was. Sorry mate but if he don’t want to come f**k him, he’s shite anyway.
How could I forget that 🙂
agree its not like hes ronaldo ffs. At best he is as good as what we already have which isnt saying much
Cleverly wants Everton loan move but UTD want permanent Villa move who will win?Ide rather we moved on if this is true as I wouldn’t want a player who didn’t want to be at AVFC…UTV
agree i dont want the ueless twat even if he did want to come to us. sick of us bailing utd out
Jay Dee reported that after meeting with Roy Keane at the weekend, Villa now his preferred destination. I can’t make up my mind on this one.
no wonder keane failed miserably as a manager if thats the sort of player he signs poor judge of player
Them type of players can take a running jump for me, if he’s good he wouldn’t be moving, fuck him off. I bet who does come in we never believed it.
agree bill
Cleverley smells of the Stephen Ireland shenanigans all over again, by the sounds of it, he thinks he is bigger and better than the villa. Please don’t let this be the excuse for us not looking at anyone else…… Come on Mr Fox do some wheeler dealing. !! !!
TC would be a disater for us utd should pay us. snother djemba djemba just coz he played for utd dosnt mean hes any good. sick of them taking our best players and then flogging us their shit ones. Lerner is so knieve its untrue
wots the story, some were saying earlier about milner. if theres a chance 2 av milner or this Cleverly, it would be miner every time. i heard from my contacts over here lmao cleverly wants 2 be loaned or paid off. its in the local press, also they utd are trying to shift aload 2day up2 10 players
utd are desperate to get rid of players today as theyve signed falcao on loan ffs. If they cant get top 4 with the money theyve spent they need shooting. If we are in for TC we should wait it out till a minute before deadline ends as utd will bend over backwards to get shot of him. I think utd should be paying us to take the usless twat of their books. Maybe a swap deal with vlaar who knows.
loaning players when you can spend 60 million on a player is ridiculous cheating w***ers
if everton thought he was thst good they wud buy him
this falcao transfer stinks hes gonna be on 300k tax free dough talk claim, wots this fair play bulshit, villa for 2 years couldn’t pay 20k really fair innit . also they couldn’t beat burnley weekend and they had a 60 million player and in burnleys total history they have spent 60 million 🙁 totally fair play
they aven’T spent 60 million in their total history sorry iam breaking in my new phone 🙂
They have world class players but not a wc team. But all the quality they have shud guarantee then top 4 at least. Utd can pay more coz ffp is weighted in their favour as they have probably tge biggest turnover in the world
Aaron Lennon on his way to Bodymoor??
absolute bullshit
Is he lost? Bloody sat-navs!
just heard on talksport cleverly is likely 2 join villa nooooooooooooo i don’t like this. only a loan. he is not worth the transfer fee 8 million and in his last 12months
i can’t find anything out on villa, other than this cleverly ppl start posting ur gossip brb soon want loads of whispers of i hope jaydee is camped outside training groound gates with all the reporters do lol
I really hope we don’t start jumping through hoops to get this useless prick,Milner would be fantastic but I’m not holding out for that to materialize.
Man U are simply clearing the decks and offloading the shite and getting the wage bill down in order to finance their rebuilding, now come on this lads played in the CL, played for England and if the f **ker was any good, well £60k a week good then why aint your Bayern’s and Milan’s looking at him?
And Red Roy can f**k off too, didn’t he bring a load of Man U washed up dross in at Sunderland? He on commission or something?
commision sounds right imo
milner is wanted by liverpool and city said hes not for sale. another bs rumour
TBH I don’t mind if Cleverley comes. He is probably better than most of our midfield and just gets a bad press because of Man U fans who think he needs to be the next Paul Scholes or he’s useless. It’s not exciting but then neither were Senderos or Richardson, and they have started well enough. It seems a lot of money but maybe not if you look at some of the transfers that have taken place.
but he dosnt want to come to us thou when he signs he will give the usual pr bullshit of how villa were his first choice and keane was a big influence yawn yawn
If he didn’t want to come to us then why is he hiding out for a payoff from Utd and why hasn’t he signed for Everton?
“If he didn’t want to come to us then why is he holding out for a payoff from Utd”
So holding out for a payment form Man U means his keen on coming to VP? Hows that one work out? All it says to me is he’s a mercenary little f**ker.
Maybe he’s holding out for a payoff from Utd because we’ve offered him less wages than others. Which would tell me he wants to come to us otherwise he’d sign for one of the other clubs that are in for him and earn more money.
All footballers are the same BWS. They will sell their souls to the highest bidder. Cleverley hasn’t asked to leave. Utd have changed his boss and his boss doesn’t want him. He has a contract that means he can sit on his bum and get paid at his normal wage. If Villa offer less he is right to demand that they pay the difference and it happens all the time.
I know we want players who want to play for the club, but we have flirted with relegation for three seasons and are up for sale. Add to that we won’t pay high wages and you have enough reasons to say no full stop.
If he comes, he will do his best, and if he does well good for him and us. If he doesn’t come well hey ho. If he comes and is crap that’s all that would bother me.
Everton don’t want him that’s why his agents and utd r just saying that so it looks more attractive to us. Pray we don’t sign him
I love your ITK knowledge. Fair play to you for having such reliable info all the time.
To be honest DSVilla in a sence he maybe the player we want, but not at a demand for pay offs to come to us, it smells as B W S said, Steven Ireland sarga allover again, what’s stopping him not wanting to give us his worth? And sitting on the bench if he is angry, we want a player that accepts our ideas and wanting to be here, it looks wrong to me.
I can’t even begin to compare him with Ireland. Ireland seems like he blames everyone else for his failure to deliver on his talent. I haven’t seen anything in the media that suggests Cleverley is anything like him.
I guess we may find out!
Holding*
To be fair.. a lot of players wait for pay offs.. Cleverely isn’t the only player after Ireland to do so…
If you could get a million into your bank account you would def want to get it..
I would prefer the money spent on someone else but rather have him come in then no one..
I hear what your saying Lionheart but its morally wrong in my eyes, you either want to come and play for a club and earn your money by that, not pay offs, if it goes on then it should be stopped legally.
Bill players are money making machines guaranteed his agent told him what he’s entitled to mate.
I did post earlier that a player may have an argument for compensation when sold against their will dependant on the wording of their contract. Money in football is so obscene anyway and (as PL observed little or no loyalty) so why wouldn’t a player hold out for whatever they are legally entitled to. If he comes to Villa on a ‘lower’ wage then he would be looking to be compensated for loss of earnings following (effectively) a termination of his existing contract. I’m not sure I would compare him with Ireland – he is truly unique 🙂
I’ve just read we’ve made a 4million bid for Jason Puncheon
Smells of desperation if true.
I dare say Giddy, what I’m saying is his heart not with the club, why have him? To sit on his arse if he wants, no its not acceptable by me, not that he would bother.
Bill I agree he’s already stated Everton would be his preference yes smells of ireland.they want rid of him full stop so he’s wanting compensation for it so he’ll get it wherever the destination mate.
EvertonPodCast claims Express believe that Keane has the upperhand on Martinez about convincing Cleverley to us over Everton.
Great thanks roy u should of stayed in the telly u useless twat
Ps also why is keane involved in this he’s not the manager and hopefully never will be
Lambert probably told him to talk to him.
ha ha dont make me laugh probably the other way round
Because out the two Keane is more audible I guess.
Links to Sinclair, Young, Puncheon (reportedly just handed in a transfer request) for wing spot and Spearing and Cleverley to replace KEA. I’d be okay with Young, Puncheon and Cleverley I guess, other 2… No thanks.
L’Equipe claim Andre Ayew’s rejected Hull, and is set to sign for either Villa or QPR.
We need a central creative midfielder.
Where exactly is Puncheon going to play?
I think we will end up signing somebody just for the sake of it, not because its necessary.
Like all of his signings, their won’t be any thought behind it.
On the wing, and hopefully Weimann won’t ever be considered a winger again. Play Weimann as a support striker/striker and he’s so much more affective.
none of those are coming andrew all bullshit rumours. The only player, if any, we will sign is unfortunatel cleverly
According to Sky the Cleverley deal has fallen through.
We have tabled a bid for Real Sociedads Sergio Canales AMF
Playmaker
Thats more like it!
He came on for the final half hour in Sociedad’s 4-2 win over Real Madrid last night!!
SSN breaking from BMH reported it about 10 mins ago
Puncheon scored for Palace v Newcastle, he’s put in a transfer request. Doesn’t matter if he played just last night.
Does that mean our attention has now deflected away from that useless manc twat.
Two different players, so probably not.
I so so so hope you’re right.
Another bullshit bid for a player we’ve no chance of getting. Like Dempsey last yr
Also L Equipe say Andre Ayew app turned down a move to Hull we have been linked with him