Jordan Amavi - gone again

[pauliewalnuts]

I like Amavi, but if anyone offers us 25m, we should be biting their arm off, and then starting to hack away at the rest of their body too

[brontebilly]

Something I'll never get is grown men going round to friends houses to play computer games.

Still, Amavi is starting to look a good player again. It's amazing what happens when you give a full-back some help with a player playing in front of them. Even Hutton looks a decent player!

Hutton is dog awful as a footballer

Amavi should be burning up this division really to be considered anywhere near Liverpool's level

[KevinGage]

All depends on how deep the Doc's pockets are.

On the one hand, £25 million sounds frightful. But then you see the likes of Bolasie move to a mid table club for £30 million. The rule of law has broken down when it comes to top flight clubs in England.

If £25 million is small darts to Xia in the grand scheme of things, then no point jettisoning one of the few players we wouldn't need to upgrade as soon as we get back.

I'm, not sure how happy Amavi himself is with the decision, mind.  He's prob too young for China, so if it is a big offer that has come from a team there, he'll get over it. If he's had a potential move blocked to a side like Liverpool or Man Citeh, that's a different story.

[dcdavecollett]

Good to see he's got over his injury -he took a few cracks yesterday, just sprang back up and got on with it.

[Villafirst]

It's difficult but you simply have to keep your best players at all costs.

[KRS]

SSN reported that the £25m bid may have come from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'.

[villadelph]

I like Amavi, but if anyone offers us 25m, we should be biting their arm off, and then starting to hack away at the rest of their body too

The only thing to consider is it will be hard to spend that 25m on players willing to join a Championship club, and be able to contribute after we are (hopefully) promoted in a year or two. In two years, given the inflation of player value, 25m might come off worse than Delph's 8m.

[Villafirst]

Dr Tony should put a £50M price on Amavi's head! Villa don't need to sell to buy. We're out of the Lerner mad era!

[Chris Smith]

I like Amavi, but if anyone offers us 25m, we should be biting their arm off, and then starting to hack away at the rest of their body too

I disagree, it sends a message that we are not going to sell players unless it suits us and is consistent with what he said after clubs triggered release clauses in the summer.

[JUAN PABLO]

SSN reported that the £25m bid may have come from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'.

you would think they would learn buying off us after Downing and Benteke

[Steve67]

25 mill is a great price for him. That said, he can get even better and I'd like to see him play for Villa, in the Premiership,  and France.

[olaftab]

I like Amavi, but if anyone offers us 25m, we should be biting their arm off, and then starting to hack away at the rest of their body too

I disagree, it sends a message that we are not going to sell players unless it suits us and is consistent with what he said after clubs triggered release clauses in the summer.

Agreed. It's about time we broke the chain and sent out a strong message to other clubs and our contracted footballers.

[pauliewalnuts]

I like Amavi, but if anyone offers us 25m, we should be biting their arm off, and then starting to hack away at the rest of their body too

I disagree, it sends a message that we are not going to sell players unless it suits us and is consistent with what he said after clubs triggered release clauses in the summer.

That's my argument, though - it should suit us if that really is the amount under discussion.

Like I said, I like Amavi, but 25m would be utterly insane.

[SoccerHQ]

Keep until end of season regardless.

We have much more chance of being promoted with Amavi playing than flipping Cissokho and given our record of LBs since Bouma I don't trust we'd go out and get a decent one or if we did they'd probably suffer a season ending injury ten minutes into their debut.

Keep and see where the land lies in the summer.

[PaulWinch again]

I wouldn't sell if we don't need to.