Legia Warsaw banned from Villa Park due to violence Frankfurt fans are banned from the Napoli game in a few weeks due to violence Away fans are banned at every Old Firm game due to violence. Barcelona banned from travelling for one game due to racism. All in the last 2 years. #AVFC

Starmer is putting his job on the line in the dumbest way possible. If those fans come and they cause the same trouble that they’ve caused elsewhere (or even get provoked into violence by our fans), and if any Villa fan or local in Aston is hurt, he will have to resign. #AVFC

That tackle from Konsa was absolutely pristine. What a player he is. #AVFC

Ridiculous. If he comes through unscathed then at least it’ll help with fitness but I’ll be absolutely amazed if he comes back injury free. #AVFC

That Guardian article - a thread: We have to focus on the Europa League because we almost certainly have no way of breaking into the top 4 regularly. Problem acknowledged and understood from the get-go. #AVFC

Gerrard talks about Villa from about 45mins in here A lot of similarities to Bruce. Ok guy but the ego stops him seeing his own faults. I have no doubt he lost the dressing room but it started way before his last 7 games. #AVFC youtu.be/7p9Zrjeu0Co?...

A win today would be really helpful with Spurs, City and Liverpool games Up next. #AVFC

Beta Band were majestic in Manchester. A band unlike any other. But… - Organisation at the venue crap. Hundreds still outside as the first song started. - A tip for anyone whose only exposure to them is that scene in High Fidelity, have a go on the 3EPs before you spunk £50 on a ticket next time.

If my calculations are correct, if we win our next game Unai becomes our first premier league manager to reach 80 wins in all comps, and he could do it in his 150th game in charge. MON: 79 wins in 188 games Unai: 79 in 149 Gregory: 78 in 178 Little: 69 in 164 #AVFC

We need about 25-30 goal contributions in all comps to replace the ones we lost with Duran, Rashford and Asensio. Maybe Emi can just get all of them for us. #AVFC

He’s still only performing at about 20% of his ability and his passing is stupendously bad but I thought Rogers had a couple of moments that were encouraging in the second half - his run into the box and his first good through-ball of the season, which Ollie miscontrolled. Fingers crossed. #AVFC

That was a really entertaining game of football. Maybe we were a little lucky overall but we were pretty good second half. Who would’ve predicted that Bizot would be our best signing of the summer, though? He really, really deserved that clean sheet. #AVFC

Ok first 20, lost composure after that. Lack of shots a little misleading as we’ve had a couple of decent chances. Phenomenal game for the neutral though. Great fun to watch if there’s nothing on it for you. #AVFC

I absolutely guarantee that the end result of this is that it gets even harder for non Big 6 clubs to spend. #AVFC www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Won’t affect us this year but it’s good to see English clubs are seemingly determined not to retain that extra champions league spot in the league this season. #AVFC

This lad at Ipswich looks decent. Surprised we didn’t have a look at him in the summer after Ramsey left… #AVFC youtube.com/shorts/1Os3w...

Rogers better today. Not great and still a lot of mistakes, but better. Looked like he was working harder. Ditto Ollie. Elliott still struggling for me. Weight of expectations too much perhaps. Mcginn MotM, Guessand getting better each game. Pau was good too. #AVFC

Genuinely shocking first 25 but something seemed to click after that and it was pretty comfortable. Much much better. We’ve got almighty tough run now, so fingers crossed we can pick up some points over the next month. #AVFC

Emery has now won more European games* (17 wins from 27) with Villa than all our other premier league managers combined (16 from 38)**. * Not including the Intertoto. ** Of the 16 wins we still lost 4 of the overall ties on aggregate. Only in 1 of Unai’s 17 (v PSG) we lost the overall tie. #AVFC

How did we make that look so hard? I was pretty happy at half time but it was piss poor again second half. But, a win’s a win and we had our best 30 minutes of the season. Onwards. #AVFC

First 30 minutes was great, but I really hope we don’t regret those missed chances too much. Buendia looked like he was doing it on purpose at one point. Hook Rogers at HT though. Pointless again. #AVFC

Was pondering Monchi’s exit earlier and i was reminded of the fact that we wanted to bid £30m for Osula. This means that a) We had £30m to spend on a striker and didn’t spend it and now we have no back up striker b) Our DoF didn’t understand the UEFA rule before we investigated the bid #AVFC

Emery considering quitting? Not sure it's true but I've supported Villa for decades and I considering resigning as a fan this summer due to the realisation that football is COMPLETELY pointless unless you're one of 6 clubs. Quote is from in here: gianlucadimarzio.com/aston-villa-... #AVFC

Interesting that Monchi isn't leaving entirely - sticking around as advisor for V Sports. Suggests personal reasons for leaving rather than performance based. Olabe arriving puts to bed any chance that Unai will leave over this too. Positive moves all round perhaps. #AVFC

Monchi is most likely leaving because he’s been at the club for two years, in that time we’ve spent £312m and the only two players we signed that have actually really improved us long term are Rogers and Torres. #AVFC

Sancho starts for me over Buendia and Elliott starts over Rogers next game. Guessand gets a pass for now because he’s new. #AVFC

Genuine relegation concerns. We’ve just had our “easiest” run of games of the whole season, we‘re 13% through the season and there are NOT currently 3 worse teams. Not even sure what needs to change. all of the attacking players all look completely dreadful. #AVFC

Couple of positives: Bizot looks to be a really decent reserve GK so far Kamara is back I’m certain that Jimoh-Aloba will actually step up to the 1st team soon (I’d take him over Rogers atm) Elliott, Guessand and Sancho will all improve and none look as fragile as Bailey or Ramsey #AVFC

Absolutely and utterly fucking atrocious. Again. Imagine losing to Brentford reserves. Even in 15/16 we were on 4pts after 4 games and got to the 4th round of the league cup. Nothing good about this season. Really, really bleak. #AVFC

Mostly fine but I do not understand what our forwards are supposed to be doing. the instruction appears to be “stand quite still near 3 opposition defenders and if you somehow get ball make sure you pass it somewhere near, but not directly to, a teammate who is also surrounded”. #AVFC

How does he go from one of the best players for England to the worst player for us in the space of 5 days? Has to be tactics and instructions, because the alternative is that he simply can’t be arsed. #AVFC

I’ve never seen a Villa team worse at passing than this. As I said two weeks ago, relegation is more likely than European qualification right now. I know we’ve got injury issues but it does feel like Unai hast lost his mind. #AVFC

Decent last 10 minutes. Best we’ve played this season. No one past the back 4 seems to know what they should be doing, though. It looks very, very easy to defend against. #AVFC

Part of me wishes we'd taken him back if Barkley isn't going to be around for a while. c£85k pw and c£22m fee for Dougie is an insane bargain if Forest can get him back up to standard. Also, absolutely insane that Nuno didn't want him. #AVFC

Looking forward to all the hundreds of celebs who blag tickets to the Radiohead shows telling me how great it is. Excited for that crap selfie video of you singing along to Fake Plastic Trees. I hope they just play King Of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool in full. #Radiohead #Bitter

I generally only go out of my way to watch non-tournament England games these days if there are any #AVFC players are involved. That game tonight was one of the most enjoyable England games in years - a proper team performance.

Love to know where this Morgan Rogers has been because he sure as hell hasn’t been at Villa for a while. #AVFC

I bet he does as there is a small possibility Emi gets dropped for Bizot just to make a point about disrupting the squad with idiotic shenanigans. #AVFC

Jesus christ, Matty Cash, what a hit. #AVFC

Bahahahaha. #AVFC

State of this. Villa’s net spend over 20 years is less than the combined net spend of the “big 6” this summer alone. Villa have a team that cost £500m less to assemble than Chelsea’s. Villa’s 1st team wages are £30-60m below 5 of the “big 6”. This is ignorance personified. #AVFC

FWIW I'm 99% sure Barkley would've left this summer if he'd been fit. He will go in January is my bet. #AVFC

Reading that we’re giving Cash and Torres new contracts. Understand why (the new contracts will reduce their squad cost by spreading their remaining amortised fee over a longer period) but I do hope we improve on both players next summer. Both have struggled a bit in the last 12 months. #AVFC

This is another fascinating article @jacobtanswell.bsky.social . What an absolute nightmare summer this has been behind the scenes. I feel so sorry for JJ - a sacrifice we *had* to make that no one at all *wanted* to make. I hope things calm down next year. #AVFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

Summer net-spend table. Very, very impressive work by Chelsea, this. Their model is superficially demented but it's really working. #AVFC

You will NEVER get a better example of an agent-drafted ITK tweet than this one. Anyway, I'm going to move on. Emi is still our number 1. He remains the best keeper we've ever had and, to be honest, if he wasn't doing some mad idiotic thing he wouldn't be the person we know he is. #AVFC

In all of the noise yesterday, this went under the radar a bit. We were a) in the market for an out-and-out striker b) had £30m cash to spend. Also, our uefa squad is already 1 player too big, so this lad would’ve pushed someone else out. And, finally, this rule is bad. #AVFC

This is a REALLY interesting article from the Mail about our summer. #AVFC archive.ph/xoOwe

Genuinely one of the most stressful windows of recent years. We won’t know what it all means for a bit but hopefully Elliott and Guessand actually get games and actually make a difference. Considering the difficulties we were in the only player we lost who is a real miss is Ramsey. #AVFC

Rogers needs to watch himself now we have Elliott. His drop off in standards this year has been dreadful and we now don’t need to start him as we have decent players right across the 3 to play with Watkins. #AVFC