Sales and making CL football is the quickest path.

Yes, success now tends to demand experience. I think he can still get that by using the Bosman market and paying higher wages as a result, but it is the identifying and securing of talent yet to reach its peak which is key here 👍

But if like me, you want more, it is time to move on from Dean Smith's squad, and try to build Unai Emery's, and most probably on a budget. Things may get worse before they get better, but I do know that winning that Europa League would make everyone's job a lot easier.
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I moan a lot about levels but I appreciate what the players who have come to Villa have given us. We were wallowing in the pit of the Championship, hours away from liquidation, and these players lifted us back up into the light. They are Villa legends. >

What is clear to me is that going down a money route won't work because we simply don't make enough money. The other path is talent and experience on frees and high wages, and unproven promise on low wages. That is the task that lies ahead of Villa. It is massive. >

We've nicked games all season, often with wonder goals, and that simply can't continue because it is asking for small chances to keep paying off. Now this may sound defeatist, but it is not. Villa are where they are, and it may take realism to move them up from that >

Reality is hard, and it has smashed through our bubble, and this goes beyond missing three key players, it goes to the quality and depth of personnel available. We have risen because we have been well coached yet I have not seen us smash anyone like Chelsea smashed us tonight. >

#AVFC We can all look up at the stars and dream, but rockets are always fighting gravity, and in pro football money = gravity.
Chelsea have full backs that are more expensive than our record signings. They have top talent in depth, and that talent if coached well, tells ... >

Surely this will break Reinaldo's little heart?

Kick off 18.45 for those with the foresight to sub to Villa TV 👍

P.S: I think the inclusion of Barkley and Sancho ahead of Buendia and Bailey in the starting 11 may change this. They are both stronger under the press, and both men can beat a man, find a pass or cross, or take a shot. It may also help the others to come on against tired legs.

Sure, we kept going, we always do, and to salvage a draw from an inept loss is something, but it is not the thing to keep us in the Champions League places. Leeds had won only one away game all season. These are concerning times for Emery, who has yet to find a way to cope. utv

I know we lack physicality, but today we also lacked energy. We are too often lackadaisical in possession, and I don't understand it. I also don't understand lumping balls up to Watkins whose game doesn't suit back to goal target man >

Conversely, look at the acres of space when teams counter us. We often look wide open, and we have done since the days of Deano to be honest. It is almost like we have to overload attack because too many lack the close control to keep the ball without that extra body as option>

There is a pattern, where Villa delay attacks, allowing opponents to get back goalside, and while this is clearly Emery's way, it requires players able to deliver pinpoint balls into the box, because there is no space. We were shocking on delivery today. That has to change >

That we only started playing with anything like aggression and attacking intent after subs tells its own tale. Villa have been over-performing given their roster of talent, and they have been doing that because they have a handful of players of top class.
More are needed >

Let's be honest. The loss of key players has exposed many of those we have been hailing as unable to perform or impact games without those key players. There is no point in making a list, we all have eyes. Our first half today was inept and anaemic >

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I would refer you to the original post and the context around it. I have no desire to wander from that. Thank you.

433 will set them free 👍

We disagree then, because the reaction to the release of the Epstein papers has seen two totally different reactions in the UK and the USA. In one they are taken seriously and heads roll, while in the other, nothing happens. I take this as a sign of democratic standards working, or not.

The IOC need to be vilified and exiled by nations that are not in support of their whitewashing of genocide.

Good that Triston is already there and thriving too 👍

You know I am not referring to Mr Mandelson mate. Why not addresss the point here, the UK has taken swift and brutal action against those proven to be linked to the vile paedophile, yet in the USA there is nothing, not even condemnation. That is what is bizarre.