Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[paul_e]

Apparently Monaco want 25m euros for ^^^^ him.

Central defender.

If we bid that for him I'm gonna start wondering if we've been nearly taken over by people who don't want to be negotiating from a position of 'look at all our fucking money'.

Yes, I think you're right. I too will start wondering the same.

I've been thinking along those lines most of the summer

[OCD]

There seems to be something to the Traore deal but there's not much solid about us willing to pay £20m+ for a defender other than one piece of speculation. If we were about to making major, major signings like that and a takeover was announced after the window closed, I don't think anyone would be able to deny that the club had played a blinder. A lot of 'if's' though.

[pauliewalnuts]

Apparently Monaco want 25m euros for ^^^^ him.

Central defender.

If we bid that for him I'm gonna start wondering if we've been nearly taken over by people who don't want to be negotiating from a position of 'look at all our fucking money'.

Yes, I think you're right. I too will start wondering the same.

I've been thinking along those lines most of the summer

I'm absolutely convinced that pretty much the first we'll know about a takeover will be more or less when it goes through.

[Toronto Villa]

From TBAR?

[Dante Lavelli]

To date everyone we have signed were obtainable quality-wise and affordable.  I'd love it to be true, equally I'd like this decision making to be coming from within and that Fox and the like actually have set up a decent structure.

To be fair it is win v win for us.

[Percy McCarthy]

It did cross my mind briefly a while back around the time when Sherwood said any takeover was dead.

It seemed odd that a football manager would be out there declaring something so definitively about the business side of the club. Yet it was taken at face value and everyone ran with it. And maybe it is and club felt comfortable with Sherwood being the communicator of that information, but it could very well have been to allow the club to do its transfer business without distraction which they appear to have done very well.

Add that to 'we need to move some players on before we sign any more'. That was bollocks. Also, when did he say we'll only be buying English players from now on'?

If only danlanza wasn't banned.

[OCD]

It did cross my mind briefly a while back around the time when Sherwood said any takeover was dead.

It seemed odd that a football manager would be out there declaring something so definitively about the business side of the club. Yet it was taken at face value and everyone ran with it. And maybe it is and club felt comfortable with Sherwood being the communicator of that information, but it could very well have been to allow the club to do its transfer business without distraction which they appear to have done very well.

Add that to 'we need to move some players on before we sign any more'. That was bollocks. Also, when did he say we'll only be buying English players from now on'?

If only danlanza wasn't banned.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/any-further-aston-villa-additions-9821064

Might be mis-direction, the point about the value you get from abroad compared to the cost of domestic players might be too difficult to ignore.

[manic-road]

From TBAR?

I'm sure Badmin will have the news first.

[brontebilly]

Crazy money, but he's a brilliant defender, absolutely superb. Monaco's best player last season, in my opinion.

He is one of the best central defenders in Europe, afraid I have to call bullsh*t on this one 

[ozzjim]

In fairness we are about even at the moment, and Lerner has given new managers around 20m net in their first summers at the club apart from McLeish but he got huge wages approved for Given and NZogbia.

If Traore came and we paid around 15m for this defender (which we won't I know) and loaned Adebayor, we would be about where we normally are in terms of net spend, so it may just be a more innovative and modern thinking scouting and player recruitment strategy coming into play.

[villadelph]

In fairness we are about even at the moment, and Lerner has given new managers around 20m net in their first summers at the club apart from McLeish but he got huge wages approved for Given and NZogbia.

If Traore came and we paid around 15m for this defender (which we won't I know) and loaned Adebayor, we would be about where we normally are in terms of net spend, so it may just be a more innovative and modern thinking scouting and player recruitment strategy coming into play.

Does not compute. 

[ROBBO]

Apparently Monaco want 25m euros for ^^^^ him.

Central defender.

If we bid that for him I'm gonna start wondering if we've been nearly taken over by people who don't want to be negotiating from a position of 'look at all our fucking money'.

Yes, I think you're right. I too will start wondering the same.

If this happens am i allowed to gloat?

[Percy McCarthy]

Apparently Monaco want 25m euros for ^^^^ him.

Central defender.

If we bid that for him I'm gonna start wondering if we've been nearly taken over by people who don't want to be negotiating from a position of 'look at all our fucking money'.

Yes, I think you're right. I too will start wondering the same.

If this happens am i allowed to gloat?

Gloat on.

[ozzjim]

Anyone think we might make a couple of cheeky loan offers in the last week of the window? We still have them up our sleeve, and by then players not in first teams will be restless to get out.

[Dante Lavelli]

Anyone think we might make a couple of cheeky loan offers in the last week of the window? We still have them up our sleeve, and by then players not in first teams will be restless to get out.

I hope so, but no idea who.  Chelsea potentially have a few players available I suspect.
Another benefit of any Barca/Traore deal would be to build a relationship with barca.  Having the choice of their promising youngsters would be ideal.