Our lads put up a bloody good fight tonight and they should all be proud. Just a shame we were robbed of a possible point (or maybe more) due to 2 shoddy ref decisions.
Originally Posted by Hetal: “The fixtures are a disgrace it has to be said. Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool in a week and then no league games for the next 3 weeks.”
That's only because of Chelsea's European super cup game forcing Villa's game to be moved and the international break occurring on consecutive weeks. Nothing really that can be done about that, so I wouldn't say it was a disgrace.
As a Liverpool fan watching that 90 minutes today, I thought the only thing you lack is an experienced head who can enforce and dictate in midfield - you certainly won't be in the same relegation battle as last season, that's for sure. You'll turn over more than your fair share of Premier League teams at Villa Park this season.
The three week league break will probably give the team a chance to work on the positives from the last week (of which there were many) and launch a fresh challenge at home to a poor Newcastle side in mid September.
Looks like we're signing one more player - Libor Kozák. He's meant to be similar to Benteke - good in the air and strong. Was the highest goal scorer in the Europa League last season so he's a potentially good backup.
We're desperate for an creative midfielder though. Someone who excels at set pieces and can unlock defences. It was painfully obvious against Liverpool and it'll carry on being obvious in our future home games.
Ah well. At least Bannan looks like he'll be going. I hope Given goes as well! No chance with Ireland. He'll be here until his contract runs out.
Originally Posted by rhumble: “At least we've done a bit of business,,,,,i think he was right to get another striker,,,,how much was he???
Sky Sports say Given probably won't go now”
BBC says 7m but a reliable ITK says it's in the 4.5m region. The latter would make more sense seeing as he's a backup incase anything happened to Benteke.
Originally Posted by Hetal: “BBC says 7m but a reliable ITK says it's in the 4.5m region. The latter would make more sense seeing as he's a backup incase anything happened to Benteke.”
Ive been looking at his stats in front of goal,,,,not to impressive,,,,but I think you are right he will be back up.
I think you are right about needing a central midfielder, its a shame Lambert couldn't get one in
Poor. We should be looking for AT LEAST a point against teams like Newcastle at home. No complaints about the result, we got what we deserved...f**k all.
The thing what bothers me the most is Paul Lambert has spent around 35m + on the team in total so far and yet our midfield still looks light years apart from Newcastle. I'm sorry but questions have to be asked because we desperately needed a CAM this summer and instead he used 7m on another target man. When we brought on Kozak we lost all shape in the middle. Does that remind you of a certain Bradford game?
To not learn not from your mistakes is unacceptable. Judging from the boos the honeymoon is well and truly over. You can't expect fans to be thankful for this type of home performance.