Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[brian green]

Charles N'Zogbia is a tick.

[Eckybloke]

I saw last night on Twitter that whispers_avfc account was saying no bids for Gana.

Has that account been discredited or was some of the stuff coming out of it fairly true?

[Duncan Shaw]

Richards has a £5m release clause...tick

Is that for real? 
If we could get that for him it would be steal of the century - still got gut feel Sunderland will be in for him and if they got in a bidding war with say Stoke, we could drive the price up above the release fee!
I suspect he won't be happy that RDM played him right back in the first training match either!

[Richard E]

Richards has a £5m release clause...tick

Is that for real? 
If we could get that for him it would be steal of the century - still got gut feel Sunderland will be in for him and if they got in a bidding war with say Stoke, we could drive the price up above the release fee!
I suspect he won't be happy that RDM played him right back in the first training match either!

Let's not go there again!!!

[mr underhill]

exactly - if £5m is the fee why would some one then go and double it! Please no more!!!

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That Whispers accounts is garbage.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I read this morning that he has a clause and Sunderland were interested, Too good to be true

[chrisf]

Richards has a £5m release clause...tick

On behalf of Aston Villa FC, I'd like to make it clear that it's not necessary for interested clubs to meet the quoted 'release clause' or indeed to get anywhere fucking near it for the purchase of Micah Richards.

[Sexual Ealing]

Hopefully someone else meets Gana's clause fee and triggers a bidding war

If they do - then the bidding war will be about his wages and not the fee to us.

Though it doesn't look popular on here, I would say he was one of the better performers is a very poor team. Our defense lacked organisation and we had no goal threat - neither down to Gana as his job was to break up play and move the ball on quickly to someone else - I think he managed that more often than anyone else asked to do that job.

Yeah, but why wouldn't we try to get a higher fee for him. That's what bidding wars are about.  Bring on the bidding war, say I.

Because anyone can bid 7.1 million and buy him. A penny more than his release fee would be a waste of money to the buying club!

Gana was decent last season, and will do well in a better side next season wherever he goes. With Gardner, Tshibola, Lyden, possibly Stan, Veretout, etc we still have cover there. Westwood may well go too, at which point I think another centre mid would be needed.

Yes, yes, but what if someone came in with £10m? We'd be fools to turn money like that down.

I think we should hold fire.

Exactly. As soon as we have more than one interested party we just keep doubling the fee, clause or no clause. We should then swap him for eight of the other team's players rather than asking for cash.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

Hopefully someone else meets Gana's clause fee and triggers a bidding war

If they do - then the bidding war will be about his wages and not the fee to us.

Though it doesn't look popular on here, I would say he was one of the better performers is a very poor team. Our defense lacked organisation and we had no goal threat - neither down to Gana as his job was to break up play and move the ball on quickly to someone else - I think he managed that more often than anyone else asked to do that job.

Yeah, but why wouldn't we try to get a higher fee for him. That's what bidding wars are about. Bring on the bidding war, say I.

It has to to be established in the media that a club has a war chest before they can even contemplate entering a bidding war.  Once it is confirmed in a tabloid that a manager of a club has been given a war chest, they can then engage in a bidding war. 

As I understand it, once a release clause is triggered then the selling club lose control. The player and their agent then decide where they go and clubs competing to buy the player bid on wages, length of deal and other features.

If Gana has a £7.1m release clause then there could be a dozen clubs in for him and it will not matter, we will not get more than £7.1m and we do not decide where he goes.

And we cannot decide to trade for players rather than cash unless the buying club and player being sold agree, i.e. we control no part of the deal.

[eamonn]

That Whispers accounts is garbage.

Harsh, he has an aura of mystery unheard of in today's world where lives are played out online.

[paul_e]

How is it that after a year and about 15 separate uses of the 'bidding war' joke people still don't get that it's a joke?

[Duncan Shaw]

How is it that after a year and about 15 separate uses of the 'bidding war' joke people still don't get that it's a joke?

I don't know, it's quite good sport though!

By the way, any idea why Barry didn...........OK won't go there!

[mr underhill]

no, let's !!!

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Barry had been knobbled by Fabregas and was off receiving treatment at the time.

Andrew Greaves never played for Villa.

The release clause can be met by any number of clubs.

I am not mega lulz.