Aston Villa

[Sam-Wolf]

https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/2018/october/thomas-frank-appointed-as-brentford-fc-head-coach/

I trust you'll all be buying me a pint with your #ITK winnings.

Next time I'm up for a game, or you're down in London for an away game I certainly will be, made £50 off of this!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Good to see someone won off it!

ION, their DoF is a shit Richard Madeley.

 

[Tredman]

Richard Madeley is the shit Richard Madeley surely.

 

[Tony Towner]

Paddy Power described it as Madeley and Mancini's love child

 

[Parkins left foot]

Needs a shave - not sure that Judy would be happy with that look!

 

[Penk Wolf]

Looks like a thinner version of Steve Daley to me.

 

[White Wolf]

Was at Villa Park today with the Swansea fans so can comment on how they looked under Dean Smith.

The big thing to start with was the fact they the players were being played in their actual positions. No Hutton at left-back or Jedinak at centre-half and they had Grealish at #10 for once, and while their players aren't the best playing them where they operate best is surely a massive plus. They pressed high up the pitch and took advantage of Nordfelt's terrible distribution especially when under pressure, and pressed Swansea's defence pretty effectively for most of the match, though did start to fade by the last 20/25 mins. Should have scored more really but for two good saves by Nordfelt/some bad misses by Abraham. Swansea were absolute shit until the final 25, so slow and unambitious, labouring on the ball and doing nothing with it except pass it around the back and then concede possession (Villa had perhaps four 2v1 breaks in the first half alone and wasted them all), they were very reliant on giving the ball to Van der Hoorn and Fer who then did nothing with it. McBurnie is terrible, ridiculously slow so couldn't press Villa's clown in goal and never bothered to challenge for the ball in the air - muscled off easily too, I was shocked by how bad he is as the fans seemed to rate him. Swansea wasted some good chances at the end and should have equalised although overall it would have been undeserved. Nyland made two good saves but he is very very bad, his kicking is abysmal and he is very poor at holding onto the ball too - at one point he attempted a diving save for a ball going very far wide for a GK but couldn't hold the ball, palming it out for the corner! Reminds me of Lonergan. McGinn looks good, talented little player.

Swansea are rubbish nowadays and lack talented players, manager is not going to get much backing financially so it will be a long period of transition and cheap buys for them. Villa looked decent and dominated the majority of the game but it was against a poor side.

 

[Tony Towner]

Villa are 7 points off top and 3 off the play offs, playing players in the correct positions is all they really needed. They'll be Top 6 at the worst. The Championship is really weak this year no team is averaging two points a game even this early in the season

 

[Deleted Cyber]

Yep 85 points gets you up automatically this year I reckon

 

[darlowolf64]

Aston Villa... :taunt: :taunt: :taunt:

 

[Tony Towner]

Seems their problems were deeper than just Bruce and a shit defence.

 

[Paul]

This logic ?

Dean Smith:

15/16 - Walked into Brentford mid season, treaded water and then signed 18 players that summer to begin the revolution of Brentford's style of play and sold a bunch of players at profit. Lasse Vibe, Bjelland, Maxime Colin, Ryan Woods, Barbet and Canos all came in that summer. Jota came back from loan and was put into the team. All proved to be successful in the Championship. He improved Tarkowski, Odubajo, Jack O'Connell and Stuart Dallas and sold them all for a profit that season.

16/17 - He then followed that up the following season by signing Canos permanently, Rico Henry, Jozefzoon, John Egan, Sawyers and Bentley in goal. Again all proving to be astute purchases and all with a greater market value than what he payed at the time.

Sold Hogan to us, Button and Bidwell, again all at profit (in Hogan's case he robbed us).

17/18 - Then the following summer, in comes Neal Maupay, Ollie Watkins, Dalsgaard and he promotes Chris Mepham. All have proved to be top signings. He also sold Jota, Colin, Vibe and Dean at profit.

18/19 - Summer just gone, he brought in Konsa, Jeanvier, Benrahma and Odubajo back on a free. Again in the main, really strong signings that will all be worth more if they move them on. Egan, Woods, Yennaris, Jozefzoon and recently Mepham were all sold for big money.

The point is this guy is capable of dramatic and drastic change for the better, whether it be spotting bargains and turning them into big money sales, promoting youth, improving players or overhauling our style of play by bringing in youthful energetic players whilst recycling the team if he has too. He has been ruthless at getting rid of 30+ year old players even if they served him well in the past.

This is what time with Dean Smith will get us. He couldn't dream of signing players like Guilbert (who is amongst the top 15 defensive stats in Ligue 1 and guaranteed will become a fan favourite), Mings (who we hopefully will buy) or Kalinic at Brentford or being able to retain his top players like he will be able to do at Villa.

Get behind the team! UTV ��

 

[AndyWolves]

This logic ?

Dean Smith:

15/16 - Walked into Brentford mid season, treaded water and then signed 18 players that summer to begin the revolution of Brentford's style of play and sold a bunch of players at profit. Lasse Vibe, Bjelland, Maxime Colin, Ryan Woods, Barbet and Canos all came in that summer. Jota came back from loan and was put into the team. All proved to be successful in the Championship. He improved Tarkowski, Odubajo, Jack O'Connell and Stuart Dallas and sold them all for a profit that season.

16/17 - He then followed that up the following season by signing Canos permanently, Rico Henry, Jozefzoon, John Egan, Sawyers and Bentley in goal. Again all proving to be astute purchases and all with a greater market value than what he payed at the time.

Sold Hogan to us, Button and Bidwell, again all at profit (in Hogan's case he robbed us).

17/18 - Then the following summer, in comes Neal Maupay, Ollie Watkins, Dalsgaard and he promotes Chris Mepham. All have proved to be top signings. He also sold Jota, Colin, Vibe and Dean at profit.

18/19 - Summer just gone, he brought in Konsa, Jeanvier, Benrahma and Odubajo back on a free. Again in the main, really strong signings that will all be worth more if they move them on. Egan, Woods, Yennaris, Jozefzoon and recently Mepham were all sold for big money.

The point is this guy is capable of dramatic and drastic change for the better, whether it be spotting bargains and turning them into big money sales, promoting youth, improving players or overhauling our style of play by bringing in youthful energetic players whilst recycling the team if he has too. He has been ruthless at getting rid of 30+ year old players even if they served him well in the past.

This is what time with Dean Smith will get us. He couldn't dream of signing players like Guilbert (who is amongst the top 15 defensive stats in Ligue 1 and guaranteed will become a fan favourite), Mings (who we hopefully will buy) or Kalinic at Brentford or being able to retain his top players like he will be able to do at Villa.

Get behind the team! UTV ��

I think that's Brentford's "system" rather than Dean Smith driving it

 

[Boozad]

I think it's clutching at straws. Either that or they're genuinely happy with life in the Championship with a revolving door spunking bits of profit. Villa are fucking rancid.

 

[Tredman]

Fuck em. They are on a par with Walsall compared to us now.

 

[Aikiwolf]

The parent company for Villa haven't filed their accounts. This link is pretty grim reading for them but obviously with the caveat that there's a fair bit of speculation in it

https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1101738600486617088?s=19

 

[Sniffer]

https://twitter.com/kieranmaguire?lang=en

Analysis of the parent company accounts.

 

[Sniffer]

Youth development spending up by £5m and is now £11m. That's not a fudge for FFP purposes.

 

[Sniffer]

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@KieranMaguire
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Despite this Villa may be okay in terms of FFP as some costs are excluded. Have estimated that FFP losses for last two seasons are £25.1 million so maximum loss for 2018/19 is £13.9 million. Will be tough due to parachute payments falling but not impossible #AVFC

 

[Penk Wolf]

I think it was pretty much acknowledged that they wouldn’t break it last season. It will be this season where they have problems and results should be out this month.