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Another late challenge by Caicedo. Still no booking.

How has Caicedo not been booked

Howe would have made a difference without a doubt. We got it completely wrong tactically yesterday.

Yup villa relentlessly punished our agent backline. Absolutely no coincidence they weren't interested in attacking tinos flank.

Yeah but see my second point, who else other than Saudi would be paying those fees? I don't see it personally not that it matters as Villa have done nothing wrong and our owners are mugs.

Nah, nobody else was offering such fees for those guys. They played that hype cycle something crazy with Duran. To add on, very few clubs can afford to pay 50m+ fees, so any player in that bracket better be champions league quality.

Maybe I'm on a downer after last night but I can't see anyone being willing/able to give us 75m for him. I guess the first place to look at is those clubs who's primary target is a left winger. I think both Chelsea and Arsenal they want a CF. For Liverpool they want a right and left back as well as a striker too.

This is where the problems start and we have a disconnect imo. How much would you expect to get for Gordon?

I don't expect any big sales personally. I'm sure we will listen to offers for our squad players though.

Yes and no right? I mean for my money they were super lucky our owners decided to create the chinese super league mark 2 and bail them out twice. If not they'd be up shits creek and not be able to do what they've done. It's kinda working out for them now sure, but it's a short term fix and contrary to what some seem to think it's a super expensive fix at that.

I think we have a good window as we can finally buy players after what feels like forever. Just not sure we get everything we need without selling someone. One of the byproducts of this dog shit ffp regime is everyone is all targeting the same profile which has pushed prices all the way up.

This summer is obviously absolutely huge. We have a lot we need to do and I don't think we will get everything we need. I hope we are active early and don't leave stuff until late in the window.

Indeed and it's exactly when he should have been sold. Thankfully Kelly and Miggy sales has told me we've learnt our lesson.

The talk about him coming on and banging them in which occurred before he returned seems to have gone

Was just thinking how villa have essential got this large temporary squad by selling someone akin to Gordon and replacing them with Malen (who's nothing special) and a bunch of very expensive loans. If they decide to make the loans permanent the wage balloons another 600k at least (this figure would require all of the loanees to take cuts btw) and require transfer fees which would cost more than they got for Duran. Obviously what they Have done is powerful in the short term and in that specific context but I prefer our approach personally. Although I would love for us to actually do a better job managing FFP. we gave away by trading Anderson and not some random academy kid.

We got the own goal tripz again sadly was playing like he was nursing a hangover.

We've sold miggy and Kelly we will be active in the summer. Would you have used the summer budget to get loans who will sit on the bench?

We didn't as far as I'm aware.

Generous ratings these.

150k per week iirc.

Less than our top earners.

Most annoying thing for me is the central midfield for Villa cost them nothing in transfer fees. Can't believe we didn't try and get Kamara.

Ah man just remembered city looks absolutely pathetic at the minute apart from when we rock up.