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Unai Emery’s Villa Squad Rebuild Aims to Silence the Doubters
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Emery’s Villa 2.0The transfer window has come and gone, and so has the majority of Aston Villa’s starting line-up. As the window shuts, Aston Villa have squad depth, but do they have the cohesiveness to carry on evolving this season?'Somehow with the window shut there is a sense of cautious optimism that the jigsaw pieces are there in...
Five Reasons to Be Cheerful After Emery’s New Lions Look Beyond Arsenal Defeat
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans after Arsenal Home DefeatWith the new season following the rather unwelcome pattern of last year's slow start, Aston Villa once again failed to register a shot on target despite producing a competitive performance against champions Arsenal.After the game, Unai Emery also confirmed that Villa's transfer business was finally complete, bringing the curtain down on one of the...
What We Learned As Villa Fans as Life In the Championship Begins
A new season begins with Villa in a new division. What did Aston Villa fans learn from the build-up and first game in the...
The Villa Rant: A New Era, Same Old Feeling After Wednesday?
'Gollini, comfortable for so much of the game, was temporarily possessed by the ghost of Brad Guzan.'
The Return of Football
It seems like a very...
The Villa Influence: New Manager, Same Old Aston Villa?
'the Great Wall of China wasn't built in one day'
As I walked up to Villa Park for the first time since dropping out of the...
Villa Paper Wrap: Fresh Transfer Reports as Window Heats Up
Hang on a minute...weren't Villa meant to revamp their 17 points squad of last season, to make a serious fist of promotion from the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Early Preseason Games
Preseason Games Progress
Aston Villa were back in action for the first time on home soil in the 2016/17 preseason, so MOMS went along to...
Villa Paper Wrap: Uncertain Transfer Targets and the Pending Villa Exodus
With a new Italian keeper ready to replace the shaky American that stood in between the sticks last season and Aaron Tshibola finally forcing his...
Villa Paper Wrap: Calm before the Villa Transfer Storm
Despite the lack of any players signing for Villa in the last week, transfer links have made sure that it was far from quiet...
What We Learned As Villa Fans as Pre-Season Draws Near
As the players prepare to leave for Austria in July, what can Aston Villa fans learn from a week which saw the new manager's...
Villa Paper Wrap: Early Aston Villa Summer Transfer Links
Aston Villa Summer Transfer Links
In the one piece of solid transfer news of the week, Villa welcomed their first signing of the season and...
Media Suggest Aston Villa Projected to Get £50 Million+ on Player Sales
Player Sales
Lets remember one stat before we go on - the players in last season's Aston Villa team only won three league games. Now,...
Villa Paper Wrap: Di Matteo Move, Takeover Update and Grealish Going?
Di Matteo In
Last week’s main news came in the form of a new managerial appointment. After Tony Xia and Steve Hollis had their discussions,...
Villa Paper Wrap: Tony Xia’s Takeover, Targets and Troubles
Xia Arrives
A week ago, a new owner for Aston Villa finally arrived. The club revealed to us that the ownership had changed hands and...