Obviously losing your best player is never nice, but feel that Aston Villa's approach to this window has been absolutely spot on.
Get Buendia in early as a cut-price Grealish replacement, get Bailey in as further cover and still have money left to get improve another position.
Also, £100mil in the midst of a pandemic is truly insane.
Jan 10, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
OK, so Liverpool are likely to win this league this year, and this iteration are one of the best teams to ever grace the Premier League - but the building of this team has not happened overnight.
Quick thread on how the squad's changed over time (1/n)
Season: 2015/16
Final league position: 8th
A squad full of young and peak age players, but not a great notion of what the first XI looks like.
Flani Alves was getting minutes back then, and Clyne was the most played outfielder.