That's to overtake us surely?
Pedant
That's to overtake us surely?
Pedant
Sorry...don't want people like me to get over excited.
Villa fans are tearing themselves apart on their messageboard following Watfords win. Its all about catching them or West Ham now.
I've not seen us mentioned, strangely.
....and I think to catch us (even assuming we get no more points) :
Bournemouth - 3W 1D from 5
Villa - 3W 1D from 5
West Ham - 2W or 1W 3D from 5
Watford - 2W or 1W 3D from 4
plus still to play :
WHU v Watford
WHU v Villa
Not to mention that for us to go down, it requires 3 of those 4 teams to get past us. I suspect we'll be safe with 3 to play regardless of our own results vs Liverpool and City. Although ... that depends on Palace beating Villa, and Palace's form since restart has been dire.
Villa fans are tearing themselves apart on their messageboard following Watfords win. Its all about catching them or West Ham now.
They've gone totally bonkers on Villa Talk. They're talking about who to get as a new manager when Smith gets them relegated. The runaway winner in their poll is Pochettino. The runner-up (with half Poch's votes) is Dyche - surprised they didn't go for Guardiola.
Are they living in a permanent drug haze up there or something?
I'll offer a different view on England CB, again. Mings will not have a place for years to come for the very reason you indicate: he's not that good. But there haven't currently been too many CBs to partner Maguire. I suspect you'll see Gomez starting alongside Maguire and, into the future, their key challengers will come from younger players, perhaps including White.
To add to this, no matter how much Southgate loves Mings, he won’t pick him from the Championship next season. So he’s going to have to leave big club Villa.
They've gone totally bonkers on Villa Talk. They're talking about who to get as a new manager when Smith gets them relegated. The runaway winner in their poll is Pochettino. The runner-up (with half Poch's votes) is Dyche - surprised they didn't go for Guardiola.
Are they living in a permanent drug haze up there or something?
Villa will probably get £75million for Grealish - and Mings signed a pretty big contract when he joined villa permanently (apparently £1.3million a year with 2 years to go) - If he cannot get the same or similar he could stay at Villa. There are a pile of other players also on big contracts that they will likely have to dump. They spent about £150m on transfers last summer.
Villa 'should' be a 'big club' - but they have never lived up to their billing over the past 40 years - and that leads them to coming up with some bat-shit crazy stuff. If the do sack Smith (and I think they might keep him) - Hughton would actually be the ideal replacement.
Leeds will need a new CB, their PoTS is downgrading to a small club on the South Coast. Sorted
Is anyone mad enough to spend 75 million on Grealish?
Villa will probably get £75million for Grealish - and Mings signed a pretty big contract when he joined villa permanently (apparently £1.3million a year with 2 years to go) - If he cannot get the same or similar he could stay at Villa. There are a pile of other players also on big contracts that they will likely have to dump. They spent about £150m on transfers last summer.
Villa will probably get £75million for Grealish - and Mings signed a pretty big contract when he joined villa permanently (apparently £1.3million a year with 2 years to go) - If he cannot get the same or similar he could stay at Villa.
I do actually rate Grealish, but you're loony tunes if you think they can get £75m for him, especially when they go down. Thats SEGW territory, and we've all seen how thats panned out.
They've gone totally bonkers on Villa Talk. They're talking about who to get as a new manager when Smith gets them relegated. The runaway winner in their poll is Pochettino. The runner-up (with half Poch's votes) is Dyche - surprised they didn't go for Guardiola.
Are they living in a permanent drug haze up there or something?
Then I'll join the loony army, think they will get £65m-75m for him. Top, top player. United paid £80m for Maguire, cant see how Grealish would be much cheaper.
Then I'll join the loony army, think they will get £65m-75m for him. Top, top player. United paid £80m for Maguire, cant see how Grealish would be much cheaper.