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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 a Horror Week
Lets recap the season so far...There's been a batch of unconvincing performances to kick off the 2018/19 season, where even Villa's initial two league...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Three Draw Week
Three draws in a week? It takes me back to the days of Alex McLeish...When the Championship fixtures were made for the 2018/19, Aston...
What Does Picture of Ross McCormack Wearing the New Villa Shirt Mean?
Strange Sighting
The other day, while MOMS was looking at the current squad on the Aston Villa official website, an almost surreal image appeared on...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Cup Success
The 100% winning feeling continues, but while Aston Villa haven't been all that convincing, compared with where we thought we might be three weeks...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Best Season Start This Century
It was certainly an eventful summer for Aston Villa off the pitch, that's to put it mildly, but this week Villa's season started in...
Why Steve Bruce Continuing as Villa Boss Offered Up Zero Surprise
Clickbait Dare
At the start of last week MOMS was asked to appear on a couple of national radio shows to discuss the rumours of...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans From Villa’s Preseason
To say that off the pitch Aston Villa's pre-season has been one of turmoil would be something of an understatement. The extent of the...
Villa’s Alternative Funding Revealed After Share Issue Solution is Dismissed
Winning at FFP
In the recent statement by Villa chairman Tony Xia, the Villa chairman stressed, "no shareholding sale of any size will contribute to...
The Dumbest Proposals of Jack Grealish’s Future Offered Up Yet
Aston Villa have so far disputed that they have received any official bids for Jack Grealish, after fresh media reports of a £15m bid...
Secret Aston Villa Fan Crowdfunder to Destroy Fulham’s Wembley Plans Hits Target
White Walls...
In the past week, there has been a lot of talk by Fulham fans of creating a 'White Wall' at Wembley on the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans on the Way to Wembley
After the semi-final grind over two legs against Middlesbrough comes a potentially different kind of match against Fulham at Wembley in the play-off final.Will...
Gabby Agbonlahor’s Alternative Farewell Speech
Gabby's Farewell
Were you underwhelmed by Gabby Agbonlahor's short Villa Park on-pitch farewell speech (in the opening credits) to Aston Villa supporters after the last...