Ollie Bindley

Central Midfielder - Aston Villa U18
14 Mar 2027
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Marked for Ollie Bindley

31 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

The scrutiny sharpens at Aston Villa

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Aston Villa is running low.

Market1 Mar 2027

Ollie Bindley puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aston Villa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 Mar 2027

Only the photograph left for João Gomes

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. João Gomes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aston Villa the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market1 Mar 2027

Lucas Ocampos raises the bar for Aston Villa

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Aston Villa heard it as anything else.

Match27 Feb 2027

8 unbeaten for Aston Villa

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Aston Villa did not have in the autumn.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Lucas Ocampos 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.

Squad1 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Aston Villa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amadou Onana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces1 Mar 2027

Aston Villa supporters have found a favourite in Alejandro Garnacho

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Alejandro Garnacho has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Markie Meade

“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.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 Feb 2027

Zion Suzuki keeps Aston Villa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Tammy Abraham takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Pressure builds in the Aston Villa boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match30 Jan 2027

Tammy Abraham drives the Aston Villa comeback

2 behind and going nowhere, until Tammy Abraham decided otherwise. Fulham had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

A brace, and Nicolas Jackson takes the afternoon — 9.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nicolas Jackson provided it, and the 9.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market1 Feb 2027

Sol Brynn arrives at Aston Villa in a $7.6M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Aston Villa have paid $7.6M for Sol Brynn, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market1 Feb 2027

Ollie Bindley asks to leave Aston Villa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets1 Feb 2027

Aston Villa baulk at the price for Tyrese Campbell

Sheffield United wanted more than $8.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Window shuts: 4 in, 5 out at Aston Villa

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

In brief

23 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Aston Villa baulk at the price for Dejan Kulusevski

Tottenham wanted more than $33.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Aston Villa bid $16.6M for Jacques Ekomié

The offer went to Wrexham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Burnley tell Aston Villa: Mike Trésor is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom4 Jan 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Aston Villa

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market4 Jan 2027

Aston Villa say no — this time

The offer from Mansfield Town for Brian Madjo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Aston Villa

Boubacar Kamara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market4 Jan 2027

Eyes on Matteo Ruggeri again

The phone has started ringing about Matteo Ruggeri again, and this time the name on the line is Bristol City. Aston Villa are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match2 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Aston Villa against Tottenham

0‑2 to Tottenham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Vinnie Hayward

“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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

Zion Suzuki 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Aston Villa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Ocampos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market26 Oct 2026

Matteo Ruggeri has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Aston Villa can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Ollie Bindley signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ollie Bindley commits to Aston Villa for another 4 years.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Aston Villa

17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Paulo Moreira 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Harry James on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Harry James after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Tyrone Mings

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Alejandro Garnacho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief