Aston Villa Thread | 2025/26

The Harvey Elliott situation is a little strange. Villa aren't going to buy him so won't play him as it will trigger a buy out clause.

A £35m permanent deal will be triggered if he plays in 10 Premier League games.

Elliott, who starred for England Under-21s as they won the European Championship last summer, is not in the squad for Thursday's Europa League tie at Basel.

His last appearance came as a late substitute against Feyenoord in the Europa League on 2 October.

"We are speaking with him and about his situation. He is not here with us," Emery said when asked about Elliott on Wednesday
 
waspish said:
Doing the right thing if Emery doesn’t fancy him why waste 35m
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There's that side of it but Villa would play him if the " clause" wasn't in place.
Its not the right thing, deliberately not playing footballers for non football reasons
 
Stay in this range of the top and get something at the emirates end of the month and they'll be well in the mix.
 
Emery done miracles especially with the recruitments and the club being under strict financial constraints, improvements of players too! Think there purchases the majority been hits too!
 
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Surprised that this thread has slipped to page 2. I watched a bit of their game against the rags today. It was actually an entertaining game and Morgan Rogers was the difference. Villa do seem to have a decent team and are on a great run.
 
waspish said:
I watched a lot of Villa there wins are mainly from wonder goals.
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They do score some corkers but the reason why I am not particularly worried about them as title challengers is that we score far more goals - 41 to their 27 - and let in fewer - 16 to their 18. Emery has done a great job but they lack the firepower to win the title. Arsenal also lack a bit up front but their defence will keep them in contention.
 
I am surprised by how well Rogers has done and I guess whoever scouted him for City feels a bit gutted. I can remember him looking great on loan at Lincoln but his subsequent loans were not that great and when we sold him to Boro I thought that would be his level. Kudos to Villa for identifying his potential and Morgan himself for working hard to achieve what he has.
It is a bit frustrating seeing him do so well when he never really seemed to get much of a chance at City. I think between him and Palmer I would rather have Morgan at City as he is stronger and puts in the hard yards whereas Cole seems to have adopted a "star player" role at Chelsea and does not run as much as he maybe should.
 
If City don't win the Premier League this season, then I wouldn't mind Villa winning the top division for the first time in almost half a century.
The amount of piss boiling from Arteta and Arsenal would be off the scale, coming second four years in a row would be immense, literally the perennial bridesmaids to three different champions.
 
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