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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 After Woeful Start to 2019
What could be worse than getting knocked out of the FA Cup at Villa Park 3-0 by Swansea City?Well, what about being beaten 3-0...
Sky Sports Needs an Aston Villa History Lesson and Villa ‘Guaranteed Play-offs With These Transfers’
I've just realised I've never mentioned the old 'Villa will guarantee promotion if they buy this player' clickbait story tactic in Media Muppets...It's...
Jack Grealish Hints, Tony Xia Message and Abraham Announcement
When it comes to transfer windows, there is one old clickbait trick that always rears its head. The rehashing of stories from the previous...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans About Getting Knocked Out the FA Cup
There I was hoping that 2019 would be the year that Aston Villa finally had a cup run again, the first proper one since...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Recent Statement of Intent
Since the last international break its hard to pin down Villa's true identity at the moment. We know we can score goals, which at...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Lively Blues Win
The 4-2 win against the Blues in the Second City derby was all about the result and some notable goals, but Dean Smith wasn't...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Second Smith Home Win
Dean Smith made it two wins out of two at Villa Park, as Villa chalked up a fairly routine 2-0 win against Bolton. Smith...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans Despite Recent Result Woe
17th
When you're sitting 17th in the Championship table in your third season in the league, having blown millions on under-performing players, it's hard to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Dean Smith Makes Winning Start
It was a decent day's work for Dean Smith's new Villa regime against Swansea City. Three points, a clean sheet, a controlled performance for...
Aston Villa Boss Steve Bruce Successfully Lines Up New Job
New CareerWith pressure growing on his position as Aston Villa manager, after only one win in nine games and two years of minimal progress,...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After One Win in Nine
Yes, Villa have only seen one win in their last nine games, and that was at home against Rotherham.Away against Bristol City they seemed...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Another Injury-time Show
"Every manager who managers Aston Villa is always going to come under pressure. We’ve lost one out of seven in the league, but we’re...