3-0 Barca FT.
Interesting game tonight. Barcelona are one of the two best teams in the world, it would have been extraordinary had we gotten anything tonight, an achievement bigger than anything Unai has achieved at #AVFC so far.
The disappointment is that we didn’t really make them work for it. Terrible decision making all over the pitch all night and poor technique when it mattered most.
I thought Bouba Kamara was our best player by a distance. Pau and Lindelof were fine as well. They were the only ones who didn’t look out of their depth.
Could go through and critique different players but what’s the point, it’s Barcelona away. Most of them looked and played like they were shocked to be there at all.
A somewhat painful but good experience for a lot of them. Could have been better - could have been an awful lot worse.
Still well placed in the league, goal difference didn’t get knocked too badly.
On to United at the weekend - typical they get a morale boosting victory right before we play them 🙄. UTV. #AVFC
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Ok, so yesterday we were all told
“there’s no narrative against Villa”
“All clubs get the same”
Ok, I’ve just watched the Villa Fulham game on @SkySportsPL and after the game jamie redknapp and @leehendrie77 spent a good 10 minutes, not talking about the game, not talking about how well Fulham did. No
They spent 10 minutes talking about the managerial position at man utd and asking
“Why wouldn’t Emery take the UTD job”
Yeah, there’s definitely no narrative is there! Man U shouldn’t even be a subject when analysing a villa Fulham game! According to you lot nobody gives a fuck about watching those games so why would Utd fans be turning on to listen to it?
#avfc
“Aston Villa will never be Man United!”
Good. In their current state, why would we want to be? Not just talking about on the pitch either. Over £1bn in debt isn’t it?
Man United weren’t always the massive club they are, the food chain that Carragher refers to hasn’t always been in place. It can be challenged and it should be challenged. That’s what competition is.
Pundits like Jamie seek to preserve the status quo and can’t stand to see the established elite being destabilised. They’re desperate to get Emery out of Villa.
Clubs like Villa, Newcastle, Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford (etc) are all lauded when we’re only pushing around those 6th and 7th places… go beyond that and the story changes. They’ll give us a patronising pat on the back then start discussing which of their big clubs should take our players and manager.
Last season, Carragher referred to us as a nuisance, that’s exactly how they see us. #AVFC
🚨🚨🎙️| Jamie Carragher on Manchester United potentially appointing Unai Emery:
“I think Unai Emery is just unbelievable what he does year after year.”
“Surely he would want that opportunity to manage a giant again.”
“Aston Villa will 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 be Manchester United.”
“There is a chain in football, whether you like it or not. Real Madrid will take Man United’s best player, they’ll take Ronaldo. There’s very few above United, same with Liverpool.”
“So shut the fuck up, Villa fans, we can’t make the fucking point, you know what I mean? Honest to God, Aston Villa will never be Man United.”
