Its all about how the media want to portray things, favourites/media darlings, Gerrard will do little with villa, hope they are relegated along with wolves, everton and moan utd.
"Critics are men that watch a battle from a high place, then come down and shoot the survivors"
Neville gets mocked for his Valencia spell, Gerrard gets praised.
Neville actually has a better points per game than Gerrard
Worse than Jesse Marsch's record with us as well.
One though is one of the favourites for the sack according to the media.
The other is an English media golden boy
Another media darling like Lampard. He will face zero criticism from the pundits.
Every season Villa are tipped to do really well by the pundits just because they spend loads of money, but every year they flop miserably. Really don't see what they've done to deserve being tipped as high as 8th I've seen?
SG90 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:25 am
Another media darling like Lampard. He will face zero criticism from the pundits.
Every season Villa are tipped to do really well by the pundits just because they spend loads of money, but every year they flop miserably. Really don't see what they've done to deserve being tipped as high as 8th I've seen?
Yeah me to.
Four four two magazine had them 8th I think it was.
Other have them top 10 despite Villa averaging 14h since promotion.
Its purely because of the money spent, raises expectations and then the Gerrard golden boy factor to.
Villa's midfielder Boubacar Kamara is likely to be out for about two months after suffering knee ligament damage - putting his involvement in the World Cup in doubt.
The France international has been one of Villa's best performers since joining on a free transfer from Marseille in the summer.
He suffered the injury in Villa's 1-0 win over Southampton last Friday.
"I'm worried about it," Villa boss Steven Gerrard said after the match.
"It seems like every time we get three points it comes with a cost."
Villa have only scored six goals in their eight games, not a surprise bearing how much time they waste, apparently the ball was only in play for less than 50 minutes in our game last Sunday.
Villa's six goals have come from six different scorers.