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brummie

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We suffered in terms of form last season when Boubacar Kamara did his ACL, mostly because as part of that double pivot, he allowed Luiz (whose form also suffered without him) to get forward more and contribute to the game.

 

Although we have signed Barrenechea from Juventus who looks a solid DM.

 

It looks as though the Duran to Chelsea dead is getting resurrected (I fucking hope so), which means that the only places i think we still need to look are up front and right back.

 

I suspect we'll see Moreno and Dendoncker leave, at some point soon, too. And maybe Diego Carlos.

 

 

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If we’d have signed Onana for £50m I’d have been gutted because he’s looked shite so often but I could also see it working for him with the right coach. 
 

It’s either going to be a massive bargain or he’s gonna be a Van De Beek. 

 

 

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At best Villa are back to level with last season with Onana replacing Douglas Luiz. Good replacement but I think we're still ahead of them. 

 

 

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It’s a big downgrade in a few senses, Luiz is much tidier on the ball. Onana is a good passer but I think he’s got a huge amount of improving to do in order to be a great midfielder. He’s young though so maybe with some top coaching his game will go up a level 

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7 minutes ago, gbandit said:

It’s a big downgrade in a few senses, Luiz is much tidier on the ball. Onana is a good passer but I think he’s got a huge amount of improving to do in order to be a great midfielder. He’s young though so maybe with some top coaching his game will go up a level 


I guess they’ll expect Tielemans to do more of the Luiz role. Downgrade but could be alright. 

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48 minutes ago, St1pe said:

If we’d have signed Onana for £50m I’d have been gutted because he’s looked shite so often but I could also see it working for him with the right coach. 
 

It’s either going to be a massive bargain or he’s gonna be a Van De Beek. 

 

 

 

Hes been playing in a mostly awful Everton side that don’t play to his strengths, he’ll do well at Villa imo. I think he’s pretty underrated..

 

 

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Joelinton7

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1 hour ago, gbandit said:

It’s a big downgrade in a few senses, Luiz is much tidier on the ball. Onana is a good passer but I think he’s got a huge amount of improving to do in order to be a great midfielder. He’s young though so maybe with some top coaching his game will go up a level 

Yeah they’ve downgraded and we really need to take advantage of their little European sojourn just as they did us last season.
 

If they think they suffered bad with injuries last term they’re really gonna’ know about it this time. The schedule is brutal when you’re in the CL. Not just the extra game but it’s that you’re playing the highest quality opposition every time.

 

You ALWAYS have to play your best team and that team ALWAYS has to be at its best. Then when you’ve exhausted yourself doing that you have to play a PL team who’s gonna’ be right in your face, then you get drawn to City in the cup where you have to be at your best again. It’s unrelenting, and Villa are gonna’ find that out. 

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Not sure we've downgraded at all. Luiz was poor the second half of last season.

 

We've added Illing-Junior, Barrenechea from Juventus, Onana and Maatsen at left back, Ross Barkley and, err, Dobbin, plus some Serbian right back.

 

We've got Mings, Kamara (who was our most important player until his injury), Jacob Ramsey and Buendia coming back from long term injury (they managed about 3 games between them last season), too, and it's only the middle of July.

 

The point about the CL is true, and that's why we're adding more quality to the squad. I'm happy we've clearly thought about who we want and cracked on with it nice and early, even if it is difficult with PSR. 

 

It will be hard, yes, but what's the point if you don't have a go at it.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Bargain at that price absolute no nonsense defender who looks made for PL.

Agreed, would rather get him at 12m than Thiaw at 30m


He's RCB too

 

Hijack - our Forest besties won't mind - maybe we can even give them Lascelles back for free :)

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18 hours ago, Joelinton7 said:

Yeah they’ve downgraded and we really need to take advantage of their little European sojourn just as they did us last season.
 

If they think they suffered bad with injuries last term they’re really gonna’ know about it this time. The schedule is brutal when you’re in the CL. Not just the extra game but it’s that you’re playing the highest quality opposition every time.

 

You ALWAYS have to play your best team and that team ALWAYS has to be at its best. Then when you’ve exhausted yourself doing that you have to play a PL team who’s gonna’ be right in your face, then you get drawn to City in the cup where you have to be at your best again. It’s unrelenting, and Villa are gonna’ find that out. 

 

 

Will be interesting to see if Villa do suffer from injuries this time round or we were just particularly unlucky. I don't think we really had a squad capable of coping with the extra workload either.

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13 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

 

Will be interesting to see if Villa do suffer from injuries this time round or we were just particularly unlucky. I don't think we really had a squad capable of coping with the extra workload either.

I expect them to. Schedules aren’t getting easier, players league wide are getting ran into the ground. All clubs suffered last season from regular 100 min games and I don’t expect any different until the league institutes change regarding player welfare. They really struggled against Olympiakos in the latter stages of last season’s conference league. They’re going in to the CL now with largely the same squad so they’ve got to step up massively. 
 

We clearly didn’t have the squad but were genuinely decimated by injuries. There were large periods of the season where players had nothing in the tank before the first half ended. We were going into CL games with a bench full of u18/u-23 players, 3 keepers and Matt Ritchie. Even for the new season we’re without Botman and Lascelles until Dec-Jan, Miley for the first month or two and Tonali until the start of September. Bunce needs to earn his money. 

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