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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, Prior to the Second Leg
In the end, the first leg of the play-off semi-final against Middlesbrough resembled several of Aston Villa's 1-0 winning defensive grinds on their travels...
Villa to Miss Out on Big Cash for Ex-Player and Loyal Servant Return
'Tony Pulis is apparently up there with Jesus. Although, it has to be said, Pulis turning a headless chicken into a '£30m world beater',...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Play-offs Confirmed
To many Aston Villa supporters, the play-offs have been inevitable since Villa lost back-to-back games against QPR and Bolton, soon after opening up what...
Excellent EFL Forward Planning Saves Aston Villa Taking Drastic Action
Play-off Irrelevance
When the English Football League decided to revamp English football over 30 years ago, with the introduction of American style play-offs, it just...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Ipswich Foursome
A routine win against an Ipswich team that went down to 10-men in the first half, made it three on the bounce, as Villa...
Ex-Villa Striker Return on the Cards if Aston Villa Stay in Championship
'Bowery has scored more league goals this season than Jonathan Kodjia, Scott Hogan, Ross McCormack, Keinan Davis and Gabby Agbonlahor, combined'
Forgotten Man
"If Bowery scores,...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans Because That’s the Championship
The main prize may be out of reach, but the name of the game can still be promotion, if Aston Villa find their form...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Bottling Automatic Promotion
Bottle
It's been a poor past few weeks for Aston Villa, which has seen Steve Bruce's men ultimately bottle the automatic promotion challenge. The repeated...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Back-to-Back Shame
If somebody had offered you two or three points for the QPR (h) and Bolton (a) games beforehand, you would have said, 'no, thanks'....
It’s in the Interest of Aston Villa to Ban This Football Cliché
Pretend Cup Finals
If there's one football cliché that irks MOMS the most it's when a manager or owner refers to the remaining games of a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Hammering Wolves
Jorge Mendes and his merry men of Wolves supporters, wearing masks of the super agent, came to Villa Park half-expecting to teach Villa a...
Wolves Fans to do Villa Supporters a Massive Favour at Villa Park
Dingle Consideration
After Birmingham City's act of idiocy in arming their supporters with clappers at St Andrew's this season, Wolves supporters are set to prove...