Another seven days when nothing happened.
The week starts with no news about Emiliano Buendia, which means that he didn’t get assaulted too badly against Burnley. The culprit apologised and said he’d try harder next time.
As if to compensate for some reasonably good news, Youri Tielemans has had a setback and he’ll be out for another five weeks.
The ticket criteria for Go Ahead Eagles away is published. By the time anyone understands it they’ll all be gone anyway.
Royal Antwerp director of football Marc Overmars clears up an end of the transfer window mystery: “We had a deal with Aston Villa, but Emi Martínez still had to leave, and Senne Lammens didn’t want to go there. Only then did Manchester United make their first offer. Lower than Aston Villa. Four hours later, we finally reached an agreement.” Can we move on now, please?
The Fan Advisory Plan, whatever that is, has been published. Basically, they’ll still do what they want but now they’ll say they told someone first.
Evann Guessand scores for the Ivory Coast in their crunch match against the Seychelles. They won seven-nil.
England v Wales and three Villa players starting, for the first time in many a long while. Two of them score, one gets an assist and one gets injured. Just another ordinary day. Amadou Onana also gets a run-out for Belgium.
Ollie’s injury isn’t that serious, which would normally be good news. This is the Villa, don’t forget. And the Post-International Aston Villa Random Transfer Story Generator draws out “Morgan Rogers” “Spurs” and “£70 million”.
Well done to Wythenshawe, 7-1 victors over AFC Monton in the Cheshire Vets League. And congratulations to their goalscorers, Stephen Ireland (4) and Joleon Lescott (3), who seem to have found their level.
In a similar vein Donyell Malen gets a goal for the Netherlands against Finland, although only the one so he’s clearly not as good as Lescott. It’s been a decent international break so far; even Scotland have won twice.
