Summer transfer madness thread

[mr underhill]

Amavi to Liverpool on loan ? WTF?? He's not good enough for us!

[SoccerHQ]

Liverpool are signing Robertson from Hull for 8m who's a left back.

[cdbearsfan]

Considering some of the prices being paid, £8 million for Robertson seems fairly reasonable.

[brontebilly]

I like what little I have seen of Samba, hope we sign him. How long is Richards contract? Think we are stuck with him until it expires.

Until summer 2019.

What moron gave him that long a contract? Guess that's one of the ones Tony was tweeting about then.

Dim Tim and Tom Fox, football manager dream team

McCormack may be a good footballer, debatable as has only shined at second tier clubs going nowhere, but is a diabolical professional. In saying that, he is better suited to a partnership with Kodjia than Hogan. Playing him on the right or up top by himself as Bruce did on occasion is not going to work.

[Matt Collins]

Hogan is quite a distinctive forward - small, not that strong but a 6 yard box player who's quite mobile

Bruce must have had a plan for him to shell out that much money. But I can't work out what it is at the moment

[ozzjim]

Stick him up with a big man is my guess.

[paul_e]

Stick him up with a big man is my guess.

They why sell Gestede to pay for him?

[Dave]

Stick him up with a big man is my guess.

Based on the end of last season "mistake him for a big man and launch sixty yard punts in his general direction" was the vibe I got.

[LeeB]

Stick him up with a big man is my guess.

They why sell Gestede to pay for him?

Because he was fucking rubbish?

[cdbearsfan]

Since when has that prevented someone playing for Villa?

[brontebilly]

Hogan is quite a distinctive forward - small, not that strong but a 6 yard box player who's quite mobile

Bruce must have had a plan for him to shell out that much money. But I can't work out what it is at the moment

There has been no evidence of a strategy or plan behind any of Bruce's signings thus far. A cursory look at the goals or assists table in January seemed to be what prompted the signing of Hourihane, Lansbury and Hogan.

[ozzjim]

Hogan either needs to play up with Grealish in behind as a front 2 a la Cole and Beardsley (I know I am stretching a long way there) or we need to sign a Crouch type that can indeed take those 60 yard punts and allow the team time to get forward in support. Alternatively play 4 3 3 and play Kodjia and Green out wide and Hogan central, but don't fucking lump it. And if we do play that - which actually we probably should as it suits our personnel better than most other formations, stop messing about and buy some more pace for those wide areas for when we need it. Gabby Kodjia and Hogan can all play the 1. Only Kodjia and Green can play the wide men really. We are desperately short out wide.

[OCD]

Adomah can't play the wide role? I didn't see enough of Bjarnason to see if he can too.

[ozzjim]

Bjarnason isn't suited to it. Forgot Adomah existed.  He's not very quick  though.

[tomd2103]

Bjarnason isn't suited to it. Forgot Adomah existed.  He's not very quick  though.

Bruce doesn't seem to mind small details like that.  He played Lansbury and Hourihane out wide a few times last season.