Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[eamonn]

Anyone know how long left Woods has left on his contract?  If it's only one year £3m sounds plausible but unless he's been agitating for a move I don't know why Brentford would sell him.

[Steve67]

Alan Nixon has us linked with Powell or Wigan and Hugill of West Ham.  Interesting links. 

[VILLA MOLE]

Alan Nixon says it's Jordan hugill

Underwhelming for me

Plus more interest in nick Powell (probably as a grealish replacement)

I have not seen Hugil is not very good ?

[Steve67]

Hugill is a lump of a player who causes centre back's problems.  Scored a decent amount of goals for Preston without really tearing the league up.  Would be interesting to see how well he does with better players around him, clearly not up to the players at West Ham's level but for Villa, could be an astute signing.  I'd quite like this one to go through.

[Drummond]

There's something in the back of my mind about Hugill being in youth set-up, ammo confusing him with someone else or just plain wrong?

[tomd2103]

Alan Nixon says it's Jordan hugill

Underwhelming for me

Plus more interest in nick Powell (probably as a grealish replacement)

Wouldn't surprise me as Bruce was rumoured to be interested in him before he went to West Ham.

[SoccerHQ]

Alan Nixon says it's Jordan hugill

Underwhelming for me

Plus more interest in nick Powell (probably as a grealish replacement)

I have not seen Hugil is not very good ?

He scored three times past us in 16/17 for Preston.

He developed a lot there but is essentially a targetman striker. Not a huge amount of pace but will hold it up and get on the end of plenty of crosses.

That said he did waltz through whoever we had in midfield/defence to score a fine solo goal in the VP game in January 2017.

Edit: If we get Snoddy aswell I think it's an astute move as him and Adomah obviously get plenty of crosses into the box although not sure if we can loan two players from the same club?

[SoccerHQ]

There's something in the back of my mind about Hugill being in youth set-up, ammo confusing him with someone else or just plain wrong?

He's a North east lad. Port Vale picked him up from one of the teams up there and he then moved to Preston.

[paul_e]

Alan Nixon says it's Jordan hugill

Underwhelming for me

Plus more interest in nick Powell (probably as a grealish replacement)

I have not seen Hugil is not very good ?

He scored three times past us in 16/17 for Preston.

He developed a lot there but is essentially a targetman striker. Not a huge amount of pace but will hold it up and get on the end of plenty of crosses.

That said he did waltz through whoever we had in midfield/defence to score a fine solo goal in the VP game in January 2017.

Edit: If we get Snoddy aswell I think it's an astute move as him and Adomah obviously get plenty of crosses into the box although not sure if we can loan two players from the same club?

Of course we can, we had Johnstone and Tuanzebe together.

[Ads]

Why do people keep suggesting players, who don't play in Grealish position, are his replacement?

[andyh]

Well, if that new goalie comes in, it’s a cert jack is going.

Stands to reason.

[olaftab]

Hugill is a lump of a player who causes centre back's problems.  Scored a decent amount of goals for Preston without really tearing the league up.  Would be interesting to see how well he does with better players around him, clearly not up to the players at West Ham's level but for Villa, could be an astute signing.  I'd quite like this one to go through.

This bit is so depressing😥

[Steve67]

Aftab, we shall rise again.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Aftab, we shall rise again.

We most certainly will and we'll curse the day we allowed ourselves to think we didn't deserve. That's what happens when you come from a one club city. Imagine if we'd had competition instead of Small Heath. Food for thought.

[Percy McCarthy]

I’ve heard we’re spending plenty. ITK. We’ll see.