What do Aston Villa fans think of Madjo? Is he better than jackson? Will he start once back? What is the striker rotation like

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Wednesday, September 2

• Netherlands (Eredivisie)
• United States & Canada (MLS – Secondary Window)

Thursday, September 3

• Scotland (Scottish Premiership)
• Belgium (Pro League)
• Austria (Austrian Bundesliga)

Friday, September 4

• Turkey (Süper Lig)

Sunday, September 6

• Saudi Arabia (Saudi Pro League)

Friday, September 11

• Mexico (Liga MX)

Monday, September 15

• Portugal (Primeira Liga)

Edit - English Window, not UK window

I’m from Italy, I’m tired of the declining football and the constantly shuffle of the same 5 coaches with outdated tactics.

I’ve been following Premier for a few years and decided to pick a team, through a random draw I got Villa, and honestly the more I read about the team, the more glad i am that the universe selected Villa.

Anyways, does anyone know cool Villa podcasts, videos about the history of the team and the city?

Watching this 18 y/o guy on left wing on TV tonight, looking good. He had many strong performances last year in the Prem
Makes me wonder why no one’s bought him?
Any thoughts?

Ive been a season ticket holder for 8 years now, last season i done 10 away games in england and 4 in europe but none in my ticket name. Its only the last two seasons I’ve been able to go to away games on my own so never was able to build a history before but now want to build my away history more then anything. I have 1,020 points as i managed to get brighton tickets and spurs in the cup but this is still far from the criteria i need to get mist of the games. Any advice on what i can do or is it a situation where i just wait until things go my way.

I said Mbaye you're gonna be the one that saves me

And after all

He's from Senegal

Firstly; forgive the ranting post - I was just thinking about how good a window we’ve had; and it got me thinking…

One thing thats not been spoken about much is that we seem to be doing some sneaky long term planning for our UEFA squad building:

In the next 2-3 years; our club trained players could become:
- Bogarde
- Hemmings
- Madjo
- Mbaye

This meets the 4 slots.

Home grown includes the above plus:
- Mings (retiring)
- Barkley (retiring)
- Cash
- Maatsen
- Garnacho (possibly)
- THB
- Abraham
- AWB
- Wright

Unfortunately our homegrown could quickly start reducing as most seem to be the older players; or those perhaps not quite good enough.

I think cash, Maatsen, THB, and Wright probably means we hit the 4 required regardless?

I could see us continuing to pick up 17/18 year olds with a view to getting them classed as club trained players for us going forwards (plus this increases sale value within the Premier League).

Rowe could sensibly replace AWB as RB2 as he heads towards retirement?

We probably need another young CM - could JJA, Borland or Boyd step up? What about the under the radar signing of Kane Taylor?

We probably need to buy another young Winger - particularly if garnacho doesn’t cut it.

I think this could definitely start to impact our next 2/3 transfer windows - and if we can carry on picking up the likes of Mbaye, that’ll be amazing!

Otherwise; looking at players like Garner, Branthwaite and others we were linked with do make a lot of sense…

If you’ve made it this far - fair play to you - UTFV

Now that our transfer window is all but over, i figure it’s time to come up with a few chants/songs for the new signings. What we currently have by my count:

Manzambi - Zombie by The Cranberries

Suzuki - His name is a car / His name is a caaar / Zion Suzuki, his name is a car AND Iron Lion Zion by Bob Marley

Goretzka - None

Jackson - None

Mbaye - None (near “maybe” so lots of possibilities)

Cisse - None

Gomes - None

Ruggeri - None

Garnacho - None

Madjo - Magic by Pilot? (tenuous)

Wan-Bissaka - None

Hardwood-Bellis - None

UTV

The game has been moved to 8pm on halloween.
Was planning on taking the kids trick or treating, guess it will be an earlier one this year.

If we keep Unai we win the league in the 28/29 season

I haven't seen enough over the past few days, and I'm very keen to see every sub members starting 11

On top of this we have got

MADJO

buendia

alysson

garnacho

mings

lindelof

ruggeri

wan bissaka

joao gomes

bogarde

ITS LOOKING VERY GOOD LADS....

Most money made in a single transfer window ever. There's been a lot of sales concentrated in a few teams this season as the table shows.

If Enzo fernandes goes to city for 140m then chelsea will easily take the top spot.

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Currently - without knowing how they will acclimatise to emery and his tactics and presuming no more deals happen. I feel, with everyone fit, this will be our strongest 11.

I'd prefer Jackson as a LW with Manzambi, Mbaye and Madjo is a mouthwatering prospect and a genuine threat against all defences

I'd even say this is potentially better then the Buendia, Rogers, Mcginn, Watkins set up we had.

And yes I've bought into Madjo potential.

Looking forward to when everyone is fit and had a few games before truly judging.

In Emery I trust

An XI of our new signings vs one comprised of players who left us?

Obviously, our old XI is a little makeshift:

• Bailey hasn't left yet
• Garcia is loaned out, he should be back next summer. But I decided to add him and not Nedeljkovic because he has more appearances for us
• Luiz was only a loan
• Mosquera never played for the senior team, but I needed a 2nd CB and we sold him for half a million euros to Vitoria

But for the sake of discussion, I cobbled this together.

Disclaimer - we've only seen one game where we didn't have our new signings in to enable him to play as a true 9. This is purely based on what we saw yesterday.

Anyway, I keep thinking back to how silky smooth some of his deeper passages of play were. He was always happy to take on his man. He fought for the ball when possession was lost. He made some lovely 1-2 plays with others on the team...

Would he be bad in a more natural deeper role than the false 9 he was playing yesterday? Can't comment on his reputation for being "wasteful" as a striker yet, but I'm already wondering what Jackson in any of those 3 mentioned positions would do with Madjo as the target man?

Aston Villa are in talks to extend Ian Maatsen’s contract.

Maatsen, who joined Villa in a deal worth £37.5million from Chelsea in July 2024, has become Unai Emery’s first choice left-back following the departure of Lucas Digne to Paris Saint-Germain earlier this summer.

From the outside this looks like Villa have 'had the heart ripped out of them'. But I actually think our business has been spectacular this summer.

- Rogers out; Manzambi in

- Tielemens out; Goretzka in

- Onana out (inj); Gomes in

- Konsa out; Harwood-Bellis in

- Watkins out; Jackson in

- Martinez out; Suzuki in

- Digne out; Ruggeri in

- Wan-Bissaka in

*Edit* Forgot to add:

• Bailey out (hopefully); Mbaye in

• Sancho out; Garnacho in

Wage bill right down and now UEFA compliant (I think)

Age of squad right down.

Maximum value received for all our players.

Watkins aside, zero fuss across the board.

This might be the best summer window of my lifetime. I genuinely feel that good about it. So just props to the leadership team for executing this summer like they have. 👏 Genuinely excited for the season.

UTV!

So, do you think we'll have a different set up for the Hull game? Given the fact we have a bunch of new signings with nearly a week of training with the team.

Yeah honestly

Sounds crazy to say it, but I can’t stress how giddy yesterday’s loss made me feel about the season. We held ground for 60 mins with little to no prep from 2 new players (Wan-Bisaka & Jackson) + most of the new signings not on the pitch yet (Goretzka, Mbaye, Madjo, Gomes, Harwood-Bellis).

Once everyone gels (2-3 games max hopefully I think after seeing today’s performance)…I feel like we’ll have a strong case for 4th - 6th place at end of season (zero chance we defeat Man City, Arsenal, and Chelsea’s rank this year).

Feel like Emery’s Villa 2.0 is going to be a fun one.

UTV
🦁 💜 🩵

I was watching the game with my dad yesterday. At full time I turned to him and said - "You know what, that was really promising".

My old man, who doesn't really watch too much football, thought I was mad.

But I saw the vision. And with the recent signing and current young talent i.e. Alysson a.k.a Morgan Rogers skin walker - not only will we be fine - I'm going to make a bold prediction:

Emery's building the greatest Aston Villa team of our generation. Possibly of the 21st century.

Anyone still unsure, I encourage to you relax. The attacking cohesion will come. This crop of players will bond into a team. Manzambi hasn't even made his debut yet. Alysson hasn't started a game yet. We've got Leon Grotezka to come in. We've got Mbaye waiting in the wings and Harwood-Bellis, a brilliant signing and replacement for an aging Konsa, coming shortly.

Genuinely never been more excited as a Villa fan. Just give it time.