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Hello, welcome back to 1874 in the wild with myself, Dan Bardell,

and the Athletics Aston Villa correspondent Jacob Tanzwa.

Now, depending on which order these videos come out,

either tomorrow there'll be a Q&A that Jacob and I have done,

where Jacob has answered the bulk of the questions, to be honest,

and great questions came in from Twitter, so we've done that.

So that'll either be out already or will be out after this video.

But for now, we're going to cover Doniel Marlin, aren't we, Jack?

If you had an article come out this morning, this morning is Friday.

Is it Friday today?

It is Friday today.

Yeah, Danielle Marlin, You've done an article on the

athletic covering him and obviously off the back of what happened at the weekend against Burnler. Yeah, and I think he's a curious case, isn't he? Not only in how his Villarquare's unfolded so far, but also, what is he? Because he's not a winger. He's not a traditional number nine. So what, it's not 10 because he doesn't get involved in build up so what is he so and that's why i found

bernley very interesting. Obviously he played as like a second striker like you referenced before, Mr. DiRB. And it's just basically talking about him, but also recruitment. So Villa Wighton had for three windows. They did presentations to him, to his representatives, didn't, didn't go through the piece why it didn't happen in those two windows. And then the third time it does happen. By this time, he changed agents because he was so desperate to come back to the Premier League to prove himself. And then since then, Villa haven't really quite worked out what he is. But gradually now, they're starting to work out what what he is. But also I think it helps as well, and people have mentioned this to me,

that the Premier League starting to become more direct.

Yeah, it's challenged.

You're playing quicker into your nine.

You're not necessarily just playing with one nine.

You play with one off him a lot of the time.

So that suits Marlon as well.

And it's also integration off the pitch was difficult for him.

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