Losing Delph will be quite a blow for the Villans, who are left with Carlos Sanchez, Ashley Westwood and Idrissa Gueye in central midfield.
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I’m not sure Tim Sherwood is the right man to mould a bunch of Ligue 1 players into a solid Premier League outfit and he’s gambled up front in a bid to improve what was a paltry tally last season.
Ayew – along with fellow newcomer Rudy Gestede – will be tasked with providing goals in Benteke’s absence, and Sherwood is confident the Ghanaian can deliver.
“The publicity and the coverage of the Premier League these days is remarkable and to be a part of that is a real privilege”.
In his short time at Tottenham he looked clueless on occasions and tactically he could be out of his depth in this league. Harry Redknapp, at QPR, is the only manager with previous top-level experience to have coached a one-and-done newly promoted team in recent years.
The only other meeting between the teams was in the FA Cup last season where Villa finished 2-1 winners. It may seem a low bar to set – even 60 does not sound great – but every season there is at least one team, and often two or three, so miserable at the back that everything else is virtually irrelevant. But he claimed he did not for a moment worry about plying his trade with an operation on a much smaller scale than some of those he has graced. At 3/1 they’re a perfectly fair bet to go down.
Only 14 players have made more Premier League appearances than Bournemouth new boy Sylvain Distin (457).
Manager, Eddie Howe, recently stated that this was the “best Bournemouth side he had ever seen”, and his team kick off their campaign with no major injury worries.
Tomlin tweeted: “And for everyone thinking I walked out or wanted to leave is not true I was told I was not wanted and could leave”.
Alex Neil, who becomes the Premier League’s youngest manager at 34, led Norwich to promotion following his arrival from Scottish side Hamilton Academical at the start of the year.
“It was six or eight years ago and I can not predict the future, but it is fantastic, incredible”, he said of Bournemouth’s upward mobility.
Bournemouth took the Championship by storm last season, going undefeated in their final 13 games to finish champions by a point over Watford.
For Aston Villa, the club must get off to a better start in 2015-16 if they want to avoid another relegation scrap at season’s end.
That research showed him that Barnsley, Blackpool and Swindon Town, all relegated after one season, reached the Premier League playing an attacking style that was brutally exposed against higher quality rivals. “We’ve signed a lot of new players, and lost some very important players to our team”.
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“They were on the verge of folding and look at them now”, added Blissett. He transformed the Black Cats’ fortunes last season and he knows plenty about new £8million forward Jeremain Lens, while the signings of Sebastian Coates and Younes Kaboul at the back look solid enough. Their last meetings in league play came back in 1987-88 in the second division.
