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Agreed the atmosphere has been amazing at the German games I've been to and reasonably priced.

As leagues go, the difference is money. The Germans refuse to allow foreign money to take over. As a result, they pay less in wages and so attract a lower-quality foreigner, on average, whilst losing many of their highest-quality local players...

The technical standard is very high in the Bundesliga. The locals are technically very good, so the baseline is high. The problem is Germans have collectively forgotten how to defend. The national team has plenty of "footballers" - the problem is...

Bundesliga is a very high standard league . As I’m sure you are aware.

Jack FM sounds interesting. Speciality channel?

Seriously, though, they need to get on with that.

I doubt it. That future fee will be up for negotiation when the time comes. I think it's more that Villa didn't have the money at that time and that Grealish wanted to stay local. They had to wait until the very end of the window to see what they...

One thing I will say is that along with improving squad depth and quality - which we have - we have avoided a lot of those hostage-to-fortune deals that the likes of Villa have now indulged in. Martinez is dropped, now has to stay, they miss out...

Aston Villa fans will be wondering how they can afford 80% of Jadon Sancho's salary and still miss out on Jack Grealish... Kudos to the Friedkins on this one.

With the window closed, I look forward to daily updates on roof screeding progress...

I'll come back to this when Jake gets a knock and Patterson loses his man every week.

With two thirds thinking 8 or better, no excuses for the manager this season...

Went with a 7 just because imo think we missed out on signings that we needed. The way the PL is going, we will lose games not because of quality, just because teams have more pace than us and will over run us in the middle and wing bank flanks...

Yeah, full marks for beginning the overhaul (albeit slowly), but I share your concern over Dibling, in particular, and Barry, to a lesser extent. Of course, one or both of these signings could be masterstrokes, but for now they have it all to...

He's a strong, versatile midfielder who will give us a bit of presence. I haven't seen loads of him, but when I heard we were in for him I was pleased. He's a German U-21 international and played at most of their underage levels, so straight away...