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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 Owls Fightback
Villa did it the hard way leaving it very late at Hillsborough to win all three vital points to keep themselves alive and kicking...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Beating Blues
Well, this column pretty much writes itself this week.The second-half was the kind of level of performance, that if Villa match it for the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans after Six Straight Wins
Aston Villa's 3-2 win against Burton was perhaps a little to close for comfort, but six wins on the trot is six wins on...
It’s Official: Giddy Fake News Infests the Aston Villa Universe
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” -...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Defining Away Win
It was a game that a big percentage of Villa supporters would have settled with a point from, considering it was against a rival...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Fourth Win on the Trot
Aston Villa's remained 100% in the league for 2018, with a 3-1 win against Barnsley, to further the seriousness of their automatic promotion challenge.The...
Chelsea Line up Shock Transfer For Villa Striker Gabby Agbonlahor
CHELSEA are eyeing a surprise January move for Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor, according to reports.
Unlikely Men
Chelsea are expected to bring in a striker in...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Forest Win Makes Trio
Highlights#NFFC vs #AVFC highlights. A decent evening's work from Villa. ???? pic.twitter.com/HbIxjxvW1S
— MY OLD MAN SAID (@oldmansaid) January 13, 2018Click For Aston Villa Player...
Some Very Dubious Wolves Opinion to Go With Past Villa Failings
The below heads-up to Media Muppetary was sent in to MOMS a while ago, but we thought we'd save it for a 'look back...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Five Goal Blitz
If how good your life is, is directly related to how well Aston Villa have been doing, you've had some pretty shi**y years recently...
What We Learned As Villa Fans as Villa End 2017 In Seventh Spot
A lot of the promise and momentum Villa built up came undone as 2017 came to an end. The results against Derby, Brentford and...
Sam Johnstone to WBA in January…Really?
If there's one early trend of transfer rumours involving Aston Villa it's mischievous stories on the future of Aston Villa's loan signings. Firstly, scaremongering...