January Transfer Window 2010/2011 Season Rumours/Signings
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A knee injury again :/...Would rather he fully recover and not come back early which is suspect he did last time.
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lol, you dismiss Young, who in a rubbish team is fantastic, defends incredibly well, runs the entire length of the pitch with almost every attack, has fantastic delivery from set pieces, a fantastic cross on the run, and a decent shot because he's English.
Then say Lennon is better, poor crossing, poor defensively(he gets back but watch how many actually excellent tackles Young makes), useless corners/set pieces, stupid as crap, braindead and is in a MASSIVELY better team. Young at Spurs would be scoring and assisting HUGELY more than Lennon does.
Lennon is the poster boy(along with Theo and SWP) for people who are ONLY rated because they are English, remember they all got loads of games for England and thats partially where their hype came from, Young's been mostly ignored for England and doesn't get that same hype.
Young is at a completely different level to Lennon/Theo in every single part of his game.
Lennon looks good mostly due to the team around him, Young looks good DESPITE the team around him.
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lulz, currently a almost bottom 3 team with Young has played 18 league games with 3 goals, 5 assists, Lennon, in a top four team, with 18 league games has 2 goals, 2 assists, whose better?
Lennon's best year he got 5 goals, matching Youngs worst year, Lennon's best year he got 9 assists, Young's best was 17. Villa have done better than Spurs in maybe, one year really in that time.
FAil to see any compelling reason you can suggest Lennon is the better player, creates less goals, scores a LOT less goals, all the while in a much stronger team. On top of that you have Youngs workrate, fitness(his worst season in the prem he started 36 games), defensive duties, seriously watch any game and really keep an eye on how hard he works making tackles in his own box and everywhere else on the pitch, freekick/corner delivery.
Lennon is generally only good when the whole team is playing well, Young is consistantly good for his team, the only problem is the team is completely inconsistant and has a choice of one of two idiots upfront mostly as Gabby hasn't been in form and is often injured.
Lennon's best year he got 5 goals, matching Youngs worst year, Lennon's best year he got 9 assists, Young's best was 17. Villa have done better than Spurs in maybe, one year really in that time.
FAil to see any compelling reason you can suggest Lennon is the better player, creates less goals, scores a LOT less goals, all the while in a much stronger team. On top of that you have Youngs workrate, fitness(his worst season in the prem he started 36 games), defensive duties, seriously watch any game and really keep an eye on how hard he works making tackles in his own box and everywhere else on the pitch, freekick/corner delivery.
Lennon is generally only good when the whole team is playing well, Young is consistantly good for his team, the only problem is the team is completely inconsistant and has a choice of one of two idiots upfront mostly as Gabby hasn't been in form and is often injured.
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Young is a very good player tbh.
As for Balotelli being out / Dzeko being in, surely it doesn't matter if you only ever play one up front, Tevez, and your 19 DMFs?
I fail to see the point in the transfer aswell, though with the new money rules coming in, and Dzeko being good he's probably a more long term replacement for Tevez. IE they might not absolutely need him right now, but if Tevez went in the summer or a year later, then the Dzeko transfer would be part of the "breaking even over 3 years" money rules that are coming so best to buy up now for the future.
For now when Dzeko plays I'd assume he'll push Tevez out wide with Silva on the other wing, and the 3 strong brick wall in midfield. For a flat 4-5-1 with 3 central midfielders, well, I'd be focusing on another world class winger, with Tevez upfront, but as said, they are probably planning on losing Tevez in not too long.
You never know, maybe he's planning on trying a proper formation, like 4-4-2 and actually providing entertaining football and trying to win against every team in the league......... maybe.
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Not trying to take anything away from his performance (which was very good), but Kompany was missing, and he's a HUGE reason our defence is so good. I wouldn't be surprised if Kompany was playing in the replay you hear much less from that CB.
Stewart: Complete rubbish. We play 24 DM's.
DM: Tevez being off in the summer combined with the FFP is almost certainly the sole reason behind the Dzeko deal. This way we also get half a season out of him settling in and if he's replacing Tevez next season completely he'll be hitting the ground running come the start of the season. It's
I agree with DM I rate Young far higher than the likes of Lennon, SWP and Walcott.
Although I wouldn't say he's as good at defending as your saying he is attacking wise he has much more talent and played well not just on the wings but as a more central role just behind the striker.
Although I wouldn't say he's as good at defending as your saying he is attacking wise he has much more talent and played well not just on the wings but as a more central role just behind the striker.
Young is ok but he really needs to knock the bitching/moaning out of his game, If he spent less time bitching/moaning & actually playing the game he might get better.
That is my opinion of course being a Villa fan. If you want to see real work horses look at Bannan/Clark/Albrighton all young players that are only going to get better.
That is my opinion of course being a Villa fan. If you want to see real work horses look at Bannan/Clark/Albrighton all young players that are only going to get better.
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What the **** is going on!?!?!?
And no Donovan isn't coming back on loan, we have no money, no strikers, can't even offer Pienaar £65k a week he wants so God knows where the Mirror got we are paying Yak £80k! And apparently Leicester have offered money to pay for a permanent deal if they get promoted.
*sigh
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Young would obviously get more assists than Lennon considering he takes every corner and attacking free kick, and more goals because he takes a lot of Pens. As you are Mr stat man could you tell me how many of his assists are from open play, I would guess they are similar to Lennons. A fit in form Lennon is far more of a threat that Young.
Spot on
Lennon needs to continue getting back his form, the last few games he's looked like the player who isn't scared of running at players. Something that had been missing after he came back from injury. If he carries on beating players like he has been throughout the rest of the season, then he will be regarded as the best English right sided player IMO.
What the **** is going on!?!?!?
And no Donovan isn't coming back on loan, we have no money, no strikers, can't even offer Pienaar £65k a week he wants so God knows where the Mirror got we are paying Yak £80k! And apparently Leicester have offered money to pay for a permanent deal if they get promoted.
*sigh
Don't rate yak that well and you'll be fine without pienaar, but you have 0 funds?
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As with SO many England players, there seemed to be a seeming identical timing of his first England call ups to his embarassing diving suddenly appearing in his game. This seems to have happened to LOADS of england players who seem to be being taught its part of the game and not getting involved in it is denying your team a viable source of goals. A good manager should, like Ancelloti/Drogba, knock it out of his game by simply telling him its not on.
Yes and no, he's not as good as a few years ago, simply because the team are much much worse than 2-3 years ago.
When your primary role in the team is creating chances for others, when others can't put them in the net you look bad. So often people will say Fabregas had a bad game, purely because he'll put a chance on a platter 10 times in one game and the guys upfront won't put them in the net, another game he'll create less chances with less good passing, but will get 2 assists and be hailed for his best game of the season.
I like Young a LOT less since his diving antics, though he was horrific with diving last season(or was it very early this season?), though I haven't seen him being as bad lately, maybe Houllier has told him to stop it. I haven't watched an immense amount of Villa games this season.
Young at one of the better teams in the league would be, honestly, phenomenal.
AS for defensive duties, you really should watch Villa(when and if Houllier stops playing him as a striker, no idea why he is), he really does make a ridiculous number of excellent tackles in the box. Bellamy was the same, just a complete workhorse, doesn't matter where the ball is on the field both of them are 100% effort every minute of every game they play.