After Villa’s defeat against Stoke there was a survey on Birmingham Mail which asked fans what was Villa’s strongest team. Weirdly enough it was widely agreed on, the team I personally selected was exactly the team that had gained the most votes. So if most Villa fans can see it why can’t Sherwood?
Guzan
Hutton-Richards-Clark-Amavi
Gana-Westwood
Traore-Gil-Grealish
Gestede
This is where I’ll try my best to back Sherwood, even though this is, on paper the strongest team but that’s based on individual performances. I’ll start with Traore, yes he has played well whenever he has had the chance to play. But, he is still young and might not be the option when playing against world class defenders. Traore loves to beat his man, and doesn’t necessarily pass enough. I think he’d be better off starting off the bench. In place, I’d like to see Ayew given a shot. He played well against Birmingham, and I thought it was a daft decision to drop Ayew after he started to pick up good form.
The midfield is another uncertainty. I think that Gana should play, he is experienced and has bag loads of energy. But who should partner him? I really want it to be Sanchez, he is excellent for Colombia but for some reason can’t replicate that form for Villa. But Sanchez can play well for up 70 minutes, so it’s an either or. Westwood has been poor so far this season but remains a favourite by Sherwood. Gary Gardner is coming back from injury, and scored a cracker during Villa’s closed-off friendlies this past week. He could be the one that can make a real impact for Villa, but the game against Chelsea will come too soon for him.
The defence, I entirely agree with. Clark is far better than Lescott and Bacuna has been rather poor. Plus I like the fact that Hutton likes to attack and whenever he plays, he is seen all over the pitch. He has been excellent, still can’t believe he was held in exile for so long under Lambert!
So what do you think, do you agree that this is the best team on paper?
all this bollocks net spend, gross spend who bought who, is doing my crust in if i have a nissan skyline worth £40mil lovely car but limited in use and sell it for £60mil and then buy a range rover, a bmw sports car, and and a mini and only spent £61.75 mil have i improved or am i still classed as a cheapskate reality check time methinks.
Billys Boots, we sold our Formula one Mercedes and tried to compete in the grand prix with a few new Alfa Romeo’s……. Great cars but just can’t compete
saddened you’ve missed the point we have £60mil of new talent in it doesn’t matter how much we got in, and in my opinion we are stronger and better equipped than last season it just needs tweaking.
I get you now !
I think I may disagree about being better than last year as we have lost the sole person who has kept us up this last 3 seasons, so better at this stage I disagree, but and its a big but, we have lots more promising players….
yes but he only kept us up when we have picked up a bit of momentum arsenal showed how to stop him most of the top teams know his game now so it was the right time to depart, if whoever we have as manager gets their individual skills working in harmony we will have a very exciting team.
But we lost £59m of proven talent so effectively we we havnt
talent that cost us under £20 mil you have all this rubbish about net spend its immaterial what we sold, we have assembled a team that looks stronger than last seasons on paper for £7 mil allegedly