Leon Bailey

Right Midfielder - Aston Villa
17 Oct 2026
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Marked for Leon Bailey

11 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Oct 2026

Chastening afternoon for Aston Villa

A 0‑3 beating by Arsenal was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match10 Oct 2026

No end in sight to Aston Villa's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aston Villa has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Boubacar Kamara in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aston Villa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Kader Dembélé at Aston Villa

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kader Dembélé is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Youri Tielemans

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Harvey Elliott falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Leon Bailey

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom12 Oct 2026

Doors closed at Aston Villa

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Youssoufa Moukoko could have had three

7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Harvey Elliott

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match26 Sep 2026

Burnley punish Aston Villa for switching off

3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Morgan Rogers will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Aston Villa escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Both of them Morgan Rogers's — 8.76

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.76, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match26 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Aston Villa's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aston Villa has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Boubacar Kamara in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aston Villa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tomás Silva gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tomás Silva has just signed for Aston Villa, and for once the answer mattered.

Market28 Sep 2026

Aston Villa may not be able to give Emiliano Buendía what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Emiliano Buendía wants continental football; whether Aston Villa can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Tammy Abraham was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Leon Bailey in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

6 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Leon Bailey

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

One of those days for Harvey Elliott

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tammy Abraham gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Wages eat 375% of everything Aston Villa earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The terraces7 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Harvey Elliott

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Aston Villa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matty Cash is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Morgan Rogers's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Morgan Rogers wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

Market7 Sep 2026

Sheffield are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Aston Villa will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief