Conan Doherty

But around 30 was always Villa's record signing.

And that was only in recent years.

And he came, but like very soon after, Jack Grealish left.

And then Buendia said, can I take the number 10 jersey?

And immediately he went, oh yeah, I like a bit of this.

And he does, he backs himself.

And again, when he's good, he's silky, he does these little pirouettes, he does Cruyff turns for fun.

I remember him and Danny Ng struck up a good partnership, you know, he'd always feed him through.

He's often creating chances, but then he's frustrating.

Almost to a fault, he tries too hard, he's too small, he's lightweight, you'll see him often when things are going bad, he's running his little heart out, but he's bouncing off players or he's committing fouls.

It's like the only way to make a challenge is dragging somebody down to the ground and

You know, he'd get knocked off the ball himself too easily.

Again, like we'll talk to Guillaume about, I think Emery was sort of thinking, okay, we need to upgrade on him now.

He's sort of done.

He's reached his level.

They sent him out to Bayer Leverkusen last year.

He didn't start for them.

And then only because out of necessity for that.

I still have him around I end up using him the same way like Leon Bailey is another example they were sort of done with him had he bring him back from loan because you just don't have enough players enough bodies these boys who like Buendia is an exception because Bailey we didn't really get a lift out of him when he came back but

But Buendia, over the last few weeks, really has just taken history by the scruff of the neck.