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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...
What We Learned As Villa Fans From Mixed Bag Three Weeks
After a decent September period, October onwards was always going to be tricky and the first of the last five games didn't start well....
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Blues Clappers
Looking at the latest this Second City derby in isolation, it was a sad example of what football is fast becoming and why the...
Aston Villa Fans Under Threat at St Andrews From Air Strikes
Second City Derby IssuesAfter all the WM Police and club preparation for the recent clashes between Aston Villa and Birmingham, an unidentified problem threatens...
Revealed: The Great Football Media Clickbait Swindle
Are you wise to the clickbait headline routine yet? Most aren't, when you consider the growing amount of football sites peddling no-mark content in...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Vital Fulham Win
Villa's 2-1 win against Fulham finally signalled the club's intentions to be in the promotion places come the end of the season.After the Wolves...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Wolves Lesson
Once in a while there's a live TV performance that issues a statement of intent for the season ahead.In terms of Aston Villa, for...
What We Learned As Villa Fans As Battle For Promotion Starts
Cast your minds back to that awful cup defeat to Boro at Villa Park. It was miserable and with only half the month gone...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful for Villa Fans Heading into the International Break
There's not much to say about this game beyond it earning three points for Villa after a typical scrappy Bruce home performance.Despite what the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Burton Hit for Four
For a change Aston Villa managed to cruise a game with a comfortable 4-0 victory away at Burton. The game was over well before...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Nervy Forest Win
Villa's 2-1 win at home to Nottingham Forest was ultimately a struggle and some Villa players weren't firing on all cylinders, but with back-to-back...
What We Learned As Villa Draw, Win (away!) And Flop Out Of Cup
Three games crammed into seven days delivered an unlucky point (and a rightly overturned red card), a comfortable away win - with a debut...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Rare Away Win
Rare Away Win
Aston Villa away wins in recent years have become about as frequent as your birthday or Christmas, so the three-nil win at...