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  1. I'd really like us to sign Greenwood on a permanent deal if his wages are reasonable and the £1.5 million fee is accurate. Prior to joining us he hadn't started a senior match and was playing as a striker in youth football up until about the past 2 or 3 years, so the transition to senior football as a LW/#10 was always going to be a difficult one for him. Our inconsistent, unbalanced and tactically naive team won't have helped him perform either as all our attackers have gone through difficult spells this season. He started well with some massive goals but things undoubtedly tailed off, and ou
  2. Sheffield United's local paper The Star have said that Villa are obligated to buy Archer for a set figure if Sheffield United are relegated, but if they somehow avoid relegation then Villa are not obligated to sign him and instead just have an option to sign him - albeit at a higher price. Basically, as they're going down, Archer is going back to Villa and then likely re-sold or loaned out again this summer. The key part of the article is this: Archer's future is once again the subject of debate this week after a report suggested that Villa may not exercise their option to bring the 22-y
  3. What a massive win that thankfully keeps our season alive. Our formation worked well yet again as we controlled the central areas incredibly well and looked comfortable sat into our incredibly effective low block. The current tactics and defensive mentality takes me back to the days of Karanka as we look a nightmare to break down. The quality of the game was obviously poor but we held our shape and had the moment of high quality in attack from McGree. It was clear that a few players standards had dropped after the tight turnaround of Wednesday, Saturday & Tuesday, with the latter two being
  4. I'm glad that Carrick switched to the 5-2-1-2. Though, we were still opened up with some good play by Norwich at times before their sending off. For the first 30 minutes it was clear that Norwich we're in a very good vein with the way the dominated possession and looked incredible comfortable. Step forward Sainz to ruin their night by getting sent off incredibly cheaply; if it wasn't for that there was no chance of us coming back. We got lucky but still handled it well - especially considering our terrible form and lack of confidence. It's obviously a lot easier to play against 10 men but I wa
  5. I've always thought Coburn has a deceptively decent amount of pace in a straight line. He's just got terrible agility and dynamicism so can't change direction at speed which restricts his range of mobility and makes him look cumbersome and clumsy.
  6. Despite incredible frustration and disappointment about the state of things at the moment I'm still happy to give Carrick more time to turn things around - no matter how out of his depth he looks right now. We've got a 0.7% chance of relegation according to a statistics graphic I've seen so I'm not particularly worried about it despite the emotions. The main logic in keeping Carrick is that he's shown what he's capable of last season as he's shown that if he's given the quality, he can get us performing to a very high standard. Given we're going into a new 3 year cycle and seem to be sat on so
  7. I'll be gutted if he leaves. What have you heard?
  8. Us, Hull City and Coventry are supposedly interesting in Levski Sofia holding midfielder Andrian Kraev, who's out of contract at the end of the season: https://sportal.bg/news-2024022010365021794: Three English clubs are interested in Andrian Kraev and follow the situation around him, Sportal.bg learned. These are Middlesbrough, Hull City and Coventry, all three teams competing in the Championship. As is known, the Levski midfielder was removed from the first team because of refusal to re-sign his contract and trained with the duplicate composition of the "blue". The 25-year-old midf
  9. No we absolutely haven't.
  10. Our 5 big departures from last season of Akpom, Archer, Ramsey, Giles and Steffen haven't done particularly well with their moves have they... They'll all undoubtedly be on better wages but from a footballing perspective their moves haven't worked out particularly well. There's probably only Archer who has done ok at Sheffield United, but he's been on the bench for the past 3 Premier League games since they signed Brereton-Diaz. Giles couldn't displace Doughty at Luton and had to drop back into the Championship with Hull. Akpom has largely been on the bench at Ajax and seems like he's about to
  11. Kavanagh doesn't have any distinctive physical attributes of pace or height which makes it difficult for him to break into first-team football and gives his potential a clear ceiling, but he's can still make a good career for himself as a poacher in the Championship in a few seasons time. He needs to hone his core striker attributes in the lower leagues like Billy Sharp did before making his way up the divisions.
  12. Our club structure seems to have dramatically improved since Scott gained proper control after Wilder left. We played a blinder to spot the potential in Rogers, and Carrick has handled his development really well so we're are starting to look capable of carrying out our complicated and difficult strategy of buy low, develop, sell high and reinvest back into young talent. Rogers is the clearest example that the system is working. It will further boost our reputation to clubs, players and agents that we're an excellent environment for young players to develop and progress at - which will help ou
  13. The article is behind a paywall so I've copied it below: Aston Villa have made an improved third bid to sign Middlesbrough forward Morgan Rogers worth in the region of £15million, including add-ons. Rogers, 21, has emerged as the primary target for Villa boss Unai Emery in the January transfer window. Villa have already had two bids rejected for the attacker after their transfer interest was established earlier this month. Negotiations are continuing towards a potential agreement, with Villa hopeful of closing the deal early next week. Rogers — who joined Championship
  14. Since we signed Rogers I've been one of his biggest supporters as I was sure he'd outgrow the Championship within two years, but even I'm surprised at how early in his development it seems that Villa are trying hard to prize him away from us. Brentford have understandably been a benchmark for us with the way they buy quality young players for low fees, develop them, sell them for high fees and reinvest the money back into the cycle. We've undoubtedly made huge strides towards that last summer and I'm confident that we're going in the right direction with many other good value for money signing
  15. Do you have an inkling on the sort of fee we'd get for Hackney if he leaves in January?
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