Rahul, are you seriously thinking that Villa could­ attract top class talent anyway like Ribery or David­ Villa? Top class players want to play at the top class­ level (i.e. what Barry wants). That means Champions­ League. There is no point chasing around those players­ as a) we wouldn't pay them what they wanted and b)­ they wouldn't join us anyway. We need solid­ international players, world class like Ribery, Villa,­ Ronaldo etc.. may well come one day, but we need­ Champions League football and silverware over a number­ of seasons. You can't just instantly become a top­ European club, you need to work at it and earn the­ standard over a run of seasons.

As for blaming Heskey­ for the bad run - ridiculous. We went on a bad run­ mainly because we lost Laursen and then had a bad run­ of form which we just couldn't snap out of. Bad­ form and bad luck - getting Hiddic's first game in­ charge at Chelsea for example, had we played them the­ week prior, we'd probably have won.

Some of those­ games Heskey didn't even play in - how are they his­ fault - because he was on the Bus?

At least have some­ sense behind your arguments, not just apparent haterid­ of the player because he used to play for the­ Blues.

MON is probably the best manager we have had in­ decades, but even with a superb manager it appears some­ fans just are too impatient to appreciate that it takes­ time to build up a quality squad and go after the top­ 4. It may well take a couple more years. We need to­ hang onto the talent we've got and get increase the­ squad size with quality over quantity.

Yes the­ collapse in form was very disappointing and the problem­ is when you get on runs like that you either need­ quality to get you out of it or some good luck. Sadly I­ think we used up all our good luck early in the­ season!

We do need to improve next year and that means­ winning something, even if its the League Cup!

steve, been a frustrated villa fan for over 40yrs, even­ other people in the media are saying that villa need­ 5-6 new players, heskey will never settle like petrov,­ maybe its a coincedence that villa's season went­ dowhill after heskey joined, his 1st game was­ portsmouth, then we won nothing till the newcastle­ game, MON cant handle big players, do u about him­ talking about world class players like the top 4? do u­ see villa connected to david villa or ribbery, actually­ world class players like barry want to leave like­ mellberg did, so i guess you happy staying a mid table­ team for another decade or so, watch MON will sign just­ bodies but not world class talent.

'He Can't handle them'. Wtf are you on? Are­ you even a Villa fan?

Heskey, will need time to see­ how he settles into the team (Petrov took 12-18 months­ to do so). Mellberg wanted to leave, there wasn't­ much we could do to stop that, he had afterall been­ with Villa for a number of years & got an offer­ from AC Milan, can't say I blame him in wanting a­ change!

Barry is another story and hopefully he will­ stay.

But as for saying MON can't handle them,­ never heard anything so stupid in my life. Ah yes I­ have - you describing Frediel as @#$&. Just goes to­ show what you know.

can o neill sign big names and big players? he cant as­ he cant handle them, so we ll spend a whole lot of­ money on no- bodys like heskey, and let world class­ players like barry and mellberg leave, villa need six­ replacements for @#$% like freidal, davis, shorey, reo­ coker, gardner to name a few, then we need another six­ make the squad bigger so when players like­ albonganor(watever) have lazy days they can be­ replaced.

Yup, sadly Curtis, you may be one of the guys who finds­ themselves having to fight for your place a bit more!­ We need a couple of international quality central­ defenders to make up for the loss of Laursen.