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What We Learnt From the Villa’s Immediate Post-Season
Aston Villa are Europa League winners, Champions League returnees, and already three weeks into the summer transfer rumour cycle. Here are the three observations that cut through.The Rogers Sell-on Clause Changes the ConversationThe transfer fee figure most commonly attached to Morgan Rogers in the press is £80 million. What the press consistently omits is the 20% sell-on clause Middlesbrough reportedly hold on any future...
Why Nobody Linking Morgan Rogers to a Move Has Done the Maths
Those Morgan Rogers Transfer LinksAre you bored of the Morgan Rogers transfer rumours yet?How many times have we seen this situation before?Over the years, the press have seemingly tried to will away from Villa the likes of James Milner, Gareth Barry, Christian Benteke and Jack Grealish, only for each of these players to stay on at least a season after the media's initial hard...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Team Eye Europe
Five Reasons to be Cheerful After Saints WinBy Armen MirzoianThis column was started over a decade ago as an antidote to Villa misery, but...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans Entering the Second Half of the Season
Five Reasons to be Cheerful at the Season's Half Way PointBy Armen MirzoianIt is getting easier and easier to find reasons to be cheerful...
League Position Now Takes Priority for Emery’s Unacceptable FA Cup Flops
The Good Bad And Ugly Beginning to 2023Welcome to 2023, the year of Aston Villa’s epiphany and enlightenment from the dark age just passed....
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Start 2023
Five Reasons to be Cheerful for 2023By Armen MirzoianA Happy New Year to Villa fans across the globe. With the World Cup over and...
Martinez Magic, Five Star Media and History’s Winners
https://giphy.com/gifs/argentina-martinez-emiliano-oosqY3FwE0aVcehzi8The Good, Bad and Ugly - Qatar 2022 World Cup SpecialWhile the Premier League is now back up and running, it would be remise...
Villa Lifting the Curse and Closing Things the Ugly Way
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Unai Emery’s First Three Games.As tempting as it was to fire out a GBU as soon as the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans After Emery’s Winning Double
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as VillansBy Armen MirzoianAfter back-to-back league wins against teams in the upper echelons of the Premier League, it should...
Five Reasons to Be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans Prior to World Cup
Five Reason to be Cheerful as VillansAston Villa are currently in 15th place in the Premier League table, just two points off the relegation...
No Excuses: Unai Emery Arrives to Help Aston Villa Find Their Character
https://giphy.com/gifs/uefa-S7P9wg5Z4yWqGcWiCeThe Good, Bad and Ugly of Brentford, Newcastle and Unai EmeryThe eagle-eyed among you will notice, there was no GBU after winning against Brentford....
Fear is the Mind-Killer for Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Nottingham Forest and ChelseaBy Phil ShawThings seem to be coming to a head for Aston Villa and Steven...
Good, Bad & Ugly of Aston Villa’s Week: Perspective, Creating Chances and Armchair Strikers.
https://giphy.com/gifs/applemusic-vJ5k7KP2Dfi9SJQzSuThe Good, Bad and Ugly of Leeds United.What’s that you say? An unbeaten three-game run? It must mean there’s nothing Ugly in the in-tray...
John McGinn’s Ugly Aston Villa Position and the State of Points Over Performance
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Southampton and the International Breakhttps://giphy.com/gifs/WinningTimeHBO-PTjuFGUyTVWj9Wvvg5After another mini 'pre-season' for Steven Gerrard with the majority of his Villa squad,...