I’ve already grumbled about a lack of last minute urgency in the Newcastle game in the dying minutes to try and win the game, because a point was never going to be a reason to be cheerful as an Aston Villa fan. We need wins and we need them now. After a week of false narratives off the pitch in terms of what Villa HQ has said about the quality of the squad and the state of the club, Villa need to break their 16-game winless streak or the false hope of survival will fast become completely unrealistic.
I sincerely hope the elusive wins can come in the Christmas fixtures, because if they don’t, the straws to clutch for this column will get thinner and thinner.
In the meantime, here’s five other straws to be cheerful as Aston Villa fans…
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FIVE REASONS…
1. ALY WILL SAVE US
Left-back Aly Cissokho is coming back to Villa from his season-long loan at Porto. They don’t want him and Villa will take any left-back over the options they have at the moment.
Yes, the man who Tim Sherwood thought Kieran Richardson was a better bet at left-back than, is coming back to save us.
Is Cissokho a reason to be cheerful? Well, that it with a pinch of salt, but surely he can only improve things?
Surely Richards, Okore, Lescott and Cissokho, is a more solid backline than anything we’ve played this season? Villa would then be forced to play more out-and-out wingers to compensate for the lack of full-backs getting down the lines. Surely, though Grealish or Traore would be better than Hutton or Richardson being creative in the final third of the field?
With Villa unlikely to fork out on another left-back in January with Jordan Amavi injured, Cissokho maybe an unlikely improvement. Is he better than Richardson, at the moment, it’s worth finding out, as he can’t be much worse, regardless of what Sherwood thought.
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