With the 3rd edition of the Youth Cup kicking off today, bigger and better than before. Group C administrator and manager of Aston Villa, Rahul W has a look at his group and provides a preview into the 5 sides looking to fight it out for the top 3 spots in a race for qualification…

I had been off to the Andamans in the last week with no wi-fi, sadly when I checked back I saw I had lost to Hamburg with my rotation side and drawn to Bordeaux with the same side. Disappointing but hopefully my holiday will not have a great impact on our promotion hopes. On to…

After yesterday’s report, we have a smaller report on the transfer activity here at Villa. But before that, there was a Youth Cup game v Leverkusen yesterday. As I had said, we didn’t have much hope. And in the 10th minute, we conceded, threw Julian Brandt converting from a Calhanoglu free-kick. 1-0 to them. However…

Since 20th February (the time of my last post), I’ve been really busy and have had no time to post again. A lot has happened since them in Top 100, so let me try and cover everything Villa over the last month. Here goes…. So I over-estimated the abilities of my boys against Madrid. We…

After the success at Sassuolo, the lads were looking forward to a few days of rest ahead of the Basel side, but no, that was not the plan as the manager Rahul W decided to invite his friend Andre Villas-Boas to Argentina for his Boca side to play Villa in a friendly. There was muted…

The Maracana had an expected low turn-out for the first round of the Youth Cup but that did not deter both teams from giving it their all. As noted earlier, Flamengo would prove to be a tricky side. However it was Villa who started off strongly, and Ryan Fraser poked the ball in from a…

It has not been a very good week for us. We were dumped out of the Cup in the first round itself, losing to a Feyenoord side which was weaker than us. Very disappointing show, 13 shots on target and none on target is not very impressive. Eder, Wickham and Waris did nothing to show…

Was not expecting to be posting again a day after my weekly report, but here I am. Rumours were linking us with young Derlis Gonzalez yesterday, and while Rahul W did not distance himself, he is now pleased to announce the signing. He is expected to be travelling today to Villa Park where he will…

A draw and 2 wins in the last 3 games has created a real buzz around the Villa training ground. A 2-2 draw away to Leicester was a decent result, with Veretout scoring a brace while playing as a No. 10. We went back to home on Thursday, where we faced another English side, this…