🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️I was even worse for taking photos this time in the Netherlands 🙃🙃🙃

Queueing forever to get in and missed kick off - just dreadful from Feyenoord staff

In the ground! ⚽

Water Orton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#avfc #astonvilla #uel #rotterdam

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My complete inability to sleep is gonna kill me 😩

Up since half 2

Really cba to go Villa Park today

Please be good

Please win

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Will the new Sporting Director be more in control & have a bigger say in signings?

I do actually hope so because you'd think that it needs to change for the good of the future of the Club - with or without Unai Emery😢

I just hope UE is fine with it😬

#avfc #astonvilla #monchi

Anyway, the level of power the manager has, to most neutrals, this is a bad thing & very old school way to run things

And I think given how many of our own fans regularly complain about our squad, they actually, indirectly at least, agree that it needs to change!

He has been part of our most successful period in my lifetime as an Aston Villa fan as an adult

He cant take any credit in some peoples eyes for any of it, but can take all the blame

And Emery the opposite🤷

Agree we're where we are thanks to Emery mainly; But we also have our problems cos of him

& why there was immediately ZERO patience for team currently despite their achievements(talkin prior to Sund/Brentford games - patience wasn't there)

And even some absolute sausages wanting Emery out.

transfers, transfers, transfers, something new and shiny,

literally their only care & worry

Whatever we lack in/whatever you think about the current squad, Unai Emery has had a big say in it, the biggest say in it; this is like not even a debate

Think this highlights somewhat a lot of what I think is wrong with modern football fans - transfers - fans care more about transfers than results

If it's the latter, it's possibly worrying, if you're someone who wants Unai Emery to stay for many yrs to come like myself

We know the power Unai has at the Club is something he craved given his past experience in PL w/ no support

A new director might signal the end of that level of power #avfc

Not done a lot of reading on latest news yet.

Be curious to know if it is Unai Emery that has asked for Monchi to go / Monchi has just walked (& is unhappy given it's not your usual sporting director role)

OR if this is purely NSWE driven & UE didn't want him to go?

#avfc #astonvilla #monchi #utv

... Unai wants control in games, I don't think Rogers gives it? He can carry it up the pitch like a monster, but in many games he loses it via a poor touch, a poor pass, poor shot, or is tackled in a take on attempt (which is fine, we want players to have a go) ...

He is just being humble because he should be walking into it from now onwards; I feel like I could walk into the team atm wearing my old Rockports

Kevin

#motd #ffc #avfc

Wtf is that OG 😂

#motd #lufc

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Hopefully Maatsen forces way into the side & he can form a relationship with Rogers/Guessand; have a go down that side

Hopefully Elliott starts from now on cos my God we cannot control or pass a ball - pretty important

Hopefully Sancho can settle &/or Garcia can force his way in at RB! Have a go!!

Watched Arse Forest yesterday & just watching again on MOTD

Madueke. Taking his man on. Having a go

I don't think I saw a single #avfc player do that yesterday. Feel like we don't ever see any of them ever do it. 🙃

#avfc

When I tweeted this, I meant for today's game against Everton, obvs

#avfc #efc #eveavl

Assuming he cares about his career, he has to perform now, be it left, right or even CB! Cos where will he go next summer if he doesn't?

Get him and Maatsen to the byline, providing width, and cutting it back for Ollie, Rogers, Elliott

The most obvious choice for the right side to me yet EVERYONE I see is sticking him on the left side

He may prefer it there & perhaps felt like he could ask to play there when he moved for big money?..

But different times now, no1 wants him & his last best period was primarily on the right for BVB

Big fan of opposition views

I find it mental that others don't want to hear views from the opposition, like how close minded are you?? And just fast forward?

However if that is true about us never winning when it is on, sack it off immediately

Also John doesn't like lasagna and had a salad 🤯😂

#10

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Wrote out a whole thread on Emi Martinez, the best thread you'll have ever read btw, switched app, then was side tracked and now it is all gone.

Why doesn't Bluesky have drafts yet 😤

Anyway, now the dust has settled, lets just chill out a bit is the very short version of it 👍 UTV

#avfc #fuckUefa

Aston Villa’s transfer window: Martinez’s ‘move’, Emery’s financial frustration, final-day impetus Financial constraints dominated Villa's summer with a focus on outgoings. Only on the final day did Emery get what he wanted

The story of Aston Villa's summer:

Explaining strategy, painful "needs must" decisions, information on signings, outgoings, targets and #AVFC's deadline-day push - adding impetus to a "flat" mood.

Told from start to finish - long read on @theathleticfc.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

Your 2025/2026 Europa League winners 🏆

#avfc

Absolutely

Many of the other14 are complicit cos they want to keep the status quo aswell & keep getting the Premier League pay cheque & for PL to be a closed shop

Villa, Newcastle, Forest - sides who want to break in have no chance & no chance at changing to fairer more competitive financial rules

I think it's the initial loan fee that allows it to happen, then the big fee lands next summer when we are less restricted.

There will be another big sale next year that will help allow it too 🥶

I think he thinks that too.

Which is why it's for me, because in my mind as a simple fan, it's absolutely crucial areas & I do rate what I have seen from him

I'm failing to see how this side knits together without pacy attacking fullbacks

Which it seems to have these first 2 games!

On SCR/PSR as well, the club has been vocal about their frustrations with it indirectly & directly

The TIFO, Vidagany interviews, Sawiris interviews, Mings and McGinn on social media etc

No doubt Unai is frustrated but remains level headed to not let it be an excuse for players & affect on pitch

And is y we are doing weird psr flips, just to try & give us some small wiggle room to get the main deals Unai wants done

But thats a guess

Jacob Tanswell from the Athletic mentioned a piece hes doing on our window as a whole once it shuts, hopefully will tell us a bit more whats gone on& why etc

But bar Maatsen, I think specifically those players mentioned were all Emery ones

I trust Emery (and by extension Monchi).

I do think the SCR nonsense (by design) really does handicap us & players want obscene wages to stay or sign & we are at our limit

Frustrating but should be aimed at UEFA imo