Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[eamonn]

I thought people on here were saying that Leeds are brassick.

Douglas would have been a great buy for us.

[Ads]

He had that good loan spell at Boro scoring 19 goals, the last was 14th April 2015. His next goal was 35 games later on the 13th May 2017. Then it was a run of 3 in 29 games (2 were against our reserves in the LC), scored 9 in 7 and then finished the season 1 in 8.

Gabby Bamfahor

[Tuscans]

Ben Woodburn on loan from Liverpool is doing the rounds. Watched him for Wales, good little player.

[cdbearsfan]

He's very highly rated. I'd be happy to give him a try, if we don't, and he scores twenty goals for some other Championship team, we'll be pretty pissed off.

[paul_e]

He's very highly rated. I'd be happy to give him a try, if we don't, and he scores twenty goals for some other Championship team, we'll be pretty pissed off.

If i were RHM i'd be pretty pissed off at scoring a goal a game for half a season in the U23s, getting a handful of minutes for the first, and then being replaced in the squad by a loanee.

[Richard]

He's a winger so not in RHMs position plus when will the latter actually be fit anyway ?

[Tuscans]

RHM can't stay fit for more than a fortnight but I think Woodburn plays more in the area Jack plays so read into that what you will.

[paul_e]

I've never heard of him, I just went with someone calling him a striker a few posts earlier.  If he plays wing or attacking mid I think the same applies but sub in O'Hare or Corey Taylor (or maybe even Green but I suspect he's cemented himself into the squad the last few days).

If we going to sign promising youngsters it needs to be in positions where we have no real options ourselves, left back for example would make perfect sense.  We saw with Onomah last year that Premier league U23s are just as inconsistent as our own would be so we need to be very careful that we're not putting barriers in front of our own players by signing players that may not bring anything more to the squad.

RHM does have injury issues, but when he was fit and bang in form Bruce ignored him in favour of giving Hogan more chances to stand around doing nothing so the point still stands that signing players ahead of him is just going to see him walk away at the end of his contract having never really had a chance.

[kippaxvilla2]

John Percy.  I didn’t even know we had been under an embargo.

Aston Villa want Ben Woodburn on loan from Liverpool as transfer embargo is lifted

John Percy
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Ben Woodburn has impressed for Liverpool Credit: Getty Images
Steve Bruce has launched a bid to sign Liverpool’s Ben Woodburn on loan, with the Wales international set to be withdrawn from Jurgen Klopp’s training camp in France.

Aston Villa are in talks with Liverpool over a deal to take Woodburn for the season after a transfer embargo on the Midlands club was lifted.

Telegraph Sport can reveal that Villa had been operating under an embargo imposed by the Football League amid their cash crisis under former chairman Dr Tony Xia.

But new Villa owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens have since provided the EFL with assurances over future funding and the Championship club are now free to make new signings this week.

Villa have made contact with Liverpool over a loan deal for Woodburn, the 18-year-old attacker, and are understood to be the favourites to sign him.

Liverpool fly out to a training camp in Evian on Monday but Woodburn is not travelling with the squad and his future will be decided before the weekend.

Klopp is a huge fan of the teenager - who signed a long-term contract last year - but believes his career would benefit from a loan spell in the Championship.

Sheffield United and Wigan have also asked about taking Woodburn on loan but Villa are now believed to be in the box seat.

Woodburn became the third youngest Liverpool debutant in the club’s history when he appeared against Sunderland in November 2016.

The future of Villa attacker Jack Grealish is still uncertain, with Tottenham Hotspur interested in signing him before the transfer window closes.

Grealish is keen to link up with Mauricio Pochettino as he wants to play Champions League football and earn a call-up into the senior England squad.

Spurs are yet to bid in this window and their hopes of signing the 22-year-old for £20m now appear remote after the recent £30m investment deal.

[footyskillz]

Ben Woodburn on loan from Liverpool is doing the rounds. Watched him for Wales, good little player.

Great exciting prospect and known as prince of Wales ! Definitely a positive move all round.

Would like to think he has greater impact than onomah and I not sure where that puts the snoddy deal but would take woodburn for his attacking abilities

[footyskillz]

RHM can't stay fit for more than a fortnight but I think Woodburn plays more in the area Jack plays so read into that what you will.

Can play wide too however I'm reading that he's coming into to add to squad like had snoddy and onomah who came last season . Let's read that like that . As they both could play Grealish position right?

 Grealish not going anywhere now as officially reported .

And it's encouraging to have more signing come in lest we forget we lost a few loan players in summer

[Mister E]

Ben Woodburn on loan from Liverpool is doing the rounds. Watched him for Wales, good little player.

Great exciting prospect and known as prince of Wales ! Definitely a positive move all round.

Would like to think he has greater impact than onomah and I not sure where that puts the snoddy deal but would take woodburn for his attacking abilities

Why would we want an 18 loanee striker? - I thought we had plenty of young and older strikers in the squad.

[cdbearsfan]

He's very highly rated. I'd be happy to give him a try, if we don't, and he scores twenty goals for some other Championship team, we'll be pretty pissed off.

If i were RHM i'd be pretty pissed off at scoring a goal a game for half a season in the U23s, getting a handful of minutes for the first, and then being replaced in the squad by a loanee.

Sadly, we can't rely on RHM as he hasn't gone three weeks without getting injured since Blair was in power.

[Mister E]

He's very highly rated. I'd be happy to give him a try, if we don't, and he scores twenty goals for some other Championship team, we'll be pretty pissed off.

If i were RHM i'd be pretty pissed off at scoring a goal a game for half a season in the U23s, getting a handful of minutes for the first, and then being replaced in the squad by a loanee.

Sadly, we can't rely on RHM as he hasn't gone three weeks without getting injured since Blair was in power.

Blair hasn’t been in power since 2008 when RHM would have been 11-ish

[Richard E]

2007