Jacob Ramsey

[KevinGage]

Wow. Really shit deal, if true.

The going rate for our better players seems to be £40 million.

[VancouverLion]

Gutted. He’ll a good signing for the Geordies.

Not loving football right now, it all seems pretty shite.
Wonder how long the owners will stick around, can’t compete so really what is the f’n point.

[Villafirst]

Jacob Ramsey "he's one of our own" just shows how the game is now. Should've made them pay £60m! I hope there's some incomings now. The timing is really crap. I just can't see Villa doing much this season.

[andyh]

It’s sad to lose a local boy but if he won’t sign a new contract maybe a parting of the ways is inevitable.
It seems very similar to the Dougie situation.
We need to shift a big player and one who won’t sign a new deal is the obvious choice.

[dorsetvillian]

It's a really shit situation. We get weaker and make a direct competitor stronger. Doesn't seem enough. If they really want him then screw them for more.

[john2710]

If he won't sign a new contract, what else can the club do?

[manic-road]

£40M for a player that scored one league goal last season? He hasn't signed the contract offered him so we have no choice but to sell. I hope we can replace him and maybe get a defender in.

[Clampy]

Jacob Ramsey "he's one of our own" just shows how the game is now. Should've made them pay £60m! I hope there's some incomings now. The timing is really crap. I just can't see Villa doing much this season.

The timing is not ideal but we're not short of midfielders and there are still a couple of weeks left in the transfer window.

[Pete3206]

Well, this is absolutely shit news.

[eye digress]

Worth pointing out that Ramsay looked unhappy on a number of occasions last year when getting subbed. No player wants to be subbed, obviously, but when he came off in the PSG away game, it looked like genuine nark (with management). And there were a few examples like that last season.

Think Unai has held Ramsey in very high esteem, but following the injury-disrupted season (where there seemed to be a bit of to and fro between management and the Ramsay camp over his fitness), it was striking that we had to bring players in for his position in January to turn our season around.

[Steve67]

Ramsay can be quality, but he simply has not done enough over the last couple of years. That said, we do need to replace him with someone who has the ability to affect the game much more than Jacob does. The price does seem a little cheap, but with a couple of weeks to go in the window, I’m sure there are plenty of other clubs Who also need to sell players, so let’s see what happens. There is no way Jacob goes before Saturday and will not be lining up against us.

[Rigadon]

What a shite window .

It’s not closed yet.
As said ages back, sales were needed for us to readress balance of the squad and try and improve.
JJ has rejected multiple contracts so clubs been forced to cash in

The sale however will allow for the rebalancing and more incomings

2-3 more in

Why has he been reluctant to sign a new contract? Money?  Playing time? Something else?  Seems a very weird one for a local kid leaving like this given he’s certainly not leaving ‘to win medals’ or whatever they come out with when joining one of the usual suspects. 

And £40m… pffft.

Unless the club pulls out the stops with some top quality players joining, this strange transfer will dampen my excitement for the new season somewhat. 

[algy]

I don’t think it’s a great move for him. He won’t get in for Gordon when he’s fully fit unless they change their system, or in their midfield three. To me, judging by how they set up now, he’s an upgrade on Willock, who doesn’t play much I don’t think. We’ll soon see I suppose.

I have often thought he had the potential to be our best player, but after a stuttering last two seasons and at 24, it’s still potential, because he’s quite a way off being our best player at the moment.

I suppose if someone has to go, they first have to have somewhere to go, and sadly the ones we want to leave don’t have that without us taking a financial hit.

This pretty much exactly sums up my thoughts. We can only sell players we have offers for, and with the rules as they are we need to have some kind of flow of players coming in & out.

It’s sad, but that’s the game we’re playing now.

[Halfway to Moseley]

We’ve been waiting and hoping for years for Ramsey to become a world beater.

The reality has been a cycle of ‘a few really good games>gets injured>comes back and plays average while he recovers from injury>starts playing well>gets injured again.’

I’m sure we know what we’re doing.

[Richard E]

Meh. He’ll be injured for 3 months within 2 weeks.