The Aston Villa Courier
Squad25 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Kristian Strømland Lien out for 43 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aston Villa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Jair: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aston Villa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Aston Villa
Boubacar Kamara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match23 Oct 2027
4 matches without a win for Aston Villa
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Aston Villa are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Aston Villa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toluwalase Arokodare 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.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Morgan Rogers at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aston Villa.
Loan watch25 Oct 2027
Kadan Young has seen enough of Birmingham
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Aston Villa, and 4 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A day to forget for Toluwalase Arokodare
Marked 3.88, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Match23 Oct 2027
Honours even between Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Ollie Watkins never got going
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Brian Madjo’s exile
- Market Aston Villa put Heitor up for sale