I wonder if they are waiting to see how the first few weeks of pre-season go before making decisions on the next priorities
I wonder how hard it is to shift some of them like El Ghazi whose stock must have plummeted since his loan move to Everton.
Quote from: eamonn on July 04, 2022, 09:58:02 AMI wonder how hard it is to shift some of them like El Ghazi whose stock must have plummeted since his loan move to Everton. I feel sorry for him.He's annoyingly inconsistent, mostly because you see glimpses of what he is capable of.He is a decent player, though, and scored some important goals for us in his time here.He got royally fucked around by Everton, I hope he gets a decent move.
El Ghazi is a bottom half of the premier league player who will get offers and I don't think his wages will be pricing him out of a move (and more broadly I disagree with almost everything sid put in that post, it was true a few years back but doesn't reflect how we've operated under NSWE).What is going against him, and a lot of other players in similar circumstances, is that the premier league in general has inflated wages far faster than any other league. That means the pool of clubs willing to take average players from here is getting smaller every year unless the players take a big pay cut or clubs wipe out the transfer fees or sub the wages. It's not a Villa thing, it's an English football thing (because a lot of the championship clubs are struggling in the same way). Without that I think he'd do well in German football and would be a top signing for one of the bigger dutch clubs.