Aston Villa won't win the league - Premier League 2024/25

with greatest fondness for our excellent villa posters and in fact the club itself, fuck matty cash and i hope awful things happen him every day

Now Ipswich are back in the Premier League… for how long… I’ll be bookmarking the Premier League thread for the first time :D

Considering we played 90% of a team we finished with last year yesterday I don’t think we did too badly, bit worried by Man City away next week though.

I hate how MOTD pundits call Alexander-Arnold Trent.

I also hate the barrage of pointless and forgettable statistics from commentators - "the fourth Dutchman to score on his Manchester United debut", I mean ffs.

There seems to be a strong consensus on the formatting. Trent and Gabriel are always first name. Jack is always first name only outside of a match and strictly Grealish during it, a pronunciation mullet. Emile Smith-Rowe never seems to go anywhere without all his names and seems a certainty to be knighted at some point

But I haven't worked out why Gabriel is pronounced differently than Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli. Everyone does this and I'm no exception, I can't help it

Bass! How low can you go?
Smith-Rowe, what a brother know

Aint nuthin but a G thang baby
Two loced out n_s going crazy
Smith-Rowe is the label that pays me

Ok i'm done

jfc

He’s doing his best to make City winning the league more bearable…

pic.twitter.com/rVotsEspSV

— Jay Motty (@JayMotty) August 18, 2024

Are we sure that isn't Tom Cruise?

countdown to deems saying 'we dont win this'

we win this but in spite of brennan johnson who has no footballing skills or intelligence

cunts?

take that as a yes

first half very strong and actually very surprised by the quality of delivery into box

johnson, son, werner on wings, eesh

not marking back post is a really, really, really strange trait in a defence and in particular in a centre half and i guess I'll never really understand it

i think ange will be free for xmas on the beach

i completely forgot werner existed. wasn't he once the next big thing?

only under an early werning system

Seems fine

🚨🔵 Maresca: “I am not working with 42 players. I am working with 21 players”.

“The other 15-20 players are training apart. I don't see them. It's not a mess like it looks from outside. Absolutely not”.

“They can even have 20 years contract, it’s not my point. I don’t care”. pic.twitter.com/bsmgRWbIei

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 21, 2024

yeah not insane at all. especially when you play the racist as the captain of your 21/42.

How long do we give this guy?

They'll presumably sack him about three weeks after the team first puts together a reasonable run of form

BREAKING: Jermaine Jenas has been fired by the BBC and taken off air from both Match of the Day and The One Show following complaints about "inappropriate behaviour," The Sun report. pic.twitter.com/BzUweAmYve

— That's Football! (@ThatsFootballTV) August 22, 2024

there was a

I just listened to a very enlightening (no, actually extremely pointless) interview with him in which he seemed have swallowed a lawyer

Lol deems

...cunts

Y'know, the word "lol" is overused nowadays but

Brighton probably better in the big picture but at 85 minutes I said to my mate here "somebody gets a winner but I'm not betting"

A draw would have been a fair enough result

Got very unlucky with the disallowed goal

Manager is still shite

Rio Ferdinand, very funny

Ten Hag isn't good enough has been my opinion all along, irrespective of the Glazer issues

The easiest decision of the summer was to get rid

No idea why they chickened out

I'm gonna assume "cheapskates"

Well now they've ended up spending a load of money on more of his former players so dunno if that tracks

I'm not a business guy but I always get the impression that there are profitable stupid wastes of money and the opposite

this has been an ok 4-0, not a great 4-0 but allow me a vmic in character moan that you say about pacy players than they put their skates on but you never really think about what that would do for a players first touch until you watch brennan johnson

micky van der ven leaving everyone players like f16 exhaust patterns in hiw wake on an 80 yard run is a fine sight tho

be surprised we can keep him for too long, he looks like the worlds first 200m defender to me

nb new readers im not really known for my steady fan opinions

Thanks for clarifying to us outsiders how battering Everton was good not bad like we thought

Ffs two injuries in 20 minutes, our right side's crumbled out of existence

deems may not care much for a 4-0 over everton, but matty cash limping off after fifteen minutes? time to uncork something a bit special and savour

Christ, Lee Carsley, I'm already yearning for the days of constant lingering shots of Southgate having a think in the stands

Bailey went down screaming and holding his leg after just running with the ball in possession in space, then just got treatment and played 25 more minutes without incident

I don't understand how on earth Unai Emery was the one guy on earth that looked at Morgan Rogers at Boro and figured he'd be effortlessly surging through Premier League defences of given a short run of games

Can't see us keeping Arsenal out with an enforced switch to an 18yo at full-back, but if they can keep it tight til 70 mins...maybe

Ah the consent enthusiast scores, great

Anyone got wolves v Chelsea on? High energy entertaining footy. Thanks for the instagram post Madueke, games better when the teams really hate each other

Wolves looking so up for it and dangerous on the counter that they quite simply will not score today

Luckily I'm too hungover to get a stream on

Lol. I can’t believe it’s not 3-2 to wolves already tbh. No more goals in this game would be so cruel

You should flick it on, Wolves’ attack is vicious and Chelsea’s defence is barely hanging on