Emery just signed a contract extension until 2027
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Threat of villa
- Thread starter twoblue
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Emery signing until 2027 is a real positive for Villa in my view. If they can give him the funds from off field activity to invest on it … no clue whether they can or not though
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Wonder if he has a release clause. A run in the champions league will put him on the radar of the biggest jobs in Spain and Man Utd, etc
Mrbluenose
Player Valuation: £8m
Villa has to get there first. I hope they do.
Always good to see a Sky six pushed out of a Champions League spot by one of the "little" clubs.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
Felt a lot like our Standard Liege moment.
Just completely outplayed and rightfully put to the sword.
Rode their luck against Lille too, certainly feels like West Hams route was much smoother, last season.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
The tournament is full of winnable games. You don’t deserve a European trophy if you can’t see of a Greek side over two legs
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Our enemy’s, enemy, managed by Emery.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
This season will be much tougher for them and wouldn't be surprised if they finish 7th or below.
They only won two games more than 8th placed United who will strengthen this summer, and they got so lucky to overperform in a season when all of Spurs, Chelsea and United massively underperformed.
They only won two games more than 8th placed United who will strengthen this summer, and they got so lucky to overperform in a season when all of Spurs, Chelsea and United massively underperformed.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Looking pretty solid in the transfer market. Big name sales with Luis Diaz and Diaby leaving. But have bought 8 players in inc onana.
Think they are looking solid for a decent run in the champ league, and a top 6 finish.
I think its lazy to bang on about CL football meaning Villa ('we', for full disclosure...) will automatically struggle. We will have a minimum of 8 games but played 12 last season. The counter argument is that the games will be tougher, yes, but we only play an 'elite' team (Real madrid, bayern etc) twice - not home and away, then two more in the tier below them, so we could have a grouping of let's say - Bayern, Real Madrid, Brest, Sturm Graz, Feyenoord (please), Bruges, bologna, Shakhtar Donetsk. Yes, tough, but realistically we only need 3, 4 wins at most to qualify for the play-offs.
That isn't beyond the realms of possibility nor should it stretch the squad. We limped in towards the end of the season but that's because our season long injuries had caught with us. After losing at Brighton in may De Zerbi stated that we looked tired and had injuries that affected us. It happens to a lot of teams but we were struggling for numbers at that point. But that doesn't detract from how good we were leading up that, and I'd argue that despite limping in from around March, sides below us still couldn't catch us, lucky or because we had that extra bit of quality when needed?
Next season will be interesting because I don't think we've upgraded the squad with Luiz and Diaby going. Kamara is still out, and Mings hasn't travelled with the squad to the US so still a lot of question marks. I doubt we're finished in the transfer market and a number 10 may come in (Felix?), but with Duran also looking like the next exit another forward.
I wouldn't like to hazard a guess where we'll finish, but all this European football talk as being a hindrance is just lazy journalism.
That isn't beyond the realms of possibility nor should it stretch the squad. We limped in towards the end of the season but that's because our season long injuries had caught with us. After losing at Brighton in may De Zerbi stated that we looked tired and had injuries that affected us. It happens to a lot of teams but we were struggling for numbers at that point. But that doesn't detract from how good we were leading up that, and I'd argue that despite limping in from around March, sides below us still couldn't catch us, lucky or because we had that extra bit of quality when needed?
Next season will be interesting because I don't think we've upgraded the squad with Luiz and Diaby going. Kamara is still out, and Mings hasn't travelled with the squad to the US so still a lot of question marks. I doubt we're finished in the transfer market and a number 10 may come in (Felix?), but with Duran also looking like the next exit another forward.
I wouldn't like to hazard a guess where we'll finish, but all this European football talk as being a hindrance is just lazy journalism.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
It will be a more difficult season for villa. Conference league run prepared them for extra games, but Chelsea, spurs and Man Utd never turned last season as far as challenging for top four goes, and Newcastles injury season was off the scale.
Decent side but coasted to top four last season.
We have a fantastic goal scoring #10 mate, Doucoure. You should buy him, he'd be cheap too, only on 100k a week or so.
As long as they beat Wolves twice I'll be happy